My sister and I stayed at the Hilton Tokyo Bay in September 2003, for three nights.

We arrived at the Tokyo Disney Resort by subway after a three night stay in Tokyo at the Westin Hotel in Ebisu. It is a short walk from the JR train station to Disney's Welcome Center, where each of the Disney Hotels has a counter. Here, we were able to drop off our luggage and enjoy the day at the theme park before going to the hotel. You may only drop off bags here. You may not check in or purchase theme park tickets.

The Hilton Tokyo Bay was just across the street from the Bayside station of the Disney Resort Line (monorail). Most often, we would walk to and from the hotel, instead of taking the complimentary Disney Resort Cruiser, which took guests to their hotels from the station. The Hilton Tokyo Bay was one of the original Official Hotels and was built in 1988. The hotel was completely renovated though and they did a good job.

There was a substantial queue to check in, even at this hour, which took us about thirty minutes. We promptly received our keys to room 764, overlooking the park. When I asked the clerk if our ¥24,500 nightly rate included breakfast, she kindly offered us a discount coupon of ¥400 off the normal ¥2,900 price for breakfast. There were a few people before us waiting to be escorted to their rooms, so while we waited, we reserved and purchased our bus tickets from the hotel to Narita Airport for our Sunday departure. We were escorted to our room, which was conveniently located just off the elevators. The room was a nice size, with two double beds. Instead of curtains, there were two sets of screens on the window – one was sheer white, and the other to block out all light. There was a small minibar, but no safe in the room. It was definitely not as plush as the Westin Tokyo. As for the TV, the only channels in English were CNN and the Disney hotel information. This was not good at all for an American brand name hotel. We would also receive a Japanese newspaper daily.

We did not dine in the hotel, but did purchase snacks and sandwiches in the hotel pattiserie in the hotel lobby and ate in our rooms.

On our day of departure, we went down to the lobby at around 1:20 PM. There was no one else at the front desk and we were given our receipt very quickly. We had about 20 minutes until the bus to the airport would arrive, so we waited on one of the sofas near the restaurant. There were lots of people in the lobby, having lunch or milling about for a convention. Shortly before the scheduled bus departure time, we made our way to the Porte cochere, where an attentive young lady took our luggage and told us that the bus should be there shortly. This was the only time that something was late in Japan. The bus arrived about 20 minutes late, but we had plenty of time, so it was okay. What I found funny was that the young lady kept apologizing for the bus being late - something she had nothing to do with. Once the bus came, it stopped briefly at the Hotel Tokyu Bay, the Sun Route Hotel and then at the Tokyo Disneyland bus stop before going to the airport.