Plip
Oh, bother
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- Sep 9, 2019
A lot of people ask about the relative virtues of the various hotel options when visiting Disneyland. What's best? That's a reasonable question, considering both the expense of lodging as well as the effect it can have on your trip. Book the right hotel, and it can make your vacation. Make a bad choice, and you'll regret it the whole time.
But what makes a hotel the right hotel? It becomes quickly apparent that we don't all put equal value on the same things. One vacation planner values "Disney immersion" above all else. Another just wants to be as close to the parks as possible. Still another has budget concerns that make affordability the top priority. And another places comfort above everything else.
I've been thinking about this for a while. How do you quantify the appeal of a hotel when we all have a different mix of priorities. I've seen the kind of chart I've inserted below used for other applications. And I thought it might work for this, too. I chose five different categories (affordability, distance, immersion, comfort, and amenities). It's certainly debatable whether those are the five (or whether five is even the right number). And then I selected four different hotels and mapped those categories onto a chart for each one to give a visual representation of how it meets those priorities.
So, the Grand Californian, for instance. It gets a zero for affordability because it's usually going to be the most expensive option there is. But it maxes out distance, immersion, comfort, and amenities).
The Best Western, is middle-of-the-road for affordability (a fraction of cost of the Grand Californian, but certainly not the least expensive option). Distance is high (because it's close), immersion is low, and comfort and amenities (for the breakfast) are also middle-ish.
And I threw in a couple more examples, too.
I don't have any plans to try to do this for every hotel in the area (and I wouldn't be qualified to come up with the scores to use in the charts anyway). But I thought I'd share it because I had a little time to waste this morning, and I thought it was interesting.
But what makes a hotel the right hotel? It becomes quickly apparent that we don't all put equal value on the same things. One vacation planner values "Disney immersion" above all else. Another just wants to be as close to the parks as possible. Still another has budget concerns that make affordability the top priority. And another places comfort above everything else.
I've been thinking about this for a while. How do you quantify the appeal of a hotel when we all have a different mix of priorities. I've seen the kind of chart I've inserted below used for other applications. And I thought it might work for this, too. I chose five different categories (affordability, distance, immersion, comfort, and amenities). It's certainly debatable whether those are the five (or whether five is even the right number). And then I selected four different hotels and mapped those categories onto a chart for each one to give a visual representation of how it meets those priorities.
So, the Grand Californian, for instance. It gets a zero for affordability because it's usually going to be the most expensive option there is. But it maxes out distance, immersion, comfort, and amenities).
The Best Western, is middle-of-the-road for affordability (a fraction of cost of the Grand Californian, but certainly not the least expensive option). Distance is high (because it's close), immersion is low, and comfort and amenities (for the breakfast) are also middle-ish.
And I threw in a couple more examples, too.
I don't have any plans to try to do this for every hotel in the area (and I wouldn't be qualified to come up with the scores to use in the charts anyway). But I thought I'd share it because I had a little time to waste this morning, and I thought it was interesting.