Towel Animals?!

[Debs Hill]

In all the time I've been to WDW we have never had a towel animal in our room!!!!! Sob ! sob! Please can you give me some helpful hints as to how we can get one as it would be a lovely surprise for my son!

 

[dumboroo]

We have had towel animals made for us on a few occasions. Our housekeeper would make them when she made up our room. Sadly our housekeeper was switched three days after our arrival, and the new woman was not very pleasant (we came in contact with her a few times). Needless to say, we were never given any more towel animals; and the ones that we had saved to sit on the TV hutch were taken away!

My best piece of advice on getting towel animals is to write the housekeeper a note and place it with the tip (providing you choose to tip), requesting towel animals to be made for your room. But keep in mind not every CM may know how to make them.

 

[vicb]

We have never had towel animals either but our housekeeper at BWI did two things that my kids still talk about (months after the fact)! The kids had each brought one regular sized stuffed animal and a beanie baby with them and accumulated an addtional animal each while there. One day we returned from the park to find their stuffed animals perched on two chairs looking out the balcony window "waiting" for our return. THe other one was to return and find all the animals propped up in the kids bed watching Toon Disney holding the remote! My kids thought that was histerical! We had been tipping this housekeeper daily and these things were toward the end of our week. She didn't speak much english but always said "hello" in the hall or "have fun today" to us.

 

[jldriscoll]

During our PO trip, DD's stuffed animals were posed in the window waiting for us when we came back from the parks. Then on our last full day our housekeeper left her 2 gold mylar star balllons. I think DD loved coming back to the room almost as much as being at the parks.

At WL expectations were high, but I don't think housekepping was as creative. A couple of times she left the animals, wearing sunglasses in "canoes" made out of towels.

Seems like a hit or miss kind of thing. Depending on the talents of your housekepper. I will say we did tip well both trips (daily).

 

[SnowWhiteIsDreaming]

We had towel animals left for us a few times at the WL. I don't know if this had anything to do with it, but I always left a tip on the pillow every morning.

We got a really big towel animal one day - it was the day my little DS was very sick. I think the housekeeper must have felt sorry for him. It was a big dog made out of a bath towel. The others were usually made out of face cloths or little towels.

It always made the kids laugh when they got back to the rooms. Of course, they would play with them and ruin them, but isn't that part of the fun!

 

[Meriweather]

It just makes it so much fun to come back to the room!!
DH loved it!
We had towel animals everyday (except the 3 that the regular housekeeper was off) of our 14 day stay.
Duck, giant roach, elephant, and also the beanies were arranged with the towels...riding the elephants back, sliding down a towel water slide.
They were just so cute ...and fun.
DH started a competition by folding the tip $$ into oragami designs. He was having a hard time coming up with things for that size and shape but he did it.....it was a highlight of his evening trying to think of something.

 

[TracyQ]

One day the housekeeper at CBR arranged the kids' Barbies on the bed with two birds made out of washcloths. They had little stickers for eyes. This was the last day we were there; the other days there was nothing. (We tipped every day and had printed out some of those "mousekeeping" envelopes with pictures of characters on them.) I didn't tell the kids that the housekeepers did this, just in case we didn't get any creations.

 

[DIXIEDAYS]

Our last two stays at Dixie and/or Riverside, we left a mousekeeper envelope (from this board!!) every morning when we left for the parks. When we returned, towel animals were running wild! One display was a waterslide with the pillows being the top and a pool outlined in towels. Always found towel bunnies in the bathroom. If I ever figure how to scan the pics in, I will post them.

 

[CindyLouB]

We left a tip every morning, and every night got a towel animal. I'm in the habit of leaving a tip every day, so not sure what would happen if we didn't leave one. We have had towel animals on our last 3 tips, and hoping for some more this December.!

 

[MinnieGi]

We love the towel animals and special things the mousekeepers do. It really must be hit or miss though b/c we never tip until the end of our trip. (Although since reading this board, for our next trip I will tip daily, just never thought of it!)

Our mousekeepers always seemed to take the suffed animals in our room and group them together with their towel animal creations. Always adorable and DD loved playing with them.

 

[hellokitty]

Originally posted by Meriweather
It just makes it so much fun to come back to the room!!
DH loved it!
We had towel animals everyday (except the 3 that the regular housekeeper was off) of our 14 day stay.
Duck, giant roach, elephant, and also the beanies were arranged with the towels...riding the elephants back, sliding down a towel water slide.
They were just so cute ...and fun.
DH started a competition by folding the tip $$ into oragami designs. He was having a hard time coming up with things for that size and shape but he did it.....it was a highlight of his evening trying to think of something.

a giant cockroach ewwwh!!! i would never want to see that!!

 

[R4racing]

We had a couple on our last stay. Not every day though. One day there was a doll made out of washclothes on the bed next to DD's Zoe (from Sesame St) another time there were bunnies made out of washclothes, they made cute slippers for DD's babydoll, so we put them on him. There might have been one other, but I don't recall. I think it depends on the housekeeper and maybe also how busy they are that day?

 

[KaraJade]

Our housekeepers at CBR last week made us a few the first couple days, we got birds and a bunny. Once we bought some pals at world of disney, they were arranged on the bed once or twice w/ a cute note.
I left $2 a day (just DF and I) in an envelope and wrote "housekeeping" on it, sometimes "thank you" and a .

 

[married2grumpy]

I think it is hit or miss. We tipped $5 a day in cute Disney mousekeeping envelopes and never got a thing in the 10 days we were at the Poly. We didn't mention anything to the kids so they wouldn't be dissappointed, but I was. One day my husband forgot to leave the tip and found our housekeeper in the hallway to make sure she got it and knew it was a mistake she wasn't tipped the day before.

One day when we were at the pool, I brought the kids back to the room to get something. When we entered the room I found all the new toys for the kids taken out of the packages and placed nicely on the bed with all the other souveniers. I was excited but really mad that housekeeping would open brand new toys to display. I also had a hard time getting the kids to not destroy the display before my husband got to see it. When I got back to the pool I didn't say anything to him because I didn't want to ruin the surprise. When we all got back to the room together the kids jumped right on the bed to play. I told my husband I was happy housekeeping finally did something but wanted to complain that they opened our packages. Here's the part that was so funny to me...My husband had gone back to the room when we were at the pool and did the display himself for the kids and I! I didn't even have to leave him a tip!

 

[JulieJo]

When we were at CBR and my DD was 4 the housekeepers would take her princess Barbies and pose them at the window with a note. It made it look like they were watching out for us while we were gone. My DD was convinced (still is...she is 7 now!) that the princesses were coming in and cleaning our room while we were at the park. I think she thought they were playing with her dolls while we were gone. She was so excited when she came back to the room and saw that the "princesses" had been there again!

Julie

 

[Debs Hill]

OK, so it seems that where I've been going wrong is not tipping until the end of the holiday! We're staying at BWV, so housekeeping is only every 4 days, how much would be an appropriate tip each time? I'll leave a nice note too!