Am I the only one who doesn't like room cleaning service/ turndown service

[AuntMinnie]

I feel embarrassed to even ask, but I can be semi-anon here I will.

Am I the only one that doesn't like housekeeping comming into my room making the bed, wiping down the sink etc? I like to catch them in the hallway, exchange old towels for new and leave the "Do not disturb" sign up my whole trip. I don't like strangers being around my stuff.

And as for turndown service, I took one cruise and one night returned after dinner to find the cabin steward (is that what they are called) had layed out my nightgown , nipped in in the middle naturally. At first I thought it was funny then I thought OMG why would he do that?

I'm a private person really, don't like friends poking in my closets etc. It's very easy for me to make the beds, and walk into the hallway for clean towels. I feel like we are renting the room for the week , we are entitled to privacy. I hope that at WDW I will be able to keep the mousekeeper out.

There must be someone else out there who doesn't like mousekeeping, were you able to avoid it, or does disney really push it to get them in your room once a day?

please go easy on me

 

[Richyams]

Usually the first reaction you get from friends and family when talking about being a DVC member are ghastly groans about not having daily housekeeping.

I suggest DVC, you can schedule your visits for whenever you want, you can pay for more, but all you get standard is a cleaning of the trash, changing of towels and refill of stuff on the fourthday of your stay and a full cleaning on the eight day.

We actually like the limited service, it makes for less people in my room when I am not there. I like it like that.

 

[skiwee1]

I love mousekeeping! I know it doesn't take much to fix a bed but I refuse to do it while on vacation. I have never had to leave my room early to have it cleaned either so we were never disturbed by early morning wake ups from the maids. We generally went to the parks or pool after 10 am. When we returned by 3pm the room was clean. I wouldn't stay in a hotel if they did not provide this service. We take a lot of cash with us also and just tuck it into the safe so we are not worried about anyone taking anything.

 

[MHopkins2]

LOL, personally I *love* daily maid service and will have it at home when I hit the lottery. But we've discussed this before, and you are by no means the only one, so don't feel weird!

Re the cruise line thing, if my cabin steward had done the same thing, my thought would have been, "note to self, add an extra five bucks to his tip!" I'm like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman - the more sucking up and being waited on, the better!

 

[Penny2]

You are far from being strange....many don't like people being around their stuff. I don't really like it all that much either but will allow maids in every other day. New sheets and towels outweigh the squeemish feeling!

Are you an only child? I am and I think its because I never had to share space and stuff (until I got married) that it seems creepy to have people in my stuff.

Have them if you want or not...whatever works for you! Another thing you can always do is have them come in when you want them and stick around and tell them what to do!

 

[georgina]

At most hotels we like to leave the do not disturb sign up too and get fresh towels when needed. I don't make my bed at home and don't need it made on vacation! At Disney, however, we love the towel animals they have left us and the cute things they do with the kids' animals.

 

[Demosthenes]

Originally posted by AuntMinnie
I took one cruise and one night returned after dinner to find the cabin steward had layed out my nightgown, nipped in in the middle naturally.

Pardon my ignorance, but, what does that mean?

 

[jmcross]

I was curious about what that meant, too.

 

[floridafam]

What's a nightgown? Just kidding.

I think she meant that he arranged it so it was smaller in the middle-like the figure of a woman.

I don't like the thought of someone laying out my night gown-just seems weird.

 

[Alice42]

AuntMinnie,
You are not strange!!

We don't like mousekeeping on our trip either. If we are at WDW for a week, we usually get it every other or every 2nd day to get towels and such. We make sure we put all our clothes away and take our valuables with. We just leave the do not disturb sign out on our door-we don't like our stuff being touched!

One story-
on our last trip to WDW, we stayed at the BC and were only there for the weekend and had left our DND sign out THE WHOLE TIME. We had left our clothes and souveniers out all over the place (underwear and bras too). We went to the parks one day and came back in the afternoon to find that the maid had come to make up our room, even though the sign was on the door-it was still there, so it didn't fall off or anything. We were both upset, because what if one of us was in the shower or something and they came in assuming we were away. Anyways, we complained to the housekeeping manager and he apologized saying that it won't happen again, blah, blah. We ended up getting a free meal out of it, which was nice, but we felt totally violated!

