News Round Up 2017

[AzzySpazbourne]

News

Dad walks around WDW in shirt asking for kidney, finds match.

 

[Reddog1134]

News

Daily housekeeping to come to DVCs
From an email sent today:

“Your in-room experience has never been more important to us. That's why we will begin removing trash from your rooms at Disney Vacation Club resorts on a daily basis in addition to regular housekeeping visits. The daily service begins December 22, 2017, at five resort properties (Bay Lake Tower, Polynesian Villas & Bungalows, The Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian, Disney's Grand Californian and Aulani). The service extends to all other Disney Vacation Club resorts on January 7, 2018.”

I read this as “daily trash service only”. Housekeeping will stay the same.

 

[rteetz]

News

PHOTOS: New “Room Occupied” Signs Debut at Disney World Hotels, Denoting Cast May Enter Once a Day

 

[Gusey]

News

PHOTOS: New “Room Occupied” Signs Debut at Disney World Hotels, Denoting Cast May Enter Once a Day

Just wondering, does Disney housekeeping usually knock anyway before entering if there is no Do Not Disturb Sign? I know they do at Universal and was wondering if this will just make it easier for the housekeepers?

 

[jlundeen]

Everytime I have been in my room when housekeeping came, they have always knocked and announced "Housekeeping". We usually tell them we're out of the room as we leave for the day if there is anyone in the hallway.

 

[rteetz]

Just wondering, does Disney housekeeping usually knock anyway before entering if there is no Do Not Disturb Sign? I know they do at Universal and was wondering if this will just make it easier for the housekeepers?

Not sure. I have never been in that situation.

 

[PaintsWithAllTheColors]

I read this as “daily trash service only”. Housekeeping will stay the same.

Yes, sorry, you’re totally correct! I’ll amend my post.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I read the article just fine.



That doesn't "signal" them to come in the room. it is what tells them to knock.

IF you are in the room and want to take a shower, your best bet would be to put out the sign, use the dead bolt. The little thing that you slide across while you are in the room (don't know what they call it but some used to have a chain and now most just have a metal slide that goes over a ball, think of it as a "nightlatch") is what "keeps someone from walking in on you with no clothes on. If the person that must check your room knocks, you don't answer, but then tries to come in, they can only open it about an inch and a half. they will then know somebody is in there and will try again later when you are done showering or have left and taken down the sign.

If you'd like to see where a poster created a thread where they were at BLT and they were bathing their 2 daughters in the bath when a worker knocked on the door and entered (they stated almost immediately after knocking the person entered their room)....while their children were in the bath still while looking around and saying "everything was good" you can see this: https://www.disboards.com/threads/disturbing-experience-with-new-dnd-sign-at-blt.3653918/

The thread was created last night. I posted about being in the bathroom and door situation yesterday morning..

Honestly not everyone is going to think "I need to put the deadbolt on" much less even know about the new procedure and the whys and the process of the new procedure. I mean are they telling guests what to expect? (I don't know on that part). There are times when I have put the deadbolt on and majority I don't and I'm not thinking that if I put up my "room occupied" sign up that I need to put up the dead bolt if I'm going to go to the bathroom or shower or get ready (edited: corrected word) necessarily. For some it's an automatic thought to use the deadbolt and for others it's not even something they think of.

find an unresponsive person maybe, but probably more than anything it is up front security. In other words, those planning to do something bad used to be able to sign off no mousekeeping, put the do not disturb sign on the door and there was a pretty good chance nobody was going to come into that room for the duration of the stay. Now, they have to know that won't be the case.

Finding an unresponsive person is something that could happen any day but it's not a planned thing that could happen. It's not a reason you would going looking door to door for in each guest's rooms just hoping you would find an unresponsive person.

I could see if someone notified Disney that they couldn't get a hold of x,y,z for A amount of time they may go checking their room but otherwise peeking around the room only catches those who openingly have things out. That was my point on the matter which is why I brought up going through people's belongings. If as you say now someone knows (which they would need to openly publicize the heck out of this so every guest who has and will be booking a room with Disney knows now what the new sign means so there are clear expectations) then they could hide what they want to hide in their belongings...unless Disney will be searching those which is why I brought up that aspect. I'm sure it will deter some of course.

 

[Keels]

Honestly not everyone is going to think "I need to put the deadbolt on"

Do you not lock the door and deadbolt behind you at home?
I’m not being snarky - I’m truly curious. It would never occur to me NOT to lock and deadbolt a door behind me because it’s what I do at home.

 

[Sweettears]

Do you not lock the door and deadbolt behind you at home?
I’m not being snarky - I’m truly curious. It would never occur to me NOT to lock and deadbolt a door behind me because it’s what I do at home.

