Mousekeeping--Let's encourage WDW to bring it back!

[Farro]

It is what many people are saying as the reason why they want housekeeping. Something as simple as just making the bed should not make or break your hotel stay. So i can't imagine that is the primary reason why people want housekeeping back. I don't buy the whole "I paid for it" excuse. You're guaranteed to clean room when you move in. If you're so messy that you need them to come in every day then that's on you.

No, it's really as simple as I like to come back to the room, see the fresh towels, glasses, coffee stuff refilled and the bed made. It's one of the perks (or used to be) of staying in a hotel.

We don't even eat in our room! We really don't generate any garbage outside of the coffee stuff and some tissues I guess.

Will it make or break my stay if they don't make my bed? Of course not.

But I'd still like to see it come back.

 

[mom2rtk]

We don't stay DVC, but we do stay 7-8+ days each trip in one hotel room. I have a ton of hair and after 2-3 days of no sweeping or vacuuming, my hair rolls in tumbleweeds across the floor. When we walk with socks across the floor, it collects all over our socks. While I don't want to have to vacuum or sweep on vacation, I could make do with no housekeeping if they had a broom or vacuum in my room where I could take care of that. Same goes for when we have snacks or bring meals back to the room and inevitably get crumbs on the floor. If you're not going to provide cleaning services in a room where some people are spending 7+ days, then at least give access to some cleaning supplies so people can manage it how they want to - just like I would have at home.

Makes complete sense, but it will never happen. The optics would be really bad. Just paid $2K for a room? Here's your broom!

Hey, maybe they could do Cinderella inspired rooms with Disney branded cleaning supplies!

Sadly though, the fact that so many are so accepting and making excuses means this will not change.

 

[thinkerbell]

I want it back too!! Love the feeling of coming back to my room all made up. I sent a note saying so on that link. I got a form letter back that just quoted what is on the website about how they are handling cleaning right now.

 

[notatallmagic]

Take your shoes off at the door and you won't have nasty floors. Like my grandma used to say, you weren't raised in a barn. Lol

Wow. That was incredibly rude. Raised in a barn? Elitist much? MY grandma used to say to be polite.

We DO take off our shoes at the door, and always have; I have a kid with severe dust and pollen allergies, so we even request a deep room clean prior to arrival and Disney has always been very accomodating about that.

But DUST and even bare/socked feet are dirty. I clean my floor several times a week at home. After a week at Disney, floors get dirty. I don't have a vacuum, mop, or cleaning supplies to clean ON VACATION.

Have a nice day.

 

[nkereina]

Makes complete sense, but it will never happen. The optics would be really bad. Just paid $2K for a room? Here's your broom!

Hey, maybe they could do Cinderella inspired rooms with Disney branded cleaning supplies!

Sadly though, the fact that so many are so accepting and making excuses means this will not change.

I totally agreed with you. My point was that they can't expect people to spend 7+ days in a room with no access to housekeeping or even cleaning supplies. At least in a DVC room, I believe a broom or vacuum and paper towel is standard and its easy to live like you would at home with those things at your disposal. Its hard for me to maintain a tidy hotel room, as other posters seem to be suggesting, when things like crumbs, hair, etc. come about and I have nothing to clean it up with.

 

[Tess]

Typically I have my own room so it's just me but without daily housekeeping it doesn't give off the vibe of being on vacation and at a nice resort. I hardly create a mess but it's nice to come back to a room where the bed is made, the trash removed (from the trash can) and the bathroom given a quick freshen up with restocked towels and everything in it's place. It's part of the "welcome back" when you return from the parks. I would feel this way at any resort though, not just Disney. At $500 plus a night, no daily housekeeping is quite lame. Sure, I know Disney deluxe resorts aren't truly luxury experiences but i'm not asking for turn-down service (although I think GF used that have that) but this will be hard to overlook once we can no longer say it's because of the pandemic.

I haven't been away since the pandemic so i'm not sure what other resorts are doing but I am now scheduled to return to Disney in 2022.

Back in the day--it was done at all Deluxe resorts in all rooms. Turn down and chocolates on the pillows. It was lovely.

 

[becauseimnew]

I'm just saying how much would be per night twords housekeeping if we go based on the gift cards it's what 10$ a night? That's peanuts compared to what folks are talking about with paying 500-2k a night. That 10$ saves disney paying hourly much more. So that value is not correct. I'm sure they have the numbers for percent of folks who took the gift card deal over daily housekeeping than just took the gift card out and lowered the days them selves.

I don’t know how much more it cost to take out the trash, replace coffee and make the bed. But I do know that the prices per night has increased since the last time we were there and daily housekeeping was the norm.

 

[DisneyGuy]

Back in the day--it was done at all Deluxe resorts in all rooms. Turn down and chocolates on the pillows. It was lovely.

A true resort experience! A small extra touch goes a long way and could make the “Disney Difference” but unfortunately is no longer “needed”.

 

[Moliphino]

I totally agreed with you. My point was that they can't expect people to spend 7+ days in a room with no access to housekeeping or even cleaning supplies. At least in a DVC room, I believe a broom or vacuum and paper towel is standard and its easy to live like you would at home with those things at your disposal. Its hard for me to maintain a tidy hotel room, as other posters seem to be suggesting, when things like crumbs, hair, etc. come about and I have nothing to clean it up with.

