Tipping Mousekeeping didnt work for us!

[PeterPan68]

I think that housekeeping do know that a little extra "Magic", such as towel animals and arranging stuffed animals may be expected...Otherwise, why else would housekeeping have pre-printed cards that say "We missed you while you were gone and hope you had a good day"?

If Disney has these pre-printed cards for housekeeping to use...then they must know that guests enjoy these little "extras".

 

[corvair]

We will be in Disney in 10 days. We always tip housekeeping where ever we go. My question is, do I need to take my own envelopes? I thought that they always had the envelopes already there. When we have stayed at other places the envelopes were always laying on the dresser. Is it not like this at disney?? Should I take my own???? thanks,,,corvair

 

[hulabird]

I think it just depends on your mousekeeper, my husband and I stayed at CBR last year and we had no kids with us, but our mousekeeper made us 2 towel bunnies and even called us during the day to see if we needed anything, like extra pillows etc...we left her $2/day and than on the last day left an extra $5....she was a great mousekeeper and went above and beyond to make our vacation special. We never expected the towel bunnies, especially since we have no kids, but it was a cute "extra" and made the trip more magical knowing that our mousekeeper cared enough to take the time to make the bunnies (I still have them!)

 

[epcotfan]

I would rather have Housekeeping spend extra time on taking care of rooms than making towel animals for me (IMHO). I imagine at times they are pretty busy and the last thing on their agenda is making towels for every guest. I'm there to visit the parks and spend time relaxing. The towel creatures (or lack thereof) will not make or break my vacation.

 

[dBugged]

We were at WL for almost two weeks last year and tipped every day. Although we don't have kids, the mousekeepers didn't know it and they setup some funny things about five times. One day we found a stuffed animal wrapped in TP with a note on him saying that it wasn't his fault and that the other animals made him do it. After looking on the bed, we found another note saying that they didn't have anything to do with it. We had lots of funny things like this happen. If we had kids, they would have had a blast -- the mousekeeper was quite creative and had us wondering what they'd do next. The year before when we were at the BC, we didn't have much luck with mousekeeping. I think they did something the first day, but I cannot even remember what it was. I guess it depends on the type of mousekeeper you get -- a regular maid or a real disney mousekeeper.