'Scuse me whilest I stand on a (small) Disney Soapbox for jest a minute...

[Chuck S]

You run out of stuff and call for replenishment they are supposed to charge you...like for more coffee and the such. There are fees for more. As there are fees for extra cleaning (like if someone wanted every day like in a hotel room).

According to the member website, they no longer charge for more coffee...not that it's the best, but better than nothing.

 

[lovin'fl]

According to the member website, they no longer charge for more coffee...not that it's the best, but better than nothing.

Oh what! Thats good news...maybe not so new news. But I either didn't know or lost that factoid along the way. Getting older and can't retain info like I used to. But cool. I am always packing coffee.

 

[Micca]

You just need Disney buy a TP company.

They could call it "Prince Charmin"

 

[CarolynFH]

According to the member website, they no longer charge for more coffee...not that it's the best, but better than nothing.

Oh what! Thats good news...maybe not so new news. But I either didn't know or list that factoid along the way. Getting older and can't retain info like I used to. But cool. I am always packing coffee.

We bring our own coffee too, even knowing that we're paying (via MFs) for unlimited coffee supplies for others who don't mind drinking what DVC provides. Just like we're paying for all those clean towels for people who are in villas with W/D but won't wash a load of towels when they want them. DVC is really a hybrid timeshare-hotel, moving farther toward the hotel model in many ways, and our MFs reflect that.

 

[disneycruisedreams]

According to the member website, they no longer charge for more coffee...not that it's the best, but better than nothing.

Anyone know where this is said? Or what is supplied?

 

[zavandor]

According to the member website, they no longer charge for more coffee...not that it's the best, but better than nothing.

Anyone know where this is said? Or what is supplied?

I think they don't charge for new towels either, you can call Mousekeeping and get more for free. I guess they were tiered of people bringing back to the room pool towels.

 

[MICKIMINI]

I have a suitcase full of my own brands including a bag of Dunks...I figure, for what we've paid for all things *Disney* over the past 5 decades, so what! Plus, I have room for new ears and other goodies we bring back. We probably could own a condo at Sanibel by now if we ever dared to add it all up LOL!

 

[mac_tlc]

I started getting dismayed at their paper products choices when they standardized all of the napkins on property to that hideous unmagical thin brown thing. Used to have ones with patterns, characters and be seasonal.

That and the white plates for every resort. Nothing says “theming” like white plates and mugs.

 

[lovin'fl]

https://dvcnews.com/index.php/dvc-p...-removes-charges-for-some-in-room-consumables

 

[Chuck S]

According to the member website, they no longer charge for more coffee...not that it's the best, but better than nothing.

Anyone know where this is said? Or what is supplied?

It is under each resort, in the Amenities and Recreation section:

Additional Amenity Requests
You’ll be provided with the following amenities at no extra charge at the start of your stay and during each Housekeeping service. These amenities can also be replenished upon request at no additional charge:

• Coffee Package: Includes 1 package of coffee, 8 sugars, 8 creamers, 8 artificial sweeteners
• Towel Package: Includes 4 bath towels, 2 hand towels, 4 washcloths, 1 bath mat
• Laundry Detergent (only in 1-, 2- and 3-Bedroom Villas): Includes 1 box for 1 load of laundry

 

[TiggerBouncy]

I started getting dismayed at their paper products choices when they standardized all of the napkins on property to that hideous unmagical thin brown thing. Used to have ones with patterns, characters and be seasonal.

That and the white plates for every resort. Nothing says “theming” like white plates and mugs.

Like was mentioned earlier, they used to get brought home, not just used. I bet since they went to "plain" the loss levels have dropped like a rock and people only use what they use now.

That said, I am also in agreement with the OP. The DVC hotels are "comparable" to the deluxe resorts. That's one of the pitches to buying DVC. But at Disney hotels it's not like they have the cheap toilet paper at POP and the nice stuff at the GF. It's all around cheap. It would be nice if the people paying $500/night (not to mention us at DVC who paid thousands and pay more every year) got a softer paper.

 

[TiggerBouncy]

It is under each resort, in the Amenities and Recreation section:

Additional Amenity Requests
You’ll be provided with the following amenities at no extra charge at the start of your stay and during each Housekeeping service. These amenities can also be replenished upon request at no additional charge:

• Coffee Package: Includes 1 package of coffee, 8 sugars, 8 creamers, 8 artificial sweeteners
• Towel Package: Includes 4 bath towels, 2 hand towels, 4 washcloths, 1 bath mat
• Laundry Detergent (only in 1-, 2- and 3-Bedroom Villas): Includes 1 box for 1 load of laundry

Wait.... we no longer have to pay for more towels?

