Resort Room Entry-At the discretion of management? Legal?

[bumbershoot]

I bet looking up Innkeeper laws would help explain it all. Florida Statutes Chapter 509, according to a quick google.

 

[sethschroeder]

bottom line they are looking for weapons to avoid another las Vegas and quite frankly I agree with this policy

Eh its not actually going to prevent anything since its a well known policy by anyone trying to do harm. Further it would be more useful to put in security checkpoints to enter the resort where they search you if the goal is to stop something like that from occuring again.

It would be interesting to know if anyone anywhere has caught someone by doing a daily room inspection.

 

[CarolMN]

It would be interesting to know if anyone anywhere has caught someone by doing a daily room inspection.

Doesn't have to catch anyone. Just has to encourage the nuts to go somewhere else.

 

[Sweettears]

Eh its not actually going to prevent anything since its a well known policy by anyone trying to do harm. Further it would be more useful to put in security checkpoints to enter the resort where they search you if the goal is to stop something like that from occuring again.

It would be interesting to know if anyone anywhere has caught someone by doing a daily room inspection.

I don't think that the main purpose is to catch someone in the act. I believe it is used to potentially set up as a deterrent to discourage potential acts.

 

[s.r.disney nut]

I'm here to get a legal answer to a question that pops up here from time to time on here, usually as a sidebar to another question. Everybody seems to assume that a representative of the hotel can enter and exit our rooms pretty much at any time they want to. I would like to see what legally entitles them to do so, and what law changed that allowed them to change the always present until the change, explicit "DO NOT DISTURB" doorhanger, which, by the way; lived on our door every day of every trip we ever took, and seemed to have been honored except on trash and towel day once per week. BTW, we often left our dirty towels and trash in the hall, and it was exchanged there and I Assume that nobody likely ever entered the room when we did. I never confirmed that. Never had a reason to.

This isn't about hiding anything. This is about thievery in the resorts and the liability thereof and my reasonable right to my privacy, protection of my property, and to not be disturbed during my time in my deeded property (by extension of points).

I'm pretty sure it's in black and white somewhere, but I'd like to see it instead of just following the opinion of the masses. I just want to know that it's not just being assumed to be legal just because everybody says so. That doesn't make anything legal.

"BTW, we often left our dirty towels and trash in the hall, and it was exchanged there". What do you think the interior hallway resorts hallways would look like if everyone did this. Just sayin'.

 

[sethschroeder]

Doesn't have to catch anyone. Just has to encourage the nuts to go somewhere else.

Except it doesn't is my point.

Anyone planning something can easily bypass this.

 

[CBMom01]

"BTW, we often left our dirty towels and trash in the hall, and it was exchanged there". What do you think the interior hallway resorts hallways would look like if everyone did this. Just sayin'.

For real. Sometimes they’re coming in to make sure it doesn’t look like Hoarders in there

 

[WilsonFlyer]

"BTW, we often left our dirty towels and trash in the hall, and it was exchanged there". What do you think the interior hallway resorts hallways would look like if everyone did this. Just sayin'.

No worse than it does when they stack towels and carts all up and down the hallway for 2/3 of the day starting 3 hours before they even start doing anything.

And for clarity, we never stacked trash. Not sure why I typed that. We took (and still do) trash to the trash room.

 

[Sandisw]

And just for reference and so you all don't think I'm a total idiot (No one is complete!), I knew it had to exist. I just couldn't find it.

The property management agreement with Disney that DVCMC entered into on our behalf to run the hotel may have something in it that details this out,

I have it somewhere and will see if I can find it, I had to request it since it’s not given to owners automatically.

I also think the POS mentions this not being the same as a residence and the timeshare laws may have something as well.

I know that a Do Not Disturb prevented them from entering. That is why they were changed, I would assume that something provided them with the right to do it.

 

[Sandisw]

Except it doesn't is my point.

Anyone planning something can easily bypass this.

This is true but I think it’s one of those things that at least they have a policy that addresses it which means someone has to go to greater lengths and limits the liability of the company if something should happen.

 

[crisi]

Except it doesn't is my point.

Anyone planning something can easily bypass this.

But it accomplished the most important thing - it reduces Disney's liability should something happen.

 

[bumbershoot]

No worse than it does when they stack towels and carts all up and down the hallway for 2/3 of the day starting 3 hours before they even start doing anything.

You make a good point. Or at OKW, baskets of stuff outside each door.

This is true but I think it’s one of those things that at least they have a policy that addresses it which... limits the liability of the company if something should happen.

Spot-on. Except it would be interesting if it actually did, given what we all know of the actions of the people "checking."

 

[WilsonFlyer]

You make a good point. Or at OKW, baskets of stuff outside each door.



Spot-on. Except it would be interesting if it actually did, given what we all know of the actions of the people "checking."

And that's where we have left towels outside in the past. Places like SSR and OKW.

 

[GAN]

It would be interesting to know if anyone anywhere has caught someone by doing a daily room inspection.

The answer is Yes. They're out there if you search. I could be wrong but I think I recall an issue at Poly a couple years ago involving a weapon(s). I'm pretty sure this all started immediately after the Las Vegas shooting -the whole human trafficking thing may be true but that's the first I heard ...I'm not up on that.

 

[sethschroeder]

The answer is Yes. They're out there if you search. I could be wrong but I think I recall an issue at Poly a couple years ago involving a weapon(s). I'm pretty sure this all started immediately after the Las Vegas shooting -the whole human trafficking thing may be true but that's the first I heard ...I'm not up on that.

Except that person brought the guns with his family for protection per the reports.

So it didn't actually stop anything which was my question.

 

[GAN]

Except that person brought the guns with his family for protection per the reports.

So it didn't actually stop anything which was my question.

They don't want weapons in the room -that's what it stopped.

 

[Sandisw]

Except that person brought the guns with his family for protection per the reports.

So it didn't actually stop anything which was my question.

Regardless of what was said by the person, you have no way of knowing if it did or did not stop something else because they found them.

It took them off that property which is what they wanted. Again, it’s still more about being prudent and limiting liability.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

if someone wanted to steal your stuff, they'd enter the room whether or not it was part of their regular duties. I don't really know what this has to do with thefts from rooms. Use the safe or hide your stuff. Use the latch when you are in the room.

 

[Chuck S]

Remember the daily inspections, at least for Disney....and I assume most other hotels, became a thing shortly after the tragic Las Vegas concert shooting. The hotel was sued for not having housekeeping enter the room everyday, even though the Do Not Disturb sign was up. Leads me to think this may be a standard insurance requirement now, as insurance companies do everything they can to minimize risk, no matter how inconvenient it is.

And remember who pays the insurance for DVC Resorts....the members. Do you want higher dues for everyone, if you can even find an insurance company that would be OK with no inspections? As I'm a Landlord, I also have the right to inspect my properties at anytime without notice. It is pretty standard language in leases. But our state also requires there to be a "landlord lock", basically a one sided deadbolt, that can not be locked or unlocked from the outside because some landlords stupidly abused that right of entry.

 

[kdm31091]

Personally, if it prevents even one more tragedy like the Las Vegas shooting, it's worth it to me. Yes, it could be mildly inconvenient, I guess. But there's a safe for any belongings you are concerned about.