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Disney taking hotel bookings 7 months before opening

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005 | 9:34 a.m.

Walt Disney Co., the second-largest U.S. media company, is taking reservations for two hotels at Hong Kong Disneyland, seven months ahead of the theme park's opening, and will charge some of the highest rates in the city.

Rates at the 400-room Victorian-style Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel will start at HK$1,600 ($205), compared with an average HK$1,356 for luxury hotels in Hong Kong last year. Disney's 600-room Hollywood Hotel will charge at least HK$1,000 when the park opens Sept. 12. The five-star Grand Californian Hotel in Anaheim, Calif., home of Disneyland, charges about $189 a night.

"One thousand rooms aren't really that many, in terms of the number of guests who will come to Disneyland on any given day," Roy Tan Hardy, vice president of marketing and sales, said at a briefing.

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