Thanks, I'm on the fence here, is it too much time on their hands, or hands down creativity that starts these sites!
Histerical, I thankfully didn't see my feet/shoes featured!Thanks, I'm on the fence here, is it too much time on their hands, or hands down creativity that starts these sites!
Where's your husband? In the cooler!!??THAT'S MY DH!!!
IMO it's really a question of honesty and integrity, some have it and some don't. The real problem, which unfortunately is a reflection of society issues in general, is that people are willing to accept such issues as OK and that really is sad.
On one of our stays we loved the pillows and wanted to purchase them. I asked maid service how to go about buying them them and she said, "oh just go ahead and take them...everyone else does and you won't be charged".
Don't flame me though...we didn't take the pillows.
Bill
I was told this by a former VP (Matt Gibbs) discussing the towel charge change. He stated the reason was that the sanitation related requirements were far more strict on pool towels than regular towels and due to the chemicals involved . Whether it's accurate or not, I don't know, but it really doesn't matter anyway because one shouldn't be taking them to supplement the room towels regardless.
I've also been told that at a couple of Marriott resorts but it was in passing so I am not certain I had the full info. While there is a convenience factor having the towels at the pool, lets face it, the towels are pretty pathetic. I've never seen poor pool towels at a system that closely monitored the pool towels by a check out system OR left them in the room with the threat to charge you. So while it might seem more inconvenient to some to have them monitored in some way, there are benefits of less overall costs and apparently better towels as well. Actually DVC has the most pathetic pool towels I've seen at any timeshare, I'm all for any system that improves their quality and/or controls costs.
I don't have a problem with someone asking housekeeping for a towel or taking one from and returning it to the pool. I don't agree with helping oneself to things on the housekeeping carts, whether it's an extra towel, a bottle of shampoo or bar of soap, a box of laundry detergent or whatever else is on those carts for housekeeping to use when cleaning the rooms. I can't imagine how housekeeping could get rooms cleaned efficiently if guests decided it was OK to raid the cart while the housekeeper wasn't looking.
There are reasonable exceptions, I mentioned so earlier in this thread, however the exceptions don't define the issue, they are simply exceptions. At question was whether it was OK to just take towels off the cart without asking, with a side question of whether it was OK to take the towels off the pool carts to supplement the room towels. I think the answers in both situations are easily and clearly that it' not reasonable or OK and that those that do so for either issue are clearly on the other side of a drawn line of decency and reasonableness and they are clearly stealing even if they don't take the towel with them. Clearly the intent comes to play here which makes it much more difficult to enforce and police than it does to discuss. For example, one who uses the towels at the pool and walks back to the room, are they OK? Is it OK to ask the housekeeper for extra towels, I think the answer is clearly yes for most in this situation UNLESS they are intentionally trying to bypass the rules by doing so. Now the housekeeper would certainly be at fault if they're giving out towels and have been instructed not to by management and management would be at fault if they had not instructed against such handouts.
