Pre-Arrival Tips for Your Downtown Disney Tour: Parking and Safety

Parking is a major issue in crowded areas that resemble Disneyland Anaheim, but the beauty of the biggest attractions at Downtown Disney is that they are open, and mainly park like spaces, allowing huge spaces for parking at dirt-cheap rates.

The Disneyland complex constitutes a major part of the downtown area of Anaheim, and consequently generates the most amount of business that comes by the virtue of the central business district of Anaheim. A large number of theme park spaces and their parking facilities are available for 8 USD. The parking pass is important, as once bought it can be used in all the parking four lots in the complex.

Parking at most resorts in the area is free. You can also choose to park in the Disney complex resorts if you are staying there, but they are separately chargeable. However, since you are a guest of one of the hotels inside, you can get around the parking payments by simply showing your vehicle key to the security personnel in the premises. Parking deals and special offers are also available form Walt Disney World(WDW), and they include very heavy discounts on long-term parking passes.

Parking passes from WDW are available for annual, monthly, weekly and daily schemes. Hence, if your stay is going to be longer than a week, always remember to ask for the better rates. In order to feel at peace about the parking expenses, you must have a brief idea about how many tours between the hotel and the parks are probable before arriving at the WDW. Keeping aside a sum of 60 USD for vacation parking is ideal.

Parking and transport at Disney Resorts

http://disneyland.disney.go.com/plan/guest-services/parking/?name=ParkingPage

WDW online info about parking

http://www.wdwinfo.com/disneyland/plan/parking.htm

Certain hotels such as the Hilton and Marriott have tie-ups with parking facilities in Downtown Disney. The system incorporates that your purchase from the hotel gives you points, which can be converted back to money at the parking counter. To know how to win points and how many points come on a certain purchase, you must inquire the hotel services early on, so that the picture stays extra-clear once you drive into fairyland!

Parking guide for Downtown Disney

http://www.essortment.com/travel/waltdisneyworl_sayh.htm

Downtown Disney on Wikipedia.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Disney_(California)