The Disneyland and Disney California Adventure
theme parks will add a 700-room hotel in 2021, the resort's first new hotel
since 2001.
The hotel will be located at the western end of the Downtown
Disney retail and entertainment district. Connected to the resort's other three
hotels via landscaped walkways and gardens, the hotel will have a monorail
platform allowing direct access to the park as well as an upper-level
restaurant and lounge that will offer guests views of Disneyland fireworks
shows.
The hotel will also include ground-floor shops and
restaurants as well as water elements.
Disney said the
property will be a Four Diamond hotel, in reference to the AAA rating which
requires a property to be "refined, stylish with upscale physical
attributes, extensive amenities and a high degree of hospitality, service and
attention to detail." Just 5.9% of the nearly 28,000 hotels listed by AAA
make the Four Diamond list.
The hotel will be Disneyland's first since the 1,019-room
Grand Californian Hotel & Spa opened along with California Adventure in
2001.
The hotel is also part of the $1 billion of projected theme
park improvements Disney announced in 2015 after Disneyland's home city of
Anaheim agreed to extend a tax exemption on Disneyland ticket sales through at
least 2046.
Per the terms of that 30-year agreement, Disney is obligated
to invest at least $1 billion in the theme parks by the end of 2024. The tax
moratorium will be extended another 15 years if Disney invests an additional
$500 million into the resort by 2045.