We are planning our DL trip for the first week of March and I have a suite reserved at Carousel Inn at what I think is a good price ($119/night). For the fun of it I was looking into Disneyland Hotel prices and it would not cost me much more to get a regular room with 2 queen beds. It would be neat to stay there! So here is my question: how do families with little ones (ours are 2 and 4) handle staying in one room? I do not think we parents will be wanting to go to sleep when the little ones do. Any tricks to make this work or is this just wishful thinking and I should be grateful for getting a close suite at a good price?

I'd stick with the suite. The rooms at the Disneyland Hotel are fairly small, particularly at the lower end of the rates. While there is certainly a bit of magic involved with staying in one of the Disney hotels, I strongly suspect that would end up being largely overshadowed by the overly crowded conditions in your case.

-Jeff

We stay at the DLH with our 3 kids, ages 8, 6, and 4 and there is plenty of room. You can request a room with a day bed in addition to the 2 queens. We put the girls in 1 queen, DS in the daybed, and we take the other queen.

The DLH is great and your kids will love it! :)

"It depends on your kids"

I personally hate staying in hotel rooms with my children because they do not go to sleep with the lights on well. Some kids just crash and don't care if the lights are still on. Those would not be my children.

Mine are currently 7, 4, & 19 months. The 7 y/o has never slept well in a hotel room, and we've been in hotels with him as an infant, a 2-y/o and a preschooler.

I won't stay in a hotel with my little kids if we can't get a suite. I'm hoping they grow out of it. ;)

Adrienne

Interesting thread, MermaidHair!

The four of us have always stayed in one room. We have two girls, now teens. We're still staying in one room. It can get crowded but we just do it this way.

When the girls were little, one would sleep with Dad and one with Mom. Now that they're bigger, they sleep together.

We've always just stayed in one room, with 2 beds. The kids are usually so tired by time we get to the hotel, that they could sleep through anything. We usually do like Helen, and sleep one child with me and one with daddy. That way if they wake up in the night, one of us is right there to calm them. They dont normally wake at night, but waking in a strange place can be really disorienting and scary for them.

We've always made it a point to not have our house completely dark and quiet when the kids are asleep. I think its good to train them from the begining to be able to sleep through little disturbances- such as lights, tv noice, music, and vacuum cleaners. I really do think it helps.

We've always just stayed in one room, with 2 beds. The kids are usually so tired by time we get to the hotel, that they could sleep through anything. We usually do like Helen, and sleep one child with me and one with daddy. That way if they wake up in the night, one of us is right there to calm them. They dont normally wake at night, but waking in a strange place can be really disorienting and scary for them.

We've always made it a point to not have our house completely dark and quiet when the kids are asleep. I think its good to train them from the begining to be able to sleep through little disturbances- such as lights, tv noice, music, and vacuum cleaners. I really do think it helps.

This is my experiance too... our kids are usually crashing before we even get back to the hotel. But if not, I usually put them in bed turn off the lights and by the time hubby and I are out of the shower they are asleep.