Disney Removing Do Not Disturb Signs

[DISNEYSQUIRRELS]

What’s to stop someone from taking a piece of paper & writing “Do Not Disturb” & taping it to the door?
I appreciate any effort to keep people safe & this policy change seems like it does need to have some kinks worked out.
I was previously part of a hotel management team for a major brand & can confirm that MANY crazy things happen behind closed doors. DND signs on doors or a guests refusal to allow staff in the room almost always signaled something dangerous or sketchy going on in that room. Unfortunately now it can also mean something sinister.

 

[Jimmy Mouse]

Personally I don’t see this being a big deal. I put valubles in the safe and if they want to go through my dirty laundry, who cares.

 

[AdamEfimoff]

is this an April fools joke for December?

four seasons ftw

 

[Pink Partridge]

What’s to stop someone from taking a piece of paper & writing “Do Not Disturb” & taping it to the door?

I agree.

If I was going to take a nap (or put a baby down for a nap), I would have no problem taping a makeshift sign on my door. It will make the hallways look trashy. I don't care. I don't want to be disturbed while sleeping.

 

[MickeyWaffles]

Oh please. Don't try and guilt me into feeling that people are being reasonable about this. Poisoning their dogs? Yes, that's reasonable.

I have seen your posts on a few threads. I respect that you are ok with the policy. Just as you are not bothered by this new policy, please be respectful of other’s perspectives on it.

Everyone’s perspective is different and shaped by their own experiences. How can you tell a stranger that their feelings and trepidations about something are irrational or unreasonable? Can you tell someone that you know with 100% certainty that they will be ok and that there is no risk? This isn’t about assuming Disney CMs are creeps and sickos. There can be creeps and sickos in ANY job, as we know from recent current events. It doesn’t matter if they’re the CEO or lower on the totem pole. I believe most people are GOOD. This isn’t about that. This is about a potentially uncomfortable situation for guests, especially if the guest is in the room and didn’t hear the knock, and perhaps forgot to deadbolt the door, someone left the room while someone was in the shower so it couldn’t be latched, etc.

I am mostly alarmed at the thought of not hearing the knock (we are always in a large villa, usually a 2 floor grand, where it is very hard to hear people at the door.) We ALWAYS deadbolt the lock at night but will always do it during the day as well now. Although, getting 6 adults who constantly go in and out to do this could be problematic.

I do think it would be nice if they knocked when the sign is up, and if the people didn’t answer, call the room phone as a second screen. We can’t hear knocks everywhere in the villa, but we can hear the phone.

 

[i/o]

So I am currently here at Disney World. we booked our trip back in February, and I wanted better tips and reviews, so I joined the boards to read and learn from others. We got here on December 20th and will be here until the 30th. I am not sure what to think about this, but to add to the thread, I did spot a K-9 unit today here at my resort. I am not sure if these are standard procedures to use them or new.

 

[ColoradoMom12]

Rooms with dogs get a different type of door tag, and if the dog owner wants housekeeping they need to make an appointment so that they can be in the room with their dog when housekeeping arrives.

Really? I had no idea. If this is a way to guarantee no one will attempt to enter my room (for the record, while I want my privacy, I'm not overly concerned by someone glancing in my room while I'm not there. I am very bothered, however, by someone knocking and disturbing my child's afternoon nap or while I am the shower where I won't hear it), it looks like I will need to become a dog owner or at least claim to be one and book a stay at a resort that allows dogs. Hmmm. I could easily arrange for a daily time for housekeeping when I could be in my room or a time when I say I will be out walking my dog...I didn't realize people with dogs in their rooms scheduled housekeeping. Thanks for the heads up!

 

[AdamEfimoff]

all of this is so confusing

 

[megs1313]

my head is spinning with this. I really don't care much, because i would NEVER want to go a day without housekeeping (because it makes me feel spoiled) BUT i definitely don't want to be awakened or startled. I hope that it turns out housekeeping counts because that will solve that problem for me.

The firsthand account from the other thread is very disturbing. I hope they polish this effort up a bit before we arrive (in two weeks!)

 

[JFox]

Perhaps this is pet related.

As soon as I enter my room the DND sign goes up and the door is locked. If I leave the room before housekeeping I will remove it. If I leave the room after housekeeping the DND sign stays up. Also, I keep my room clean and tidy. Absolutely no personal or valuable items out in the open.

 

[cobright]

They do have a tool to quickly defeat the swing bar. Though that should buy you enough time to get dressed, etc.

The tool exists but I doubt housekeeping would use it to surprise a guest as it would indicate that the room is occupied. It's also easy to defeat such a tool with a rubber band, zip tie, or hair scrunchie, if one was concerned.

