What is the Standard? - Housekeeping Visits Per Day

[James Browning]

Housekeeping is an important part of every resort property at Walt Disney World. Daily an army of maids, housemen, and linen handlers work to keep each guest room in order and supplied with towels and sheets. How important is this service to your resort experience? To begin the discussion let’s look at how often you would like to have a housekeeper in your room.

 

[got2lovedisney]

For us, housekeeping is not necessary. We clean up after our selves, hang towels to dry, don't worry about making the beds. Mousekeeper comes in when we check out. (Usual visit is 4 nights)

 

[Tom]

All I want are new towels every day. I consider that a perk of paying to stay in a hotel. All used towels go on the floor each day.

On the last full day of our trip two weekends ago, we got back to the room at Riverside at 2:00 and she hadn't been there. I raided a housekeeper cart of towels. When I got back to the room, she was standing outside, looking at her clipboard confusedly (pretty sure she forgot us). I showed her the towels and said "We're good!"

Sheets....maybe change once during a long trip, but really, I'm good. I'd rather not have to throw the comforter on the floor every day.

 

[bethymouse]

I like fresh clean sheets and towels. I like to come back to a fresh clean room. I enjoy the towel "animals" and notes they leave. At Saratoga Springs, the mousekeeping left a nice note attached to a swan towel "animal" saying "Thank you for choosing Saratoga Springs". A very nice touch.

 

[TaoBoxer]

I voted basic daily cleaning. I do prefer my room to be cleaned by noon though.

 

[AndyS2992]

We really don't need housekeeping, we bring our own towels, make the beds ourselves, always clean up and even empty out our bins. We can't help it lol next time I'll make sure not to do so much since we are paying for that to be done for us.

 

[SDisney90]

All I want is fresh towels. My girlfriend and I clean up everything and try to make the beds unless we're running late on our "schedule" (which is like 730am lol). When they come it doesn't matter...we're never in the rooms past 7:30 and not back until very late.

 

[disney4life2008]

Great interesting question Unlike other hotels (including the upscale national chains) something about disney housekeeping is just perfection. There is nothing like coming back to my room after being in the parks all day to a nice clean, fresh smelling room. Housekeeping remains exceptional while other services at the resorts have declined (the check in staff at sports last month was quite rude and now they rush you checking in).

 

[gsimpson]

I love coming back to a nice fresh room. I will hang towels up and reuse them as long as they don't get dirty. One of the things I enjoy most about a vacation is clean bed linens every day. I even change the bed linens at home multiple times a week. One thing Disney seems to really stay on top of is keeping the room clean and tidy while I'm at the parks.

 

[Goofnut1980]

I wish they would change towels and sheets on the 3rd day... instead of the 4th for DVC... Sometimes 4 is just too long!

 

[JIMINYCR]

We are neat guests, we keep our room and surroundings clean. We like mousekeeping to bring clean towels and sheets, and theres not much else they really need to do to our room. But it was a different story when DS was along, being young and messy. As much as we tried it was hopeless to keep his area tidy. So mousekeeping was needed and appreciated more back then . Now when we go they dont have to work as hard when they enter our room which allows them to spend more time in those "other" guests rooms . Please leave us a nice towel animal for being clean, well tipping guests .

 

[Tom]

I may be mistaken, but I don't think they change sheets until they turn the room over. They just remake the beds.

 

[Victoria]

I may be mistaken, but I don't think they change sheets until they turn the room over. They just remake the beds.

I believe they switched to this several years ago too. I vaguely remember notes being left in the room about trying to conserve resources. Of course they will switch out your sheets if they are visibly dirty or you specifically request it. I'm fine with it. I don't change my sheets every day at home. Don't need it on vacation.

As someone else posted, I wish housekeeping would come on Day 3 of dvc stays. By day 4 we are usually out of clean towels and the garbage is starting to pile up. We do laundry a few times but I have a mental block about washing Disney's towels for them. That's just crossing some sort of imaginary line. Same with taking the trash to the trash room. If I wanted to do those things I'd stay home.

 

[MinnieM123]

Housekeeping done once a day is fine for me. One thing that's important to note, is that any trash be removed on a daily basis. Sometimes, people eat a meal or snacks in their guest room; and the thought of leaving food around in a basket for over a day could contribute to a bug infestation.

 

[CAPTAIN HOOK]

I would suggest it all depends on the length of stay for the guests. For us, like the majority of previous posts, we're tidy. We straighten our own beds when we get up, we leave the room tidy when we go out for the day. My Mousekeeping requirements would be -

Towels - A daily change for used bath towels, hand towels to be changed every three or four days
Sheets - Assuming I'm on a two week stay then change once, mid way through
Room clean - A daily check for discarded items in the waste bins, a thorough clean mid way through my stay
Bed turn down - nice, but not necessary

 

[Mainahman]

I want is towel animals

 

[Allym146]

We usually have cleaning come once in the middle of our stay. If we need towels, tp or anything else before that, we'll call down. Those options didn't really fit that so I voted for daily because I don't expect a discount for not using it.

 

[Dwarful]

Yes, it has been several years since they did the daily sheet changing. If we are there for two weeks I usually put a note out midway asking for the change in case it hasn't been noted....or earlier if someone spills something on the bed.

The last few years we have noticed it to be hit or miss on housekeeping and it doesn't really seem to follow a pattern.

 

[Spike-in-Berlin]

Two years ago at the Pop CMs told us about the present pattern that the sheets are changed regularly on a 4-day-basis, in case of a stay of less than four days of course they are changed after the last guests have checked out. However you can change that optionally, if you demand e.g. new sheets every two days or even every day housekeeping does it for you.

 

[EOD K9]

Housekeeping done once a day is fine for me. One thing that's important to note, is that any trash be removed on a daily basis. Sometimes, people eat a meal or snacks in their guest room; and the thought of leaving food around in a basket for over a day could contribute to a bug infestation.

I agree on the 3 day DVC rotation. If I have trash, I leave it outside the room and replace the bag.