Coronado Springs Sept 01-13 2016 worst stay in 22 years

[hoffman1]

You can get good or bad maid service at any resort. I generally leave $4-$5. It is just the two of us and we are generally pretty neat.
Once at POR, the maid put our dirty, wet towels we had left on the bathroom floor in our open suitcase on top of our clean clothes! And closed the top of the suitcase! Very odd. She also left a set of sheets just hanging over the chair when we requested the beds be changed (my husband had been ill and in the room for a couple of days).
I did report it. The manager called us and offered to have our clothes laundered but we were leaving the next day and we did not have the time to wait for them.

 

[cursivesailor]

I have 22 disney villians tattooed on my leg so that should convince the haters of our love for disney

Forget the maid, I wanna see that tatt!!!

 

[cursivesailor]

Also, I cant really be the only person who brings their own toiletries from home?! I cant imagine using the stuff from hotels, but that might just be pickiness left over from being in the salon industry for 10 years. I know how my real stuff works for my hair and I like the way it smells. I always pack my own shampoo, conditioner, and body wash.

I usually take home the little single-serve bottles of shampoo and soap packets. When I get a bag full after various trips, I donate them to the women's shelter. I figure its much better than them going to waste.

 

[Weather_Lady]

I don't like the idea of leaving a bigger tip at the end because its not guaranteed that the same person cleaning your hotel room this whole time is going to be the one turning the room over at the end of a stay.... people do have days off.

I get what you're saying. We leave a bigger tip on the last day under the rationale that, regardless of who is turning over the room (and whether they're the same person who's been cleaning our room up until then), they're having to expend significantly more time and effort to do it than whoever refreshes the room during our stay. The bigger tip on the last day isn't meant to compensate the housekeeper for services rendered earlier in the week, since whoever was refreshing our room each day got a tip too -- just a smaller one.

 

[Weather_Lady]

Also, I cant really be the only person who brings their own toiletries from home?! I cant imagine using the stuff from hotels.

While we don't generally use hotel shampoos when traveling to other destinations (probably because we don't stay in very expensive hotels, so it's bargain-basement stuff!), Disney hotels have their own brand of toiletries, and I think they're pretty good.
(I should mention that no one in my family has sensitive skin, and we all sport the same thick, wavy hair that doesn't require special handling or even styling, beyond a quick comb-and-tousle before we head out the door, so the brand of products we use doesn't make a big difference, although we do use "good stuff" at home. Those with more sensitive skin or temperamental locks would probably feel differently.)

I do think it's nice, OP, that you take the Disney stuff home with you and donate it, though -- that's a great way to give them a good home if you don't want them.

I even like to bring home the leftover shampoo and conditioner to use now and then as a fun reminder of our trip -- they have a unique, musky orange scent that transports me back to Disney instantly. (For this cause, I have been known to hide half-finished bottles of Disney hotel shampoo and conditioner to ensure that housekeeping will leave us more.) Also, for those of us who fly carryon-only, there are only so many liquid toiletries you can fit in a 3-1-1- bag...

 

[cursivesailor]

I do think it's nice, OP, that you take the Disney stuff home with you and donate it, though -- that's a great way to give them a good home if you don't want them.

My mom, some of her friends, and I have all started doing this. We hoard the little toiletries from hotels (Mom and her krewe travel a lot more than me) and once we have a stockpile we donate them. The local women's shelter is a good place, but we have also donated them to the VFW who package them up with other creature comforts and ship them out to the military overseas. I dont remember who started the idea, but its starting to expand even outside of our little group.

 

[Tony the Tigger]

Also, I cant really be the only person who brings their own toiletries from home?! I cant imagine using the stuff from hotels, but that might just be pickiness left over from being in the salon industry for 10 years. I know how my real stuff works for my hair and I like the way it smells. I always pack my own shampoo, conditioner, and body wash.

I usually take home the little single-serve bottles of shampoo and soap packets. When I get a bag full after various trips, I donate them to the women's shelter. I figure its much better than them going to waste.

If I'm staying long enough, I like to bring my own soap. I rarely like the soaps in hotels (including WDW) but I can put up with them.

I also have gotten in the habit of bringing my own towels and not having to worry about gross towels in the room that a thousand other people used.

 

[21stamps]

Also, I cant really be the only person who brings their own toiletries from home?! I cant imagine using the stuff from hotels, but that might just be pickiness left over from being in the salon industry for 10 years. I know how my real stuff works for my hair and I like the way it smells. I always pack my own shampoo, conditioner, and body wash.

I usually take home the little single-serve bottles of shampoo and soap packets. When I get a bag full after various trips, I donate them to the women's shelter. I figure its much better than them going to waste.

I have a travel kit that I always use. Reusable plastic bottles that I just put my own products in. I also (almost) never use the body wash, shampoos, and conditioners at hotels. Some chains use Frederic Fekkai and a few use Bumble and Bumble.. On those trips I leave my own at home.

 

[SosoDude]

We have stayed at all All Stars 2-3 times each and faithfully at Pop Century since it opened
22 years in a row 13-15 days every year
I have 22 disney villians tattooed on my leg so that should convince the haters of our love for disney

we tried an upgrade this year to Coronado Springs, a mistake we will not make again
every year we send two large boxes of clothing and have never had trouble getting the boxes from any resort but Coronado Springs boxes are delivered to their business center 9-5 hours only, they have no way of retrieving the boxes for guests so we had to cut our second day short to pick up our clothing for the two week stay, spoke to two people at check in and both said nothing could be done to help, we even had to carry them ourselves back to our room

we had soap shampoo conditioner and cream the first day in the room
nothing the second third fourth or fifth day
i called to request the items, went to the front desk, called again, then called again demanding the maid be changed for the following reasons

-no soap shampoo conditioner or cream for five days
-we only used one bed and was not completely made for the first five days, runner and pillows never put back on the bed
-one day there was no floor towel, she put a hand towel on the floor for us to use
- a whole bag of trick or treat candy spilled on the floor and not picked up
-was my birthday and had the window decorated, every day the window items were knocked on the floor and not picked up when she opened the curtains
-we had a light up mickey pumpkin in the window, the plug was broken off and the third plug was still stuck in the wall socket

we got a call one night from management that the maid would be changed and for three days back to normal, bed runner and pillow, replenished items all restocked
after that it appeared the same bad maid came back and for the length of the stay no bathroom items, extra towels, bed unfinished, etc all over again
i gave up and went to the store and bought some very expensive shampoos and bath wash for no reason

save your money if wanting to stay there, pop century and all of the all stars give much better service to guests

The maid also stole all of his punctuations.