No more towel characters

Thom72 said:
My mouse keeper on loop 2100 has over 27 years service and was very disappointed about the change. She takes pride in making the children smile. So saying we are entitled is crazy. It cost me 5600.00 for 8 days in a cabin with water park and hopper. I would rather pay a extra 5.00 a day to see my child smile then a bottle of water for 2.75. To compare DCL to WDW is so insane. A hot long day at the park to come home to a warm welcomed piece of joyment made from someone who cares and appraciate her job to make a child happy isn't entitlement. It's Disney.
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We also stayed at 2100 and frankly the cabin was really dirty. One day they didn't clean the floors, rugs, or kitchen table at all. I complained and they came back. You'd think the next day they be more attentive but they didn't show up until 4:30. There were cobwebs in the rafters (big ones). It just wasn't a good job but any standard.

I don't know how if at all that relates to the towel animals (which we never got) but the housekeeping was really rough.
 
Just got back from a stay at POP not one single towel shape or animal our entire time. Our previous trip to BC we had towel shapes on the bed upon arrival and I think maybe one or two time. In all my trips I've yet to see the elaborate towel animals with eyes and glued together.
 
Jon84 said:
Good info.

I usually tip at the end of my stay. I don't want anything fancy so don't go bribing them into doing anything out of the necessary.
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The problem with tipping at the end of your stay is that the mousekeeping employee who cleans your room may change from day to day, and the longer your stay is, the higher the probability is that a second or third person will clean your room.

This means that if you stay a week and tip a week's stay at the end, it is possible that you may tip someone who never touched your room a nice bundle -- while those who cleaned your room so well got nada from you. Therefore you should tip each day instead to increase the chance that your tip will go to the one who cleaned the day before.

In any case, you never know whether today's tip goes to yesterday's mousekeeper; but at least by tipping daily, you are more likely to tip the person you WANT to tip.
 
Wow. I once did a poll on if I liked Minnie or Donald. I sure hope they don't get rid of minnie because of that :rolleyes2
 
1234lucky said:
We also stayed at 2100 and frankly the cabin was really dirty. One day they didn't clean the floors, rugs, or kitchen table at all. I complained and they came back. You'd think the next day they be more attentive but they didn't show up until 4:30. There were cobwebs in the rafters (big ones). It just wasn't a good job but any standard.
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Eh... a cabin is a cabin. Granted, these particular cabins are at Disney and cost a decent amount.... but what kinf of authentic cabin experience would it be without cobwebs. Maybe the imagineers put those there especially for you!
 
We just got back and stayed POFQ. No towel animals the entire time, although they did arrange the bathroom washcloths into Fleur de Lis once.
 
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eXo said:
Eh... a cabin is a cabin. Granted, these particular cabins are at Disney and cost a decent amount.... but what kinf of authentic cabin experience would it be without cobwebs. Maybe the imagineers put those there especially for you!
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For rack rate of $400 a night when we went, I think they could clean it. If I wanted an authentic cabin experience I'd get a cabin in an actual wilderness. hah FW is hardly that.
 
Personally I do not expect towels animals as I do not have little children traveling with me BUT I honestly think we should have a Mickey head towel on a bed to welcome us in. I do not think it takes that much effort to make it and sets the tone for the trip. (makes me smile walking into the room)

I always carefully take it off the bed and put it on a different surface so Housekeeping can reuse it.

I also always tip.
 
DVCjj said:
I always carefully take it off the bed and put it on a different surface so Housekeeping can reuse it.
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Nice thought but most likely wasted. Your bare hands have touched it, transmitting who knows what to the towels in question. Most likely, it just just thrown in the dirty towel bin.
 
I understand what you're saying but I also think that my Germ-X'd hands-to-the-max are far cleaner than the Housekeeper's hands who put it there in the first place.
 
DVCjj said:
I understand what you're saying but I also think that my Germ-X'd hands-to-the-max are far cleaner than the Housekeeper's hands who put it there in the first place.
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Most likely. However, the housekeeper has no way of knowing that. So into the bin it (should) go.
 
We went to WDW some years ago, and received the towel animals. At that time, housekeeping did not alter the towels, like with glue or string. Strikes me that some types of modification would ruin the towel. Now guests taking them is a loss, no doubt. But if every housekeeper is ruining a towel per room per day, it really adds up.
 
middlechild said:
We went to WDW some years ago, and received the towel animals. At that time, housekeeping did not alter the towels, like with glue or string. Strikes me that some types of modification would ruin the towel. Now guests taking them is a loss, no doubt. But if every housekeeper is ruining a towel per room per day, it really adds up.
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From multiple sources, and multiple threads here, no one was "ruining" towels that were intended to be reused. The towels/washcloths used were too worn to be kept in rotation and were scheduled to be discarded. It could be argued that by making towel animals out of these soon-to-be-discarded towels, and encouraging guests to take them home, Disney was *saving* money, because that was that much more they didn't have to pay to put in a landfill. Or whatever.
 
As old hand Disney Cruisers, we've always had a blast with our stewards, "upping the ante" daily with towel characters. They leave a monkey on a clothes hanger- we outfit it with a Mickey Pirate bandana and plastic knife for a sword. They leave an elephant with a chocolate coin eye patch for his first mate- we leave Captain Monkey forcing the elephant to walk the plank off the coffee table into a blanket ocean. By the end of the cruise, we've got an entire diorama in our room that other stewards ask to come and take photos of for THEIR next guests' Disney experience.

I think maybe THAT is what Walt had in mind, not cutting corners with guest experience to save a trifle.
 
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