Do you consider this to be bad manners on Club Level floors?

[bavaria]

For those of you leaving dishes in your room 'for housekeeping to remove' - housekeeping doesn't have the ability to remove them on their carts. THEY leave them in the corridor for room service to remove, or possibly put them in the service area if the hotel has facilites for that. And many hotels don't even have housekeeping carts anymore.

So leaving things inside the room doesn't really resolve much, other than to leave corridors free of dishes. But it still ends up outside, removed by room service.

The best option is still to contact room service to remove any trays/carts.

And ultimately, I am filing this topic under 'does it really matter THAT much?'. I have posted out of interest ie I know the subject well, but it certainly is NOT something that I wonder, stress, or worry about!

 

[monkeyboy]

I usually keep the dishes as a momento.

2 more visits I will have a place setting for 12

 

[MermaidsMom]

I usually keep the dishes as a momento.

2 more visits I will have a place setting for 12

Will you invite us all for dinner?

 

[themilesfamily]

I usually keep the dishes as a momento.

2 more visits I will have a place setting for 12

*L* That reminds me of a Will & Grace episode -- Grace said she didn't have room in her luggage to pack the hotel bathrobes because it was too full with the VCR and Bible.

 

[#1hockeymom]

No, they're not rude. The house keeping staff will put them in the hallways themselves when they find it in the room. I have also had an incident where we were done with the place settings left for a cake through concierge. I had them stacked neatly and the napkins folded in half over the top of the plates. You could tell I had straightened up the now dirty dishes and we were done with them. House keeping would not take them! (exclamation mark for humor as we called this the non disappearing dish experiment), Another day went by - dishes still there! Finally I put them out in the hallway, the way my mom taught me, actually, and they were gone when we got back.

No, I didn't ask concierge what to do with them as I thought it extremely minor in the scheme of things. I did thank them for the yummy cake! A few months later the second set of "cake" dishes disappeared, but we were in a suite and I put them in the sink.

 

[Disney4Drew]

During my familes stays on the Atrium Club since they have become full time Club Level service, the odd time my parents and I like to take some food from the lounge and eat it in our room. However we always return our plates back to the lounge. Anyway on our last there I noticed some guests like the people who stayed next to us would bring food back from the lounge and leave it outside their door for housekeeping to clean up. Do you think that would be considered bad manners having housekeeping clean up those plates and etc, when it's easy to walk to the lounge and leave it with the dirty plates and etc?

Are you satisfied now?

BTW, during MY DH's and DS's last visit they stayed PREFERRED at POP!

 

[lookingforward]

I would rather leave the plates in the room for removal than on the hallway floor. Concierge rooms get serviced twice a day (morning and turn down) so they will be removed if you can't return them.

I have stayed concierge many times and don't think there is anything wrong with taking some treats back to the room. There are so many circumstances to do so, (crowded lounge, one family member resting, sitting on the balcony, watching television, etc). If it were wrong the lounge managers would not be providing trays, etc.

 

[BCV23]

For those of you leaving dishes in your room 'for housekeeping to remove' - housekeeping doesn't have the ability to remove them on their carts. THEY leave them in the corridor for room service to remove, or possibly put them in the service area if the hotel has facilites for that.

Not that I've observed in WDW club levels.

Which reminds me of another point. Most club levels I've been in at other hotels seem to have enough tables for guests so there's no need to take it back to the room for lack of a table.

But that could be the nature of the beast as at WDW so many guests are trying to have breakfast at roughly the same time to get to the parks while at other resorts, it does seem to vary more. Some sleep in, some are up and at 'em, etc.. And in city hotels people are on different schedules.

 

[VAgal76]

It's really not a big deal. I saw dirty room service trays in the hall at the 5 star Halekulani resort in Hawaii in September. They had tables to serve you on so I didn't quite get that, but it certainly didn't make me want whine about it or gross me out. We even had a pick-up service button. No, I didn't watch to see when they actually came to pick up. I'm not dish patrol. Have you considered just relaxing and looking the other way? Maybe you can call housekeeping and provide the room numbers for pick-up? Or perhaps just find a different place to stay at? It's going downhill anyway, right?

 

[CEDmom]

How do your parent feel about it since they're the ones paying the bill? Seems to me a teen would have more things to care about than a plate in the hallway .

