I am planning on taking my girlfriend to Disneyland, but we’re only 19 and I’ve seen most of the hotels state that you must be 21 to check-in…What are ways to get around this or what are some hotels without age restrictions? The Howard Johnson hotel right behind Disney said that they allow guests 18+ [...]
Anaheim hotels cut room rates 12 percent
April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Anaheim hotels, mostly centered in the Disneyland area, were cheaper and emptier in January compared to the previous year. The lodging experts at PKF Consulting report that Anaheim hotels in January saw … 52% of their rooms full vs. occupancy rates of 57 percent countywide. A year ago, Anaheim hotels were 62 percent full. Average [...]
NOONWIRE: Disney hotel storybook themes
March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
NOONWIRE features Disney news from other media sources. From the Orlando Sentinel: There was a time when Trinidad South, one of the six themed “villages” that make up Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort at Walt Disney World, was the least popular part of the hotel. The rooms were farthest from the sprawling resort’s central food court [...]
Hunger strikers camp at Disney headquarters
February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Five hunger strikers are camping out in front of the Walt Disney Co. headquarters in Burbank as the hotel union keeps pushing Disney to meet its contract demands. The new hunger strikers moved to Burbank on Tuesday night after eight others ended their week-long fast in front of Disneyland Resort hotels in Anaheim. The participants [...]
Protesters block streets as first Disney fast ends
February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Eight union members broke a weeklong hunger strike tonight as about 500 supporters blocked streets to protest Disney’s stance on a two-year contract dispute. The hotel union, Unite Here Local 11, planned to continue the hunger strike with four new fasters at Walt Disney Co.’s headquarters in Burbank late tonight. Disney and the union have [...]
Brief fire extinguished at Disneyland Hotel
February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
ANAHEIM – Firefighters quickly doused a fire that broke out this afternoon at a construction site at the Dream Tower of the Disneyland Hotel, authorities said. Photo by Joshua Sudock, The Orange County Register Read the rest of the Disneyland Hotel story by Denisse Salazar and Sarah Tully HERE. Recent Disneyland Hotel news: Rage’s guitarist [...]
Hunger strike moving to Disney headquarters
February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The Disney hotel union plans to continue its hunger strike at the Walt Disney Co. headquarters in Burbank, starting Tuesday night, to keep attention on a two-year contract dispute. Two new Disney employees began fasting this week at the Disneyland Resort and plan to start camping outside of the Burbank offices after a week-long hunger [...]
Rage’s guitarist leads protesters by Disney hotel
February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Click on photo for a slideshow. Outside the Disneyland Hotel, Rage Against the Machine’s guitarist put on an expletive-filled performance of rebel songs and joined a rally with hotel union supporters that shut down a street Saturday. Musician Tom Morello performed about seven songs from a flatbed truck parked on Magic Way to support the [...]
Disney-union look to mediation as fast continues
February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Disney and the hotel union are trying to set a mediation date as early as next week while members continue a hunger strike over a two-year contract dispute. Ten members of the union, Unite Here, began a hunger strike Tuesday night. One participant, Eddie Carrington, had to drop out of the hunger strike on Wednesday [...]
D-Day set for Knott’s sale
February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment
On March 16, a large gathering of men and women wearing business attire will gather at a regal former vaudeville house, the Sandusky State Theatre in Ohio. There, they will vote on whether the Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., the parent company of Knott’s Berry Farm, should be purchased and taken private by asset manager Apollo [...]
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