How Do You Treat Your Dvc Property?

[PECOS BILL]

Gang,
I am asking this ? because of the reports from members that have been dissapointed in their room condition upon arrival.
This is not directed at mousekeeping issues. This ? is in reference to scratches in the furniture, banged up furniture, walls and doors with damage etc.
These things happen from normal wear and tear but I am curious to know how folks treat their DVC property consciously.
Do folks (DVC Members) treat the rooms the same as you do at home or are you more careful or less ?

We normally don't wear shoes inside. We are careful with the baggage. We don't let our kids rough house to the point of damage may occur to the room. I guess we treat DVC the same or better than our home.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Scratch42]

Better than at home! Only because I know I'm sharing with others.

j

 

[lsutiggeratwk]

The same as at home. DH and I are pretty neat and tidy at home. And for some reason, it is more "fun" to keep house while on vacation. I know others go to really relax and get away from it all. It is only DH and I so keeping up with just two is not hard to do. We even make up the bed in the morning !
I'm also of "the others will be coming in behind us" thoughts.

 

[m4travel]

Better than at home! At the resorts - although we speak of it as 'owning DVC,' we only have the right to stay a particular length of time in a particular type/size of villa, at a particular time of year according to the number of points we have. And that distance from true ownership, I think, may allow some people to feel more comfortable being rather casual about the treatment of the villas.

We also 'own' at two timeshares in Cabo and Puerto Vallarte, where we have a particular villa for a particular week each and every year. As it more closely resembles home ownership, I believe it encourages our fellow owners to take better care of the property.

Even with the difference in levels of ownership, we still take good care of DVC property - and get a little bit annoyed with those who do not!

 

[disney junky]

Interesting question. I would say we treat it the same as home, but we are pretty tame at home. Yet you make a good point. I know people who are very hard on their homes, furniture, cars, etc. Though we tolerate some clutter at home, there are no holes in walls or broken fixtures unless things just wear out. I have seen people spend huge sums of money on cars and homes and within a few months, they look horrible. Even as I type this I can see some of these visions in my head. Drives me nuts.

The only thing I might do different when I am on vacation than when I am at home is turn the AC down a bit lower. I figure the cost is part of my payment.

 

[Chuck S]

I am tidier at DVC than at home. And more careful to take care of the facilities.

I can't imagine that someone gave their kid a magic marker and let their kids do "artistic renderings" on the doors, but on one of our stays that is what a previous tenant apparently did. I assume they were waiting for a less crowded time to take the unit out of service and repaint.

 

[bpmorley]

At least the same as home, maybe better.

 

[DisFlan]

Probably better than home. We always keep in mind that other members will want it in good shape when they use it, too.


DisFlan

 

[DrTomorrow]

I really get into the "ownership" concept at DVC. Last trip, we repainted the entire villa, and this trip I'm going to put in some skylights!

Seriously, we too treat it 'better than home'. Growing up, my family was never one of those whose hotel rooms looked like something exploded, and MrsTomorrow grew up renting a cottage every summer, and her mother always said that it had to look better when they left it than when the arrived.

 

[m4travel]

...MrsTomorrow grew up renting a cottage every summer, and her mother always said that it had to look better when they left it than when they arrived.

Let's hear it for MrsTomorrow's mother! We didn't rent a cottage, but did use my aunt's 'cottage' (it was a 4-bedroom duplex) on Lake Michigan most summers. We kids also heard the 'leave it in better shape than you found it' refrain.
Only as I grew older did I come to appreciate the wisdom of the phrase.

 

[FlyingfreeWDW]

If I'm being completely honest I'd have to say not as well as my house. I don't take my shoes off right away before entering the room. They come off eventually but not always right by the door like we do at home. I also don't don't keep the room as picked up as we do at home. We are on vacation so we try to relax a little more.

That being said, we do respect the unit and we do not allow our son to do anything we wouldn't allow at home. We also report any and all problems immediately. We wouldn't want the next guest getting stuck with a unit that wasn't in tip top shape. We also pick up the room completely before we leave. I don't know, that is a weird quirk, but maybe the housekeeping gods will smile on us the next time with a room being ready before 4:30.

