This was my second stay at a Residence Inn, and whilst not quite as good as the excellent one at the Stevenson Ranch in Santa Clarita, this hotel is still very good.

We stayed here for 16 nights at $99/night for the One Queen Bed Studio Room. The Bed was very comfy and my mate slept on the Sofa Bed - no complaints from him either.

The Breakfast was decent enough. Cereals, Breads, Hot Food, Yogurt, Waffles etc. Considering it was free it was a good start to the day. Not much Fresh fruit though - bananas most days.

The managers reception's on Mondays-Thursday were also decent enough. They vary from snack food - e.g. smores and milk - to a BBQ - e.g. Hotdogs and Burgers.

The Hotel is located in a good area - the walk to Disney is around 15 minutes - which we found was ideal. Also we based a lot of tours out of this hotel - we got picked up from the hotel no problems.

Front Desk Staff were friendly also.

Overall a very good place to stay for the price.

We stayed two nights - Jan 8 & 9, 2008 in the Loft Suite. This room has a Queen bedroom downstairs with en-suite bath, a living room - kitchen area with fold out sofa bed, fireplace, dining table (seating for 4) and nice kitchen with full refrig, electric stovetop, microwave, dishes/pots and coffee maker. There is a steep staircase up to the loft where there is a King bed and very small bathroom.

We were located street-side (rm 122) which was great for the walk to Disneyland each day, but horrible at night for the light sleepers in the family. One would assume that the traffic would be diminished during the night, but NO - Clementine St. is on the route for the Disney cast buses and they run all noisily all night. The fire station is directly across the street, too. There is a large construction site (Anaheim Garden Walk) adjacent to the Fire Station so in the early morning you get the construction noise. No double pane windows which would have cut the noise. If you are a light sleeper, please ask for a quiet room away from the street.

I would not recommend this room (loft room) for families with toddlers. The staircase to the loft is unsafe. Also, note that there is a always on light in the stairway that made the loft room as light as sleeping in the daytime. We got smart on night #2 and laid a pair of jeans over the banister to cover the light which was a great improvement.

We did walk to Disneyland each day and it is a fair walk, 1/2 mile exactly to the pedestrian entrance. You then walk through the shuttle area to the security checkpoint and then to the actual entrace of the parks, probably add another 1/4 mile.

I concur with the other positive comments on the Residence Inn on this site. My less favorable comments are for those families considering the loft arrangement and also to make the light sleepers aware of the traffic noises.

Stayed at this property Jan 5 to Jan 8, 2008. Very friendly staff. Very nice property. Disney has a desk right in the lobby.

You can walk to Disney in about 10 minutes or take the bus. The bus picks up in their parking lot and runs about every 20 minutes. $3 per day per adult.

Breakfast was included. 5 kinds of cereal, 3 kinds of fresh fruit, 2 kinds of scrambled eggs, make your own waffles, yogurt, etc.

They have a small selection in their mini mart or they will grocery shop for you. They put in right in your frig and just add it to your bill. (This was great.)

Our unit was very clean. Everything looked new. Beds were a bit hard for our taste.

Just down the street from a Cheescake Factory, Buppa Gump's and a California Pizza Kitchen.

Our family stayed at the Residence Inn Anaheim Maingate for 12 nights over the Christmas/New Year’s holidays. We are elite level Marriott members, and have stayed at many different Residence Inns over the years.

We found this particular Residence Inn to be “just okay”. On the positive side:

-The staff in the gate house at the front desk and in the breakfast area was friendly.
-If you are visiting the Disney theme parks, you can walk to the entrance plaza of the Disneyland Resort in 10-15 minutes, if you wish.
-Our one bedroom suite (with 2 queen beds) was nice sized, with three closets (two in the bedroom, and one in the living room)

The things we did not like about this hotel:

-Housekeeping was not up to par, IMHO. There were several days where the housekeeper would not leave extra paper towels, toilet paper, or tissues, when it was VERY obvious we were almost out. Vacuuming was not done thoroughly. Our dishes were not loaded into the dishwasher each day (as has been done in every other RI we’ve stayed at). In fact, one day I was in the suite during the housekeeper’s visit and witnessed her simply rinsing off the dishes and putting them back in the cabinets. Yuck! We did not use their dishes after that incident. I did report this to management, but never heard back from them on why the housekeeper did that.

-Unlike other hotels that offer breakfast (Marriot hotels or other brands), there was a noticeable lack of fresh fruit available. On the mornings they did offer it, it was sickly looking bananas, but more often than not, there was no fresh fruit available.

-The manager’s evening reception is not offered Monday through Thursday like other RI’s we’ve stayed at. I realize there were schedule changes during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, but the new January schedule was posted while we were there, and they were only offering it two nights a week during the month of January.

-Overall upkeep of the grounds, at least in the area of our room, was not great. We saw a lot of litter around our front door area. And the housekeeping staff had large bags of trash and dirty sheets sitting around until late in the day. It was just not appealing to look at.

-If you have a room at the front of the hotel (as we did), noise is definitely a problem, as there is a fire station just across the street.

-There are no screens on the hotel windows which you can unlock and open, which we felt to be a security issue. And one of the windows that looked out of our living room looked into some sort of maintenance alcove and was absolutely filthy…the window was covered in a very thick layer of dust and grime.

We paid a very reasonable $109/night for our suite, but given what we felt were the negative aspects of this resort, we would choose the Residence Inn Garden Grove where we stayed in the summer of 2007 for our next stay. The price is similar, and the resort itself is much nicer.