On this day, fifty years ago the
Disneyland Hotel opened...
Not only is the
Happiest Place on Earth celebrating its fifty-fifth year in Anaheim, the original hotel is as well. Many of you knew that the Resorts first hotel is going through a three year renovation, but not everyone know that it's birthday is today. Originally owned by
Jack Wrather, the hotel was bought by the
Mouse back in 1988, when Eisner first decided to look into turning the park into an actual resort.
Come 2012 the hotel will look greatly different than it did a decade ago. Gone will be the bland, dated, concrete appearance in favor of a retro-contemporary look and feel. The idea is to makeover the hotel into the West Coast version of
Walt Disney World's
Contemporary Resort. Not to clone it so-to-speak, but to give the building its own distinctive variation of that kind of concept. Once those picturesque monikers run across the tops of each tower it'll look a whole lot swankier. While my own desire is to have a hotel with a
V(
m)
ictorian feel like the
Tokyo Disneyland Hotel/
Disneyland Paris Hotel, plans for a hotel such as this won't likely arrive until the later part of the decade. Still, with all the new offerings, this classic hotel will finally move into this century and help turn the resort into an
actual resort.
Happy Birthday, Disneyland Hotel...