Just be cautious even if you leave the DND sign out! They can still come in!

 

[>>^..^<<]

Nipped in the middle - I think she means laid out on the bed but they made a waistline - like a woman's figure LOL

I hope they didn't put a pair rolled up sweatsocks in to make a bust line

I don't think you are alone in not liking housekeeping service - but I think you are in the minority - I am very trusting, very open - It doesn't bother me to have the housekeeper in amongst my things -

I'm with Mhopkins - if I won the lottery I'd have daily maid service at home

Just leave the "Do not disturb" sign on your door - put the extra lock on when you are there - grab towels when you can and have a great holiday - don't stress worrying about it.

>>^..^<<

 

[AuntMinnie]

Originally posted by Penny2
Are you an only child? I am and I think its because I never had to share space and stuff (until I got married) that it seems creepy to have people in my stuff.

LOL!! I am an only, maybe that explains it!!

Originally posted by Demosthenes
Pardon my ignorance, but, what does that mean?

He laed the nightgown flat on the bed, the long way (arms and neck up by the pillow, hem down toward the foot of the bed. Then he kinda gathered at the waist on one side. I knew it was suppose to be "high class stuff" from reading books and magazines. Not my normal "clerance sale rack life"

Originally posted by MHopkins2
LOL, personally I *love* daily maid service and will have it at home when I hit the lottery. But we've discussed this before, and you are by no means the only one, so don't feel weird!

Re the cruise line thing, if my cabin steward had done the same thing, my thought would have been, "note to self, add an extra five bucks to his tip!" I'm like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman - the more sucking up and being waited on, the better!

Okay I feel more normal now, I have been reading posts about concerge and turndown and how it use to be offered to all rooms at the Poly and I was thinking ---once a day would be bad enough, but twice.

We were told to tip at the end of the cruise, but maybe thats why he only did it once( no $5). Thank goodness, for me once was enough

 

[AuntMinnie]

Originally posted by >>^..^<<

Nipped in the middle - I think she means laid out on the bed but they made a waistline - like a woman's figure LOL

I hope they didn't put a pair rolled up sweatsocks in to make a bust line

I'm with Mhopkins - if I won the lottery I'd have daily maid service at home

>>^..^<<

I was a teen, I prob. would have fainted, they did my mom's nightgown too and she a little wierded out by it too.


LOL I don't think I'd ever like it, I wouldn't like them there when I'm out and I would feel funny to be home and not cleaning if someone else was cleaning . I prob. won't ever have to worry about it anyway LOL. I don't ever get more then 2 numbers on the lottery

 

[peachgirl]

I love maid service!

It was one of the deciding factors when we stayed at OKW this last trip. If you rent points you have to pay extra for housekeeping services and with our discount it was less expensive to reserve through CRO.

At WDW I've never noticed any of our personal things being disturbed other than the cute arrangements the mousekeeper would make using our stuffed toys and her towel animal creations. Then again, I'm a neat freak and we don't leave stuff laying everywhere so there isn't much to disturb. We don't worry about things being taken from our room at WDW. We leave the laptop sitting out and I've never had any trouble with anything coming up missing.

I wouldn't be without daily maid service, it's one of the luxuries of being on vacation.

 

[MickeyCrazed]

When we purchased DVC, we were concerned that we would miss daily Mousekeeping. Now, we breath a sigh of relief that we can just relax and not have to worry about someone knocking on our door.
It's nice to be able to take a mid day break and not be concerned whether Mousekeeping did/did not clean our room yet. It's just one more reason we feel that DVC was one of the best decisions we ever made.

 

[edith76]

We've only had one "mousekeeping" incident in all our stays but I still never feel comfortable having someone come into my room. (Not an only child either -2 sisters.) I put up with it when we cruise but I never really relax in the cabin. The reduced housekeeping is one of the things I like best about DVC. We still do hotel stays (just returned from AKL concierge) but they are shorter - usually a few days followed by a condo stay. Once I get in the condo I relax. I though I was the only one who didn't look forward to maid service.

I didn't think cruise lines still did that nightgown thing. On our honeymoon 22 years ago it was common. I'm still horrified by it. The thought that some strange man went through my personal garments....