Do I need to Wash the Dishes before we leave?

[TAKitty]

We are staying in a one bedroom for the first time this July. Do we need to make sure that all of the dishes are clean when we check out?

 

[Doug Wolfe]

I don't think so... I have seen Mousekeeping run dishes when they come in to clean-up when you check-out.

But as a common courtesy I always run the dishes before I check out. If I have just a couple of last minute items before I check out, I wash them by hand. It takes a whopping 5 minutes at most and I feel like I am being a good neighbor.

 

[DebbieB]

I always load the dishwasher and put it on run on the way out. When housekeeping comes in, they will know that those dishes are clean.

I've seen posted that housekeeping washes all the dishes left in the cupboards between guests, I'm not sure I believe they always do that.

 

[Granny]

We always leave clean dishes in the villa. I can't imagine leaving dirty dishes for housekeeping to clean...just wouldn't seem right. And with all those people at the check-in desk wanting a room early, mousekeeping might not have the time or inclination to run all the dishes in a villa between guests.

There are more dishes than the dishwasher can handle in one load...I'd guess it would be two or three loads and most likely this is not something that is done routinely with every dish between guests.

 

[Bmwdsny]

I always load the dishwasher before i check out so the mousekeeper just have to put away after it been cleaned.

 

[NJOYURLIFE]

I always load the dishwasher before i check out so the mousekeeper just have to put away after it been cleaned.

This is what we do also. It is the very last thing we do before leaving the unit.

 

[Patty3]

This is what we do also. It is the very last thing we do before leaving the unit.

This is what we do as well. I would never leave dirty dishes behind for someone else to clean. If we make the mess, we clean it up, just like home.

 

[TAKitty]

Thank you! I don't really expect to have many dishes, but I wasn't sure what the "correct" protocol was. I will make sure that our dishes are either in the dishwasher and running as we leave or clean.

 

[rigsby25]

I think another nice thing to do is to let the front desk know when you are leaving the room for good, even if you don't have to go down and check out. Then they can schedule your room for cleaning right away if need be.

 

[kathleena]

In the weekly, non-disney timeshare that I have, putting dishes in the dishwasher is one of the requests all the exchange resorts have when you leave a unit. It seems both reasonable and easy to do it for the DVC units, although they do not request that we do.

Another request at the other timeshares is to put all towels and used linens in the bathtub. While I do it for the towels, I don't strip the beds in the DVC resorts.

 

[tinker925]

I too always throw the towels in the tub and run the dishwasher. If it makes it easier on the mousekeeper, then the unit will be available faster to someone who is waiting to get in!

 

[Muushka]

Last month I rented a villa at Bonnet Creek from a very nice lady. She had me sign a contract, which was pretty straight forward, except that she had that the renter agrees to:

Run dishwasher with all dirty dishes in it
Empty all trash and take to the trash room
Remove all linens and dirty towels and put them in a pile

At first I thought it was strange, but when we checked in all of those requests were also on the BC literature. I thought it was a good idea.

How would everyone feel if those restrictions were placed on DVC?

 

[jdvm]

we even wash, dry and fold the towels

 

[CHEBJO]

That qualifies as going above and beyond in my book! Do you think mousekeeping still tosses them out to be washed? How do they truly know they have been washed and dried, not merely used, dried and refolded?

 

[KarenP99]

I think we should start a DIS DVC rule that you should strip the beds/pile towels. Our last trip to SSR, the prior guests nicely threw their sheet/blanket for the sleep sofa back into the coffee table. Obviously used, there was blood on them ewwww. Apparently mouskeeping never checked.

There was a disclamer on the inside of the kitchen cabinet stating that the dishes are not sanitized per restaurant specs (or something to that effect). I washed the dishes before we used them.

I know that on our last trip to BCV, we used the blanket & pillow from the closet to camp on the couch one night. The next day we folded & put away. It never occured to me until I got home that I bet mouseeping probably never checked and/or if they did, they assumed they were not used. We are clean people, but I feel bad now that I tidied up. Those should have been washed.

 

[TAKitty]

I know that on our last trip to BCV, we used the blanket & pillow from the closet to camp on the couch one night. The next day we folded & put away. It never occured to me until I got home that I bet mouseeping probably never checked and/or if they did, they assumed they were not used. We are clean people, but I feel bad now that I tidied up. Those should have been washed.

This is off topic, but since I started this thread I thought it would be ok . My brother is traveling with us, so I was going to bring a sleeping bag for him. Do all the villas have an extra blanket and pillow in a closet?

 

[rigsby25]

This is off topic, but since I started this thread I thought it would be ok . My brother is traveling with us, so I was going to bring a sleeping bag for him. Do all the villas have an extra blanket and pillow in a closet?

We just rented a Grand Villa, but as I explained to housekeeping, these people weren't all couples, so we had two twin sized air mattresses. They brought us up 2 extra blankents and 2 extra pillows.

By the way, should the blankets go in the tub also, or just the used sheets and pillow cases? What about the quilts. I don't think those get washed do they?

 

[lsutigger2]

Yep, we wash whatever dishes are dirty and leave used towels and such in a pile. We try very hard to be good guests when we stay at our home away from home. If I wash dishes the night before I'll put them back in the cupboard and wash up whatever dishes we use the next morning and leave them in the sink or put them away also.

 

[KarenP99]

Yes, we had a 2br and there was. Now I don't know if the coffee table "bedding" is normally kept there...or if the prior guests just thought is was a good place to stash them...

When they brought our crib they brough us an extra set of blankets/pillow as well (not sure why, it was an infant....)

 

[donmil723]

Gee, I feel bad. When we checked out of a 1 BR at BWV recently, I stacked all the dirty dishes in the sink. It was just cups and glasses, a pitcher, and a couple pieces of silverware. I thought if I put it in the dishwasher, housekeeping wouldn't know if they had been cleaned or not and I wanted everything to be clean for the next guest. For future reference, does the dishwasher have a light that says "clean"? I never even looked at the dishwasher as I washed up the glasses we used each evening. I just hate to run the dishwasher unless I have a full load. It seems like such a waste of water.

We also left the sofa bed open and the king bed unmade so housekeeping would know all the linens had been used. I hope that was ok.

I did put used towels in tub and told the housekeeper who was just down the hall our room number and that we were leaving. At least I did something right, I guess. . .

Thanks for teaching me the proper etiquette upon leaving our DVC villa!!!

Donna