Do you think Disney Hotels would do this?

[nickyb720]

Quiet zones.....Crowne Plaza is testing it in their hotels.....
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-hotels-snoring-idUSTRE76J4FS20110720


Can't see this working too well.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Kid-free zones????!!!!

 

[nickyb720]

I mean, when I stayed at Coronado, I didn't hear anything from the rooms next to us. And there were families in those rooms.

 

[Cherinva]

Doesn't sound like it's gonna work at all

 

[Kimberle]

Can you see this???
What do you do for a living?
I walk the halls of a hotel listening for people who SNORE to loud! I then pound on their door to wake them up.

 

[PeterPan09]

It's like the story about the kid free restaurant, I understand why the market for this has developed. I don't think this will work like a restaurant will. I've never had a problem with kids in the hotel.

I wouldn't mind a kid free pool though. Disney does it on the cruise lines, I wish they would do it at the resorts.

 

[KeroKero]

It's like the story about the kid free restaurant, I understand why the market for this has developed. I don't think this will work like a restaurant will. I've never had a problem with kids in the hotel.

I wouldn't mind a kid free pool though. Disney does it on the cruise lines, I wish they would do it at the resorts.

The snoring might be one of the silliest things I've ever read!

Kid free pools would be a good idea. I love kids (don't have my own yet), but sometimes being by a pool without the screaming or splashing would be a nice change.

 

[jpeka65844]

How about they build hotels to begin with that are "soundproof". I mean, some hotel walls are far flimsier than the ones in my house!

Can't they soundproof walls? I'm a music teacher and my classroom is soundproofed so it doesn't bother others around me.....

 

[figment3258]

Wow just wow

 

[DeaverTex]

I've had the pleasure of being in a hotel room next to a heavy snorer, and it's pure torture. But it does seem that it would be less of an imposition on the guests to just SOUND INSULATE THE ROOMS. Mrs. Tex and I have fond memories of laying in bed one night and listening to the adult gymnastics going on in the next room. The best part was when I said -- out loud, but far from shouting -- "Ride 'em cowboy!". The sudden onset of silence was deafening.

What next, though? Monitors on the ice machine to catch those hardened criminals who use their room trash can instead of the teeny little ice bucket?

 

[WorldWacky]

How about they build hotels to begin with that are "soundproof". I mean, some hotel walls are far flimsier than the ones in my house!

Can't they soundproof walls? I'm a music teacher and my classroom is soundproofed so it doesn't bother others around me.....

 

[aurorae]

One of the biggest problems is hotel rooms that have connecting doors.

Generally those connecting doors are poorly soundproofed.

 

[Claudia Kellenberger]

I've had the pleasure of being in a hotel room next to a heavy snorer, and it's pure torture. But it does seem that it would be less of an imposition on the guests to just SOUND INSULATE THE ROOMS. Mrs. Tex and I have fond memories of laying in bed one night and listening to the adult gymnastics going on in the next room. The best part was when I said -- out loud, but far from shouting -- "Ride 'em cowboy!". The sudden onset of silence was deafening.:

OMG ! That was way too funny !

 

[PinkBudgie]

I would think someone knocking on a neighbor's door in the middle of the night and telling him to stop snoring would actually be louder than the person snoring!

We always bring our sound machine with us to hotels. We set it to "rain" and it keep you from hearing all the little noises that go on in hotels all night.

 

[gmboy95]

any time I hear anyone talk about kid free anything at disney world....i laugh hysterically!!!....you talk about opposite of your overall mission statement!!

 

[PeterPan09]

any time I hear anyone talk about kid free anything at disney world....i laugh hysterically!!!....you talk about opposite of your overall mission statement!!

It works very well for Disney Cruise Line. Friends of mine did their honeymoon there and the only time they saw kids was the day they left and the day they came home. I own DVC points at SSR and there are multiple pools on property, what would be the harm of making one or two of those smaller pools kid free?

The mission of the PARKS was a place where children and adults can have fun together. No reason to change that, but I know I'm not the only Disney guest who wouldn't mind a small oasis on property.

 

[book_junkie]

Ha! Good luck waking up my hubby save for calling the room! He snores, but I doubt that it goes beyond the room- we've never had noise complaints, and I can't hear him from another room in our house. However, if he's asleep deep enough that he's snoring, then he's deep enough that a knock on the door isn't going to wake him!

 

[BriarRosie]

It works very well for Disney Cruise Line. Friends of mine did their honeymoon there and the only time they saw kids was the day they left and the day they came home. I own DVC points at SSR and there are multiple pools on property, what would be the harm of making one or two of those smaller pools kid free?

The mission of the PARKS was a place where children and adults can have fun together. No reason to change that, but I know I'm not the only Disney guest who wouldn't mind a small oasis on property.

It's easier to enforce the adult pool on the cruise, and it's not an inconvenience to other guests to use the family pool. But if a family was staying at WDW, very close to a quiet pool designated "adults only", they will either raise a stink that they can't use the more convenient pool, or they'll just swim there anyway. I don't see Disney stationing a cast member near a pool to tell families they can't swim there.

I like the cruise line model for the adult areas, but I can't see them fitting well on a WDW scale.

 

[FireDancer]

I could see Disney making an area of a resort adult only but not just a pool or block of rooms. If you make one or two buildings and the pool right next to those buildings adult only you have grouped together the area to make it easier to enforce. If it is a new resort or they are willing to do a little refurb they can add an adult only restaurant in one of those buildings.

You won't have families staying close to the pool since they wouldn't be in those buildings and as opposed to saying this pool is off limits you can say the adult-only section of the resort is here so you will have to avoid it with kids.

It would probably play well to the people who honeymoon down there much like Sandals resorts do. If the ROI analysis comes up positive and you make sure to promote it right (as in not anti-family) I don't know why they wouldn't at least try it. You can always return the buildings to regular inventory if it ends up not working.

 

[PeterPan09]

I could see Disney making an area of a resort adult only but not just a pool or block of rooms. If you make one or two buildings and the pool right next to those buildings adult only you have grouped together the area to make it easier to enforce. If it is a new resort or they are willing to do a little refurb they can add an adult only restaurant in one of those buildings.

You won't have families staying close to the pool since they wouldn't be in those buildings and as opposed to saying this pool is off limits you can say the adult-only section of the resort is here so you will have to avoid it with kids.

It would probably play well to the people who honeymoon down there much like Sandals resorts do. If the ROI analysis comes up positive and you make sure to promote it right (as in not anti-family) I don't know why they wouldn't at least try it. You can always return the buildings to regular inventory if it ends up not working.

Exactly. It could at least be tried.