Towel Usage - Home and on vacation

[Johnnie Fedora]

With 3 kids under 5, a lot of water get splashed around. I have no problem washing towels every day, but we take a couple towels from the pool for extra bathmat/splash control. We also wash them along with the other towels.

As long as I'm confessing, I've also used a face cloth for a dish cloth. Those sponge things don't work the best for cooking clean-up. Sorry if your last face cloth smelled like pickle relish (or syrup).

 

[Verandah Man]

I wondered what that smell was, LOL !!!

 

[JulesMom]

We use our towels for a few days before we wash them.

So, it's not a problem for us.

 

[Aurora3]

I use a fresh towel every other day. I also wash my hair every other day. It works out nicely and I feel as though I'm being environmentally friendly. I don't change my personal habits while on vacation. Since its only my daughter and I we had at least eight towels between us at OKW when we arrived. There were more than enough towels for the two of us and I could have used a fresh one each day if I had wanted to but again, I don't change habits just because I'm on vacation.

 

[Disneyaholic]

Originally posted by Sharper
We have stayed in OKW villas and I have no problem whatsoever with washing towels in our unit. Part of our next visit will be in a studio at OKW. (Previously I have stayed in a studio at OKW, but not through DVC.) To be perfectly honest, I am NOT thrilled at the thought of only having, in essence, a one-day supply of towels. So we are supposed to go spend the time to wash and dry a load of towels EACH DAY?! That is just goofy. I expect we will bring at least one other set of towels, so we won't have to spend a couple of hours at the laundry area to wash part of a load

It would make more sense to have at least enough bath towels provided to get through two days. I can envision literally washing four towels only on some days. Think about the cost of detergent, electricity and water to run a load in the wash to just get four more towels. Talk about wasteful.

No, I wouldn't waste the time washing a load of towels each day. If having clean towels each day was that important to me, I would spend the extra $6 or so per day to get a clean set delivered. Or I'd learn to re-use a towel.

By the poll results so far, the vast majority of people think that the towels supplied are adequate for not only two days, but three or four, till it's trash and tidy time.

It's not that you CAN'T get towels every day, you just don't have to spend the extra points for a luxury that most people obviously feel is unnecessary.

 

[doubletrouble_vb]

Traveling alone its no big deal...they supply enough towels for one person to get me through trash & tidy...I usually have one clean towel left.

Because its vacation I tend to use towels two days. At home they probably go three days. My concern isn't so much re-using something I dried my clean body with but letting the towel dry in the moist bathroom. Those of you with dryers don't have this problem. When I stay in a big unit that's exactly what I do...throw the towel into the dryer.

Mousekeeping probably should add an extra set or two of towels to the studio. Right now they stock them just like they are normal hotel rooms. I figure the reason that they don't is something I noticed a friend did...when she checked out she made up her bed neatly (I strip the bed & leave it ready to be made up). How would mousekeeping know that they extra towels hadn't been used and re-folded by a neat person? I guess they could put a strip of paper tape around the extra towels.

 

[SINK]

At home, we reuse the towels. But on vacation, it's hard to tell the HIS/HER towels. Furthermore, when the extended family stays with us in a 2BR, it's really hard to tell who's towel is it. Therefore, we wash ours everyday.

 

[Nanajo1]

We usually hang the towels after use but if necessary we don't mind throwing a load. If we really needed clean towels we
would pay the extra charge to get them. I am concerned about pool towels being checked in and out. I hope it doesn't come to that.

 

[Sharper]

Originally posted by Disneyaholic
No, I wouldn't waste the time washing a load of towels each day. If having clean towels each day was that important to me, I would spend the extra $6 or so per day to get a clean set delivered. Or I'd learn to re-use a towel.

By the poll results so far, the vast majority of people think that the towels supplied are adequate for not only two days, but three or four, till it's trash and tidy time.

It's not that you CAN'T get towels every day, you just don't have to spend the extra points for a luxury that most people obviously feel is unnecessary.

