Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Just noticed the Swan and Dolphin website is going to give you a green savings of 5, yes, five dollars (or 500 SPG Starpoints) to: Be Green and Save Green if you decline housekeeping during your hotel stay. Is the value of clean towels and sheet service really only costing you $5.00 or is this the stupidest idea ever?
Originally Posted By jimminy51 Shut the front door! I pay my Disney housekeepers $8 tip every day of my stay.
Originally Posted By TP2000 It's a stupid cost-cutting move, and that's all. Someone in marketing figured there are enough gullible people out there who will be fooled by the idea of "saving the planet" by allowing hotel management to employ less housekeepers and order fewer cleaning supplies. If you are really of the opinion that forgoing hotel housekeeping is going to save the planet, that the Manmade Global Warming situation is that dire, then you really should not have engaged in the decadent behavior of a Disney World vacation to begin with. The trip from home to the airport in a car just did 10 times more damage than tidying up the room and replacing used towels will do, let alone being shot through the stratosphere in a plane burning jet fuel so you can be entertained in coal-fired air conditioned comfort by singing robot pirates and electrical parades and Hoop-De-Doo chicken dinners. If Global Warming is your concern and you think you are better by being "green" to save bucks off replacement towels and a bathtub wipe down during your decadent Disney World vacation, you should have just stayed home and read a used book. But Sheraton's corporate Marketing Department won't admit that.
Originally Posted By jimminy51 On second thought, it is a GREAT idea from Disney Corporate so they don't pay a housekeeper for how many days? Do not support them in this guys. Just decline this. The minimum wage housekeepers really lose out on this piece of work from the bottom of someone's toilet. Just re-use your towels and you ARE already doing the green thing. How greedy. I will boycott Swan/Dolphin. But you know, noone who stays at the Swan/Dolphin really is concerned about saving $5. They can afford it and don't want a messy room.
Originally Posted By jimminy51 Thanks Skipper. You are right. I realized my mistake after I posted. I was so upset with this I forgot.
Originally Posted By TP2000 They are both run by Starwood Hotels, the corporate owners of the Sheraton (Dolphin) and Westin (Swan) chain brand names.
Originally Posted By Manfried It is actually a good thing for the environment to not have them replace the towels and other stuff every day during your stay. Yes, it saves them money too. So what.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Even worse if you drove an electric car from your house to the airport!
Originally Posted By fkurucz What's the point of staying in a nice hotel if you won't have housekeeping?
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub They already cut back with not giving clean sheets every day and now the towels! Of course everybody is going to take them from the pools which will lead to No towel service at the pools. I just stayed at the Hilton in Rockwall,Texas over Labor Day and we had to sign out the towels and sign them back in or be charged $10... Let me add it was so hot everybody sat at the pool all day long ...drinking...all weekend long...Our drink tab was double the room cost total So that five bucks would have been a great help!!!
Originally Posted By sjhym333 We also stayed recently at a resort (not Disney) and were given cards that got us towels at the pool but a charge if they weren't returned.
Originally Posted By tashajilek It really is petty and i really hope the housekeeping staff doesnt suffer. I had a housekeeping job for a few months when i was a student and it's a horrible job to begin with. I do think that re using towels would be huge help in reducing the amount of laundry they would have to do. Imagine how many loads of laundry in Las vegas could be saved if people didnt need housekeeping every day? i notice some hotels have signs where you can have the option to be green, but dont offer any money back.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I understand the towel and sheet thing, but that doesn't mean I don't want housekeeping. I would love for the room to be cleaned up after me, but I can use the same towels for a few days. I would decline this, because it's not really part of the "green" initiative to have less workers...
Originally Posted By tashajilek I think the option would be very fair and yes i agree that housekeeping should still come by anyways. At least they can make your bed and see if anything else needs replacing.
Originally Posted By Manfried They would still make the bed, but not replace the sheets and towels. And if I save $5 and improve the environment, why not?
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne Lots of hotels I've stayed at over the past few years have encouraged you to re-use the same towels/sheets more than once, though never with the incentive of a voucher/cash for it. Many have just had those 'if you want them washed, leave them on the floor, if you are happy to re-use them, hang them up. And it's never bothered me. Getting brand new towels each day has always seemed excessive, I just don't think I'm that dirty and certainly at home don't use a new towel after each shower ( does anyone?). Although, I never considered that it may be a cause for them to dismiss housekeeping staff or cut their hours. I suppose I would be more inclined to just let them wash and change them if I thought it was helping people keep their jobs.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I know some hotels offer a "limited" housekeeping option. They'll make the bed and vacuum, but not replace the towels or the bedding. It's a water/energy saver. I'd willingly opt for this just to be a wee bit more enviro-friendly.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Oh a little extra detergent's not going to do anything. Wash your butt please.
