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If the $10 credit per day is all that's offered, I wouldn't want it. Really, $60 for a week is nothing at WDW. I'd rather have cleaning every day. As Dot says, I'm on vay-cay-shun!
If the $10 credit per day is all that's offered, I wouldn't want it. Really, $60 for a week is nothing at WDW. I'd rather have cleaning every day. As Dot says, I'm on vay-cay-shun!
Yup, my first reaction was it's practically an insult to offer a mere $10/day. Holy Guacamole! You can just barely buy dinner for two, no appetizers or desserts, at 50's Prime Time for 60 bucks. That's not only pretty basic homestyle eats but isn't much of a reward for cleaning up after yourselves daily at WDW's room rates, I'd say.
A very important part of that vay--cay-SHUN attitude is the "shunning" any cleanup and tidying you don't absolutely have to do yourself.
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MY DD has always hated housekeeping coming into the room and messing with our stuff. We have also often found ourselves waiting in the lobby for housekeeping to finish when we would rather be back in the room, resting up a bit.
The result is we often use the do not disturb tag.
I would gladly choose no housekeeping-we do shorter trips and often don't use it. To me it's not about the money but privacy-no one in the roon, door not left open for an hour or more.
We've have stayed at DVC resorts, paid the daily rate and could have had daily housekeeping.
If the $10 credit per day is all that's offered, I wouldn't want it. Really, $60 for a week is nothing at WDW. I'd rather have cleaning every day. As Dot says, I'm on vay-cay-shun!
I totally agree. I didn't have any interest in this offer when it was $20 a night. $10 a night is not even on my radar. I, too, am on vay-cay-shun! I want someone else to make my bed every day. I want someone else to take my dirty towels and replace them with fresh fluffy ones. I want someone else to empty my trash cans. I do those things at home every day, I'm not doing them on vacation. When we're at Disney, I lock my valuables in the safe and if a mousekeeper wants to dig through my clothing, have at it -- I get my Disney vacation clothing mostly from LL Bean, Lands End, etc. so they're not some high-end fashion pieces that anyone is really going to want anyway.
But I do see how the $10 credit is a benefit for those who decline Mousekeeping no matter what.
I still might do it. Like I mentioned before DH and I are pretty neat to begin with. I can pick up my wet towels and set the trash out no problem. That's about all I would be doing anyway. It's not like I'm going to be scrubbing the toilet and shower. We'd be saving $15 a day cause I leave a $5 tip everyday so if that buys us a nice dinner out, I'm happy with that. I gave up my full time job 6 years ago to babysit our grandchildren so we lost a third of our income. I have to carefully budget at least a year out to just stay at a value for a week, so I'll take any savings I can get.
They are crediting you for the approximate cost of servicing the room; nothing to do with what you are paying per night. I was happy to skip housekeeping at the Swan for a $5.00 credit that we used toward breakfast from the lobby coffee bar. We don't really need housekeeping daily as I am perfectly capable of smoothing the bed covers out and we certainly don't use up all the soap in one day. Also, my husband sometimes just wants to rest in the room without having to vacate so they can make the bed he is going to unmake when they leave.
Things have definitely changed in 3 years... I got back very late on Monday from POFQ. The ressie was not mine, as I was only staying 3 days, ressie owner stayed 7. Upon check-in, she was offered a gift card for declining housekeeping. We did it hands down, no brainer. Two adults in a room, we didn't need much. They still offer trash service at 3 days and full cleaning at 5 days, even if you decline housekeeping and take the gift card. Personally, I think it's great. There was a piece of paper on the table in our room talking about limited housekeeping services in the wake of Irma, so I'm actually glad we did.
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I am the "ressie owner" per Wanda! And I was offered the deal at the time of checking in. If We needed more towels we could always call housekeeping. Like Wanda said it was a no brainer! I took that $60 gift card and put it towards our Sunday Brunch- it was well worth it!
I thought it a Magical gift! Lol
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....I'm at POP right now. They offered us a $40 gift card (per room ...we have 4 rooms) if we declined housekeeping FOR THE WHOLE 9 day trip. It wasn't even close to being worth it. I'm on vacation ....I'm not cleaning.
......so .....I shall inform you that we went 3 DAYS without housekeeping showing up. Complaint upon complaint sent to concierge .....then they cleaned my room ...and forgot others. When they did show up at one of the rooms ...only towels delivered ...no cleaning ...no vacuuming.
....more on this will be spelled out in my trip report ( because I'm on line for the Frozen thing in Epcot) .....
.....however ....and I'm sorry to all the Disney supporters ....but they are failing miserably.
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I hope I get better service. I don’t want to make beds and clean on vacation! If I don’t get housekeeping I’ll be going down to front desk and asking for that $ room credit for no housekeeping on the days they don’t show up.
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I hope I get better service. I don’t want to make beds and clean on vacation! If I don’t get housekeeping I’ll be going down to front desk and asking for that $ room credit for no housekeeping on the days they don’t show up.
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