DL-Harbour Blvd. Good Neighbor Hotels

Hi. Considering a trip to DL this summer. We always stay onsite, but this summer the cost is so much more than we pay at WDW that Im looking at Harbour Blvd. The Good Neighbor hotels have packages as well as on property ones but they are so much less expensive.

My question for those with experience……how do you go about getting a quick breakfast in the morning? I am amazed that some of the closest hotels do not have a restaurant……we are so used to having a food court for a quick breakfast each morning……my grandkids are really good eaters and love bacon, eggs, waffles etc….not just grabbing something from McDonalds….What do those of you staying offsite do for breakfast if your hotel doesn’t offer a hot breakfast? Thanks for you help….trying to weigh and justify the cost difference.

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I usually eat something in the room to tide me over for a few hours & get breakfast in the park around 10-10:30. I bring Belvitas or other breakfast bar, but I am an adult so not sure if it would hold kids until at least 10. I don’t eat earlier at the park because I don’t want to waste those first 2 hours of ride time eating at the park.

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Unfortunately, most of the hotels along Harbor no longer have a hot breakfast (a lot of them used to do a grab & go or continental and a few did a hot bfast but AFAIK none of them have brought any kind of breakfast back).

If you’re looking for cost & time efficient then getting bfast from somewhere nearest your Harbor Hotel is going to be the easiest. There is a Panera near the Fairfield Marriott & Marriot Courtyard and is an easy walk from any hotel within that same block as the pedestrian walkway (and all that is just next to the McD’s on Harbor). And McD’s does have big breakfast platter with eggs, bacon, pancakes, hashbrown and a biscuit too, so they have more than sandwiches.

The Anaheim has had a breakfast (for an additional charge) at the restaurant adjacent to their lobby, the Pizza Press. We love The Pizza Press for lunch or dinner but have never taken the time to eat bfast before the parks there so not sure the depth of their menu.

There is also an IHOP right at the pedestrian walkway and then a few doors down a Denny’s. We’ve eaten at both for midday meals or done a carry-out order to take back to the hotel at night after the parks. And eating breakfast for dinner is one of my favorite things to do anyway, so we often choose to grab Denny’s on the way back to the room at night (after having snacked instead of eat dinner to get more done before the parks close) when at DL.

In downtown Disney and at the Grand Californian there are breakfast options as well. Starbucks (that you can use mobile order for unlike the ones inside the park), Earl of Sandwich (both quick service and table service), and then at the Grand Californian you’ll have the quick service GCH Craftsman Grill as well as the character breakfast buffet at Storytellers which is the best breakfast on property, by far.

Another option is to have a few room snacks to get out the door and then eat breakfast in the parks at 10-10:30am. Red Rose Tavern (quick service) will have breakfast platters like you are possibly looking for with bacon & eggs in DL and Pym’s Lab (quick service) in DCA once lines are starting to fill up. There are also sit down restaurants in DL that have great (and not too expensive) bfast offerings, Carnation Cafe & a character buffet at Plaza Inn.

I know of two hotels that the last time I checked do have a continental bfast offering if you at least wanted to get a quick something before heading into the parks & then do one of those breakfasts after a couple of successful hours of touring. The 2 are: Candy Cane Inn & possibly Desert Inn & Suites (but I haven’t checked there in a long while). And if neither of those hotels work for you, then you could grab your own bfast items for grab & go from CVS or Walgreens (or if you’ll have a car Target down the road, or the tiny neighborhood Walmart market) to stock the in-room fridge with yogurts and possibly a half gallon of milk and then fruit/granola/cereal, just to get you out the door.

ETA: If you’re ok with staying a little further out in the convention center area (not a bad walk in & you do have the option to use the Toy Story parking lot shuttles to get to/from the parks if you don’t want to walk) some of those hotels especially the Hilton/Marriott chains might have a hot breakfast offering back.

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We might have to do a snack breakfast and feed the kids later….thanks!!!

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Thank you….this first hand information is great. My travel agent has worked out packages for us for both on property and off property at the Good Neighbor hotels across on Harbour Blvd. We prefer to stay right there close with an 8 year old and a 2 year old. I was just really surprised at the lack of hotel restaurants……the Courtyard at Marriott there has breakfast I believe, however they are getting up there in price towards on property. Thanks again for your information…it helps.

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We usually have granola or breakfast bars in the room (or more likely while walking to the parks), and then get breakfast in the parks after we’ve taken advantage of the first hour or two of the day to get some rides in. Some of the hotels have a continental breakfast option - but they are not great IME.

Jolly Holiday is the best for breakfast! I also enjoy Red Rose Taverne.

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The quick service breakfast at the Grand Californian is really nice too! You can easily pop in to eat there and then head back into California Adventure.

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The Best Western Anaheim Inn does have a hot breakfast they offer to their guests. It’s actually good. I know that Grand Legacy does not offer any sort of breakfast.

That’s about the extent of my knowledge.

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