Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Do you do that at home?? >>> I use a fresh towel and fresh facecloth every time at home, so I certainly expect to the same at a hotel. But I'm fine with declining housekeeping. If I'm by myself, there are normally enough towels for 2-3 days of use, and even if not, they'll gladly bring up fresh towels if you call housekeeping: that takes them all of 3 minutes to do, vs 30 minutes to do a full housekeeping service of the room, so they're more than happy to do so even if you decline housekeeping for the day.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder I don't think what you do at home should be a measuring stick. Whether you're on vacation or on a business trip, you're still away from home, and you should be pampered a little bit. If an entity is going to go into the hotel business, don't then come back and tell the customers what a drag it is to be in that business. Either suck it up and provide what they're paying for, or get out. And especially when it comes to towels. That towel has been used by countless different strangers over time. You better believe I want a clean one every day, especially when I can't be sure how well it was cleaned before I got it. If they refuse to wash bedspreads except once every blue moon, how well do they clean the towels?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<You better believe I want a clean one every day, especially when I can't be sure how well it was cleaned before I got it. If they refuse to wash bedspreads except once every blue moon, how well do they clean the towels?>> If that's true, what good does a new one do? It's just as crappy as the one you've already used!
Originally Posted By standor At least it is washed, no matter how hapazardly. I am spending over $4000 for a 10 day stay. I shouldn't have to use towels that were already used. Hotels are using the green angle just to save money. By doing this, they could lay off cleaning people and save a fortune. Pretty soon they will give you a set of dishes and silverware and say for every meal bring the washed tableware to the restaurant and they will deduct so much for the meal. AFTER ALL THE DISHWASHER USES ELECTRICITY, WATER AND SOAP. Hotels are taking us for a ride and they will keep doing it as long as we accept it.
Originally Posted By tashajilek "While this wouldn't be an issue if I was in the room alone, I tend to stay at hotels with a couple friends, and we're not really interested in sharing towels after a couple days. Yes, I know that in theory our bodies are clean when we use them (we did just get out of the shower), but there's a certain "ick" factor in the whole thing" Yea a little gross when you think about it. I wouldnt want to dry my face using the same part of the towel as someone who dryed a private area lol. One good/bad thing i noticed lately staying at hotels is they really bleech the heck out of their sheets. I have really sensative skin and i can feel the bleech and smell it too. I guess it is a good thing because they want to kill anything nasty.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Exactly that Tasha! I love my son, but I am not drying my face with the same towel he used on his backside. And that goes for the rest of my family too, but especially the teenage boy!
Originally Posted By Blueusion That why I'm lucky. Partner work's for Marriott and we stayed at The Marriott Ko Olinia Resort in Oahu . right next door to The Aulani and got to stay in a 5 star resort suite for 8 day's round trip airfrae for 2 and rental car for 8 day's. They told us . You would not have maid service since you were staying in a suite . We said fine. After a few day we asked for linens and towels and withhin 5 mins we haad them. We made our bed ourselfs. and it took maybe all of 5 mins. We were happy. The Aulani is nice but for the price to stay at "Disney" you would expect more. I have been to WDW 20 times over 30 yr's and the quality has declined and this issuse is just one of them. BTW the total cost for our vacaction was $3500.00 total. Not per person and when we have a chance we will go there again. Disney has out priced it's self. I won't go back to WDW till they add something new at DHS like Star Wars land. They can do it but the bean counters prefer to spend it in Shanghi. I don't care to go ther. I live 90 mins. away from WDW and have not been in 5 yrs and until they do a great new land or ride . I will be going to Universal or Seaworld and NASA for my fun. Oh nad Avatar was ok. But I don't own a Blu ray of it because it was a one time picture for me.