 

[KrazeeK120]

Really? I had no idea. If this is a way to guarantee no one will attempt to enter my room (for the record, while I want my privacy, I'm not overly concerned by someone glancing in my room while I'm not there. I am very bothered, however, by someone knocking and disturbing my child's afternoon nap or while I am the shower where I won't hear it), it looks like I will need to become a dog owner or at least claim to be one and book a stay at a resort that allows dogs. Hmmm. I could easily arrange for a daily time for housekeeping when I could be in my room or a time when I say I will be out walking my dog...I didn't realize people with dogs in their rooms scheduled housekeeping. Thanks for the heads up!

I’m not sure if your post is serious, but I don’t think this is worth paying the $25/night per surcharge over. YMMV.

 

[cobright]

Something else I have suggested in other threads, if you are concerned about how Disney staff treat your room when you are out, leave a security camera set up. There is one from a company called digoo you can get for under $20 that updates to the cloud, accessed from your smartphone. Most can be set to record only when they sense movement.

Depending on which electronic door system there are ways to get it to stop reading RFID keys while you are in the room. Building maintenance still has the hard key but mousekeeping uses an RFID key.

 

[rpb718]

I'm really hoping that if they institute this in the new Star Wars themed resort being built that it's someone dressed as a stormtrooper doing the room checks.

Now there's an idea for Disney, have someone dressed in character do the room checks.

 

[Farro]

I have seen your posts on a few threads. I respect that you are ok with the policy. Just as you are not bothered by this new policy, please be respectful of other’s perspectives on it.

I am being respectful when posting my perspective. My perspective is there are a few people on here who are having irrational fears over this and seem to be scaring other people. I'm not going to quote their posts - but there were some scattered about.

 

[AngiTN]

I am being respectful when posting my perspective. My perspective is there are a few people on here who are having irrational fears over this and seem to be scaring other people. I'm not going to quote their posts.

Yeah, it's one thing to dislike the policy but it's another to claim that they will use this as a means to send pedophiles in to rooms, reasons to steal from guests, or access to enter rooms and harm women alone in their rooms. All of which have been mentioned somewhere or another. This policy may not be something you like but it's really a bit over the top to worry about criminals running rampant at Disney.

 

[WEDWDW]

The tool exists but I doubt housekeeping would use it to surprise a guest as it would indicate that the room is occupied.

FWIW-We changed rooms earlier this year at CBR and somehow Housekeeping engaged the Safety Latch when they left the room.

The Bellman with us called Maintenance and Maintenance did have a "tool" to "unlock" the Latch,but it took several minutes and basically destroyed the Latch and he had to install a new one.

I doubt Housekeepers even have this tool and doubt that Disney is going to immediatley break the Latch to get into a room until they have tried to leave and come back to the room a couple of times if they can't get anyone to the door.

Also,I see Posts where Guests are going to be sure to use the Deadbolt,but don't mention using the Safety Latchy-the Safety Latch should also always be used-it is more of a "deterrent" from Disney barging in on you that the Deadbolt.

 

[ColoradoMom12]

Also,I see Posts where Guests are going to be sure to use the Deadbolt,but don't mention using the Safety Latchy-the Safety Latch should also always be used-it is more of a "deterrent" from Disney barging in on you that the Deadbolt.

That's me (and maybe others). I meant the safety latch. I call the what you're referring to as a deadbolt as "the lock". I'm not sure the lock really does much other than provide a false sense of security. I think it's still pretty easy to open a room using a keycard with just this locked. I always use the security latch when we're in our room, especially at night.

 

[AngiTN]

FWIW-We changed rooms earlier this year at CBR and somehow Housekeeping engaged the Safety Latch when they left the room.

The Bellman with us called Maintenance and Maintenance did have a "tool" to "unlock" the Latch,but it took several minutes and basically destroyed the Latch and he had to install a new one.

I doubt Housekeepers even have this tool and doubt that Disney is going to immediatley break the Latch to get into a room until they have tried to leave and come back to the room a couple of times if they can't get anyone to the door.

Also,I see Posts where Guests are going to be sure to use the Deadbolt,but don't mention using the Safety Latchy-the Safety Latch should also always be used-it is more of a "deterrent" from Disney barging in on you that the Deadbolt.

I actually know for certain they do not, at least not all of them. We too have had that latch get flipped when housekeeping left our room, at POR. I spoke to someone at Housekeeping that was still at the building, and they called their supervisor over. She told me maintenance could get in but they could not, they do not have the tool. This does happen a lot though

 

[Hisgirl]

Well, it's the world we live in. What, pray tell, is a hotel suppose to do to make sure a 'guest' hasn't set up command central? I'm okay with this and any other means WDW takes to ensure our safety. We don't like anyone in our rooms and will be making use of the safe as much as we can. Too many interesting youtube videos of curious house keepers.