No to be honest. When retiring for the night but not otherwise.

 

[amalone1013]

Since I know there's some D23 members on here, perhaps someone can help with a Christmas question? I'm looking to gift someone a membership, and it asks for an email. Does it mean their email? It seems like it would ruin the surprise if they get an email immediately...

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Do you not lock the door and deadbolt behind you at home?
I’m not being snarky - I’m truly curious. It would never occur to me NOT to lock and deadbolt a door behind me because it’s what I do at home.

When we are in the house we never even lock the door

 

[osully]

When we are in the house we never even lock the door

WHAT?!

 

[TheMaxRebo]

WHAT?!

No reason that we see. Obviously lock it when we leave the house

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Do you not lock the door and deadbolt behind you at home?
I’m not being snarky - I’m truly curious. It would never occur to me NOT to lock and deadbolt a door behind me because it’s what I do at home.

At my house the front door only has a deadbolt in it (handle not a knob). The other doors have a lock inside the knob and a deadbolt. We only lock the deadbolt as it's much easier to do so but not because we fear for safety. A lot of people around me however do not lock their doors (or cars sitting on the driveway). Heck people leave their garage doors fully up for hours and hours (overnight often enough) or cracked (in the summertime). It's a false sense of security sure but it's common enough. I don't deadbolt or lock my door from the inside of my house to the garage though. That door however, by code, has reenforced steel in it.

At hotel rooms no I don't usually lock the deadbolt. If I was in an area that I felt less safe then I may close the deadbolt and/or put the chain/metal thing (don't know the technical term but here's a pic of it: )

FWIW it would not occur to me to deadbolt the door while on Disney property as again when I do it's because I feel less safe depending on the area. To your "It would never occur to me NOT to lock and deadbolt a door behind me because it’s what I do at home." comment even if someone did it at home wouldn't mean they do it at Disney and even so it does occur to me that people don't deadbolt hotel doors while at the same time it does occur to me that people do deadbolt hotel doors.

But I do get where your line of thinking is coming from for sure.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

No to be honest. When retiring for the night but not otherwise.

When we are in the house we never even lock the door

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Yes this is us for the most part. When we leave the house-yes, when we go to sleep-yes, when we are in the house-not always it depends. Front door is commonly enough unlocked while the back door to the backyard usually stays locked unless we're out and about outside in the yard. Door from inside to the garage doesn't get locked at all.

 

[amalone1013]

Locking the door depends on your area and habits, I think. I grew up in the Midwest, in one of the capital cities. I knew people who didn't lock stuff. We always did because my grandpa was a cop. And we had kids around the neighborhood that would mess with stuff for fun. Heck, the one time I left my car window open (the sunroof actually) overnight a kid set my car on fire. No joke.

When we were home, it depended on what was going on. If everyone was out back in the pool, or in our basement or back bedrooms? Locked. Someone was doing yard work, or in the living room? Unlocked. Only time we locked the garage door was at night.

I lock the hotel room door at night out of habit. Just a little piece of mind, even if its just to keep someone out by mistake, like if the front desk sends someone to your room instead of an empty room haha.

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

Locking the door depends on your area and habits, I think. I grew up in the Midwest, in one of the capital cities. I knew people who didn't lock stuff. We always did because my grandpa was a cop. And we had kids around the neighborhood that would mess with stuff for fun. Heck, the one time I left my car window open (the sunroof actually) overnight a kid set my car on fire. No joke.

When we were home, it depended on what was going on. If everyone was out back in the pool, or in our basement or back bedrooms? Locked. Someone was doing yard work, or in the living room? Unlocked. Only time we locked the garage door was at night.

I lock the hotel room door at night out of habit. Just a little piece of mind, even if its just to keep someone out by mistake, like if the front desk sends someone to your room instead of an empty room haha.

My Dad was a cop, so I have always been raised to lock the door. I always lock the doors as I enter my house and when I leave. When I go to bed, I actually check every door into the house twice to make sure it is locked. Yeah...You can say I like the doors locked.

 

[amalone1013]

My Dad was a cop, so I have always been raised to lock the door. I always lock the doors as I enter my house and when I leave. When I go to bed, I actually check every door into the house twice to make sure it is locked. Yeah...You can say I like the doors locked.

The cop effect I'm more likely to lock the doors when I'm alone in the house too vs if others are home. When that happened with my car, I'd been driving 4 years and never even left the door unlocked... i dont normally go out of my way to double check things bc it's such a habit for me... but it's funny, my husband who has no law enforcement relatives or anything like knowing someone who had things stolen is always quadruple checking the doors. Sometimes we have to pull back in the driveway to go check again haha

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

Sometimes we have to pull back in the driveway to go check again haha

I have done that before...