I would think 911, if you know it is someone doing the room security check will not look kindly on you. Nor is it something you should do, take away resources from people who truly need them. I hate to think someone is trying to call with a real emergency, but they are backed up because of people not liking a security check they know about in advance, and someone dies because of it.
Don't like the rule, fine. Stay somewhere else. But don't play games that can endanger others. And too many people seem to want to do that.
No guests are playing games by calling 911 when a stranger pounds on the door and forces their way in.
Again the question is this: How do you know for certain that it's a Disney Staffer doing the security checks and barging into your room? We do know there are criminals who pose as police officers or other officials/Employees so
the concern that you are not familiar with who is doing these security checks is legitimate.
Now let's stretch and say that the majority of people staying in a WDW resort room don't read the Dis Boards and are unaware of this new policy. They didn't read deep into the welcome packet, which may or may not be in the room, they did online check in so they bypassed the front desk and they didn't read any emails or texts that may or
may not have been sent to them (Room ready notification text I'm looking at YOU!). Now picture that someone insistently starts knocking on their door AND THEN FORCES THEIR WAY IN
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Do you still think they should NOT call 911?
It's one thing to say that they are doing room checks. It's entirely another thing when a stranger forces their way into your room and starts looking around.
Even if you are told that room checks are happening THEY WAY THEY ARE BEING HANDLED is unnerving and threatening. I am hoping, perhaps in vain, that you could see clear to understanding that.
I'm pretty sure putting a door jammer on your hotel room would violate the standard agreement with the hotel and you would probably get kicked out. Hotel management has to be able to get into the room whether you are in the room or not. I think the reasonable response would be to call the front desk and verify the name of the person trying to gain access to the room.
Also:
I worked at the DRC we don't have a way to connect calls to the resorts.
Re: Malestrom: I'm betting that a door jammer would NOT violate the room contract. You have to let them in but a door jammer would buy you a reasonable amount of time to attempt to establish the legitimacy of the person entering the room. Also, the call center is not an effective way of doing anything quickly at Disney. You may not be aware but this has been experienced and discussed many times on these boards, so many folks that read these boards can verify that fact. You would probably need at least 10 minutes and based on Disney's phone response time, much more time to check and see if this is legitimate.
I'm wondering why the housekeeper couldn't have done a quick peek when they were handing you extra supplies? It seems like they had someone there that could do that check right then and there prior to you all taking a nap.
*And yeah the peek...it's not exactly thorough..
Exactly. Long Peep, short peep, any kind of a "peep" accomplishes nothing except a show of security theater.
We still get back to
ineffective and unnecessarily intrusive with these security checks.
Also I think Dan's Dad wrote "Your best bet would be to skip contacting the Front Desk and call Security directly. The Front Desk would have no idea if Security was really at your door, Security will".
The problem is that security is not doing these checks. It appears that random Housekeeping staff are the ones doing the knocking. I seriously doubt that security will know that CM John Doe is knocking on YOUR door this very minute.
Since this important assignment was left up to the housekeepers I doubt that security is coordinating in real time (or any time for that matter) with the people who are doing the checks. Are the room checkers even wearing radios so they can communicate in case of emergency? If so is security monitoring that band or is it just the housekeeping manager?
It would really be bad if you had this happen and you called security and they just blew you off and said "Yeah, we know that they are doing checks so you have to let the person in", when you are calling them to find out if the person doing the knocking is legitimate. The possibility is small that it would be someone taking advantage of the security theater performance to gain entry into a room, but the possibility exists never the less and that's enough to justify feeling uneasy.
I'm sure there will be someone on this thread that will say 'Show me the Hordes of reports of this happening!!!!".... but again, that is not the point. The point is that these kind of mandatory room intrusions open up the possibility for something like this to happen. This is yet another reason why guests are feeling uncomfortable when they anticipate/experience these "security" intrusions that violate guest privacy for no effective reason.
~NM