Originally Posted By NomdeVoyage Well,so long as we're on the subject, I think I'll put in my own two pence about the new trend. I am not a proponent of the saving-money-by-skimping-on-linens trend. Part of my Disney resort vacation experience is having the luxury of nice, clean linens. I always try to be courteous to housekeeping, and "pre-clean", so they don't have to work around my things. In WDW, I just decline the "green" offer, and it's never been a problem. Other hotels, though, sometimes take a bit more persuasion. So if my housekeeper is non-English speaking, I do this : Corral the used towels in the bathtub, and sprinkle them from the shower. Then I pull up all four corners of the sheets, and put it all in the middle. I've saved them the trouble, and get fresh sheets. I once had a rather long-term stay, and needed the sheets changed every day because I was suffering from "Personal Summers", and I suspected they weren't being changed each day. So I made a small pen mark at the bottom of the sheet. It was there later, I explained my reason to the clerk, and didn't have that trouble anymore. So, some folks don't mind the minor inconvenience, and some do. I do think the $5 "incentive" is kind of chintzy, though.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance You know what I hate? I hate how the garbage cans in hotels never have liners. So if I want to throw away something messy, like half eaten food, or some god awful things my kids came up with, I have to throw it in the garbage with no liner, so it gets all over the garbage can. I always feel bad for the poor person who has to clean it out of the garbage can.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub A simple tip is to pack a few of those small grocery store bags in suitcase Maybe one per day? Even when a hotel is generous enough to provide a liner in those tiny trash cans they are really thin as saran wrap. Nothing is worse than smelling fast food all night long in your small hotel room. Supposedly these hotel chains conduct all kinds of customer surveys to improve customer satisfaction . All we want is trash can liners!!!
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub It is weird to see a year old topic resurrected but I swear I have been suspicious of every sheet in the past year of every hotel room that I check into. I just had to drive from St.louis to Dallas and included staying in Norman,OK and Mulvane, Kansas. I think 5 hotels total in past long week. They all seemed really crumpled and suspect. Now when I check out i pull the sheet off forcing the maid to put a new one on for next guest . I don't know why I feel compelled to leave a nightly tip. I am trying to buy Kharma for next hotel room.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Okay I confess the last stop in Mulvane, Kansas was only to stay at the Hamton Inn that is connected to a Casino. And it happens to have that Alice in Wonderland penny slot machine. I have discussed this before when I knew Tash was going to Vegas...BUT this game is so much fun and the only time I have ever won anything. The Enchanted Mirror or the MAD TEA Party slots are the only time I will gamble...I first discvovered this game at the Paris Casino in Vegas and have seen it in Ballys and the Mandalay.I also know it is in the huge WinStar Casino in Thackerville,OK and the Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane, Ks. Every time I have played I have won at least $250 with only $100 and everybody else seems to feel lucky too.Guys also will play this game and the strangers sitting next to me admit it seems weird to be playing a Disney game in a casino but Alice's voice welcomes you . Sometimes the Cheshire Cat appears and sometimes the queen of Hearts. It is so much fun to hear Alice say Wonderful Really Big Win!!!
Originally Posted By Brad "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." Stand and applauds. P.T. Barnum would have been proud of you, mate! "There's a sucker born every minute."
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "A simple tip is to pack a few of those small grocery store bags in suitcase Maybe one per day?" My city did away with those plastic bags that grocery stores give you. It's now paper or reusable bags only. I could buy some, but hotels should just provide them!
Originally Posted By tashajilek Yea, some parts of Washington ban the plastic bags as well. I'm glad you found your favorite Alice machine MMC! I cant wait until October when I get back to Las Vegas, I will have to look out for the machine when I am there.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Alice in Wonderland penny slot machine. ... it seems weird to be playing a Disney game in a casino >>> Are you sure it's Disney's version of Alice? I doubt very much that Disney would license any of its intellectual property for a slot machine. From the YouTube videos I was able to find, it appears that these slot machines are based on the original Lewis Carroll book, which is in the public domain, rather than the Disney animated or live action motion pictures. Disney likely had nothing to do with it.
Originally Posted By Disney Joy ^^^Do you do that at home?? oh miss this question. RT actually I do and expect a lot more on vacation than at home .... that is why I pay what I pay daily... and yes at home need a fresh face towel daily. If I ran around at home as much as I do at Disney I would need a fresh face towel in the evening. BUT I expect pampering on the road.
Originally Posted By tashajilek SuperDry there is no Disney slot machine version of Alice. From what I have seen there are about 3 different versions, but none really resemble Disney.
