No more bringing home those towel animals

[Jennasis]

I wonder if the RFID chips will be put into the TOWELS at the resorts and not into the washcloths and stuff they make the animals out of?

 

[LuvsDragonflies]

Yeah, nothin' I want more than some washcloths used by people I don't know hanging around the house.

Washed or not, those things have been places I don't even want to know about I'm sure.

 

[Mandychelle79]

Reviving a dead post. Did anyone even read the article and see when this was originally posted?

 

[torinsmom]

We did the exact same thing! I would never have thought that it was OK to take them home. I guess if mousekeeping tells you to do so, its fine. Though I would think that they would be huge dust collectors and not so easy to wash.

Oh, my DD8 would absolutlely make a shrine of towel animals! She can make a shrine ou of anything remotely collectable!
Jessica

I just take mine outside and give them a spanking once a week and they stay pretty dust free

 

[mickeysgal]

Yeah, nothin' I want more than some washcloths used by people I don't know hanging around the house.

Washed or not, those things have been places I don't even want to know about I'm sure.

Do you bring your own towels, washclothes, sheets, and blankets to a hotel with you? You have no idea where those items have been either.

 

[torinsmom]

Do you bring your own towels, washclothes, sheets, and blankets to a hotel with you? You have no idea where those items have been either.

Yeah, and I hear bedspreads are washed once a week at most. I never pull those up to my face--yuck! I don't tend to rub my towel animals on my mouth or nose, so I think I'll survive

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

........of course.....just them SAYING.....that there is a RFD chip in the towels....would be a deterent.....without ever installing them.

I just realized that you bumped this 5 month old thread. Seems strange with only 7 posts...

 

[surfergirl602]

I guess I shouldn't post a picture of our entertainment center that's filled with towel animals then.....

 

[surfergirl602]

I just realized that you bumped this 5 month old thread. Seems strange with only 7 posts...

Oh, lovely. I hate replying to old posts!

 

[DebIreland]

I just realized that you bumped this 5 month old thread. Seems strange with only 7 posts...

I agree. I didn't realise it was so old when I posted to it earlier. I hate that.

 

[LuvsDragonflies]

Yeah, nothin' I want more than some washcloths used by people I don't know hanging around the house.

Washed or not, those things have been places I don't even want to know about I'm sure.

Yeah, but I'm not bringing them home with me. Plus I do bring my own washcloths, disposable.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I wonder if the RFID chips will be put into the TOWELS at the resorts and not into the washcloths and stuff they make the animals out of?

Odds are RFID chips won't be put into any linens at ant WDW resort. The original post was about technology available to all hotels, motels, resorts, etc., to reduce loss.

 

[S. C.]

Never crossed my mind to take them home with us.

 

[figment52]

Just read this online. I think it will be funy watching people walk out the front door of their resort and have the bells go off because of the towel animals they take home with them.

Those oh-so-fluffy hotel towels may seem hard to resist taking home, but guests who do so should know that new technology might be tracking that linen straight to their doorsteps.

Linen Technology Tracking, a Miami company, has patented a washable RFID chip that can be sewn into towels, robes and bed sheets. The chip allows hotels to keep track of their linens, reducing loss and helping with inventory.

The New York Times reports that Linen Technology Tracking's executive vice president, William Serbin said three hotels in Honolulu, Miami and Manhattan are currently using the chip, but did not want their names used.

Serbin, however, told the Times that the Honolulu property, which introduced the technology last summer, has reduced theft of its pool towels from 4,000 a month to just 750, saving more than $16,000 a month.

Besides the obvious theft deterrent, the company says the chip can also benefit hotels by reducing inventory time and labor, improve control and savings within the laundry process and help with the management of linen purchases.

Considering linen is one of the hotel industry's biggest expenses, and bound to get bigger with the rising cost of cotton, the embedded chip may prove to be extremely popular with hoteliers.

wouldn't be be easier to just quit making towel animals?

 

[Nancyg56]

Oh, lovely. I hate replying to old posts!

I got sucked in too................................

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Ok, I must be horrible because while I think the towel animals are cute, after we see them I unfold them and we put them with the other towels. There is no way I would think about taking them home.

I guess I can add "I have never stolen a hotel towel" to my list of things that I have never done.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

I never saw the point in bringing them home.

(Love when they appear in the room, don't get me wrong!)