Hot water vs lukewarm water

[msk]

One of my little pleasures in life is a nice hot bath at the end of the day, especially after I have walked all over the kingdoms. During our last trip to WDW we stayed at YC for a week. On the first night I noticed that the water was lukewarm. The faucet was set so that it could not be moved past that setting. The result was that you could not fill the bath tub with it because the water was cold before I could sit down. I did call the front desk and a maintenance person was sent to the room. She explained that they had turned the water temperature down because of children in the hotel. She also told me that I needed to take a bath/shower earlier in the day when there was more "hot" water. When we checked out the CM asked about our stay and I again complained. She was very nice, we talked about the lack of hot water and she ended up giving us a small credit towards our room.

I'm curious if this is a problem in other renovated hotel rooms. Due to an annual pass this year I have stayed at AOA, FQ, AL, and WL none were renovated and all had hot water.

 

[Shellyb84]

One of my little pleasures in life is a nice hot bath at the end of the day, especially after I have walked all over the kingdoms. During our last trip to WDW we stayed at YC for a week. On the first night I noticed that the water was lukewarm. The faucet was set so that it could not be moved past that setting. The result was that you could not fill the bath tub with it because the water was cold before I could sit down. I did call the front desk and a maintenance person was sent to the room. She explained that they had turned the water temperature down because of children in the hotel. She also told me that I needed to take a bath/shower earlier in the day when there was more "hot" water. When we checked out the CM asked about our stay and I again complained. She was very nice, we talked about the lack of hot water and she ended up giving us a small credit towards our room.

I'm curious if this is a problem in other renovated hotel rooms. Due to an annual pass this year I have stayed at AOA, FQ, AL, and WL none were renovated and all had hot water.

We've never had an issue with a lack of hot water in any room. We've stayed in recently renovated rooms (within the last year or so) at CSR, Pop, YC, as well as several other resorts not as recently renovated (GF, Poly, CBR, BC, AKL).

 

[Sajchinook2015]

This reminds me of the time I stayed at the Poly. Got up at 6 the first morning and no hot water only a cold shower. Yet we had hot water from the sink faucet. I then realized I could get hot water in the shower if a kept the sink faucet slightly on. I had to do this the entire stay. I wonder if that trick would work at YC.

 

[Dave006]

I'm curious if this is a problem in other renovated hotel rooms. Due to an annual pass this year I have stayed at AOA, FQ, AL, and WL none were renovated and all had hot water.

Never had a problem with luke warm water at any of the resorts. However, it did remind me of the time in the early 90's while we were staying at the Contemporary resort. One day we did not have any water, hot, luke warm or just cold! It turned out to be a water main failure on the bay lake side of the building and they were jack hammering the concrete until very late that night to get the water working again.

Dave

 

[AngiTN]

I took a very hot bath at midnight just last night at BWI. So not something done property wide

The only place I've ever had hot water problems was at FQ this past January. It was not our first stay there and we'd never had problems before so no idea what was going on. And we've stayed in every resort except sports and key West. Including YC after their renovations. So I'm not buying the explanation you were given

 

[KevM]

Just came back from the BC the other day and had no issues with getting hot water in the shower the days I was there.

Edited to add, I was at the far, far, far, end of the building too.

 

[sndral]

Interesting - several years ago we had lukewarm water @ the YC. We'd stayed at the YC before and not had any issues w/ the water temp.. That time we were in one of the rooms way down by the Swolphin, maintenance told us it was due to not wanting to scald children, they offered to move us, we chose to just deal w/ lukewarm showers. My theory was by the time the water made it all the way to that room it had cooled down.

 

[DLgal]

That excuse sounds like a cop out so the maintenance man doesn't have to dig deeper into the problem.

Most hotels and homes have hot water set to 120 degrees which is a safe temperature for kids and hot enough to enjoy QUITE a hot shower if you want to.

I don't buy it at all that an entire resort (mainly a convention resort) would "lower the temperature because of children" to the point where the water is barely lukewarm. They would have a LOT of people lined up at the front desk complaining. I would have personally asked to move to a different room. Hot water is a minimum basic necessity that a hotel has to provide.

 

[coast2coastmickey]

That excuse sounds like a cop out so the maintenance man doesn't have to dig deeper into the problem.

Most hotels and homes have hot water set to 120 degrees which is a safe temperature for kids and hot enough to enjoy QUITE a hot shower if you want to.

I don't buy it at all that an entire resort (mainly a convention resort) would "lower the temperature because of children" to the point where the water is barely lukewarm. They would have a LOT of people lined up at the front desk complaining. I would have personally asked to move to a different room. Hot water is a minimum basic necessity that a hotel has to provide.

100% agree it was a cop out. I would have pushed the front desk for a sizeable credit or a complimentary move to an equal or better room with functioning hot water.

 

[squeezle]

When we were at the BWV a couple of weeks ago, the water temperature in the shower varied wildly throughout the day (morning, afternoon, nighttime). Some times it would take about 5 minutes for the water to heat up and then it was only lukewarm. Other times it was nice and steamy and almost instantaneous. I did notice that sometimes the water in the sink was hot when the shower was not... I will definitely try @Sajchinook2015's trick next time.

 

[Jennasis]

Had this problem during our Universal stay at Cabana Bay last November. Never got hot...just barely "warmish".

 

[msk]

Interesting - several years ago we had lukewarm water @ the YC. We'd stayed at the YC before and not had any issues w/ the water temp.. That time we were in one of the rooms way down by the Swolphin, maintenance told us it was due to not wanting to scald children, they offered to move us, we chose to just deal w/ lukewarm showers. My theory was by the time the water made it all the way to that room it had cooled down.

I also wondered about the location being a problem. We were also in one of the rooms that easily could have been at the Swolphin. I think the solution is that next time I request a room closer to the lobby!

 

[Amanda999]

I know it isn't the same but fwiw, 1 or 2 of the hot tubs at Stormalong are so hot I can't stay in long. (Although we go there in August so ymmv.) Just a thought.

 

[msk]

I know it isn't the same but fwiw, 1 or 2 of the hot tubs at Stormalong are so hot I can't stay in long. (Although we go there in August so ymmv.) Just a thought.

I did enjoy the hot tubs while we were there, especially since on two days it was cold, (for FL) and rainy!

 

[msk]

That excuse sounds like a cop out so the maintenance man doesn't have to dig deeper into the problem.

Most hotels and homes have hot water set to 120 degrees which is a safe temperature for kids and hot enough to enjoy QUITE a hot shower if you want to.

I also tend to agree with this. The maintenance woman measured the temp at 110 - which is no where near hot!