Eh yes! What else would you expect ? would you need someone to do it for you ?
They are in a MUCH nicer situation but if a 30 second drive by to drop off your trash on the way out bothers you then yes it is the same set up so I would leave it crossed off
) Sounds like you need a hotel
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M
Wow - I've been on the DIS 7 years now, and just now feel attacked.
Thanks Hazel for conveying the same information in a much nicer way.
I expected something like at Windsor Palms or Windsor Hills where there are benches with storage inside sitting outside each condo or townhome and you just bag your trash and place it inside. I have stayed in rental condos/townhomes/villas many times and have no trouble with being self catering, but I don't have to take my trash to a dumster at home, and it's certainly not something I want to do on vacation. Part of it may have been that we had 7 people in our townhome for a 2 1/2 week vacation, so we generated quite a bit of trash, and had to head to the dumster at least every other day.
We had a horrible experiences with the dumster & trash at EI over last XMAS! To start with, the prior guests or housecleaning had left trashbags by the curb. Well, within a day animals got to them, so we had to walk through trash spread all over the grass each day going to & from our car. Several days later, the lawnmowing company came by, and we're guessing they picked it up so they could mow. DH actually started to pick it up and bag it himself to get rid of it, but it was too nasty, and we just couldn't stand picking up someone else's trash on our vacation.
The dumster area was also blocked by huge piles of mulch and landscaping company trucks for several days. So, there would be a line of cars waiting to get to the dumster, and at times we had to park down the street and walk quite a ways with the trash to the dumstser.
Also, apparently many people aren't intelligent enough to figure out how to open the dumster or maybe they just don't want to touch a dirty, disgusting dumster (can't really blame them) and would just pile their trash around or on top. Many times, DH had to move other trash to open the dumster to put ours in. And of course this meant we had to load the trash bags into the back of our own personal vehicle and drop it off on the way to the parks. Who wants to head to the park after handling a dumpster! We kept wet-wipes for cleaning, but that's really just gross!
About half the times we went to the dumster, there was someone in a security uniform with their vehicle parked right up by the dumster. They were sorting through the trash looking for "treasures". Don't know if this was EI security or if they were from somewhere else, but we had to wait for them to get out of the way before we could leave our trash.
I think I posted my concern about the trash handling with the EI townhomes even before our stay there, and unfortunately it was even worse than I expected.
I don't need a hotel, but I'll have to stick with Windsor Hills or Windsor Palms or possibly the EI villas in the future, but I could not recommend EI townhomes to anyone I know because of the trash situation.
smiley faces. I took the point to be if you don't want to deal with trash at all, then choose a hotel because you'll have housekeeping to do it every day. Not that you were being judged for not wanting to deal with it. 
