Send Tigger to check on my home please. Let me know when he is coming so I can have my grand daughter there as well.
You joke, but this is a step towards just that. If you allow your rights to be eroded little by little, you will soon have no rights.
We use the Do Not Disturb sign on our last day, as we normally stay until 11:00am. We don't want housekeeping to be knocking on the door at 8:00am when we already said that we would not be leaving until 11:00.
As long as they are not knocking on my door at 6 am I'm fine with it.
I recall reports on this board of that very thing happening on days guests were departing.
just received an email today from DVC regarding membership benefits. These excerpts answer the question of housekeeping entering the villas:
"Your in-room experience has never been more important to us. That's why we will begin removing trash from your rooms at Disney Vacation Club resorts on a daily basis in addition to regular housekeeping visits. The daily service begins December 22, 2017, at five resort properties (Bay Lake Tower, Polynesian Villas & Bungalows, The Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian, Disney's Grand Californian and Aulani). The service extends to all other Disney Vacation Club resorts on January 7, 2018."
I mean it’s Disney it’s their private property. You’re staying in their rooms. They have a right to access if if they do choose
They only have the right to access for cleaning, maintenance, disturbing of other guests. They can't even allow the police to enter your room.
The bit about changing trash daily is being used to allow them daily access.
I think napping in the room is a big issue. What percentage of WDW attendees are age 4 and under? I would guess at least 5-10%. That's a lot of potential nappers
Don't forget us over the age of 45. We need our naps too.
So interesting scenario...
Let's say that the husband pops out for ice, comes back to the room with the kids crying and his wife freaking out with a strange man in the room moving towards his naked children. Husband goes into full defensive mode and assaults the person as he fears something untoward is going on. Cause and effect... I think we all know what would happen, and it wouldn't be positive for the guests!
I am not stopping to ask questions. My assumption will be a pervert is after my children and will act accordingly. After I learn that it is hotel staff, my next act will be to contact a lawyer.
And that’s the problem. Lawsuits. I know ppl want someone to pay, but sometimes no one is at fault except the person who did it.
And the company that hired them.
Again. The World is private property. They can do as they please to make sure that anyone there is being managed.
Disney is not a public government. They have every right to do whatever they want; they're responsible to guest safety first AND shareholders. You, as people who "chose" to pay to use their resort, don't have "rights" on someone else's private property. Thank God. I'm glad they're incorporating this policy. They know way more than we do about private security and threats.
A police state? This isn’t the government, it’s a private company’s hotel rooms. That’s a bit of hyperbole there.
But they cannot circumvent laws and the constitution.
This is probably a result of the "gift card for no housekeeping" policy. A LOT of people are now opting out of housekeeping - far more than used to. While billed as a security issue, I think it's probably 50% security, 50% pest control. People are gross, and 3 days of trash is just an invitation to all the icky critters setting up shop in their rooms - and once they are there, it's not a matter of deep cleaning a room - the critters just move on to the next.
Pests was my first thought when I learned this.
Yuup
I don't understand how the nap thing is an issue. You leave in the morning, your room gets serviced, and then you come back for your nap.
You assume that the fairy godmother is housekeeping using her magic wand to clean all the rooms in just a couple of hours.
The deadbolt can be over come by security. Also if one person left the room and is expected back, most people would locked the deadbolt, especially if they were bathing.
I would be pissed if my wife was expecting me back and she deadbolted the door.
Not to beat a dead horse, but I have literally never had a housekeeper come for daily housekeeping in the morning at WDW. They always show up around 3 pm, if at all.
You just haven't been early on their list.
Do Not Disturb has clearly been a suggestion rather than a rule in my experience.
Yuup. Disney is the only hotel chain that the DND sign doesn't apply, in my experience.
For example, a single male books a room and is seen making multiple trips to his car. He doesn’t have park tickets and isn’t following routine vacation patterns. A security officer can enter his room wearing a gunpowder sensor. If he gets a hit on the sensor, a thorough search can be performed to find the weapon and he’s taken into custody.
Not everyone staying onsite is going to the parks. I was there a couple years ago for work and used my DVC. Never went to the parks in the 3 days I was here.
This is known as an illegal search & seizure. A person renting a hotel room has an expected right of privacy. If the firearm was found in the open by housekeeping, the hotel could ask you to leave. If they call the police, the police would have to wait for you to arrive and ask to enter or obtain a warrant.
but we noticed someone still stopped by to open our curtains and adjust the room temperature.
This pisses me off. I leave the windows closed to keep out the hot sun and the thermostat set for the temp I am comfortable in. It disgusts me every time I enter my room and it is hot.
So are they going to check all the parked vehicles in the hotel parking lots too to make sure nobody is stock piling anything in their vans or trucks?
I had my car checked before entering a casino resort property in the middle of nowhere last weekend.
I actually think it's an excellent idea, that should be put in place.
This is allowed in France because they have been eroding the public's rights in the name of counter terrorism.