cranbiz
Well-Known Member
Required them to go back to the room because the dog was in it. That was a condition that poster agreed to for the privilege of leaving the dog in the room and not at the kennel.
-
Welcome to the WDWMAGIC.COM Forums!
Please take a look around, and feel free to sign up and join the community.
Housekeeping door knocking at 8am on check-out days - what's going on?
- Thread starter wdwmagic
- Start date
ladybat2
Member
Okay then thats understandable but to barge into a guest's room without knocking while the guest was in there dressing? I'm sorry but if that really happened then that is totally not acceptable.
TheMouseFan
Well-Known Member
Back to the knocking on doors at 8am, we were recently at Animal Kingdom Lodge in a 2 bedroom lockoff villa. We checked in Monday and out on Thursday. On Tuesday morning at 8:30, there was a knock on the studio door. It was housekeeping asking if we were ready to leave yet. She looked like she wanted to argue with me when I said we don't check out until Thursday. Then again on Thursday, as we were loading our car, I got a push notification through the app telling me I could let them know when we were leaving through the app. I didn't ever get the chance to because they were knocking on my door at 8:30 asking if we were ready to leave. Why even have the option in the app if they are just going to knock on the door anyway?
Chi84
Premium Member
“Are you ready to leave yet” is a pretty rude thing to say. Better just to ask when a guest plans to check out (and then not look like you want to argue).
Constipated Palpatine
Member
Next time a housekeeper tries rudely pushing you out of your room at 8am, nicely inform them you aren't leaving until the policy check-out time of 2pm. When they freak out and tell you, no, the check-out time is 11am, then nicely inquire as to why they are rushing you out NOW.
Chi84
Premium Member
There's no excuse for rudeness. If housekeepers are actually knocking on doors yelling "time to check out" or asking people "are you ready to leave yet," I would inform the head of housekeeping or a front desk manager on our way out. Their staff needs to be better trained.
." Many people leave their rooms before checkout time and don't inform the front desk. If there's no "room occupied" sign on the door, I wouldn't be so harsh if a housekeeper simply knocked to see if the room has been vacated. Even if there is a sign, all you have to do is tell them what time you plan on leaving. There's no great conspiracy to ruin your vacation.
Constipated Palpatine
Member
Absolutely. I was meaning use that tactic on the rude ones.
Chi84
Premium Member
I don’t think it’s done beforehand. There are often cards in the room with the name of the person who serviced the room. That person had to leave before I could get into the room and tip them, so I’m leaving a tip. It’s up to the housekeeping staff how they distribute the tips for services already performed. There have been times when I was in the room when housekeeping came in and in that situation I handed the tip to the person who serviced the room. It’s really not that big a deal.
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
I have never once seen these cards to which you are referring, either as a guest or as someone who has done work in hotels and had to enter rooms.
How is it not tipping beforehand? You leave the room with a tip, the room is then serviced. Is that not how this works? The person taking the tip is the one servicing it that day, not the person who serviced it the day before.
Chi84
Premium Member
Is it okay if you’re in the room while the housekeeper is there and then hand them the tip?
BuddyThomas
Well-Known Member
It’s a very commonly known thing that if you hand the front desk person at a Vegas resort a twenty dollar bill, they will upgrade you almost 100% of the time. It’s all over social media. We did it too and got upgraded. The transaction happened right in front of a supervisor. I don’t see what the issue is.And some people bribe front desk for a room they didn’t pay for.
If I want a suite I pay for it, yet somehow I’m the cheap one?
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
If it were me I’d be annoyed that the “Do Not Disturb” sign was ignored. For a variety of reasons I have not had my room serviced in years. Unless you are sitting around waiting for the person to finish, you are still tipping before the service has been completed.
I don’t care what you do. I have not said that it is not okay to tip. What I take issue with is the demonstrably false claims that it is the prevailing custom and the variety of insults towards those who do not tip. If you’re going to chastise people I don’t think a consistent basis for judging actions is an unreasonable request.
Sir_Cliff
Well-Known Member
That's part of what I don't get about tipping housekeeping. Are you supposed to write a note to let them know they can take the money? Otherwise, I would have thought they weren't supposed to just pocket money they find left out in a hotel room.
