Great View of the Ocean from the Pool-Huntington Beach, CA

The Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort overlooking the Pacific Ocean and miles of white sand beach is the place. An interesting feature greets you when you enter the lobby, a grand indoor waterfalls. This AAA four-diamond rated Hilton hotel and resort in Huntington Beach is close to several major California airports, including Los Angeles (LAX), Long Beach (LGB), and John Wayne Orange County (SNA). This Hilton hotel offers a casually elegant destination for a family vacation, business meeting, or romantic getaway. It has 290 recently remodeled guest rooms, all with ocean views, 24 oceanfront suites, all with wrap around balconies. Shades Restaurant And Bar serves an eclectic mixture of cuisines and offers a panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean. On-site sand volleyball court, lighted tennis court, Waterfront Adventures, Green Wagon Beach Cookout Service. Vacation Rick Travel

Just some of the attractions close by:

Lake Park - 1.0 mile

Haven Conservatory - 5.0 miles

Fashion Island Shopping Center - 9.0 miles

South Coast Plaza - 11.0 miles

Knott's Berry Farm - 11.0 miles

Disneyland - 15.0 miles

Treehouse Villas at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa-Scheduled to open the summer of 2009!

Treehouse Villas at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa will mark the newest phase of what has become the largest Disney Vacation Club resort. This new phase will revive Walt Disney World "treehouse living," a cherished tradition from 1975-2002. While crews are replacing villas of the '70s with brand-new vacation homes, Imagineers took special care to honor the original octagonal design. As a result of replacing the old villas, 5,178 tons, or 65.22 percent, of materials from demolition were recycled, including concrete and metals.
Each stand-alone Treehouse Villa will come together like a giant 3-D puzzle to ensure both superior quality and environmental sensitivity making this phase unique as respects its contruction process. Great "lengths" have been taken to ensure every vacation home runs smoothly. Consequently, there are 87,858 lineal feet, or 16.6 miles, of wire for fiber optics, copper, telephones and CATV.
The Treehouse Villas at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa will give guests the opportunity to experience "glamping" or "glamorous camping" with stand-alone vacation villas. All of this is just around the corner from Disney Downtown. Highlights are as follows:

• 60 three-bedroom homes, elevated 10 feet off the ground on pedestals and beams.


• Offer modern luxeries such as cathedral ceilings, a full kitchen, granite countertops, flat screen TVs, and even a whirlpool tub.


• Will sleep nine.


• Three bedrooms and two baths.


• Master bedroom-queen. Second bedroom-queen. Third bedroom-bunk. Living room-queen size sleeper sofa and sleeper chair.


• Interesting fact: Disney Vacation Club has doubled its membership since 2004 to include more than 350,000 individual members from each U.S. state and approximately 100 different countries.

Disney Deal-Buy 4, Get 3 Free

These are tough times, even for Disney. Bookings are down the lowest they have ever been in three decades. Disney is digging deep into its bag of offers to make it easier for us Disney lovers to keep coming back. These are the deals for 2009:

• Disney Deluxe Villa Resorts-Buy a 4-night/4-day package and get 3 nights FREE including Theme Park tickets! Package for most nights between January 4 and June 27, 2009. Example package: A studio room at a Disney Deluxe Villa Resort priced at $2288 for a family of 4 — that's like paying only $80 a night per person.


• Disney Value Resorts-Buy a 4-night/4-day package and get 3 nights FREE including Theme Park tickets! Package for most nights between January 4 and June 27, 2009. Example package: A standard room at a Disney Value Resort priced at $1271 for a family of 4 — that's like paying only $46 a night per person.


• Plus, when you travel between 1/4/09-3/29/09, you'll also get a $200 Disney Gift Card. The Disney Gift Card will be provided at time of check-in.

Disney Resort Planned for Hawaii!

Looking ahead with Disney’s future plans. Disney plans a Hawaii hotel complex to be completed in 2011 at the Ko Olina resort in West Oahu.
Walt Disney Parks & Resorts' first venture in the islands will add 830 hotel and vacation time-share rooms, a fantasy-laden water play area and an 1,700-square-metre spa to this rapidly expanding resort area. A detailed scale model of the complex was displayed at a news conference with Disney officials and Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann.
It'll be the first such complex for Disney away from a theme park, combining a 350-room hotel with 480 vacation villas on one of Ko Olina's four man-made lagoons, which already feature a Marriott hotel and timeshares, a luxury condominium project and wedding chapels.
"We plan to offer the opportunity for our guests to vacation in a completely new way, very different than they do at our theme park resorts, when they come here to Hawaii - to be surrounded, to discover Oahu, to discover the Hawaiian Islands," said Disney resorts chairman Jay Rasulo.
The resort is expected to hire 1,000 "cast members," Rasulo said. Many will come from Oahu's relatively low-income Leeward Coast.
Disney has several themed resort hotels near Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida, but has never built a hotel and time-share complex that will stand on its own. Rasulo had said there were no plans to expand the resort into a theme park.
The timeshare units will be part of the 350,000-member family-oriented Disney Vacation Club, which has eight other resorts.