Towel Animals

[EsmeraldaX]

I am a great big geek and I think towel animals are adorable. I am totally smitten with them.

My question is this. I am traveling without children. Will Mousekeeping still make towel animals if there are not kids in the room?

 

[tinkerb]

We have had lots of towel animals......and we don't have any children traveling with us any more, they are grown up...we have got a towel "fish", a towel "mickey" , had towels made into toothbrush holders, towels made into "bows" and others........ we love getting them.......

 

[blondeqtip]

Towel animals sound cute!! How do you get those?

While we are on the topic of mousekeeping, how much do you tip them? Do you tip them per day or leave something at the end of your stay?

 

[Babyfatt]

Does anyone have pictures of the towel animals?

I always see some mention of them but no pics.

 

[Tiggerlover91]

Originally posted by EsmeraldaX
I am a great big geek and I think towel animals are adorable. I am totally smitten with them.

My question is this. I am traveling without children. Will Mousekeeping still make towel animals if there are not kids in the room?

I got something better than towel animals!! DH and I have no children but on EVERY vacation I take several of our stuffed animals with us. Well, we came back to the hotel one afternoon and my two twin alligators were "hanging" in the window waiting for mommy and daddy to come home! It was great!! Came in the next day and they were all sitting on the edge of the bed facing the door waiting for us to come in! I LOVED IT!!

I thought that was really cool! Hope I get another cool mousekeeper like that on our next trip.

 

[disneylovr1]

No kids, lots of towel animals. Last trip we came back to a towel made into a ring, and then 2 washcloths made into little birds. There were even sprigs from the bushes outside perched on them. It was cute. But if you take stuffed animals or something cute and leave them on the bed I sustect you're more likely to get the towel animals. The cutsier you are, the cutsier mousekeeping gets. Tips might help also!!

 

[ibouncetoo]

Tip daily, as your 'mousekeeper' can be several different people over the course of your stay. This trip coming up next week is the first time I've made special envelopes for the tips......had to use the Mickey rubber stamps I got for Christmas! Plus it's nice to have them ready to go....not last minute searching for singles.

...btw, I usually tip $3 a day for the two of us.

 

[Dim]

On our last trip my parents stayed in the room next to my wife, 3 yr old son and I. My mother had her teddy bear with her and we had toys in our room. My mother got more towel animals and cute things done with her bear than we got in our room which obviously had a child. One time she came back to find Blossom (the bear) with remote control in hand and watching television. She also had 2 or 3 different towel animals on different occasions.

If you take a stuffed animal along I would say that gives you the best chance of some sort of surprise when you return to your room.

 

[dis-happy]

My dh is a road warrior. He taught me that it's better to tip every day---it's an ongoing thank-you to the person doing the room and you are more likely to get better service and extras.

For what we 're paying for a hotel room, vs. what those hard working probably are getting paid, I'm happy to tip them. About $2-3. a day sounds right, but sometimes we adjust upward if the kids have left a lot of crumbs or something.

 

[WaltD4Me]

Ok, I have a DUMB question!

So if you tip mousekeeping daily...that means you are basically tipping before they clean the room right?

Does anyone find they get better or possibly worse mousekeeping due to tipping in advance?

I've always just left the tip at the end of our stay, I've never done it daily and am just curious.

Lisa

 

[tinksgirl]

Tipping everyday is best,you could have the same maid for 6 days of your stay and your 7th is her day off so the maid who cleaned for you all week would get 0.We always tip everyday put all the dirty towels together gather the trash and keep things clean,we have been as many as 4 times a year staying at deluxes and concierge level and have never gotten a towel animal although we have had many other wonderful suprises over the years never famous towel animal really i think we will be fine without them......i hope

 

[tripplanner]

We always stay at one of the deluxe hotels and always tip daily (usually $1 per person in the room - $4 a day for our family). We've only experienced the towel animals during a 1 week stay at the WL and it made our trip. One day we had a towel canoe with all of the kids beenie babies inside. The next day, the beenie babies were escaping over the side of the bunk bed on a towel ladder. Every day we had something different and some were quite elaborate.

This is only happened once to us in all the years we've come to Disney. Every trip we always hope that it will happen again.