 

[Chuck S]

Wait.... we no longer have to pay for more towels?

Apparently we do not.

 

[zavandor]

Wait.... we no longer have to pay for more towels?

Actually, we pay them with increased dues, but we don't pay them at the moment of requesting them and the extra cost is divided among every owner.

 

[5th gate dreamers]

people cannot be trusted with nice things. nice things get taken away because too many people look for angles and loopholes for more. im sure you could bring it up at the meeting, but it would be "how much more are we willing to pay for nice toilet paper", not "we pay blah blah blah, our dues went up blah blah blah percent. we want good toilet paper". dvc hotels are not our homes...they are hotels that we prepaid in todays dollars for 50 years worth of vacations. hotels do not have nice toiletries. regular hotels nightly rate would cost too much because of theft and overuse, and timeshares would have outsized annual dues to compensate for the same. we bring our own toiletries for every trip and are glad to do it. you can either have the convenience of having bare minimum basics provided for "free", or bring the stuff you want. dues do not cost "too much not to have soft tp". owning dvc is not about having the nice touches of home provided by the membership (through dues)...owning dvc is about staying on disney property for cheaper than if you booked cash direct through disney.

 

[disney212]

My DH has worked in hotel maintenance management for years and still works on maintenance issues too. He works for a nice hotel chain and has worked for 2 of the largest chains. . He says the cheap tp and paper towels is a maintenance issue. When they try the more "luxurious" tp folks clog the toilets a lot. The thin to is designed to dissolve quickly to keep clogs at bay. Same with the paper towels , people flush them for some reason.

 

[CarolynFH]

My DH has worked in hotel maintenance management for years and still works on maintenance issues too. He works for a nice hotel chain and has worked for 2 of the largest chains. . He says the cheap tp and paper towels is a maintenance issue. When they try the more "luxurious" tp folks clog the toilets a lot. The thin to is designed to dissolve quickly to keep clogs at bay. Same with the paper towels , people flush them for some reason.

Thank you for this logical explanation - this is good to know!

 

[crisi]

people cannot be trusted with nice things. nice things get taken away because too many people look for angles and loopholes for more. im sure you could bring it up at the meeting, but it would be "how much more are we willing to pay for nice toilet paper", not "we pay blah blah blah, our dues went up blah blah blah percent. we want good toilet paper". dvc hotels are not our homes...they are hotels that we prepaid in todays dollars for 50 years worth of vacations. hotels do not have nice toiletries. regular hotels nightly rate would cost too much because of theft and overuse, and timeshares would have outsized annual dues to compensate for the same. we bring our own toiletries for every trip and are glad to do it. you can either have the convenience of having bare minimum basics provided for "free", or bring the stuff you want. dues do not cost "too much not to have soft tp". owning dvc is not about having the nice touches of home provided by the membership (through dues)...owning dvc is about staying on disney property for cheaper than if you booked cash direct through disney.

The non-Disney hotels I stay at generally do have nice toiletries and nice toilet paper - also, much nicer bath towels. Charging a ton for a "deluxe" hotel and putting the 21st century equivalent of the Sears catalog and a copy of the yellow pages in the bathroom as toilet paper is a Disney thing. And this is a Disney issue - not a DVC issue. The hotel side is crap as well.

(I miss the Mickey Mouse shaped butter pats in the restaurant. It all started to go downhill from there).

 

[ParrotBill]

I have, for many years, packed my own tissues or bought them if I had plans to grocery shop on arrival. Disney tissues are like sandpaper.

 

[Chuck S]

The non-Disney hotels I stay at generally do have nice toiletries and nice toilet paper - also, much nicer bath towels. Charging a ton for a "deluxe" hotel and putting the 21st century equivalent of the Sears catalog and a copy of the yellow pages in the bathroom as toilet paper is a Disney thing. And this is a Disney issue - not a DVC issue. The hotel side is crap as well.

(I miss the Mickey Mouse shaped butter pats in the restaurant. It all started to go downhill from there).

Butter pats? I remember when they were miniature Mickey Mouse Statues made of butter.