 

[Cool-Beans]

Of course I leave plates in the hallway. That's where plates go when you're done with them. Then the plate fairy comes by and removes them.

I see no reason to fix a system that isn't broken.

I usually keep the dishes as a momento.

2 more visits I will have a place setting for 12

I read on the BB that you don't actually have to pay for concierge to get a plate. You can just Mementoize the ones from dinner in any restaurant by taking them to restroom and rinsing off in the sink!!!

(I actually like the BB and am very pro-saving. With them all the way...just couldn't resist.)

 

[mom2taylorandemily]

While I have never stayed at CL, I would hope that I would not leave dishes outside the door. My idea of CL is that you eat in the lounge, however, there are times when you might want to take a bagel or danish back to your room in the morning especially if the kids aren't ready to go just yet. But does that mean you can leave the dishes for the mousekeepers to clean up, well, I wouldn't do it, nor would I let my kids do that. I think you should carry them back to the lounge as a courtesy. I in fact do think it is rude to leave them for someone else to pick up.

 

[mommytobug]

I think the OP is an adult. He always mentions that they stay club level and they are well known at the CR. I think he tries to provide info to everyone. I dont understand the comment either though. Maybe he was just giving background. But, if leaving your dishes outside or not should have the same answer for someone staying for the first time or 100th time. I say ask the staff. They should know the correct answer.

 

[TinkerBelle_325]

How do your parent feel about it since they're the ones paying the bill? Seems to me a teen would have more things to care about than a plate in the hallway .

I love your automatic assumption that the OP is a teenager since they are traveling with their parents, AND that a teenager wouldn't be concerned with the service in a hotel. Personally I find that insulting. I've been posting on these DISboards since I was 14 (now I'm 22) and i think that anyone regardless of age is entitled to ask a question on any aspect of the Disney experience including service.

 

[Calgary DISHeads]

Hmmm ... I spend a fair amount of time in hotels around the world and have never ever returned a plate (maybe packed a few wrapped in hotel towels to the lounge or restaurant - truly never even occured to me - eye opening I suppose that people do. Never thought that anyone may evil eye my hotel door for not doing so. I guess that's another lesson I've learned from the DIS boards...

 

[DisneyBride'03]

We were fortunate to have a room a hop, skip and a jump away from the lounge....ok...3 hops, 2 skips and 1 jump...
Anyway, if we took a plate to accomodate the evening offerings, we just walked them back to the lounge and grabbed another bottle, I mean, glass of wine

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

I don't have a problem if some guests wear their PJ's into the lounge as long as they are appropriate and I have never seen a Cast Member tell them they are doing something wrong. Besides they are usually there to take food back to their room and not eat in the lounge wearing their PJ's. If they did decide to eat in the lounge with their PJ's on it would not bother me, however if what they were wearing was inappropriate that's a different story.

As for taking food back to the rooms, once again Cast Members have never told us or any other guests that it's wrong. So we have taken the odd thing during the food service at 5:00 PM and the deserts at 8:00 PM. We have also taken some bottles of Beer and soda cans back. Besides we are paying extra on these floors and part of that is the foods and drinks which they offer.

Also for the record I am 22 years old and TinkerBelle_325 thank you for your nice comments.

 

[#1hockeymom]

I don't have a problem if some guests wear their PJ's into the lounge as long as they are appropriate and I have never seen a Cast Member tell them they are doing something wrong.

You've never seen a cast member say the dish thing isn't appropriate either. It sounds like this really comes down to your personal preferences during a vacation in which your parents paid v. the rest of the Disney guests preferences.

I say stop sweating the small stuff.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

You've never seen a cast member say the dish thing isn't appropriate either. It sounds like this really comes down to your personal preferences during a vacation in which your parents paid v. the rest of the Disney guests preferences.

I say stop sweating the small stuff.

Ok what is so hard to understand? I have not seen Cast Members tell guests it's not ok to bring food back to their foods. Like I said before my parents and I have done that from time to time and other guests also do that. Also did you ever think maybe I help pay my families vacations to WDW? So please don't jump to any conclusions about things like that, because you don't know myself or my parents.

 

[DisneyBride'03]

Ummm...I dont think this thread warrants personal info...about whom paid for a trip....My DH keeps telling me Santa pays for ours!!