Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 << I can not fathom running a hotel chain where cleaning the floors isn't considered necessary ... >> <<Do you clean the floors in your house everyday?>> C'mon. I understand you're a management guy (apologist would likely be another accurate label), but to compare a home to a hotel room is absurd on so many levels. Different strangers don't sleep in my home every night ... shedding hair and skin, spewing bodily fluids out of multiple orifices. They don't eat in my home, let their kids run ragged in home, and engage in sexual activity in my home. You see, that's why you need Mousekeepers that CLEAN your rooms ... not make towel-animals and pose plush, so that goofballs can post how magical that was on Disney fan sites, while God knows what is on the floor, the bedding, the furniture etc ... Disney used to be better-than-average at this until some consultant (who they likely paid six or seven figure to) told them they could improve productivity and cut labor and equipment costs by eliminating vacuums from the housekeeping carts. I can't wait to see the 'Would you pay $400 a night for this?' story(ies) ... Hey, Al ... and InoverherheadMeg, you may want to get Zenia working on the press release now!
Originally Posted By mrichmondj Just for the record, the last time I stayed at WDW -- last May -- I was a little ticked off that the carpets were still damp from where they had shampooed them the night before. The whole floor at the WL smelled like shampoo. I wasn't real fond of the shampoo smell. I honestly didn't inspect to see if they vacuumed the floor every night after that. My friends think I'm a freak because I vacuum my entire house and scrub down the bathrooms religiously once a week. If a hotel wasn't clean, and I've stayed in more hotels that were filthy than clean, I would be the first to notice.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Personally, I don't think brooming/vacuuming/mopping floors once a week is that rare. G-Fan and I do it at least once a week as well when we are home.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Former neighbor of mine use to run all her knickknacks through the dishwasher every week. Wonder what she'd do with all my Disney snowglobes.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: What's the point in sweepin' a floor ev'ry dang day when yer livin' in a cottage with a DIRT floor ta begin with?! Saves time ta just let the rats eat whatever gits dropped down there. Least ways that's what us Cauldron gals does.
Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp Not cleaning the floors every night is apparently a trend sweeping throught the hotel industry. I've been in too many rooms recently where I know they haven't swept - because my fingernail clippings are still there on the floor where I left them. And this is not the low-cost chains, this is one where $200/night is typical. And don't get me started on the "Treat us as your home - we'll change the sheets and the towels when we darn well feel like doing it".
Originally Posted By mrichmondj << I've been in too many rooms recently where I know they haven't swept - because my fingernail clippings are still there on the floor where I left them. >> Why wouldn't you clean up after yourself? Yuck.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I have two robotic vacum cleaners ( KJ named them "Mr Sucky" ) and I run them almost daily to get up all the hair that Dixie sheds. I also have a maid that cleans my home every other week. I have been known to bring a carpet cleaner with me while on vacation. I always have shoes or something on my feet while staying in hotel rooms regardless of if I am staying at a Disney Resort or not. I'm simply not going to cut my feet on a pin or get harm my feet.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom As far as I'm concerned Mousekeeping should be vacuming daily in those rooms. I thought that was part of what we were all paying for when we get a hotel room. Otherwise I would just assume camp at Ft Wilderness.
Originally Posted By Labuda ^^^ It's not. Check out the carts that mousekeeping has with them when they're doing their rounds. I don't think I've ever seen a vacuum with a mousekeeper. Just towels & coffee and washclothes and sheets.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Do you clean the floors in your house everyday?" No, but then I don't have thousands of people staying at my house a year and having to change out the guest room daily. So, I can see the need NOT to vaccuum every day. A hotel is different. It's like a hospital where you need to sterilize things before you use them again. Hotel rooms should be cleaned thoroughly for each new guest.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Oh, and back on topic... So, what, exactly, could Disney even do to a "big personality" poster anyway? I'm very curious how they could do anything since most people posting have no employment ties to Disney, they don't get in for free, and other than visiting frequently, they don't get any other perks? What could Disney possibly do?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip With the germs crawling all over hotel room door knobs, toilet seats, telephones, light switches and other hard surfaces, whatever might be on the carpet is the LEAST of your worries.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ^^^^^^^^^^^ true most places..museums / ballparks / Chuck E Cheese etc..and if anyone ever saw an electroscopic view of what's on your pillow @ home you'd never get into yout bed...... I use common sense and choose not to go the Howard Hughes route....
Originally Posted By alexbook >>What could Disney possibly do?<< Theoretically, they could ban somebody from the parks. They could even sue for slander (or is it libel?), or copyright infringement. Doesn't seem likely, though.
Originally Posted By u k fan <<<and if anyone ever saw an electroscopic view of what's on your pillow @ home you'd never get into yout bed......>>> Never underestimate the power of my laziness!!!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<No, but then I don't have thousands of people staying at my house a year and having to change out the guest room daily. So, I can see the need NOT to vaccuum every day. A hotel is different. It's like a hospital where you need to sterilize things before you use them again. Hotel rooms should be cleaned thoroughly for each new guest.>> CLEANED is the operative word. WDW, like many hotel chains today, basically has its staff make up rooms to appear clean. In other words, you shouldn't walk into trash on the floor and unmade beds and a dirty looking bathroom. But really cleaning? Sanitizing the telephones and remotes? Washing down walls where suspcious stains appear? Moving the nightstand and cleaning behind it (so for example you don't walk in and have loads of dust and cookie wrappers like my current room at WDW does)? Nah. That's not important. But, hey, the carpeting appears reasonably clean and I do have towel animals ... WHOOOO-HOOOOOOO! This is the Spirit reporting live from Where Magic Lives or Where Dreams Comes True ... I guess marketing has never heard of things getting lost when you send out competing messages.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<So, what, exactly, could Disney even do to a "big personality" poster anyway? I'm very curious how they could do anything since most people posting have no employment ties to Disney, they don't get in for free, and other than visiting frequently, they don't get any other perks? What could Disney possibly do?>> The spirited choices are endless ... but that's fodder for an upcoming book project that I am very seriously thinking of writing. But if you think Disney plays nice, or more accurately some of its mid-level, small-minded execs, you're living beyond Fantasyland ... way out in the hinterland of Toowntown Faire ;-) Oh, I'll leave this post on a good note ... no more Ivory soaps and shampoo I wouldn't use on my dog anymore. New stuff, including higher end products for the deluxes and still usable products for the values and mods. Why? Well, it seems a little spirit told me that a Disney exec's wife couldn't believe what was being used at the deluxe resorts and put up quite a stink after her holiday visit ... so now, Disney has improved something that really was an embarrassment. Sadly, I guess she didn't mind the thin white towels! Look for more WDW observations later this week! Wait ... I think I just saw the eyes on my towel animal move ... the MOuse is always waaaaaatching.....aghhhhhhhhh
