Disney World: Trade offs of staying on property vs off

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve stayed in all the monorail resorts and Animal Kingdom. Pros and cons to each. I wouldn’t stay off property because it’s nice to take a break and go back without losing tons of time in transit.

1. GF - the nicest but agree with posters saying it’s priced like a Ritz but the rooms feels like a Hilton. Pros were great Christmas decorations and better food in the casual sit down restaurant.
2. Polynesian- rooms are meh but kids loved the pools, dole whip and Oahano restaurant.
3. Contemporary- IMO most convenient as you can walk to the park or monorail, food is bad except the top floor fine dining restaurant. Pools are good.
4. Animal Kingdom - great lobby, common areas, rooms nicer than other places, food the best, pools great. The big downside was the shuttle bus. So annoying as you are in a long line but no matter how close you get to the front a fat person on a scooter will roll up with 8 relatives jumping the line. Never stayed here again after 4 days and nights of this nonsense.

All of these mean you’ll have daily room inspections at whatever time Disney decides they want to enter your room.

??? If you get housekeeping like a normal person it’s just part of that. It’s never been an issue for us.

If you rent DVC points, you don’t have daily housekeeping.

Regardless the housekeeping is done differently than at other hotels and they too will come in even with a DND sign for the room check. So even if you are napping with a DND sign, housekeeping will still enter.

This is so weird. We’ve never noticed because getting the housekeeping, someone else making beds is one of the things I like on vacation. Are they doing this to try to figure out if extra people are staying in the room? I can’t imagine why a daily inspection would be needed or cost effective.

It’s a security measure to make sure there isn’t a whack assembling a bunch of weapons (think Las Vegas shooting.) Disney World is a huge target for potential mass casualty events.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve stayed in all the monorail resorts and Animal Kingdom. Pros and cons to each. I wouldn’t stay off property because it’s nice to take a break and go back without losing tons of time in transit.

1. GF - the nicest but agree with posters saying it’s priced like a Ritz but the rooms feels like a Hilton. Pros were great Christmas decorations and better food in the casual sit down restaurant.
2. Polynesian- rooms are meh but kids loved the pools, dole whip and Oahano restaurant.
3. Contemporary- IMO most convenient as you can walk to the park or monorail, food is bad except the top floor fine dining restaurant. Pools are good.
4. Animal Kingdom - great lobby, common areas, rooms nicer than other places, food the best, pools great. The big downside was the shuttle bus. So annoying as you are in a long line but no matter how close you get to the front a fat person on a scooter will roll up with 8 relatives jumping the line. Never stayed here again after 4 days and nights of this nonsense.

All of these mean you’ll have daily room inspections at whatever time Disney decides they want to enter your room.

??? If you get housekeeping like a normal person it’s just part of that. It’s never been an issue for us.

If you rent DVC points, you don’t have daily housekeeping.

Regardless the housekeeping is done differently than at other hotels and they too will come in even with a DND sign for the room check. So even if you are napping with a DND sign, housekeeping will still enter.

This is so weird. We’ve never noticed because getting the housekeeping, someone else making beds is one of the things I like on vacation. Are they doing this to try to figure out if extra people are staying in the room? I can’t imagine why a daily inspection would be needed or cost effective.

It’s a security measure to make sure there isn’t a whack assembling a bunch of weapons (think Las Vegas shooting.) Disney World is a huge target for potential mass casualty events.

This. They don’t care if you are messy or haw sleeping bags on the floor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve stayed in all the monorail resorts and Animal Kingdom. Pros and cons to each. I wouldn’t stay off property because it’s nice to take a break and go back without losing tons of time in transit.

1. GF - the nicest but agree with posters saying it’s priced like a Ritz but the rooms feels like a Hilton. Pros were great Christmas decorations and better food in the casual sit down restaurant.
2. Polynesian- rooms are meh but kids loved the pools, dole whip and Oahano restaurant.
3. Contemporary- IMO most convenient as you can walk to the park or monorail, food is bad except the top floor fine dining restaurant. Pools are good.
4. Animal Kingdom - great lobby, common areas, rooms nicer than other places, food the best, pools great. The big downside was the shuttle bus. So annoying as you are in a long line but no matter how close you get to the front a fat person on a scooter will roll up with 8 relatives jumping the line. Never stayed here again after 4 days and nights of this nonsense.