That's a bribe rather than a tip isn't it?
Chi84
Premium Member
We actually did leave a note labeled “housekeeping” using the notepad and pen Disney provided in each room. It’s been more of a challenge the last few years . . .
Disone
Well-Known Member
Tipping is pretty common in the housekeeping world.
If you go on a cruise, The cruise line will typically charge you a gratuity fee and if you ask for how that's broken down they will show you. What amount is going to your server, what amount is going to your assistant server, what amount is going to the restaurant maitre d, and yes what amount is going to your housekeeper.
On land tipping your housekeeper isn't quite as mandatory. That said, more people than not do leave a tip usually in the room as they checkout.
If you Google "tip housekeeping" You will find a variety of resources on this topic with varying recommendations as to how much the tip. Some even say don't tip at all, but most leave a recommendation of what amount to tip.
In Walt Disney world's case, tipping used to be officially not allowed in housekeeping. Meaning the housekeepers were expected to decline the tip or to turn it into their manager. Housekeeping is not a tip time position. They are earning a full wage and not a tip wage like a bellman or a restaurant server.
There was a time where if you wanted to give a manager money to give to your housekeeper The manager would politely explain that the housekeeper was not in a tip time position. Some managers would then say "if you want to leave them a note and put that note in a sealed envelope I can give them the envelope. ( Read between the lines there.)
However, many years ago Disney became less strict that. It is now generally acceptable to tip your housekeeper, even though they are not in a tip waged position, because it is common practice in the hotel industry to do so.
At Walt Disney World, in general they will leave money in a room that is being cleaned as a stay over unless there's a specific note.
If you go on a cruise, The cruise line will typically charge you a gratuity fee and if you ask for how that's broken down they will show you. What amount is going to your server, what amount is going to your assistant server, what amount is going to the restaurant maitre d, and yes what amount is going to your housekeeper.
On land tipping your housekeeper isn't quite as mandatory. That said, more people than not do leave a tip usually in the room as they checkout.
If you Google "tip housekeeping" You will find a variety of resources on this topic with varying recommendations as to how much the tip. Some even say don't tip at all, but most leave a recommendation of what amount to tip.
In Walt Disney world's case, tipping used to be officially not allowed in housekeeping. Meaning the housekeepers were expected to decline the tip or to turn it into their manager. Housekeeping is not a tip time position. They are earning a full wage and not a tip wage like a bellman or a restaurant server.
There was a time where if you wanted to give a manager money to give to your housekeeper The manager would politely explain that the housekeeper was not in a tip time position. Some managers would then say "if you want to leave them a note and put that note in a sealed envelope I can give them the envelope. ( Read between the lines there.)
However, many years ago Disney became less strict that. It is now generally acceptable to tip your housekeeper, even though they are not in a tip waged position, because it is common practice in the hotel industry to do so.
At Walt Disney World, in general they will leave money in a room that is being cleaned as a stay over unless there's a specific note.
Club Cooloholic
Well-Known Member
Well...yeah. I am enriching a front desk person and when you hand the money over they might not hook you up at all and that is to be expected, but as was my case, checking in at 1AM on a Thursday for one night, they happened to have several empty suites and were happy to accommodate. Maybe you fee sorry for the corporation that owns the hotel? Don't feel sorry for the housekeeper, it's not like she had a guest that didn't leave a tip! That's the thing, go to a housekeeper give them your rational for not tipping and see if they prefer that to the rest of us rubes tipping them.And some people bribe front desk for a room they didn’t pay for.
If I want a suite I pay for it, yet somehow I’m the cheap one?
Another fun one is imagine your mom is doing that work...would you still think that rational holds up better than her getting tips?
Even better imagine you are out with your significant other...you tell them you slipped the front desk a $20 and got an upgrade.. Are they going to call you cheap? Nope. But tell her/him you refuse to tip the housekeeper because you think they are paid enough...will they say you are cheap? Depends on the person I suppose....
Club Cooloholic
Well-Known Member
Oh yeah, $2 a day to the maid, that's some high roller stuff there lol, I'm a regular Kim Kardashian!