There’s so much to do at Yesterland. You should come back tomorrow to see it all. Spend the night at the Yesterland Hotel. It’s right across street from the Yesterland parking lot, surrounded by orange groves. The Hotel is a collection of two-story buildings with the luxury and comfort of a first-class hotel and the convenience of a motor lodge.

You can park your car for free. Then leave your car at the Hotel when you visit the Park. (You can have your car serviced at the Richfield service station that’s right on the Hotel premises.)

Enjoy convenient, free Hotel Tram service all day. The Hotel Tram leaves from its own stop at the Park. Don’t accidentally go to the parking lot tram stop, because that tram doesn’t go to the Hotel.

The route between the Park and the Hotel is not particularly scenic—unless you enjoy looking at an asphalt parking lot. But it’s a quick ride.

The tram stop at the Hotel is right at the stylish lobby. From there, it’s a short walk to the Gourmet restaurant, the Coffee Shop, and the Round-the-World Lounge.

When booking your stay at the Yesterland Hotel, just keep in mind that the Park is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays most of year.

Of course, the Yesterland Hotel is really the Disneyland Hotel—or, more accurately, the original Disneyland Hotel. The present-day Disneyland Hotel, with its three towers around the Neverland Pool, is just west of the original Disneyland Hotel. The original Disneyland Hotel was torn down to make room for Downtown Disney, surface parking, and landscaping.

The tram was prominently featured on Disneyland souvenir maps. Use of the tram was a significant benefit of staying at the Disneyland Hotel, but it wasn’t the only benefit. The Hotel offered numerous shops, several restaurants and lounges, a putting green, and even a heated, Olympic-sized swimming pool.

Until June 1961, the only way to go between the Disneyland Hotel and Disneyland Park was to take the tram, or to walk across the parking lot, or to drive your own car, or—if you were a VIP—to be driven in one of the Hotel’s VIP station wagons.

Then the Disneyland Alweg Monorail arrived. The monorail station was adjacent to the lobby. Tram service was still available, but the cool way to go to Disneyland was to take the Monorail. Although all other guests entered Disneyland at Main Street Station, Disneyland Hotel guests who arrived by monorail train entered the park in the back corner of Tomorrowland. And that’s still how it is today.

Only today the Monorail Station is no longer in the Disneyland Hotel. It’s in the Downtown Disney shopping, dining, and entertainment complex. And it doesn’t look at all like the original Disneyland Hotel Monorail Station. Guests have wondered why the station was moved to a less convenient location. In reality, the station didn’t move. The hotel “shrunk” when the original sections were demolished, leaving the station a surprising distance from the nearest Disneyland Hotel building. The old lobby and Monorail Lounge are gone; a Rainforest Cafe is now in that location.

The Disneyland Hotel no longer has its own tram. If you stay at the Disneyland Hotel and you really want to ride a tram to the main gate of Disneyland Park (“for old times’ sake”), you can walk along surface parking lots to the tram stop at the huge Mickey & Friends parking structure. But if you’re going to walk that far, you’d be better off taking a pleasant walk through Downtown Disney, right to the main gate. It’s about the same distance.

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Aerial photo of Disneyland Hotel (1960) courtesy of the Wrather family and/or the Wrather Archives at Loyola Marymount University, courtesy of Chris Wrather and the family of Jack Wrather, with thanks to Don Ballard; originally copyright Wrather Corporation, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company.
 
Photo of Disneyland Hotel Tram: by Charles R. Lympany, courtesy of Chris Taylor.
 
Photo of Disneyland Hotel lobby building with tram, courtesy of the Wrather family and/or the Wrather Archives at Loyola Marymount University, courtesy of Chris Wrather and the family of Jack Wrather, with thanks to Don Ballard; originally copyright Wrather Corporation, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company.
 
Scanned image of a small section of the 1958 Disneyland souvenir map: Copyright 1958 Walt Disney Productions (The Walt Disney Company), and is included here for historical illustration.
 
Photo of Disneyland Hotel sign before Monorail, courtesy of the Wrather family and/or the Wrather Archives at Loyola Marymount University, courtesy of Chris Wrather and the family of Jack Wrather, with thanks to Don Ballard; originally copyright Wrather Corporation, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company.
 
Photo of Disneyland Hotel sign with Monorail: Publicity photo from Walt Disney Productions, copyright The Walt Disney Company.