NEW! Daily Trash Service For DVC Rooms

Recently DVC Member received an email that stated the following:

"Your in-room experience has never been more important to us. That's why we will begin removing trash from your rooms at Disney Vacation Club resorts on a daily basis in addition to regular housekeeping visits. The daily service begins December 22, 2017, at five resort properties (Bay Lake Tower, Polynesian Villas & Bungalows, The Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian, Disney's Grand Californian and Aulani). The service extends to all other Disney Vacation Club resorts on January 7, 2018."

I was pretty excited about this move towards more housekeeping. It's really the one thing that irks me about my DVC members, and I wish we had regular housekeeping. I was intrigued that it would be limited to trash service, but I figured that it was a start.

And then, I saw an article on WDWNT that was informing guests of some new security changes and it all made sense. It's probably not actually about "Your in-room experience," it's more likely about steps to prevent an incident like what happened in Las Vegas. According to WDWNT "Do Not Disturb" door hangers are being replaced with "Room Occupied" signage at Disney hotels. The new security requirement will be that hotel rooms must be entered once a day by a Disney employee. I assume in addition to standard housekeeping duties, they will be making a visual sweep of the area to check for - I don't know - mass caches of weapons?

I can't quite decided what I think of it now. I'm glad that Disney is being proactive with security, however I wish they would have just been honest about it.

Kristen K. wrote:

Recently DVC Member received an email that stated the following:

"Your in-room experience has never been more important to us. That's why we will begin removing trash from your rooms at Disney Vacation Club resorts on a daily basis in addition to regular housekeeping visits. The daily service begins December 22, 2017, at five resort properties (Bay Lake Tower, Polynesian Villas & Bungalows, The Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian, Disney's Grand Californian and Aulani). The service extends to all other Disney Vacation Club resorts on January 7, 2018."

I was pretty excited about this move towards more housekeeping. It's really the one thing that irks me about my DVC members, and I wish we had regular housekeeping. I was intrigued that it would be limited to trash service, but I figured that it was a start.

And then, I saw an article on WDWNT that was informing guests of some new security changes and it all made sense. It's probably not actually about "Your in-room experience," it's more likely about steps to prevent an incident like what happened in Las Vegas. According to WDWNT "Do Not Disturb" door hangers are being replaced with "Room Occupied" signage at Disney hotels. The new security requirement will be that hotel rooms must be entered once a day by a Disney employee. I assume in addition to standard housekeeping duties, they will be making a visual sweep of the area to check for - I don't know - mass caches of weapons?

I can't quite decided what I think of it now. I'm glad that Disney is being proactive with security, however I wish they would have just been honest about it.

I can see my web cams and computers coming into question now for sure!

JMed wrote:

So with this option, as it rolls out to other resorts (Pop) will they stop offering the gift cards I wonder? We took advantage of it last month. Even though we opted out, I still got a call from housekeeping stating "we noticed your DND sign is out if you need anything call us". So, if I opted out and didn't have the sign out, I feel that they would have come in anyway.

I feel like this opt-out thing is probably going to come to an end, especially after that cache of weapons was found in yet another hotel room last week.