It does say vacuuming is done on the every other day servicing "as needed".

 

[notatallmagic]

It does say vacuuming is done on the every other day servicing "as needed".

I wish. We've been three times in the past year, for a week each time. We stay at resorts with hard floors, and have never had our floors cleaned. Hopefully someday soon again.

 

[monarchsfan16]

I wish. We've been three times in the past year, for a week each time. We stay at resorts with hard floors, and have never had our floors cleaned. Hopefully someday soon again.

Even pre-covid, they were terrible about cleaning the hard surface floors during a stay. We had a trip to Pop where the housekeepers clearly entered when it was raining. The floors were disgusting.

I actually prefer the carpet because it wasn't so blatantly obvious that they were gross.

 

[notatallmagic]

Even pre-covid, they were terrible about cleaning the hard surface floors during a stay. We had a trip to Pop where the housekeepers clearly entered when it was raining. The floors were disgusting.

I actually prefer the carpet because it wasn't so blatantly obvious that they were gross.

I know. Carpet hides it better, but my kid is allergic to dust, so I was so excited when Pop and Movies went to hard floors! Dirty carpet makes him miserable, so I was hopeful it would be better.

The first time we stayed at Movies after the hard floor renovation, our socks were black on the bottoms after the first day. So I did start requesting a "deep clean" before check in, and that helps tremendously, and his symptoms were minimal.

With the reduced/eliminated cleaning of floors and surfaces this past year, we're ok for the first few days, but after that it gets rough, even with my cleaning wipes. We're actually doing a split stay for our next 8 day trip so at least we get a clean room halfway through.

 

[ten822]

Actually it is more of a staffing issue. Would you want to clean someone's Covid-19 filled room until more individuals are vaccinated.

Dave

Don't the masks, gloves and hand washing work?? They clean the common areas and bathrooms in the hotels and parks don't they? How are the rooms any different? Plus, they clean them once you leave so they're not avoiding the germs.

 

[MomOTwins]

I do wish we could at least pay for extra housekeeping. I miss it.

 

[mom2rtk]

I do wish we could at least pay for extra housekeeping. I miss it.

Oh geez, don't give them any ideas.

 

[nkereina]

It does say vacuuming is done on the every other day servicing "as needed".

I don't doubt it says that, but our experience at CBR in October was that they just removed trash and dirty towels and they put the new towels on the table at the front of the room. Not even in the bathroom. They definitely didn't vacuum during our 8 day stay. If they are judgmentally doing it "as needed", then a quick glance around wouldn't show anything egregious that needs vacuuming, but my brown hair which blends into the floor was certainly abound. Likely not noticeable to someone just quickly changing the trash. Good to know its supposed to occur, though, so could likely be requested.

 

[notatallmagic]

I don't doubt it says that, but our experience at CBR in October was that they just removed trash and dirty towels and they put the new towels on the table at the front of the room. Not even in the bathroom. They definitely didn't vacuum during our 8 day stay. If they are judgmentally doing it "as needed", then a quick glance around wouldn't show anything egregious that needs vacuuming, but my brown hair which blends into the floor was certainly abound. Likely not noticeable to someone just quickly changing the trash. Good to know its supposed to occur, though, so could likely be requested.

That was our experience exactly. Fresh towels left right by the door; dirty towels and trash taken. Sinks and mirrors were not wiped, and no floor cleaning. We had sand near the door on one of our trips, and it was there for the remaining days (I did my best, but still...).

 

[ZellyB]

Our last stay was actually at Shades of Green and they also were not providing daily housekeeping. We drink a lot of coffee in the mornings so it was just a pain to either try and track down a housekeeper and ask for coffee or go to the front desk. Towels were sometimes a challenge and the trash was ridiculous. We also had to pile things outside our door. We tried leaving dirty towels outside to see if that would prompt them to replace them, but they would just collect the dirty towels and then not give us new ones. So it was another trip to the front desk each time we needed new towels. I'm another one who also just likes to return to a room that is tidy with beds made. We always keep our rooms as tidy as possible because the mess in a small space drives me crazy, but it always felt more like vacation to come back to a made bed and straightened towels and to have coffee refilled and trash removed. The fact is that we know now that the incidence of COVID being spread by touching surfaces is practically zero, so the excuse to not provide housekeeping as some kind of COVID precaution just doesn't make sense anymore. At this point it just feels like a way for them to keep cost down while collecting the same price for the room.

 

[Moliphino]

I don't doubt it says that, but our experience at CBR in October was that they just removed trash and dirty towels and they put the new towels on the table at the front of the room. Not even in the bathroom. They definitely didn't vacuum during our 8 day stay. If they are judgmentally doing it "as needed", then a quick glance around wouldn't show anything egregious that needs vacuuming, but my brown hair which blends into the floor was certainly abound. Likely not noticeable to someone just quickly changing the trash. Good to know its supposed to occur, though, so could likely be requested.

At Pop they put all the towels away in the bathroom and I'm pretty sure they did vacuum at times, because my hair is really long right now and the bathroom floor didn't get overrun with hair. This was both at the beginning of this month (8 nights) and back in October (11 nights).

 

[AliceIn]

Check out the "author" of the laughing emojis-usually the same people. I uncharitably think they must be trolls with no real lives who like to cause trouble. Internet gets lots of bored people for whom this the the highlight of their day.

The one only posts rude things. Maybe a mod should look into it.