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How’s it going at DVC where you get no mouse keeping ?? We are renting points in November and if someone barges in on myself and DD12 while we are changing i will be at the front desk guns A blazing and I’m usually a very calm person.
We are DVC members and just returned today from our first stay since this new policy started. We had absolutely no problems during our 5 nights at the Poly. I put out the room occupied sign before we went to bed every night. I removed it when we left for the parks in the morning. We usually didn’t leave til around 9:30 am. When we made it back by 2 for a mid day break our trash had always been removed and we never had anyone knock on our door. Most mornings when we left we saw mousekeeping already on our floor, so they were aware we had left the room for the day. It honestly worked fine. I’m hoping they are working out the kinks.
 
Way to many posts about these unwelcomed intrusions. Sounds like a police state. I hope by my visit things are worked out. Or I will be going down to speak with the manager and writing to Guest Relations.
 
I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds this all very disconcerting. We're booked to stay at AKL for 4 nights in April then off property after that. We've done the on property portion mainly for fp+ and club level to get the extra fp's along with the animal viewing. We are not the typical "bubble " guests. Dh and I travel a fair amount and I know what is available out there at the same price point, and am a big fan of the true "luxury" property level. For less than we're paying now(and we're paying Easter week club level pricing) we could be very comfortably ensconced at the 4 Seasons which is an amazing hotel and where I can guarantee you that if a guest asked someone to come back later and the staff member didn't simply say " what time would you like " with a smile there would be serious retraining or worse as a consequence. But for the fp's I'd seriously changing our reservation. I can honestly say that if this happens to us it will be a one and only happening because we will be checking out and going elsewhere. If dh or I are indisposed or napping or otherwise engaged, and we ask them to pls come back later for housekeeping, security check or whatever, and they refuse we will be immediately going to the front desk and checking out and it will be our last time ever staying on property fp's or no fp's. . I do not want a confrontation on a holiday. I do not want to have to get upset on vacation. I deal with enough nonsense in my career that I want relaxing and destressing. I am really annoyed that I keep reading report after report (and there are way to many for it to be dismissed as a one off) of people being disturbed and ignored by "security" . I really really really hate the idea that this has to intrude on my "looking forward" to our trip !

If you are only staying CL to get the extra FP+, consider switching your reservation over to one of the eligible rooms at Swan/Dolphin. It is not Disney owned, but you will get FP+ at 60 days and some of the higher room categories are included in the CL level extra FP+ offer. From what I've read, Swan/Dolphin are not participating in this mandatory daily "safety" check. We've certainly never experienced it there.
 
How’s it going at DVC where you get no mouse keeping ?? We are renting points in November and if someone barges in on myself and DD12 while we are changing i will be at the front desk guns A blazing and I’m usually a very calm person.
We were staying at a DVC resort on points.

We received a knock on our door every day, before 9, until we requested that they please leave us alone until at least 10.
 

If you are only staying CL to get the extra FP+, consider switching your reservation over to one of the eligible rooms at Swan/Dolphin. It is not Disney owned, but you will get FP+ at 60 days and some of the higher room categories are included in the CL level extra FP+ offer. From what I've read, Swan/Dolphin are not participating in this mandatory daily "safety" check. We've certainly never experienced it there.

Unfortunately they didn't have any of the suites available during our stay....they did however have one that was about $1500 nightly :)(used to that for overwater bungalows in the south pacific...not Orlando...lol). Problem is our timing which is easter week
 
They are doing daily trash service. And you cannot opt out.

Yep.

We had absolutely no problems during our 5 nights at the Poly. I put out the room occupied sign before we went to bed every night. I removed it when we left for the parks in the morning. We usually didn’t leave til around 9:30 am. When we made it back by 2 for a mid day break our trash had always been removed and we never had anyone knock on our door.

You had no problems because you were out when they came in each day.

If you had had a different schedule and had been trying to nap or whatever when they came by, you would have had an issue.

I don’t want housekeeping coming in. I don’t normally have them come in at any hotel until the 5th day or so, though generally I have contact with a housekeeper and get towels etc. at Dvc we don’t really do that though. I tend to have multiple split stays so we generally never hit the 4 day t&t service!

So even if I don’t see them, it’s impacting my stay, changing my behavior (I’ll put electronics away, bras away, etc), and irritating me that a service I don’t want is happening.

And all for nothing that would do anything...
 
When my wife told me this was happening, I almost thought it was a joke. We have stayed on property too many times to count for decades, and one of the reasons we do, is because it is so unlike any of the places we've stayed on the strip.

