maid locked us out!!! really! lol

[smidgy]

I used to be a front desk mgr in a hotel. When you check out of a room, it creates a list of people checked out. When housekeeping cleans the rooms, it works off these lists so rooms are cleaned over the day instead of all of them cleaned AFTER normal check out. So when you 'checked out' , your room was put on a list of people who have left and the room now needed to be cleaned so the next person could perhaps get an early check IN. By checking out, you basically said you had left, the room was given back. Hopefully this explanation clears up some of the confusion.

no, I never "checked out". we had express check out. check out is 11 AM. we had the room until 11 AM. no confusion at all.

yes, we did check our luggage with the resort airling check-in earlier than we needed to. we didn't know how long the line might be, wanted to take care of business, make sure there were no glitches.

as I stated earlier, from now on I will inform housekeeping by phone that we are still using the room, even though I don't have to. just so they don't confuse things.

any way you look at it, as soon as we told her we were still using the room, she should have never argued with us.

 

[sndral]

I used to be a front desk mgr in a hotel. When you check out of a room, it creates a list of people checked out. When housekeeping cleans the rooms, it works off these lists so rooms are cleaned over the day instead of all of them cleaned AFTER normal check out. So when you 'checked out' , your room was put on a list of people who have left and the room now needed to be cleaned so the next person could perhaps get an early check IN. By checking out, you basically said you had left, the room was given back. Hopefully this explanation clears up some of the confusion.

I've never worked in a hotel, but Disney offers express check out, you just leave taking your key w/ you, so there's no way they could have a list of guests who've definitely left for good before 11 am, since most guests just leave w/ no contact w/ the front desk.
Simply dropping your bags @ RAC for delivery to your departing flight would not alert the front desk to anything as the RAC desk is basically the equivalent of curbside airport check in and not connected to the resort or Disney.

 

[aceys_h0ney]

I think this is a big downside to not actually having having to check out physically anymore.

I had a similar experience at a hotel once. A maid came in our room at 7am. Scared me to death and my husband jumped out of bed ready to fight. Perhaps we over reacted but going from sound asleep to someone entering the room where our children are sleeping was a shock. Now we always use the lock inside. I'm a late sleeper and packer, we use the room until the last minute everywhere we go. I'm sure maids hate me.

 

[larryz]

OMG - so strange!

All I could think of with the 'let me in,' 'No, clean room,' 'let me in,' 'no, clean room' back and forth was....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7luMp6lb9M

And then...?

I had a similar experience at a hotel once. A maid came in our room at 7am. Scared me to death and my husband jumped out of bed ready to fight.

And then...?

 

[shalom]

....LEAVE ME AND MY ROOM ALONE!!!!

I can make my own bed, leave me a bag on my door handle with plenty of towels, shampoo, etc. !!!!!oh!! and tea bags!!!!! TEABAGS!!!! cause not EVERYONE drinks coffee!

All that is actually a part of why we prefer Timeshare places -- although even there you sometimes get a call the last morning asking if you've left yet/when you plan to go.

Totally agree that it's our room until we turn in the keys/the checkout deadline hits. I don't have any problem with finding a maid in there before that, but would not be impressed if they maid doesn't hightail it out of there on being informed we haven't checked out yet!