The reason the sticky thread with experiences doesn’t allow questions or discussion is that the room check threads end up with about 90% “I don’t like it!” or “OMG, what if Disney starts doing THIS" and about 10% reports of what’s actually happening at the resorts. The thread is limited to experiences because we need a place for people to find out what’s actually going on, without having to wade through a couple of thousand rant and speculation posts.
I definitely want to keep at least one thread open for questions and discussion. The difficulty is that we always end up back at rants and wild speculation, which leads to frustration and arguments, and the thread goes right off the rails.
My personal take on the room checks is that this is not something Disney wants to do, but something they’re being required to do. By a legal department, by an insurer, perhaps at the request of law enforcement. There’s no business case for Disney to be doing this without external pressures. It costs them more money, it annoys the guests, it annoys the staff. So, given that, I don’t think customer pressure is going to make a difference here. There’s a reason they’re doing it that we’re probably never going to be aware of.
The other side of this is that everyone wants specifics. When the checks will happen. Whether the Occupied sign makes a difference. How to schedule a check for when it’s convenient for the guest. Whether or not they’ll come in anyway even if you ask them to come back later.
If you look at the experiences thread you’ll see that there aren’t any specifics. No hard and fast rules for how things are happening.
That’s the nature of a security check. The minute they get completely predictable, the checks are not going to catch whatever they’re meant to catch, because the people doing the Bad Thing will simply plan around the checks.
Guests are probably never going to be able to fully understand or control how these checks happen.
All of it boils down to this: It’s likely that a Disney employee will enter your room once a day. It may be at a time that’s convenient for you, it may be at a time that’s not convenient. Armed with this knowledge, you then have three choices.
- Decide that you don’t want to even take the chance that someone will enter your room, and plan to stay at a non-Disney resort from now on.
- Decide that the checks don’t bother you, you’ll roll with it.
- Decide that….you can’t decide, and you’ll try a Disney resort on your next stay and see how it goes. Maybe you’ll come back, maybe you won’t.
That’s it. All the venting on message boards that you could ever do isn’t going to give you more choices. All the arguing with fellow posters about how upset they should be isn’t going to change this policy. There’s only so many ways you can say “I don’t like this!” before it starts to get tiresome. Nobody likes it. You’re not supposed to like it. It’s a security policy that Disney has implemented and like any other hotel policy, you’re either OK with it, or it makes you want to stay elsewhere. And then, in the immortal words of Elsa….let it go.
Note: I’m not saying that y’all shouldn’t talk about this. It’s perfectly fine to have questions, and help each other gather as much information as you can. That’s what we do here. I’m just saying that after several thousand posts on the topic, there’s really not much point to arguments and rants. All of the arguments that could ever have been made….have been. All of the rants that could ever be ranted…have been. It will help to keep threads open if we try to stick to sharing helpful information, and vent your opinions and/or anger at Disney instead of at each other.