hello everyone this is julia with honest hotel reviews coming at you with a quick video
going over some of the changes to my upcoming reviews as well
as some of the videos you can expect going forward
the pandemic has taken me as i'm sure it has for many of you on uh let's call it an emotional
roller coaster as a canadian and the wife of someone with a severe autoimmune disease
i really have no idea when i'm going to be able to return to the disneyland resort that said ben and
i stayed at a number of hotels in anaheim in late january of 2020 and we have footage that has yet
to be released i've really been struggling with whether i should be sharing this footage or not
simply because i feel like in good conscience i can't continue to rate hotels on the same rating
scale that i was using when so much has changed if you're familiar with the previous format of
my videos i would rank each hotel out of five in various categories for example overall experience
cleanliness and condition of the rooms hotel amenities value and so on so forth
i'm gonna just touch on some of these quickly just to explain why things need to change
everyone has different comfort levels when it comes to cleanliness and while i've always
considered myself to have fairly high standards on the cleanliness of a hotel it's going to be an
even bigger factor for me going forward and if you know and are familiar with disneyland area hotels
well let's just say there are a few bad apples maybe even some poison apples
i want to think that past performance is usually a good indication of how things might be now even
with new protocols but we have to keep in mind that some hotels are under new ownership or
management or there may be staffing changes who knows all of these things could play a
factor in the cleanliness of the hotel another factor that's going to make a big difference
is the hotel amenities a good breakfast buffet would usually help the overall rank of a hotel
but obviously this has changed and is going to continue to change for the foreseeable future
the last factor i want to mention even though there are countless more and i could go on forever
is value here are two hotels that i would definitely stay at if the price was right hotels
are gonna charge whatever they can get away with so if they're running low on rooms they are gonna
up their prices while obviously these are still great hotels it really just depends on the dates
that you're looking for because everyone's missing disneyland prices are really going up right now
one example of one of my favorite hotels that i would not even consider staying at right now
is the grand californian keep in mind these prices are before tax so they are going to
be even more expensive once all of that has been factored in as much as i love this hotel
i cannot justify spending almost a thousand dollars u.s a night for a basic room that
looks over the parking lot just can't do it there isn't much more i need to say about that
one thing is sure with the constant sometimes unexpected changes to the cdc guidelines
and the potential for disneyland's capacity change one person's experience at a hotel on
one week could be completely different to someone else's experience the next
even though so much has changed and will continue to change in the year ahead
i still believe there is value in the footage we took and the experience we had at all the hotels
so while i can't rate them from one to five i can still show you what the rooms and resorts
looked like and comment on the cleanliness of everything and the friendliness of the staff
so on so forth while i'm not able to be there right now i'm gonna do my best to do the research
and look into some of the most recent hotel reviews and let you know if i would stay there
currently also if i would recommend the hotel and who specifically i would recommend it to
while the future of our rating system is up in the air
i can still give you the most honest review possible
because it breaks my heart to see someone's vacation being ruined by a bad hotel experience
okay now that i've got that weight off my shoulders
here are some of the upcoming videos you can expect
since i'm not going to be able to rate hotels i thought a good alternative would be to release
videos discussing my favorite hotels in certain categories for example the best hotels for large
families the cleanest hotels i've stayed in the best hotels within walking distance to the park
hey if you have any ideas on videos you'd like to see please let me know in the comments but first
as promised i'll be releasing an overall tour and review of the grand californian
before i let you go let me just say i know i've been gone for a while so those of you who've
stuck it out with me through this difficult time i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart
i hope you are all staying well and until next time this was julia with honest hotel reviews
you