Where is it written not to use a pool towel if you run out of towels?

[NewDCLGuy]

That behavior significantly increases the pool towel inventory which you correctly judged to have a cost.

The towel inventory cost is, what, 3 cents per use?? And Disney's laundry cost is undoubtedly a lot less than people washing towels in their rooms.

For the record, I don't think I've ever taken a town from the pool up to my room, not washed a DVC towel for that matter. But if other people want to, it's not going to bother me the teeny-tiniest bit.

I sometimes think people are looking for things to get upset about.

 

[crisi]

The towel inventory cost is, what, 3 cents per use?? And Disney's laundry cost is undoubtedly a lot less than people washing towels in their rooms.

For the record, I don't think I've ever taken a town from the pool up to my room, not washed a DVC towel for that matter. But if other people want to, it's not going to bother me the teeny-tiniest bit.

I sometimes think people are looking for things to get upset about.

But it costs Disney $6 in revenue if you do this in lieu of a towel pack. That revenue offsets the costs of housekeeping and directly impacts our dues. And, Dean's point is that if you are willing to cheat the system over $6, what else are you willing to cheat?

It probably is pennies on our dues, but pennies to someone with 1000 points might be a Mickey Bar. And I don't get to make the decision for Carol on whether she wants to pay a couple extra pennies for my towels.

More importantly, I think, is that when we find ways to circumvent the rules, eventually Disney decides to put controls around it to make it less possible. I don't want to check out my pool towel and pay for it if it get stolen. I want to be able to wrap my kids in a pool towel back to the room and drop it off on my way to the park 45 minutes later. I don't want to pack my own beach towels. Yet, its completely possible that at some point Disney will say "we are sick of finding pool towels in rooms, we are tired of having to have 15% more pool towels because they aren't in the pool area (or whatever), we are finding too many of them in the regular laundry, and far too many guest are using them as bath towels instead of washing their own or getting a package, and we no longer want to replace them 2x as often because they disappear. Lets check out towels."

I wouldn't be surprised if Disney did this anyway. The resort we were at had wonderful plush huge pool towels with the resort name on them. You got a card assigned to you. You checked in the card, checked out a towel. When you returned the towel, you got your card back. Any cards left after you checked out saw $40 billed to your credit card. I'm sure its a lovely profit center for the resort as people take home souvenir towels without realizing they've agreed to the charge. Disney would likely make a mint, plus solve the pool chair saving issue.

 

[dianeschlicht]

But it costs Disney $6 in revenue if you do this in lieu of a towel pack. That revenue offsets the costs of housekeeping and directly impacts our dues. And, Dean's point is that if you are willing to cheat the system over $6, what else are you willing to cheat?

It probably is pennies on our dues, but pennies to someone with 1000 points might be a Mickey Bar. And I don't get to make the decision for Carol on whether she wants to pay a couple extra pennies for my towels.

More importantly, I think, is that when we find ways to circumvent the rules, eventually Disney decides to put controls around it to make it less possible. I don't want to check out my pool towel and pay for it if it get stolen. I want to be able to wrap my kids in a pool towel back to the room and drop it off on my way to the park 45 minutes later. I don't want to pack my own beach towels. Yet, its completely possible that at some point Disney will say "we are sick of finding pool towels in rooms, we are tired of having to have 15% more pool towels because they aren't in the pool area (or whatever), we are finding too many of them in the regular laundry, and far too many guest are using them as bath towels instead of washing their own or getting a package, and we no longer want to replace them 2x as often because they disappear. Lets check out towels."

I wouldn't be surprised if Disney did this anyway. The resort we were at had wonderful plush huge pool towels with the resort name on them. You got a card assigned to you. You checked in the card, checked out a towel. When you returned the towel, you got your card back. Any cards left after you checked out saw $40 billed to your credit card. I'm sure its a lovely profit center for the resort as people take home souvenir towels without realizing they've agreed to the charge. Disney would likely make a mint, plus solve the pool chair saving issue.

I like your idea even better than mine about having pool towels in the villa! Any revenue that offsets dues is a plus in my book!

 

[highflyer747b]

All this over friggin towels!?
Some perspective might be in order.

 

[TagsMissy]

I have to admit we have wrapped our towels around us after leaving the pool for the walk to our room ((usually when we realize the time and leave the pool area right after swimming rather than sunbathing for a while to dry off somewhat)) however we always return them the same day after we've all changed. I don't see an issue with them leaving the pool area for 30-60 minutes since they are still ending up in the same dirty hamper at the pool within an hour of us finishing swimming. however I can only speak for us, we return them... there is no guarantee everybody else taking them does the same thing but I'd love to give people the benefit of doubt.

 

[Mtnman44]

Last month I was at the BLT pool helping my kids dry off. I told them to make sure to leave the pool towels here (for some reason I had assumed that the hotel did not want pool towels in the room). The lifeguard on duty overheard me and told us there was no need to leave them. They could be taken to the room because "they all end up in the same place anyway". Now, perhaps the lifeguards don't know all the specifics of the hotel and housekeeping policies, but she was clearly trying to correct the impression that I had of some kind of a pool towel rule.

 

[Deb & Bill]

I have to admit we have wrapped our towels around us after leaving the pool for the walk to our room ((usually when we realize the time and leave the pool area right after swimming rather than sunbathing for a while to dry off somewhat)) however we always return them the same day after we've all changed. I don't see an issue with them leaving the pool area for 30-60 minutes since they are still ending up in the same dirty hamper at the pool within an hour of us finishing swimming. however I can only speak for us, we return them... there is no guarantee everybody else taking them does the same thing but I'd love to give people the benefit of doubt.

You used it as a pool towel. Not as a bathroom shower towel. Big difference.

