Resort dressers

[littledebbie335]

Always suitcase, never dresser. Dressers are one of the top places that bedbugs hide, and honestly, it just grosses me out. For all I know, the person who stayed before me was keeping sweaty gym clothes or dirty socks in that drawer. Yuck.

 

[cwis]

Never use the dressers. They provide great hiding places for bedbugs. That advice was straight from exterminators presented during an in service on the bugs at a school I used to work in.

If your hotel room has bed buds anywhere, would it not be the last of your concern where they are hiding?

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

We use ebag packing cubes. Each of us has a colour. They just fit straight into the drawers. Perfect.

 

[mco65]

YES we do... in fact, i get started on it ASAP! Of course, i typically do NOT get a drawer.. those are all taken up by the kids and mom.. so i use the closet rack, if you will... but we unpack everything and place most of the luggage to the side in the closet... Its the dirty clothes that start to drive me buggy.. some time during mid trip, i start packing up the dirty clothes into the luggage..

 

[Moxiepup]

I used to enjoy unpacking and using the dressers, as it is easier than rummaging through a suitcase. However, that changed after reading on another thread here, not too long ago, that some people use the drawers to store their dirty clothes! Ironically, the people who admitted doing this claimed to do so because they didn't trust what "other" people put into the drawers.

Yeah... I don't get it either...

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

I unpack.

I also spray the dresser drawers, if I remember to pack the spray. That way my clothes smell fresh and not like whatever the previous person put in the drawers. I then leave the spray in the bathroom. That way people can spray when they are through.

I figure if bedbugs are hiding in the drawers, they are also hiding in the bed. And the carpets. And the drapes. Unless I plan to sleep in the tub, my clothes are going to be exposed.

 

[elle101me]

I unpack everything as soon as we get into the room. Dirty clothes go into the suitcase in a plastic bag.

 

[Canooknic]

We hang everything (except underwear), we never used drawers because the one time we did I managed to forget to empty one and our boys had no clean clothes for the 2nd part of our trip....that was a costly mistake!

We keep an empty case on the floor under the hanging clothes so when something has been worn it gets folded and put in there, so the only packing I have to do when we come home is a few items still hanging up!

 

[Bravesfan]

I do hang up some things and the rest stays in suitcases. I have also read about people using drawers for dirty clothes.

 

[MamaBelle4]

I have a question, for every one talking about bringing bags to go home with their dirty clothes.

Am I the only one who washes all rhe laundry the night before we leave, that way I come home with a suitcase full of clean clothes?

 

[Beer Me]

Immediately upon entering the room I unpack everything, hang what needs hanging - iron if necessary -and put empty luggage in the closet. Sounds a bit fussy but it makes me more comfortable during my stay.

 

[loves to dive]

I have a question, for every one talking about bringing bags to go home with their dirty clothes.

Am I the only one who washes all rhe laundry the night before we leave, that way I come home with a suitcase full of clean clothes?

A lot of people do laundry during their trip. I don't, I'm on vacation and usually plan on having at least one more day off work when I get home so I do laundry on that day. Even clothes I haven't worn get washed again, I do grab the laundry bag Disney provides to put my dirty clothes in and either put them in the suitcase in the bag, carry the bag attached to the suitcase or use the bag as a barrier between the clean clothes and the dirty. All the laundry is done before I leave so it's just vacation clothes that need to get washed. I also don't cook if I'm in a room with a kitchen, but then again I rarely cook at home either so that isn't so strange.

 

[KT0191]

I work at a nicer hotel and from the stories that I've heard from our housekeepers...let's just say I always leave my clothes in my suitcase now.

 

[MamaBelle4]

A lot of people do laundry during their trip. I don't, I'm on vacation and usually plan on having at least one more day off work when I get home so I do laundry on that day. Even clothes I haven't worn get washed again, I do grab the laundry bag Disney provides to put my dirty clothes in and either put them in the suitcase in the bag, carry the bag attached to the suitcase or use the bag as a barrier between the clean clothes and the dirty. All the laundry is done before I leave so it's just vacation clothes that need to get washed. I also don't cook if I'm in a room with a kitchen, but then again I rarely cook at home either so that isn't so strange.

I come home to a clean house with clean clothes too, but I don't want to do laundry right when I get home, either.

I hate doing laundry, lol.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

A lot of people do laundry during their trip. I don't, I'm on vacation and usually plan on having at least one more day off work when I get home so I do laundry on that day. Even clothes I haven't worn get washed again, I do grab the laundry bag Disney provides to put my dirty clothes in and either put them in the suitcase in the bag, carry the bag attached to the suitcase or use the bag as a barrier between the clean clothes and the dirty. All the laundry is done before I leave so it's just vacation clothes that need to get washed. I also don't cook if I'm in a room with a kitchen, but then again I rarely cook at home either so that isn't so strange.

I don't do laundry unless I have to. Like loves to dive, I am on vacation. When I pack, I put the dirty in one back and the clean in another. If I only have one bag, the dirty goes into a garbage bag and the clean are outside of it.

I have done some laundry. But that is not the norm. At all.

Cooking consists of heating up water for tea and slicing banana bread that we brought from home. If there is a grill, we might do something on the grill for a quick dinner by the pool.

 

[Reuben Varzea]

3+ day stay, we unpack. Living an entire week out of suitcases, especially with 2 little ones with a lot of clothes, is just too much of a pain.

- WRT bed-bugs: If they're in the drawer, they're most likely everywhere else.
- WRT to the icky-ness of the drawers: Try not to think about the REST of the room.

 

[disnut8]

DW and I are having a disagreement on whether people do this. Do you unpack your clothes when you get to the resort and put them in the hotel's dresser drawers? Or do you live out of your suitcase for the trip?

I unpack. Husband lives out of his suitcase. No reason why both people have to do the same thing.

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

When I have gone solo or with one other person I do put my clothes in the drawers.
However when there's 3-4 people there's simply not enough drawer space to do that so what we end up doing in that case is making room for all of our non clothing items in the drawers. So basically our toiletries and medications end up with drawer space and our clothes stay in the suitcase. Honestly that keeps the place more tidy then having our clothes in the drawers and all non clothing items laying throughout the room lol.

 

[Twende]

I enjoy unpacking as soon as we check into the room. It signals the start of vacation for me. I do not like living out of a suitcase at all! I am one of those people who prefer to take clean clothes home with me. We bought into DVC so we could have laundry facilities in our villa and the extra room including a kitchen!

If the room has bedbugs then they are going to be in the bed and furniture as well as the drawers. I do admit that I try to check the mattress well before I unpack. Our last trip included an unwanted visitor in our room, a wild critter. This trip I will be examining our villa very well to make sure that we do not have a repeat of our last trip.

If we have a split stay and we are only in a room for a night then I do not unpack and often pack a separate suitcase for the one night.

 

[Allison]

If your hotel room has bed buds anywhere, would it not be the last of your concern where they are hiding?

No.