Lousy Alarm Clock

[seashoreCM]

There were some at All Star Music ten years ago, not sure whether any remain.

Alarm sounds off. Reach for the snooze button. Accidentally press the hour button or the minute button instead. Now the time changes and the clock won't sound the alarm again and you oversleep and miss rope drop, or worse, miss your Magical Express bus back to the airport.

By the way, check your alarm clock back at home to see if it has this annoying trait.

A good clock will require that you hold one button while pressing a second button in order to adjust the time. This inhibits unwanted accidental time changes.

 

[Dug720]

Pretty sure clocks were removed a few years ago. (Reportedly many by guests themselves - so not everyone found them "lousy". But the rest by Disney to stop having to replace them.)

Use your phone or the wake-up call service. It's what I've always done anyway. I don't like messing with alarm clocks I don't know how to work and that don't have instructions.

 

[holden]

I don’t recall seeing clocks in the rooms in recent years. We always use the phone.

 

[sunsetbeachgal]

My husband brings along a small travel alarm, just to put on the night stand or chest of drawers so we can quickly see what time it is. But we always use the cell phone for our alarm.

Hotel alarm clocks were always so annoying anyhow, no two were the same. And can you imagine the amount of germs on them....

 

[martikus]

People still use alarm clocks? We set our phone. No issue.

 

[Carol_]

Use the phone, and get a character wake up call. Hotel alarm clocks, like remote controls, were invented to spread germs.

 

[SwanVT2]

We just requested wake up call at SSR and it never happened! At least it was a back.up to our cell phone alarm

 

[KenHutch]

Try living with my curse. I am a retired Marine. I wake up between 04.15 and 04:30 every morning without an alarm clock. I wake up to wake up platoons I no longer command. On vacations this drives the girls crazy.

 

[kiford]

No clocks in the resorts any more that I recall seeing over the last year. I noticed that there was one in our room on our cruise but never used it. Always just used phone or tablet for alarm.

 

[MomOTwins]

I agree--alarm clocks with those pesky buttons are the worst. Same as the paper fastpasses--I'm always misplacing them. And sometimes the horse that is pulling the carriage to the park loses a shoe and you miss rope drop.

 

[AngiTN]

There were some at All Star Music ten years ago, not sure whether any remain.

Alarm sounds off. Reach for the snooze button. Accidentally press the hour button or the minute button instead. Now the time changes and the clock won't sound the alarm again and you oversleep and miss rope drop, or worse, miss your Magical Express bus back to the airport.

By the way, check your alarm clock back at home to see if it has this annoying trait.

A good clock will require that you hold one button while pressing a second button in order to adjust the time. This inhibits unwanted accidental time changes.

Ha. Who has an alarm clock at home?

 

[AngiTN]

People still use alarm clocks? We set our phone. No issue.

Exactly
Why would someone even need an alarm clock any more?

 

[Meglen]

Sorry op... Seems we all use our phones

 

[AngiTN]

Sorry op... Seems we all use our phones

The reason is exactly the complaint OP has, alarm clocks are all just a tad different. It's a PITA to figure out how each one works and to make sure you have it set right, time is right, etc. Your phone, you know. So why use something you don't fully know how to use over something you know exactly how to use?

 

[Beer Me]

Ha. Who has an alarm clock at home?

I have an Philips alarm clock at home. It’s somewhat redundant with phones but this one is supposed to simulate sunrise and is an overall more gentle wake up (it’s a very gradual process with birds chirping etc). It’s not exactly a necessity but it’s nice to have.

 

[nkereina]

We use an alarm clock at home solely because I like the radio to come on as my alarm. I will lay there and listen to the local morning radio show for a few minutes as I wake up. I also like having it handy to glance at the time when I'm in the bathroom, getting ready, etc. Its definitely not needed though - we could certainly get by with our phones.

 

[AngiTN]

I have an Philips alarm clock at home. It’s somewhat redundant with phones but this one is supposed to simulate sunrise and is an overall more gentle wake up (it’s a very gradual process with birds chirping etc). It’s not exactly a necessity but it’s nice to have.

The phones can even do this too
As they say, there's an app for that

 

[Disney Frenhines]

How hard is it to bring your own? A $5 alarm clock is all you need or your cellphone.
This is just nitpicking.

 

[Scubadaddy32]

What's an in room alarm clock?
I think I saw one on the Carousel of Progress! Haha

 

[Kaadk]

Now a days, I just use the phone. Been doing this for years, even back in the old flip phone days. Working a job that required a lot of travel, and a lot of hotels, required that I had an alarm that's consistent, no matter where I was.

Way back early in my career, (before cell phone alarms were the norm) I once encountered a hotel that didn't have an alarm clock in it. Knowing I was terrible with sleeping in, I programmed my own alarm clock on the laptop, and purposely made it one of the most annoying alarms to shut off (Like, having to answer a random skill testing math calculation to shut it off kind of annoying). After that, used that all the time, both home and on the road, until I switched over to using the cell phone.