We parked at the Disneyland hotel lot and had our parking validated at the restaurant (free for 3 hours with this validation). We were able to walk around downtown Disney (not theme park) during this time too. Goofy's Kitchen validated our parking on our trip May 20, 2018
We took the monorail from in the park as long at you have your ticket you can get back in to the park and it's just a 5 min walk from were the Monterail meets the Disney land hotels
If you eat at goofy's kitchen they do validate parking.
You can park in Disneyland hotel lot but they charge for parking. If your hotel isn't too far it might be better to walk there
At the Disneyland hotel
Goofy's Kitchen does NOT validate. You'll have to purchase something in a shop. I went to World of Disney. Also, we stayed at a hotel across the street from the park, and walked to the entrance everyday. If you can walk to the park, you can walk to Downtown Disney, and get to the Disneyland Hotel. We didn't know this. So yes, you can park in the Downtown Disney lot, and get validation. Also, after your 1st 3hrs free, it's $12/hr. But what they don't tell you, is it is done in 30min increments. So we only paid $6 to park.
Yes you can park in the hotel. Take your ticket with you and they will validate the cashier for you. You have three hours of free parking.
Guests visiting select hotel table-service restaurants who are not registered at the hotel will receive 3 hours free parking with validation.
Does goofy's kitchen validate? I thought i read somewhere that you can get up to 5 hours of free parking if it's a short down restaurant. Has anyone heard of that?
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