Towel Animals, has this happened to you?

[Deb & Bill]

I think that if you leave a note with the money then one of 2 things should have happened.....1. the towel animal should be sitting waiting for the little girl and the money gone. 2. the money should be still sitting there if no towel animal...it is clear the money was left with the note for a towel animal..if money was there with no note then that is different.

Right.

 

[5boyz]

No flames from me either! I agree. People have this sense of entitlement, which just bugs the crap out of me. I mean, you're LUCKY enough to be at DISNEY WORLD and you're going to complain about a towel animal? Really!? I'm sorry, I hate when my child is disappointed too, but what are we teaching them by stomping our feet? It's really upsetting. Just my opinion.

Lucky enough!!!! We pay to go!!!! She didnt say or incinuate that she was entitled to one....and I think her title was Has this ever happened to you or something to that affect!!! What is important to some is not to others...you are totally out of line

 

[Danibelle]

I never thought about this issue before! It just doesn't seem that important to me but it must be to everyone else. I have received the animals but they certainly don't make or break the trip!

 

[eliza61]

I did not read all the pages so I don't know what's been discussed.

My next daughter neighbor Barb, has a daughter who is a mousekeeper at one of the disney deluxes. She has stopped doing towel animals, 99% due to the guest.

At least once a week she is "accosted" by so called "moms" who demand to know why their kids did not get towel animals. She has been threaten (I'll have your job if my kids don't get towel animals or do you know how much I paid for this room, I'd better get them) called foul names (fat &^tch, stupid, lazy, welfare queen) and treated like dirt.

Luckily for her after ever incident she reports it to her manager and makes sure there is documentation. Now she flately refuses to do any (with her managers blessing). If ask, she simply tells the guest that the staff is short handed due to 2 people calling out and her first priority is to clean the rooms.

I have no earthy reason why towel animals are so important but I agree with many others in that we (guest) are getting more and more spoiled and expecting.

If we wear a birthday button, we wear it for special attention. We dang near expect it and god help us if we don't get it. One of the post I always hate is
"It's my _______what will disney do for me".

 

[Baltazar]

actually my kids really couldn't care less about getting a free towel animal.

They'd rather have some over priced, Chinese made Disney toy ...

also to drink gallons of syrupy fountain drinks from their "BRAND NEW" refillable mugs ...

 

[DisneyCrazyMomma]

Lucky enough!!!! We pay to go!!!! She didnt say or incinuate that she was entitled to one....and I think her title was Has this ever happened to you or something to that affect!!! What is important to some is not to others...you are totally out of line

Yes, I pay to go too. Disney isn't free for anyone. What I meant was that we are blessed enough, fortunate enough, whatever word you like to use, to have the ability to PAY TO GO. Many people can't afford to go on any vacation, let alone Disney. In fact, did you know, many people can't afford food and medicine? It's MY opinion that we are raising entitled children by the way we act. I'm not saying OP acts this way, I'm simply saying lots of people do.

 

[Deb & Bill]

I did not read all the pages so I don't know what's been discussed.

My next daughter neighbor Barb, has a daughter who is a mousekeeper at one of the disney deluxes. She has stopped doing towel animals, 99% due to the guest.

At least once a week she is "accosted" by so called "moms" who demand to know why their kids did not get towel animals. She has been threaten (I'll have your job if my kids don't get towel animals or do you know how much I paid for this room, I'd better get them) called foul names (fat &^tch, stupid, lazy, welfare queen) and treated like dirt.

Luckily for her after ever incident she reports it to her manager and makes sure there is documentation. Now she flately refuses to do any (with her managers blessing). If ask, she simply tells the guest that the staff is short handed due to 2 people calling out and her first priority is to clean the rooms.

I have no earthy reason why towel animals are so important but I agree with many others in that we (guest) are getting more and more spoiled and expecting.

If we wear a birthday button, we wear it for special attention. We dang near expect it and god help us if we don't get it. One of the post I always hate is
"It's my _______what will disney do for me".

How terrible. It's hard to imagine people to be so rude to someone trying to perform their job.

 

[Princess Sleepy]

No flames from me either! I agree. People have this sense of entitlement, which just bugs the crap out of me. I mean, you're LUCKY enough to be at DISNEY WORLD and you're going to complain about a towel animal? Really!? I'm sorry, I hate when my child is disappointed too, but what are we teaching them by stomping our feet? It's really upsetting. Just my opinion.

ITA! We have a phrase for this in our house. "Life is not fair." Deal with it. and BTW, my kids are 7 and 4.

 

[5boyz]

Yes, I pay to go too. Disney isn't free for anyone. What I meant was that we are blessed enough, fortunate enough, whatever word you like to use, to have the ability to PAY TO GO. Many people can't afford to go on any vacation, let alone Disney. In fact, did you know, many people can't afford food and medicine? It's MY opinion that we are raising entitled children by the way we act. I'm not saying OP acts this way, I'm simply saying lots of people do.

I will bow out now!

 

[Dis4evr]

If you were a true Dis member you would have posted that the Mousekeeper failed to clean the room and left toilet paper all over the floor, trash can tipped over and didn't even put the phone back on the table!

We didn't see anything wrong with what the mousekeeper did, we loved it. We weren't upset at all! It all added to the fun of our trip

 

[DisneyCrazyMomma]

I will bow out now!

It's all good - not trying to argue. Everybody can think what they want to. Have a nice day.

 

[DisneyCrazyMomma]

ITA! We have a phrase for this in our house. "Life is not fair." Deal with it. and BTW, my kids are 7 and 4.

I think it's much better if our kids learn early that life isn't fair. I wish it was, but it's not. My DS is 7 too.