My point was what I see as faulty reasoning in only have one set of towels in the studios. DVC provides washers and dryers so studio "residents" can wash their towels. I think MANY people would want a fresh towel every day, so in theory DVC will be paying for a washer and dryer load each day so I can get clean towels. It seems to be much more economical from their standpoint to provide a few extra towels (that they washed and dried with FULL loads) to prevent a partial load being washed and dried on their dime. It never crossed my mind 'til this issue started here that we will have to do something or deal with the towel issue on a daily basis because we aren't going to use dirty towels. And unless you scrub your body as for surgery and delicately pat yourself dry, then a towel normally used after a shower is not going to be what I consider clean enough to dry off again later. I am not going to change my habits on an expensive vacation to use a towel that has been sitting around with residual lotion, makeup, dead skin or whatever for multiple days. I'm not camping for goodness sakes!

So it is bring more towels from home, pay $6 extra, or waste water, electricity and time washing 3-4 towels daily. Decisions, decisions.......

 

[December99]

Unless I'm missing something, the last time I did laundry at OKW in their laundry room - they did NOT provide me the washer and dryer free - I had to put my quarters in there to use it. So in essence, if I wanted my towels washed, I 1) had to find time in my day and miss something with my family because they generally will not take time out unless we scheduled a no park day and 2) had to put my quarters in.

And I'm sure that they never have partial loads. With the amount of people that go in and out of that place - they are probably ALWAYS doing loads of laundry.

I may have confused myself a bit with Sharper's post so if I did then I guess my post is not substantial regarding the cost to do laundry. Sharpers post just made it sound like if you are in a studio they provide the washer and dryers at their expense for you to do towels.

 

[Ralph&Pam]

December 99 wrote:

Sharpers post just made it sound like if you are in a studio they provide the washer and dryers at their expense for you to do towels.

Yes, Sharper's post was accurate in this regard. The washers and dryers in the laundry rooms for DVC resorts do not require coins for operation. I can only speak from experience for BWV and VB but I believe this applies to the other DVC resorts as well. I have done laundry while staying in studios at both, supplying only my own laundry soap and dryer Bounce sheets.

Ralph

 

[December99]

WOW...I'll have to remember that as I swear I had to use coins in December 2001 to use the washer and dryer at OKW but perhaps I'm wrong, and we were DVC owners.

It is a pain to have to haul them though but we were close enough that hauling our laundry that one day was not that bad - now taking it back folded was a bit of a pain!

 

[Sharper]

Originally posted by December99
And I'm sure that they never have partial loads. With the amount of people that go in and out of that place - they are probably ALWAYS doing loads of laundry.

I may have confused myself a bit with Sharper's post so if I did then I guess my post is not substantial regarding the cost to do laundry. Sharpers post just made it sound like if you are in a studio they provide the washer and dryers at their expense for you to do towels.

The washers and dryers ARE provided free of charge. You must provide the detergent.

Now I am confused -- If I am washing three bath towels then I would definitely consider that a partial load, i.e., the dryer is not full. It is a waste of resources to run a washer and dryer for full cycles to clean three towels!

 

[JVL1018]

WOW...I'll have to remember that as I swear I had to use coins in December 2001 to use the washer and dryer at OKW but perhaps I'm wrong, and we were DVC owners.
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The washers and dryers have the coin thingy where you would pay, so if you don't know that you can just push it in without putting coins in, you would pay. Next time, don't put the quarters in and just push it in like you normally do and it will work.

 

[December99]

JVL - that is very good to know as I didn't know that and I swore I did put quarters in so I probably did...definitely something they don't tell you (or my dh didn't tell me) and something that DVC members should know in my opinion.

 

[dianeschlicht]

My point was what I see as faulty reasoning in only have one set of towels in the studios

I have never seen a DVC studio with just one set of towels! There are always 4 of everything.

I don't think you can put coins in the washer or dryers at the pools. I think you just push them in with no coins.

 

[Sharper]

Originally posted by dianeschlicht
I have never seen a DVC studio with just one set of towels! There are always 4 of everything.

I don't think you can put coins in the washer or dryers at the pools. I think you just push them in with no coins.

Sorry I did not repeat the full language from earlier posts, as I thought that was obvious. One day's worth of towels -- just one set for each person, i.e., no extras so they will have to be washed/replaced daily.

Actually the hand towels would not have to be, since you have FOUR of them, the problem is with the bath towels, at least for us.

 

[dvc guy]

People from the real world have spoken........ I have never seen so many peolpe use a towel and toss it. When I get out of the shower I am clean, glad to know most people just hang the towels up after using them.


For those of you who use it once and wash it, I am glad I don't have to pay you gas/electric bills.