USA Today newspaper delivery to guest rooms to be discontinued

surfsupdon

surfsupdon

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When I see the multi colored weather map on the back of a USA Today, I immediately think of WDW.

I'm glad they are conserving paper, and also glad the papers will still be available at the Resort.
 
sweetpee_1993

sweetpee_1993

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Master Yoda said:
Here here. I would give my right arm for the Discovery Channel or TLC to be added to the line up.
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...and HGTV for us House Hunters fans!


Polydweller said:
Well they did just add 16 new channels including those.
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I sure hope they did. Always hated the limited tv choices.



I'm glad the papers are gone. At the Contemporary I got where I'd send my kids out the door in the morning to grab the paper & get rid of it before the hubby found it. I hated how grumpy he would get reading the politics crap. I have a pic of him somewhere walking onto Main Street reading a stinkin' paper. Lol! As long as there's free wifi & maybe have a few copies available in the lobbies, I think the news is covered.
 
Figment1986

Figment1986

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Since the newspapers will still be available near the elevators I'm willing to guess the resorts are now able to reduce the amount they receive as well as relocate the resource of "dropping off those papers" to somewhere else...

Besides dropping off the papers what else was that CM's job?
 
Pioneer Hall

Pioneer Hall

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Figment1986 said:
Since the newspapers will still be available near the elevators I'm willing to guess the resorts are now able to reduce the amount they receive as well as relocate the resource of "dropping off those papers" to somewhere else...

Besides dropping off the papers what else was that CM's job?
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One would think that the same person delivering the papers also put the bills and DME stuff on the doors. Not positive, but just going with the most logical possibility here.
 
worldtraveler

worldtraveler

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KingdomofDreams said:
I don't see this as a loss either. The vast majority of individuals get their news via either an iPad, laptop, smart phone, etc., or turn on their network of choice and catch it on TV. But, I'm guessing any Deluxe guest that calls the desk and specifically requests a newspaper could most likely have one brought to their room.

Personally, I'm more interested in free in-room wireless, a full range of television choices, and a good selection of room service options available until at least midnight every night.
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Maybe it's just me, but as long as they have ESPN and leave the Disney World specific things on, I am just fine with the choices. Again, that is just me.
 
MKCP 1985

MKCP 1985

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I am not a resort manager, so recognize my opinions are strictly amateur. . . but it seems to me that it would be a simple way to provide papers to those who want them and to avoid wasting paper on those who don't - simply ask at check in, "Would you like a USA Today delivered to your door on Mondays through Friday?"

having them available down by the elevator is kind of a strange compromise, but I'm glad the newspapers are still available for those who want them, even if only in deluxe resorts and even when every chain hotel in the rest of the country has them for everyone, delivered to their door.
 
Polydweller

Polydweller

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MKCP 1985 said:
I am not a resort manager, so recognize my opinions are strictly amateur. . . but it seems to me that it would be a simple way to provide papers to those who want them and to avoid wasting paper on those who don't - simply ask at check in, "Would you like a USA Today delivered to your door on Mondays through Friday?"
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I'm a hotelier and can say that it's been tried and is much more difficult and time consuming than it may seem. You have to keep a daily list, then assign the correct number of papers per area. Then the staff have to follow their list ensuring they deliver only to those who want them and all who want them. Takes a lot longer than dropping them at every door. Fraught with errors and thus customer complaints.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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Can the average WDW guest read on the fifth-grade level of USA Today? (someone had to ask)

So long as the papers are available, it really doesn't matter. Many hotels have them in lobbies (including a Hyatt, a Marriott and a Radisson I just stayed at in SoCal).

But there must be some savings (or perceived savings) in it for Disney for them to be doing so.

~Extra, extra, read (if you can) all about it!~
 
Zummi Gummi

Zummi Gummi

Pioneering the Universe Within!
I don't see this as any great loss or reduction of service. I read the news on my laptop every morning, so having a paper at my door was nothing more than an annoyance and a waste of paper. When I got them, I seriously just piled them up on the desk in the room and eventually threw them away without so much as opening them. :(

Anyone who wants to read the paper (for free!) is welcome to do so- you just have to go to the elevator to get one. Incidentally, this seems to be the policy in most "business" hotels that I've stayed at- certainly they do this at Hyatts and Marriotts. I believe the Sheraton still drops them off (the last one I stayed in did, at least).
 
RunnerEd

RunnerEd

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After the 1/2 Marathon shower, we were walking back to the lobby/bus stop and I remarked to the Mrs. how many papers were left in the hall (our included). The newspaper business is dying with a declining readership every year. I think this is addition by subtraction by Disney and long overdue. Great move.
 
draybook

draybook

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When I worked valet at Fitzgeralds Casino, we did the same thing. It was our job to slide a paper underneath the hotel doors every night around 2am. They discontinued it shortly after I moved to another job but I'm not sure why. Someone told me it was a waste because we delivered to all rooms, which meant a build up of unused papers in unoccupied rooms and most guests didn't read them anyways.
 
captainkidd

captainkidd

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Make all the funny jokes you want, this is simply Disney with another cutback to pinch more pennies. Every other Deluxe Hotel in the world (including Universals) deliver a paper. Just because you might not read it, doesn't make it a good call on Disney's part. I loved getting my USA Today in the morning. I like reading the sports and entertainment sections.

I'm just waiting until they stop using elevators to save on electricity.
 
captainkidd

captainkidd

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djkidkaz said:
And with free wifi now, this is/was a waste of paper.
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Because everyone takes their laptop on vacation?

So funny people say having a newspaper brings the outside world in so it's good to get rid of them, yet they bring their laptops with them and that's OK.
 
wsmith1978

wsmith1978

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I'm not sad about this. I honestly think they're a waste of paper... we've never even looked at the cover. I don't want to be reminded of the outside world when I'm there. I'm at Disney World, not Earth! :ROFLOL:

Seriously, though, I hope it was done because they noticed that 99% of the papers didn't get read, and not just to cut costs. They should replace it with something else - not sure what, but something.
 

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