 

[T.E. Yeary]

You didn't really think someone was going to say they let the kids loose with the steak knives on the furniture, put cigarettes out on the carpet, & smashed the drinking glasses up against the wall?????????

My experience with timeshare owners in the last 24 years has been a positive one. (Good grief that's a long time.) People do NOT want their fees to go up but mostly they're just really good people! There's something about ownership that instills a sense of pride and that's "a good thing".

Tom

 

[LUVMICKEY]

It's just DH and I for the most part and we are pretty easy on things anyway. We treat DVC the same way if not better. As the others have said, we are thinking of the next people who are going to be using that room. Not to mention, I can't imagine housekeeping coming in after I leave and seeing a mess that I have left. One can only assume they know who you are.

Michele

 

[Sammie]

You didn't really think someone was going to say they let the kids loose with the steak knives on the furniture, put cigarettes out on the carpet, & smashed the drinking glasses up against the wall?????????

My experience with timeshare owners in the last 24 years has been a positive one. (Good grief that's a long time.) People do NOT want their fees to go up but mostly they're just really good people! There's something about ownership that instills a sense of pride and that's "a good thing".

Tom

I was thinking the same thing. No one is going to admit they trash the place.

I have had friends at Disney tell me that work the DVC resorts that members are as abusive as the paying guest and that really surprises them.

 

[Disney MAINEiac]

definitely as well as i treat my own home. I am paying for the maintenance on both after all.

 

[wanna-b-Tink]

If I'm being completely honest I'd have to say not as well as my house. I don't take my shoes off right away before entering the room. They come off eventually but not always right by the door like we do at home. I also don't don't keep the room as picked up as we do at home. We are on vacation so we try to relax a little more.

That being said, we do respect the unit and we do not allow our son to do anything we wouldn't allow at home. We also report any and all problems immediately. We wouldn't want the next guest getting stuck with a unit that wasn't in tip top shape. We also pick up the room completely before we leave. I don't know, that is a weird quirk, but maybe the housekeeping gods will smile on us the next time with a room being ready before 4:30.

Now I picture you looking like Simon. If I'm being completely honest... and That being said... Simon, Simon, Simon (of American Idol if you don't know who I'm talking about.)

 

[DrTomorrow]

You didn't really think someone was going to say they let the kids loose with the steak knives on the furniture, put cigarettes out on the carpet, & smashed the drinking glasses up against the wall?????????[...]

I don't know, Tom; some folks around here will admit to the most shameful things: using last years mugs, overloading occupancy, claiming their 3YO is 2 to avoid paying for a ticket, ....

 

[Caskbill]

We treat it better than at home, for all the same reasons already mentioned.

Years ago once when we checked in at OKW they gave us a key to a 1-B/R unit but when we got to it, we saw it obviously hadn't been cleaned by Mousekeeping yet.

We called the front desk and they said they'd have mousekeeping come right over and make-up the room.

But what we saw just floored me. The previous 'guests' (and I use that term loosely) had let their kids write all over the walls with their crayons. There were cookie crumbs (big, like half of the cookie) all over the floor near where the one chair was, and a lot of the crumbs ground into the rug as they just walked over it. The kitchen was filthy with dirty dishes everywhere. When mousekeeping got there, they immediately called the front desk and we got a different room, since it was going to take them a lot longer time to get that dirty one ready.

That was the worse we ever found. Over about 50 different DVC check-in's so far, we've had a couple of others where smokers had smoked in non-smoking rooms, and on one occassion we got a room where someone had pried off one of those decorations (sea shell?) that was actually silicone sealed to the shelf.

So, I guess on about the other 46 check-in's, everything was fine.

 

[disfountainofyouth]

We treat it like home!

Coasters under cups, vacume up crumbs/sand etc., mop up any
juice/milk spills etc.

What's that old Boy Scout motto: Leave it cleaner than you found it.

 

[diznyfanatic]

<snip>...it had to look better when they left it than when the arrived.

Mom, is that you?

Seriously, my parents had a vacation home for years in Florida that everyone in the family would use. She had one rule for everyone and that was it had better look better when they left than it did when they got there.

So, my answer to the OP's question is a resounding "BETTER than home"!