Hey everyone this is Julia with Honest Hotel Reviews and today I’m at the Fairfield Inn
by Marriott at the Disneyland Resort giving you an Honest Room Tour & Review.
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The Fairfield inn is Classified as a moderate resort on the Disneyland Good Neighbour hotel
list, and is right across the street from the park offering up a lot of bang for your
buck.
It’s so close to the park that you can even see the freaking matterhorn and of course,
the Disneyland Fireworks.
How magical is that?
Come join us as we check out one of their standard King Rooms and stick around to find
out how they score on our Honest Hotel Room Rating.
We were stoked to be in a room on the Eighth floor of the building.
Even though we were facing away from the park towards the freeway and construction site,
we could easily walk around to the other side of the building to watch the fireworks or
get an awesome view of the park.
For a higher price, you can get a Disney themed room with a view of the park.
We decided against this for two reasons, first, as a motel style building, having a view of
the park also means any guests that are walking by your room can see in when you have your
blinds open, and secondly, we didn’t think the extra price worth it, given the only other
upgrade appeared to be the fun disney themed wallpaper.
The first thing we noticed when we entered our room was that it is quite small.
With one king bed and one small pull out couch, there is a max occupancy of 3 people.
But with only two of us in the room, we found it suited our needs and never felt too small.
It was clear that they have done some recent updates to the room like the new hardwood
floors, updated furnishings, some fresh paint.
The King Bed was clean and had four pillows but was definitely an older bed and made a
lot of noise so it was impossible to move in bed without waking the other person up,
but it’s important to note that good beds are hard to come by in the hotels that are
right across the street from the park.
There are outlets on the nightstands for charging your devices, plus lots of other outlets around
the room and at the desk area.
It was nice to have the couch and coffee tables for a place to sit and hang out, but to be
honest, we barely used it because most of our waking hours were spent at Disneyland.
One of our favourite things about this hotel is that the flat screen tv allows you to log
in and stream your shows from some of your favorite streaming platforms like Netflix
or hey YouTube
Moving on to the vanity and bathroom area, it was clear they had done more updates here
as well.
Notably, the vanity area, the closet set up, the shower surround and our personal favourite,
the sliding door to separate the hotel room from the vanity area.
They had a standard hotel room coffee maker, an in-room safe that easily holds a laptop,
an older fridge that wasn’t very cold, an Iron, ironing board, luggage holder, Paul
Mitchell toiletries and a full sized hair dryer.
There were also four drawers and nine hangers for our clothing.
Before I reveal our honest rating on this room, let’s take a look at how our reviews
work: We rate each room on the same four categories
which are Cleanliness & condition, comfort & security, In-room amenities and Value.
Keep in mind these ratings are for the room only but we do a full review of the entire
hotel in another video.
We’ve also adjusted our rating scale to reflect the Disneyland area hotels.
Many of these hotels are from Walt’s Era so we’re a little more generous with our
ratings for all of the Disneyland area hotels than we would be at any other resort.
First up is cleanliness & condition.
Our Room at the Fairfield Inn was nicely updated compared to other hotels right across the
street from the park at this price point.
That said, we can only give it a 3.75 in this category because it is an older hotel and
it shows.
As mentioned before, the bed was not great.
If you stay here, be prepared that this is a very noisy hotel.
you will hear constant traffic noise from the busy freeway, but to be honest, I don’t
mind it because it helps drown out the sound of the other guests.
The noise that did disturb our sleep was the construction that started at 6 am in the morning,
on the property beside the hotel.
Also, The AC unit sounded like an airplane taking off every time it kicked in and we
could hear toilets from other rooms being flushed.
That said, I have found it hard to find a quiet hotel in the area unless you’re prepared
to pay twice as much each night.
All in all, we landed on a 3/5
The Fairfield inn gets a 3.5 out of 5 for in room amenities.
They are better than average as not every hotel has an in room safe or a full sized
hair dryer, plus we loved being able to sign in to our Netflix account to watch a little
tv before bed.
If you want a hotel that is less than a 5 minute walk to Disneyland, this is one of
our top picks.
Even though the bed was uncomfortable and the room was small and noisy, trust me when
I say this room is better than many, most of the hotels across the street from Disneyland
are in need of some TLC.
This hotel had no bugs, no mould, was clean and best of all, is one of the most reasonably
priced.
In the end, we gave the Fairfield inn a 4 out of 5 for value which is a great score.
That said, if you don’t mind staying a little further, there are other hotels with more
comfortable rooms for about the same price.
This gives the King room at the Fairfield Inn by Marriott an overall rating of 3.6/5.
We recommend this hotel to die hard disney fans who are looking for a budget friendly
hotel as close to the magic as possible but are only here for a shorter stay.
For more information on the Fairfield inn, check out our Honest hotel review video and
our real time video of the walk from the hotel to Disneyland park.
If you’re considering other hotels in the area, we post new hotel reviews every week.
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I’m Julia and this has been another honest hotel review.