Yeah I don’t get this. I don’t think people thought it was a big conspiracy! It seems like people were frustrated that improving housekeeping service wasn’t being prioritized like expected, especially when they saw many other hotels were doing much better on this issue. Plus that Disney didn’t seem to be adjusting any prices given the lower service. Those seemed to be the main beefs as far as I could tell! That’s not conspiratorial thinking. For me at least, housekeeping is one of the things that can make hotels more appealing than airbnbs. There are a lot less convenient aspects about paying for hotels IMO (smaller space, reduced ability to prepare own meals, etc) but pros are usually more convenience to stuff and that someone helps keeps the place clean while you’re out!
At some of the resorts, yes, with others coming online as staffing continues to increase.
The conspiracy theory is that Disney did this on purpose as a secret scheme to save money. People refuse to acknowledge the reality on the ground despite almost daily articles from every major media outlet about the nationwide labor shortage.
At SOME of the resorts. That is hardly “returned” in my book.
I don’t understand—is the contention that Disney is not interested in saving money by skimping on housekeeping? I thought their pre-Covid policy of offering gift cards for declining housekeeping made that pretty evident! Reduction of housekeeping is a pretty straightforward way of reducing costs—I don’t think this is a secret.
There's no magic switch. If it takes 25% staffing levels to even open a resort at the bare minimum and 100% staffing levels to have daily housekeeping back at all resorts, there's going to be a transition period when they're ramping up at 50, 60, 70, 80, 90%.
The contention is that Disney is not interested in saving money by removing housekeeping as a basic service included with everyone's hotel stay unless they opt-out.
The two have nothing to do with one another.
Closing Epcot would be a pretty straightforward way of reducing costs too. That doesn't mean they want to.
We tipped on our trip 2 weeks ago at the BWI. We did get it every day.
None of that is correct. They have absolutely offered aggressive hiring bonuses and they have also increased wages across the board, both for new hires and existing staff. That's the only reason they've been even to make the little progress they have. But there are limits. They're not going to pay housekeepers $90,000 just so you get your bed made every night.
People are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts.
Did you get housekeeping daily because you tipped? Or did every room get housekeeping?
Thanks for this, I totally agree. OP’s initial post is actually pretty mild—it relayed their specific experience and said they were disappointed because they didn’t realize housekeeping was so poor, and that it compared unfavorably to other recently visited hotels. To immediately try to dismiss OP’s opinion by saying they should’ve known and that they were informed several times about this (when OP said they specifically weren’t!) was surprising to me. I know from my end at least, I don’t have any info about housekeeping in my confirmation emails and I only read about it online after I had booked the hotel.
Currently club level rooms are getting daily housekeeping. She posted it prior. I also have had cl says and daily cleaning is nice but I sure miss the whole thing. I especially miss turn down! Chocolates and bed turned down, trash taken, I was willing to pay for that. Now I have moved to mods.
