Funny you should mention this.
Last October I had a 2 bdrm reservation for my wife and I and 2 cousins. I wanted them to be really impressed with Vero since they hadn't been before. They were meeting us at the resort. I tried to get there a little early so I could check things out in the room ahead of time. I sure was glad I did.
I spent 45 minutes to an hour cleaning what looked like splashed chocolate milk on the closet door in the 2nd bedroom. It was filthy. I also tried to buff some of the black scuff marks off the walls. We had burned out lights as well.
The last time I stayed at Vero before this trip, my wife and I stayed in an Ocean View Inn Room. It was immaculate.
I feel that over the last couple of years I have noticed a decline in the cleanliness of many of the DVC resorts. This has me concerned. I don't feel that I am being nitpicky either. On our last trip to the Boardwalk, I had to carry 2 room service trays to the front desk because I could no longer stand the smell in the hallway on the way to our room. We had left the room late one afternoon - 2:00pm or so and returned later at night and they were still there. I went out the next morning to the bakery and they were still there. Finally, after housekeeping had been cleaning for some time, we left late in the morning the second day and the smelly thousand island dressing was more than I could bear at that point. I picked the trays up, carried them downstairs and instructed that front desk I was not happy that the trays had been left in the hallway for 20+ hours and no one picked them up.