 

[Doug7856]

I can't believe how passionately people feel about resort pool towels!

 

[dianeschlicht]

I can't believe how passionately people feel about resort pool towels!

It's not the towels folks are passionate about, but the costs we are all responsible for. I still think that pool towels in the villa like some other timeshares do would be a big plus. Not only less cost in maintenance, but also a lot more convenient to KNOW you will have a towel. Many times the pool towel bins are empty.

 

[Doug7856]

It's not the towels folks are passionate about, but the costs we are all responsible for. I still think that pool towels in the villa like some other timeshares do would be a big plus. Not only less cost in maintenance, but also a lot more convenient to KNOW you will have a towel. Many times the pool towel bins are empty.

I agree. I also like that it would free up chairs at the pool since people couldn't get 10 towels to hold spots for friends who might show up four hours later.

 

[Dean]

The towel inventory cost is, what, 3 cents per use?? And Disney's laundry cost is undoubtedly a lot less than people washing towels in their rooms.

For the record, I don't think I've ever taken a town from the pool up to my room, not washed a DVC towel for that matter. But if other people want to, it's not going to bother me the teeny-tiniest bit.

I sometimes think people are looking for things to get upset about.

You'd have to check with DVC management to get the actual costs. The amount quoted to me a number of years ago for OKW alone was in the 5 figures per year estimated above what they felt it should have been. If expecting people to follow rules, esp one that increases our costs as members, is looking for something to get upset about I am guilty. In addition I see it as a measure of character if one is specifically doing it to avoid the charges such as those who gather up an armful of clean towels and cart them back to the room, then not uncommonly, home with them. HH and VB saw it as enough of an issue to change how they handled the pool towels. I'd expect all DVC resorts to eventually follow suit as the current towel supply diminishes.

 

[Alexander]

I can understand needing more than one for drying if your suit is the problem, but not for later in the day. Throw them in the dryer when you go back to the room as it doesn't take much effort or throw them over the railing to dry. Should be good enough for later. That's what my kids do at home while swimming in the backyard pond.

This doesn't work if you're in a studio! Which honestly would be the whole issue with the towels and this whole thread. If you have a 1 bedroom or larger, you have a W/D to do your own towels.

 

[Deb & Bill]

This doesn't work if you're in a studio! Which honestly would be the whole issue with the towels and this whole thread. If you have a 1 bedroom or larger, you have a W/D to do your own towels.

So if you are in a studio and don't want to take your towels to the laundry room, you buy the towel pack for $6.

 

[Alexander]

So if you are in a studio and don't want to take your towels to the laundry room, you buy the towel pack for $6.

No, no, no.....my response was to a response to my earlier post about pool towels being placed in the rooms for us. I said that 4 pool towels wouldn't be enough for my family because they don't dry fast enough. The next person said that we could just throw them in the dryer in our room, to which I replied that wouldn't work if you were in a studio.

 

[NewDCLGuy]

You'd have to check with DVC management to get the actual costs. The amount quoted to me a number of years ago for OKW alone was in the 5 figures per year estimated above what they felt it should have been.

So that works out to, what, 0.1-2 cents per point? A quarter per year for the average owner? I'm not saying taking the towels or right or wrong. I am saying that if such an incredibly petty thing is bothering somebody even a little bit, my honest advice - person to person - is to take a step back and reexamine what is and isn't important.

 

[WDWMom]

I didn't think to clarify that it wouldn't work in a studio but there are chairs out there that you could put them on if the weather was cooperative (I think we were talking about pool towels here, not bath towels). Won't work in every scenario, but I think it would most of the time.

Honestly, I don't get why 4 towels aren't enough for 4 people in a room, but that is just me. I dry myself off, put on a light robe I bring and then wrap my hair. When done, I hang my towel to dry. Use again the next day. But I guess not everyone works that way.

 

[joandegennaro]

So that works out to, what, 0.1-2 cents per point? A quarter per year for the average owner? I'm not saying taking the towels or right or wrong. I am saying that if such an incredibly petty thing is bothering somebody even a little bit, my honest advice - person to person - is to take a step back and reexamine what is and isn't important.

You have to understand that many DVC'er are rule followers and it bothers them when others flaunt their disregard for the DVC rules especially when it does add up to increasing their dues or the removal of something that has always been so convenient such as towels available at the pools. As a new DVC member who is about to go home for the first time I myself will follow said rules. I was the poster that asked the question about how to get the towel pack in another thread which spawned this thread when OP didn't get an answer to the question in my thread. I asked my question because I do not want to unknowingly break rules and remember reading the sign by the pool towels last year while staying on a friends points. Will I take pool towels back to my room? Most likely yes when walking back wet. Will I return them once dress...that depends on how close we are to the pool, but regardless will bring them back to the pool bins so they don't get mixed up with room towels. Will I take towels to use after a shower..No, I'll order the towel pack as many times as I feel necessary. It is only $6 and to me well worth the cost to have dry towels whenever I decide to have a shower.

 

[Dean]

So that works out to, what, 0.1-2 cents per point? A quarter per year for the average owner? I'm not saying taking the towels or right or wrong. I am saying that if such an incredibly petty thing is bothering somebody even a little bit, my honest advice - person to person - is to take a step back and reexamine what is and isn't important.

As I said, I don't know the current actual cost but rather than a VP for DVC felt it was significant a few years ago. To me it's two issues, that of honesty/character and that of cost/dues. I don't believe you have the right to tell me what's important or not to me. I don't really care if you feel it's petty or not.

 

[DVCconvert]

....... I don't really care if you feel it's petty or not.

Time to switch to Decaf?

 

[Dean]

Time to switch to Decaf?

LOL, we did years ago.