I don't usually do the whole housekeeping thing, as we like to keep it private besides them asking us if we need towels, soap etc, we're just good and spend a lot of time in our rooms- we paid for them and we use them like intended.
While coming in and ''checking'' on us may seem minor to some, it's not to us. I don't like the appointment, the anxiety of being disturbed because I may be a suspect? It's not the end of the world, but the way they're going about it feels strongly like a random raid of your privacy.

And the real kicker is, it's being done in the name of ''security reasons'' because of one idiot in Las Vegas. News flash- if someone really wanted to do something, their little inspection of the ''trash'' wouldn't prevent a thing, so the whole process and what they're doing is just a complete waste of time and aggravation.

AND, I just wanted to add this for food for thought because to me this was shocking. They're willing to go door to door bothering their guests, but they let me slip right through the gates at each park without ONE TIME going through the metal detectors back in October 17'.
I'm 6ft 6, wore cargo shorts with button pockets, carried a backpack that was checked, along with a small cooler, pushing a stroller, and NOT ONE TIME did they check me beyond the bag check and ask me to walk through the metal scanner, while I see little old ladies being scanned? Are you kidding me? We went to the parks 5 different days. Unbelievable.

I hope they get this corrected and do away with this room nonsense once and for all and step up their security at park entry.
 
I’m staying at Pop this March and really hoping this won’t be an issue. Privacy is so important, especially in a hotel, and considering this is Disney I’m incredibly surprised they even allow this to go on. Honestly, if this were to happen I’m marching straight to management.

It is their policy so I'm not thinking going to find a manager will do you any good.
 
We were staying at a DVC resort on points.

We received a knock on our door every day, before 9, until we requested that they please leave us alone until at least 10.

I’m going next month with my youngest, and we typically don’t leave the room until at least 11:00am. We sleep in & he’s going to use that time on a little homework. Hope we don’t get bothered! I refuse to get up early on vacation!
 
It is their policy so I'm not thinking going to find a manager will do you any good.
So you think the Resort Manager at POP is aware of reports such as the one where ther female CM barged in knowing the male Guest was not "decent" and is OK with this behavior?

I sure would HOPE not.
 
We stayed at POP 1/11-1/15 and didn't have any issues. We were in the room Friday and Saturday afternoons for breaks and no one came in at those times. Not sure when they did come, but we never encountered them. We declined housekeeping, as well. I cannot remember the trash situation, either. I don't think it was emptied every day, though.
 
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We stayed at POP 11/11-11/15 and didn't have any issues. We were in the room Friday and Saturday afternoons for breaks and no one came in at those times. Not sure when they did come, but we never encountered them. We declined housekeeping, as well. I cannot remember the trash situation, either. I don't think it was emptied every day, though.

The policy wasn't in place in November (unless the 11 is a typo and you meant January).
 
That has not stopped the knocks according to several reports. They put up the sign and within minutes the knocks started.
I was under the impression--which impression I got from a CM who I spoke with on the phone--that if you have housekeeping, there's not an additional security check. Are you saying that people who have housekeeping also have been getting a security check?
 
I’m going next month with my youngest, and we typically don’t leave the room until at least 11:00am. We sleep in & he’s going to use that time on a little homework. Hope we don’t get bothered! I refuse to get up early on vacation!
Something we found out was that if you complain at the front desk, you still have to contact housekeeping. The front desk either can't or won't do it. We spoke to the manager.

I recommend that you contact housekeeping the first chance you get.
 
I was under the impression--which impression I got from a CM who I spoke with on the phone--that if you have housekeeping, there's not an additional security check. Are you saying that people who have housekeeping also have been getting a security check?
What people are saying, is that if you turn away housekeeping, security could be at your door in minutes. They will supposedly knock until you allow them entry.
 
I agree that CMs wanting to enter rooms upon demand is an inconvenience, but it's my understanding that the reason this policy was put into effect is to prevent another tragedy like what happened in Las Vegas from happening at Disney. What good would it do if a person is planning to do something terrible and the CM agrees to come back later? It's unfortunate that it has to come to making policies like this, but I choose safety over convenience.
 
How’s it going at DVC where you get no mouse keeping ?? We are renting points in November and if someone barges in on myself and DD12 while we are changing i will be at the front desk guns A blazing and I’m usually a very calm person.
Last Oct we were at AKV Jambo. In laws were there as well in studio. A male CM walked in on them and BIL was naked. In Oct 2015 a maintainence man walked in my SSR 1BR while I was in master napping and my teen DDs were sitting in living room. I woke to them hollering for me. Came out and there he was. He said he had to check if our phone was working. It was. He left. Odd.
 
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