 

[Goofy's Muse]

Just returned from a week's stay at BC on the concierge floor. By mid-week, we began seeing a "towel animal friend" being added to our kids' small collection of stuffed animals. First a fish toothbrush holder, then a rabbit to join him, then a teddy bear to join the other teddies on the bed!

Several evenings we returned to the room to find "the menagerie" watching TV in various positions. The kids got a kick out of seeing who might be holding the remote. Lots of fun for them really!

Our girls hand-designed tip envelopes for mousekeeping and turndown service which we left daily. They used Disney stickers, markers, blowpens, and left cute sayings with their thank yous. It was a fun project for them prior to our trip. To be honest, they were as excited to see that their envelope had been taken as they were to find the towel animals appear! It was our first trip so we had no prior expectations, but we figure you're never too young to learn that spreading some pixie dust can be as fun as receiving some!

 

[Abracadabra]

Towel animals are nice surprises, but I would not stay onsite with the expectation of receiving one or more. Not all mousekeepers know how to make these creations and their primary responsibility is to clean the rooms. If they have time, they may leave a surprise for you. But if they don't, one shouldn't take it as neglect or that they don't care for you (or the tip you leave or don't leave). BTW, tipping doesn't guarantee a towel animal either.

These are part of the Disney magic and sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.

 

[MAGICinMYHEART]

Hi, on our last stay at Wilderness Lodge we received towel animals everyday, we had a great Mousekeeper who made them (remember not all mousekeepers can make them) We leave the tip daily to insure the Mousekeeping that is cleaning the room receices the money...Disney Mousekeepers do have schedule changes and you may have several during your stay, if you wait untill the last day the person that has cleaned your room all week may recieve nothing. I had only one picture downloaded of my niece and her Towel Dolls I'll post it:

 

[skiwee1]

We gotten towel animals at CBR, the WL, and the Poly. The CBR had simple bunnies in the windows. That is the first I had ever heard of towel animals. We still have them! LOL! The WL brought us a canoe with DD's animals in it, love birds, her animals sliding into a giant towel pool, angels, and so on. I think the best was at that Poly. Every day we would come back to 5 foot alligators, huge wildebeasts, lifesize monkeys hanging from the bed canopies, angels on bathrooms lamps, and so on. That was the first trip to the Poly. After that we have never gotten any in the last 4 trips at the Poly.

 

[GoodFairies]

Originally posted by WaltD4Me
Ok, I have a DUMB question!

So if you tip mousekeeping daily...that means you are basically tipping before they clean the room right?

Does anyone find they get better or possibly worse mousekeeping due to tipping in advance?

I've always just left the tip at the end of our stay, I've never done it daily and am just curious.

Lisa

No you are tipping for services you already got. Your first tip is for them preparing the room for you to check in. Each tip after is for when they made up your room the day before.

 

[BitsnBearsMom]

Have been reading this thread with interest and have a Q fo ryou experienced people..... what do you write on the mousekeeping envelope and where do you put it to ensure they get it??

Older ds was reading over my shoulder and really hopes his beloved Rupert the bear and his brother's bunny 'baby' can have some fun while we are away at the parks!!lol

 

[princess pooh]

BitsnBearsMom, I was told to put the money on your pillow so the housekeeper will know it's theirs.

I got a towel flower at CSR and a towel doll at the BC, and their were no kids in the room. I think the doll might have been left over from the previous people in the room because it was there when we arrived.

 

[rockin_rep]

Ok, i have a couple of questions....

Someone said they 'have' lots of towel animals.... um...is this something people actaully keep, as in *take home*....?? We've always had fun stuff done by mousekeeping but i didn't think these were meant to be souvenirs.....??? Have i been missing something or did i just misunderstand?

Also wondered if you tip differently depending on the level of resort, such as tipping more when at a deluxe vs. budget. Friends say they always tip more when at higher end resorts (regardless where the resort) as the value of the room is significantly more ~ and they don't wanna appear cheap!

However, we tip the same regardless of reort, hotel etc. but we try to tip more at the inexpensive or moderate restaurants. They're working often harder then the pricier places and often for less tip since it's based on the check.