All of these mean you’ll have daily room inspections at whatever time Disney decides they want to enter your room.

The doors have those things that keep them from opening all of the way anyway...

Of course but it’s still alarming to have someone try to enter your room. If you have the door jam on, they will then call your room to let you know they need to perform the inspection. This typically wakes up sleeping kids or is a PIA if you’re trying to shower, get ready etc.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve stayed in all the monorail resorts and Animal Kingdom. Pros and cons to each. I wouldn’t stay off property because it’s nice to take a break and go back without losing tons of time in transit.

1. GF - the nicest but agree with posters saying it’s priced like a Ritz but the rooms feels like a Hilton. Pros were great Christmas decorations and better food in the casual sit down restaurant.
2. Polynesian- rooms are meh but kids loved the pools, dole whip and Oahano restaurant.
3. Contemporary- IMO most convenient as you can walk to the park or monorail, food is bad except the top floor fine dining restaurant. Pools are good.
4. Animal Kingdom - great lobby, common areas, rooms nicer than other places, food the best, pools great. The big downside was the shuttle bus. So annoying as you are in a long line but no matter how close you get to the front a fat person on a scooter will roll up with 8 relatives jumping the line. Never stayed here again after 4 days and nights of this nonsense.

All of these mean you’ll have daily room inspections at whatever time Disney decides they want to enter your room.

??? If you get housekeeping like a normal person it’s just part of that. It’s never been an issue for us.

If you rent DVC points, you don’t have daily housekeeping.

Regardless the housekeeping is done differently than at other hotels and they too will come in even with a DND sign for the room check. So even if you are napping with a DND sign, housekeeping will still enter.

This is so weird. We’ve never noticed because getting the housekeeping, someone else making beds is one of the things I like on vacation. Are they doing this to try to figure out if extra people are staying in the room? I can’t imagine why a daily inspection would be needed or cost effective.

It’s a security measure to make sure there isn’t a whack assembling a bunch of weapons (think Las Vegas shooting.) Disney World is a huge target for potential mass casualty events.

Seems like having cleaning ladies cosplaying as security guards and peeking behind curtains is security theatre. Legit security requires monitoring and metal detectors. I’d prefer a metal detector to enter the hotel than having someone enter my room daily to casually inspect it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Downside of staying onsite are the mandatory daily room safety inspections

Even if you have a deadbolt and DND sign, Disney will have staff enter your room to inspect it. They don’t care if your kids are napping or showering. Entire threads on Reddit about people who have been barged in on.

Biggest downside to this is for sleeping kids. Even with a door stopper someone knocking and trying to open the door will likely wake a sleeping kid. They will also proceed to call you as if you’re up to no good in your room and it needs to be entered asap.

I also dislike being on vacation but not being able to reliably nap or have sex because someone might come in on me at any time.

If you’re at the park all day and not getting back until the afternoon you likely won’t even notice this. But if you want to nap with young kids it’s a problem.

I spent $10,600 to stay at the Poly and had Disney staff barge in when my daughter was showing. She came out naked into the room and the person didn’t even care and proceeded to do this weird check around the room including looking behind curtains.

If you’re a sexual assault victim or understandably concerned about being alone with a stranger in their room, this will bother you.

Disney fanatics claims other hotels do this but I’ve traveled all around the world and never experienced having hotel staff enter my room to perform an inspection.

Seems like a huge safety risk as last time this happened my child was sleeping and my husband thought someone was breaking into the room. He could have tried to attack the hotel staff over self defense and eventually someone will do this. I don’t see how cleaning staff are trained security guards or have the proper training to be checking for trafficking or weapons. It’s all security theatre.

Four Seasons doesn’t do this.

I have stayed at WDW many, many times and this has never happened to us.

