When dealing with sound between two rooms with connecting doors - ask for two pillows - open your door, and put the two pillows in the doors, side by side to fill the space, and you will find that by closing your door, you will reduce the sound transfer by about 50%.
Everyone gets a bad room location sometimes, and frankly - you can't expect
DVC to do anything about it. If the room is at capacity, what would you like them to do - MOVE you, and put someone who is less deserving of a 'good room' in your room?
I don't mean to sound arrogant, but in an apartment complex or timeshare resort, you are at the will of your neighbors.
We stayed at HHI over new years and we were on the 2nd (actual 3rd) floor of the resort with one floor of rooms above us - we had noise every day..but we also created noise of our own.
We are all dealt a bad room from time to time - and if you can't deal with it, there isn't much Disney... or you for that matter... can do about it.
You could stay at the Treehouse Villas - they are stand alone units, and even then, you would have to deal with noise in many circumstances.
The only thing you could have done was go out to the area where housekeeping congregates and remind them that your room is just on the other side of their walls, and you could hear every word they said - perhaps they would have given you a little more silence.
We have had good rooms, great rooms, perfect rooms, and then rooms that we never hope to even walk past again! BUT, in the end they all made for a great stay - and given a week at my own home, or a week in a DVC villa... anywhere on property (or off for that matter) I'll take the villa just about any day of the week!
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