Amy wrote:acp wrote:Another round number day...
150 days to go until Hong Kong (and by extension of that, 155 until Japan).
Finally sorted the Japan hotel out last night. Just need to sort out the Hong Kong accommodation now...
Are you able to do that all online? Or do you have to call the parks?
I do it all online. Normally, I use Expedia for booking hotels since the rates on there are reasonable and (more importantly) it's all in English and billed in Pounds Sterling. For Disney hotels at TDR and HKDL, you can still book online (and in English) via the official sites, but you'll be billed in HK Dollars or Japanese Yen respectively.
I'm not staying at a hotel at TDR - it's way too expensive to do that. I'm staying in Tokyo itself. Last two times I went I stayed in Shinjuku (
Tripadvisor link for the hotel I stayed at during my last two trips to Japan). This year, I'm staying in Oshiage next to the Skytree (
Tripadvisor link for the hotel I'll be staying at this time). This hotel was much nicer priced this time (Normally, Richmond hotels are out of my price range, but this one only opened in December and has special grand opening pricing still in effect so was actually cheaper than most of the others I looked at).
Staying offsite means it takes a while to get to the parks (this year it'll be about 30 minutes on train, which is actually quicker than the hour it took when I stayed in Shinjuku), but the hotels are much more reasonably priced outside the resort.
It's also worth bearing in mind that if you're travelling to Japan, you're probably not spending your entire trip at TDR, so staying at TDR probably isn't the smartest idea anyway since TDR isn't in central Tokyo and so you'll then have to travel back to Tokyo to visit anything else. It doesn't take /too/ long (TDR is about 20 minutes from Tokyo station, plus the long walk at Tokyo station to get to the other lines), but it's probably still more worthwhile to stay in Tokyo and travel out to TDR as needed.
For Hong Kong, I'm still deciding if I want to spend the extra £200ish (about $300ish in your weird American money) to stay in a Disney hotel for the days I'm visiting the park (and staying in Hong Kong itself for the other couple of nights). Doing so would make it easier to get to the park in the morning and leave me closer to the airport for the morning I fly to Tokyo, but I'm trying to decide if it's worth the extra cost to do so.
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