I was reading some complaints on a GF Facebook board about the laundry room in Big Pine Key, where we'll be staying in August, and where I will rather desperately need to do laundry on the day we check in (for the second half of a split stay).
The problem seems to be that there are only 2 washers and 2 dryers, meant to serve all 200 resort studio villas in Big Pine Key, which is not remotely sufficient for that number of rooms. (In contrast, the GF's original DVC building has 2 washers and 4 dryers, to serve 47 deluxe studios, none of which are dedicated, meaning that the actual number of studios needing to use the communal laundry room in that building is almost always going to be appreciably less than 47.) One guest described her repeated attempts to do laundry in Big Pine Key as a "bloodbath," with multiple guests converging on the laundry room every time a load neared completion and fighting for the right to be next, and another said that they ended up having to do laundry at 2:30am because the laundry room was in such constant use.
So my question is: do I have any alternatives if I run into this problem? If I can't do laundry at Big Pine Key, would they allow me to schlep over to the DVC building to do it? Is that laundry room accessed by scanning a MagicBand, and would it even let me in if I was a guest in another building (even though that building is also DVC-only)?
Perhaps this question involves a factual scenario that is "too new" or just too random for anyone to have experience with it yet, but I thought it was worth the asking.
The problem seems to be that there are only 2 washers and 2 dryers, meant to serve all 200 resort studio villas in Big Pine Key, which is not remotely sufficient for that number of rooms. (In contrast, the GF's original DVC building has 2 washers and 4 dryers, to serve 47 deluxe studios, none of which are dedicated, meaning that the actual number of studios needing to use the communal laundry room in that building is almost always going to be appreciably less than 47.) One guest described her repeated attempts to do laundry in Big Pine Key as a "bloodbath," with multiple guests converging on the laundry room every time a load neared completion and fighting for the right to be next, and another said that they ended up having to do laundry at 2:30am because the laundry room was in such constant use.
So my question is: do I have any alternatives if I run into this problem? If I can't do laundry at Big Pine Key, would they allow me to schlep over to the DVC building to do it? Is that laundry room accessed by scanning a MagicBand, and would it even let me in if I was a guest in another building (even though that building is also DVC-only)?
Perhaps this question involves a factual scenario that is "too new" or just too random for anyone to have experience with it yet, but I thought it was worth the asking.
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