Not sure how others leave their rooms, but I am a very neat person. The trip when my door was propped open at CBR I was traveling solo. I seldom ever have anything to put in the trashcans in the room, am not a wriggler and have a tendency to sleep on the very edge of a bed, so have only 1/2 of one bed to make up. I keep everything lined up neatly on the vanity with most toiletries hanging up in my toiletry bag in the closet. In addition I always roll up my towel and washcloth every morning in the bath mat and place them in the sink with the mousekeeping evelope sitting on top, so they're easily seen. The only thing the housekeeper has to do in my room is replace a towel, washcloth, and bathmat and make 1/2 of one bed. There was no reason to prop that door open with a trash can. She should have been out of there in 3-5 minutes.
no offense, but next time your at Disney, let it go....wriggle a little
No offense taken!
Not necessarily an accident. A few years ago at CBR. I was traveling solo that trip and when I got back to my room that night I saw my door propped open with a trash can. Those doors usually lock automatically when they're closed, but this door was literally propped open. I almost freaked and was afraid to go in, so went back downstairs and called them on my cell phone. Finally the CM at the call center put me in touch with CBR security. A security guy finally showed up and went in with me, but sortof just blew it off, saying housekeeping frequently has several rooms open at a time and they apparently just forgot to go back and finish my room. Nothing was missing, but it was still scary at the time.
I called housekeeping the next morning and was simply told that someone would speak to the housekeeper about it. I didn't hear anything else about it.
I'm with Rusty. Why does everyone assume that the world (and WDW) is full of crooks lurking and waiting for opportunities to steal?
I travel quite often and have never had any problems with someone stealing from my room.
If you read my first post you will see I wasn't that concerned about my stuff. My discomfort was based on the fact that I was a female traveling alone and came back to my room late at night to find my door propped open with a trash can. The light was on in the bathroom and I didn't know if anyone might still be inside that room. I did not panic, I simply called for security to go in with me, to check it out. Sorry, no way was I walking in that open room by myself that late at night. There was no reason for that housekeeper to prop that door open like she did. All she had to do in there was make 1/2 bed, replace a towel, washcloth, and bath mat, and take the rolled up towel, washcloth, and mat out of the sink. There was nothing else for her to do in that room and she should have been out of there in less than five minutes. Any valuables I had was locked up in the safe. The only things out was a few toiletries and my clothes. I wasn't worried about them. It was a matter of personal safety. My beef was that security was so unconcerned and acted like it was a common occurrence for housekeeping to leave the doors open. I notice that everyone else has said it was the latch not catching that kept their doors from locking. In my case a housekeeper intentionally placed a trash can in the doorway, to keep the door from closing. To get back into that room she would have had to reach down and move that trashcan out of her way.
If some of you remember, there was a thread several years ago here on the DIS about thieves breaking into the rooms at Old Key West and breaking into the safes themselves. Honestly when I saw my door propped open that night, that was my first thought that thieves had done it, not housekeeping. It was security who said that housekeeping frequently leaves several rooms open while they're cleaning and my housekeeper apparently forgot to go back and close the door. It was his nonchalant attitude that concerned me.
wdw will NOT enter your room if you have a sign out....unless a REAL emerg.It is against their housekeeping policy......even after 3 or 4 days.We NEVER use housekeeping at wdw and we norm stay a week or more.
Definitely not true. Oct 2009 I got sick with a pretty bad respiratory infection (achy with fever, chills, sore throat, etc), the day after I arrived at CSR. I spent most of that trip in bed with the Do Not Disturb sign on my door. Several times the housekeeper knocked on the door and twice she opened the door and walked in on me (different housekeeper both times). One afternoon the head of housekeeping called me and asked if everthing was OK. She said they had noticed that I was keeping the Do Not Disturb sign up and wanted to know if I was OK. When I told her I was sick and just didn't want to be disturbed she was really very, very sweet. She asked me if there was anything she could do, if I had been eating, and could she at least bring me something to eat and drink and if I needed any medicine. I told her appreciated it, but was fine She then told me that if there was anything they could do to help, to not hesitate to call them. She called again the next day to check on me and when I told her I was feeling better, she asked if I was going to be in my room for a few minutes. I told her I was and a few minutes later there was a knock at my door. She was standing with there with two bags in her hands. In one she had a very intricate large clown towel animal and in the other she had three Sprites, three bottles of juice, a couple of apples, three oranges, a little tub of cheese, some crackers, and a rice crispy Mickey. She wouldn't even take a tip and said she just wanted to make sure I was OK and to be sure and call if I needed anything.
Also not at WDW, but when I was at RPR over at Universal this past August 29th-Sept 4th I had the Do Not Disturb sign on my door several days. Twice when I returned from the parks, there were packages delivered from the parks. Both times the bags were sitting on my bed. The Do Not Disturb sign was still in place in the door.
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