I realize someone said this on Twitter, but I don't see how that's possible.
Cause it's not. That parking lot is too far from Fantasmic! to see anything of the show, much less be able to see something worth marketing.
And the guy on Twitter lost me entirely when he claimed it would be Anaheim's first "five star" hotel. I don't think he even knows what a three star hotel demands from the travel market, much less a five star. Let's just say, if you are using AAA Diamond ratings which is what the City of Anaheim tax agreement insists be used, a AAA Five Diamond property would be unimaginably ambitious for Disney. There are 118 Five Diamond hotels in North America, and 14 of those are in SoCal. All of those Five Diamond properties in SoCal are
LIGHTYEARS beyond anything Disney has ever attempted when it comes to service standards and amenities.
http://www.latimes.com/travel/california/la-trb-aaa-five-diamond-hotel-ratings-20160118-story.html
The hotel in the DTD parking lot will only be a Four Diamond property, because that is all that is required for Disney to get the tax rebate for 20 years.
Last summer family stayed three nights on the top 11th floor at the Disneyland Hotel with a killer view of everything. You couldn't see any part of Fantasmic!, not the Mark Twain not the stage not the water, just the tip of the finale fireworks bursting over the buildings and treetops at the end of the show.
The new hotel will be built roughly the same distance away as the Disneyland Hotel's Fantasy Tower, except it will be an even worse view because it's directly west of the stage area instead of to the south. And you've got four lanes of Disneyland Drive, a tram route, a swath of "backstage" area and warehouses, then the Haunted Mansion ride warehouse, then another bank of trees and New Orleans Square to get through until you finally have a shot of seeing the Fantasmic! stage area.
To get that kind of height to see the crummy side-view of Fantasmic! from that distance, the hotel would need to be at least 15 stories tall, if not taller. And Disney has gone on record as saying the hotel will only have 700 rooms. I imagine the hotel will be five or six stories tall, rather low-slung, with modest amounts of landscaped area around it, and with mediocre 3-Star service from the CM's who will pretend they know how to provide 4-Star service.
