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Can we talk about bathroom quality? not another cleanliness thread

MickeyLuv'r

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I thought it might be helpful to share a few thoughts about WDW's bathrooms.

#1. I've now stayed in a number of WDW's hotel rooms, at different price points, since they made the switch from tiny shampoo bottles to wall-dispensers. In EVERY room I have noticed the same problem: the new WDW bottles leak. The shampoo bottles especially appear to drip, or maybe it is just that the green shampoo is more visible. The problem is that the shampoo then makes the tubs slippery. This is a safety issue that I have already reported a number of times, to no avail.

#2. While WDW has had very low flow water sinks/showers for a while, on my most recent visit I encountered a number of bathroom faucets that emitted only a tiny dribble of water. Does WDW have a water capacity problem? (I'm sorta asking, how many more sinks and toilets can WDW add in their new hotels if they already don't have enough water to run their existing bathroom sinks? Hopefully someone knows more about this topic than I do.) I mean, at least 20% of the faucets were not in what I would describe as working order. Though two sinks next to each other often have very different flow rates.

#3. The WDW toilet paper is now as thin and terrible as it could possibly be. Even WDW's deluxe/DVC hotels have truly horrible toilet paper. It is so thin as to be nearly transparent. It is so bad, I've thought about bringing my own toilet paper, but that's absurd when paying WDW hotel rates. It is the type of cutback we rarely discuss in this forum, but one that has some cumulative impact on all our visits.

#4. Amenities that have (long ago) disappeared from WDW hotel rooms Simple supplies used to be standard in hotel rooms like cotton balls, q-tip, sewing kits, bar soap, etc. These are little things we maybe don't notice from visit to visit, but once upon a time they used to be standard in WDW hotel rooms. I'm old enough to remember the White Rabbit themed amenities at the GF. In a small way, they made the hotel a bit more magical.


Thoughts?

Other small changes?

Any improvements?
 

Ayla

Well-Known Member
I thought it might be helpful to share a few thoughts about WDW's bathrooms.

#1. I've now stayed in a number of WDW's hotel rooms, at different price points, since they made the switch from tiny shampoo bottles to wall-dispensers. In EVERY room I have noticed the same problem: the new WDW bottles leak. The shampoo bottles especially appear to drip, or maybe it is just that the green shampoo is more visible. The problem is that the shampoo then makes the tubs slippery. This is a safety issue that I have already reported a number of times, to no avail.

#2. While WDW has had very low flow water sinks/showers for a while, on my most recent visit I encountered a number of bathroom faucets that emitted only a tiny dribble of water. Does WDW have a water capacity problem? (I'm sorta asking, how many more sinks and toilets can WDW add in their new hotels if they already don't have enough water to run their existing bathroom sinks? Hopefully someone knows more about this topic than I do.) I mean, at least 20% of the faucets were not in what I would describe as working order. Though two sinks next to each other often have very different flow rates.

#3. The WDW toilet paper is now as thin and terrible as it could possibly be. Even WDW's deluxe/DVC hotels have truly horrible toilet paper. It is so thin as to be nearly transparent. It is so bad, I've thought about bringing my own toilet paper, but that's absurd when paying WDW hotel rates. It is the type of cutback we rarely discuss in this forum, but one that has some cumulative impact on all our visits.

#4. Amenities that have (long ago) disappeared from WDW hotel rooms Simple supplies used to be standard in hotel rooms like cotton balls, q-tip, sewing kits, bar soap, etc. These are little things we maybe don't notice from visit to visit, but once upon a time they used to be standard in WDW hotel rooms. I'm old enough to remember the White Rabbit themed amenities at the GF. In a small way, they made the hotel a bit more magical.


Thoughts?

Other small changes?

Any improvements?
We still have (and use) a WDW-themed small bottle of mouthwash that I got when staying at one of the deluxe resorts.
 

MickeyLuv'r

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Original Poster
We still have (and use) a WDW-themed small bottle of mouthwash that I got when staying at one of the deluxe resorts.
Within the last year, we were given mouthwash at WL, but not CBR. WL also had lotion, but the lotion is now also a larger dispenser bottle. It is a little odd no soap dish in WL, so even if you brought a bar of soap, there's no place to put it.

Universal hotels are a bit of hybrid. They have dispensers in the shower (ones that don't leak). I don't recall exactly what they had by the sink, but the deluxe hotels still provide a small array of items by the sink. Stella Nova only had bar soap by the sink, I think. (plus shower dispensers)
 
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dmc493

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so to hit on each point:
#1 - have to just offer my experience I have never had the leaking issue with the mounted dispensers
#2 - no this isn’t a system wide capacity issue, that’s all planned for extensively prior to even building said resorts. That being said again offering my experience, we’ve never had issues at multiple resorts over the last few years
#3 - very valid but something I think people are seeing across all hotel properties, not just Disney
#4 - same as above, unless you’re at a very high end hotel chain you’re not gonna get these types of minor amenities anymore, especially not without asking
 

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