Well, I did stop at the front desk on our way out that evening....told the CM exactly what had happened. He wasn't overly concerned, which really annoyed me...pretty much said 'well, I guess we can let the manager know'. So, when I got home, two days later, I sent an email off. I got a phone call within the week. That CM was appropriately distressed. Did they ever do anything about the housekeeper? No idea.
When I go to the desk, I start off saying 'I know checkin isn't until 4, but I just wanted to make sure you have my phone number on file because I usually have had the 'your room isn't quite ready' text by now, and I've heard nothing, even though I arrived at 10 this morning.' And they're usually happy to double check the phone number, and then tell me that nope, the room isn't quite done yet, but they'll send a text when it is! And then, I walk away, and take a seat. Within 5 mins I get the text! Happens all the time.
And yes, the housekeepers have something that they do that shows rooms are ready...in fact, this particular time, I was told that she was two rooms away from our room, so it shouldn't be too long. So, they know where the housekeepers are.
On our first DVC stay ever, we were at BWVs...it was Thanksgiving Day when we arrived. We were given a one bedroom unit that was just awful...supposed to be preferred view...but there was a huge tree in front of the very small balcony (top floor)...we overlooked the croquet area. That wasn't awful, but there was no balcony off the master, and you had to keep the curtains pulled because the window looked directly out on a balcony next door..it was a corner room, so there was another unit at a 90 degree angle next to us. We asked to change rooms...didn't care where. So, they sent us way over to the other side, on the far side of the quiet pool/community hall bldg. We opened the door, and there were toys and clothes all over! Dd and I were pooped from dragging luggage all over, so we stayed in that area, while dh went back down to the lobby. The manager didn't believe him...evidently he double-checked in the system and the villa had been marked as cleaned and ready for the next guest..it was about 4:30 by now. He came up and opened the door and was horrified to find the same thing. Back to the lobby we went. Gave us a third villa! Which was fine! Seems the people in the second villa had decided not to leave that day...but housekeeping, for some reason, marked it as cleaned and available!!! All this made us late for our Chef Mickey's ADR..so the manager had a CM drive us, after putting a nice credit on our account. And the CM started driving us back to MCO!!! He had forgotten where we were going and just drove there instead of the CR...what a day that was!!!