 

[maxiesmom]

I think that if you leave a note with the money then one of 2 things should have happened.....1. the towel animal should be sitting waiting for the little girl and the money gone. 2. the money should be still sitting there if no towel animal...it is clear the money was left with the note for a towel animal..if money was there with no note then that is different.

I don't think that is clear at all! Many people tip houskeeping, wether they get a towel animal or not. The only way to say that the money is to be taken only upon the delivery of a towel animal would be to state it outright. Othewise, it just looks like a tip, with no strings attached.

Also, towel animals are not a perk given out to all. They are an extra. You don't automatically get them by booking a room at WDW. There is no reason at all to be mad because you were not given an extra. Extras shouldn't be expected. You are just setting yourself up to be disappointed if you do.

 

[robinb]

I don't think that is clear at all! Many people tip houskeeping, wether they get a towel animal or not. The only way to say that the money is to be taken only upon the delivery of a towel animal would be to state it outright. Othewise, it just looks like a tip, with no strings attached.

But the OP left a note clearly asking for a towel animal .

 

[maxiesmom]

But the OP left a note clearly asking for a towel animal .

But it doesn't sound like the note said anything like "Here is $10. Only take it if you have the time to make us a towel animal". It was probably assumed it was a tip, and that the note for a towel animal was a request. Not that the two were tied together, and that they had to leave the $10 behind if they couldn't make a towel animal.

I'm trying to put myself in the houskeeper's shoes. They get tips fairly often, so the money being left was not out of the norm. Unless the note stated I was only to take the $10 if I could make a towel animal, I wouldn't think I couldn't take the money. It just looks like a typical houskeeping tip.

 

[robinb]

But it doesn't sound like the note said anything like "Here is $10. Only take it if you have the time to make us a towel animal". It was probably assumed it was a tip, and that the note for a towel animal was a request. Not that the two were tied together, and that they had to leave the $10 behind if they couldn't make a towel animal.

You're splitting hairs to try to make your point.

 

[sue Z]

4 yrs ago when going off to do laundry up at the laundry area at POP, my mom was walking back to the room to drop something off she and another woman were talking to the girl who was the mousekeeper. they both asked her about the animals and she explained how they were made by showing them etc. they werent given them but the funny thing was when we got back to the rm later one of them was in the room!! I think she saw where my mom went and surprised her with it later!

 

[maxiesmom]

You're splitting hairs to try to make your point.

I don't think so. Houskeepers are used to getting tips, even when they don't leave towel animals. Why would they think picking up a tip was contingent on making one? According to the OP the note said something about it would be nice to get a towel animal. It didn't say, only take this tip if you make us a towel animal.

If houskeeeping never recieved tips for just cleaning the room, I could see how leaving money would equal an extra service. But that is not the case. The leaving of tips for just doing their job is normal.

 

[robinb]

I don't think so. Houskeepers are used to getting tips, even when they don't leave towel animals. Why would they think picking up a tip was contingent on making one? According to the OP the note said something about it would be nice to get a towel animal. It didn't say, only take this tip if you make us a towel animal.

If houskeeeping never recieved tips for just cleaning the room, I could see how leaving money would equal an extra service. But that is not the case. The leaving of tips for just doing their job is normal.

*sigh*

split hairs Fig. to quibble; to try to make petty distinctions.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/split+hairs

So it would be OK if she demanded a towel animal for a payment, but not OK to request one politely for a tip? Who would write a rude note like that? No one. You are putting conditions on the situation that would never take place.

 

[ratlenhum]

Not to be a pain but this thread is starting to bug me. I know this whole site is a free speach site and we are all entitled to our own opinions so I shall share mine.....

The OP is annoyed because her child didn't get a towel animal she feels she paid for....hmmmm

Other posters are reporting that you should just call the "front desk" and demand one....hmmmmm


For me why I love Disney so much is the unexpected magic. Not the attitude that I am going to stamp my foot until I get treated how I want to be.....

I try and teach my kids to share in others joy and be grateful for what you have. I have stayed at WDW 3 times and I am not going to go on about if I did or didn't get towel animals or leave tips. Housekeepers come to my room to clean it, I expect nothing more or less. The more people demand and complain the less "perks" Disney will offer.

Ready for the flames...again just my 2 cents.

I totally agree. If you you don't get a towel animal and don't know what to tell your disappointed child, tell them that either A) There are millions of kids who can't afford to eat let alone go to Disney world, so they should be happy they get to do both, or tell them B) towel animals are only for kids with parents who can only afford to stay XXX nights. For the XXX fill in a number that's a few less nights than you are staying or C) towel animals go in the rooms of sick kids. Then they'll be happy they don't have a towel animal! If you end up with one then make up a reason why they got one.

A good time for teaching you can't always get what you want, you should be happy with what you have, and the grass isn't always greener.......



for the poster mentioned treating everyone the same and doing away with concierge level, those people pay for an offered service. Don't want the service, don't pay for CL.

If you want guaranteed towel animals, maybe they should have "towel animal room rates." For an extra $5 a night you will get a towel animal left each night of your stay. Who would pay that?


All of the discussion on here has me thinking about the field day at my son's school. When I was a kid we competed in events and at the end of the day they handed out red, white and blue 1st, 2nd and 3rd place ribbons to those who did 1st 2nd and 3rd best. Everybody else got a round of applause for trying so hard and snacks and drinks afterwards. You started learning in early elementary school that not everybody gets a ribbon, not everyone can win, not everyone is equal. These days, they give everyone the same ribbon in the school color and all it says is EVERYONE IS A WINNER at XXXXXX Elementary. There are not winners or losers. So when do these kids learn?