Rebecca Pocahontas
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2011
We don't ever leave a credit card on file and we pay for the whole trip in advance. Are we required to go to the front desk on our check out day just like any other hotel and "turn in our key"?
We don't ever leave a credit card on file and we pay for the whole trip in advance. Are we required to go to the front desk on our check out day just like any other hotel and "turn in our key"?
I haven't physically checked out of a WDW resort in about 7-8 years.
Seconded to say I haven't physically checked out of any hotel in about 7-8 years.
Yes, that would be the only case for physically checking out.I have been told that if I am checking into another Disney resort, I need to check out of the first one before I try to check into the next one. Disney's IT isn't that good.
I don't think they even put the bills on the door the morning of checkout anymore?
As someone who worked in hotels for many years, I always gently ask people to let someone at the hotel know when you leave. The reason is that the hotel can't clean a room if they don't know it's vacant. And without clean rooms, hotels can't allow guests to check in early.
You don't need to visit the Front Desk. Just pick up the phone, dial "0", and tell whoever answers that you're leaving. In any decent hotel, that person will pass along your room number to the right folks. It shouldn't take more than 60 seconds. If no one answers right away, then just leave knowing you tried.
The simple act of letting someone know you left might mean that the next guest staying in that room can get in earlier than normal check-in time. For me, that's worth taking 60 seconds out of my day to do.
I just figured mousekeeping gets there when they get there, whether I tell the resort I'm leaving or not.