It’s happened every day but you weren’t in the room. If you’re away at the parks all day you won’t notice it. But if you have kids who nap, it’s a major disruption. Or if you’re just unlucky and stay back in the room and get out of the shower and a Disney employee is in your room, or at best you hear someone trying to get in your room and know your kids are at the park.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downside of staying onsite are the mandatory daily room safety inspections

Even if you have a deadbolt and DND sign, Disney will have staff enter your room to inspect it. They don’t care if your kids are napping or showering. Entire threads on Reddit about people who have been barged in on.

Biggest downside to this is for sleeping kids. Even with a door stopper someone knocking and trying to open the door will likely wake a sleeping kid. They will also proceed to call you as if you’re up to no good in your room and it needs to be entered asap.

I also dislike being on vacation but not being able to reliably nap or have sex because someone might come in on me at any time.

If you’re at the park all day and not getting back until the afternoon you likely won’t even notice this. But if you want to nap with young kids it’s a problem.

I spent $10,600 to stay at the Poly and had Disney staff barge in when my daughter was showing. She came out naked into the room and the person didn’t even care and proceeded to do this weird check around the room including looking behind curtains.

If you’re a sexual assault victim or understandably concerned about being alone with a stranger in their room, this will bother you.

Disney fanatics claims other hotels do this but I’ve traveled all around the world and never experienced having hotel staff enter my room to perform an inspection.

Seems like a huge safety risk as last time this happened my child was sleeping and my husband thought someone was breaking into the room. He could have tried to attack the hotel staff over self defense and eventually someone will do this. I don’t see how cleaning staff are trained security guards or have the proper training to be checking for trafficking or weapons. It’s all security theatre.

Four Seasons doesn’t do this.

I have stayed at WDW many, many times and this has never happened to us.

It’s happened every day but you weren’t in the room. If you’re away at the parks all day you won’t notice it. But if you have kids who nap, it’s a major disruption. Or if you’re just unlucky and stay back in the room and get out of the shower and a Disney employee is in your room, or at best you hear someone trying to get in your room and know your kids are at the park.

You sound hysterical

Answer the door. Tell them to please be quiet while they do their check.

It's not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downside of staying onsite are the mandatory daily room safety inspections

Even if you have a deadbolt and DND sign, Disney will have staff enter your room to inspect it. They don’t care if your kids are napping or showering. Entire threads on Reddit about people who have been barged in on.

Biggest downside to this is for sleeping kids. Even with a door stopper someone knocking and trying to open the door will likely wake a sleeping kid. They will also proceed to call you as if you’re up to no good in your room and it needs to be entered asap.

I also dislike being on vacation but not being able to reliably nap or have sex because someone might come in on me at any time.

If you’re at the park all day and not getting back until the afternoon you likely won’t even notice this. But if you want to nap with young kids it’s a problem.

I spent $10,600 to stay at the Poly and had Disney staff barge in when my daughter was showing. She came out naked into the room and the person didn’t even care and proceeded to do this weird check around the room including looking behind curtains.

If you’re a sexual assault victim or understandably concerned about being alone with a stranger in their room, this will bother you.

Disney fanatics claims other hotels do this but I’ve traveled all around the world and never experienced having hotel staff enter my room to perform an inspection.

Seems like a huge safety risk as last time this happened my child was sleeping and my husband thought someone was breaking into the room. He could have tried to attack the hotel staff over self defense and eventually someone will do this. I don’t see how cleaning staff are trained security guards or have the proper training to be checking for trafficking or weapons. It’s all security theatre.

Four Seasons doesn’t do this.

I have stayed at WDW many, many times and this has never happened to us.

It’s happened every day but you weren’t in the room. If you’re away at the parks all day you won’t notice it. But if you have kids who nap, it’s a major disruption. Or if you’re just unlucky and stay back in the room and get out of the shower and a Disney employee is in your room, or at best you hear someone trying to get in your room and know your kids are at the park.

You sound hysterical

Answer the door. Tell them to please be quiet while they do their check.

It's not a big deal.

+1. She sounds insane and also is derailing the thread with her off topic ranting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downside of staying onsite are the mandatory daily room safety inspections

Even if you have a deadbolt and DND sign, Disney will have staff enter your room to inspect it. They don’t care if your kids are napping or showering. Entire threads on Reddit about people who have been barged in on.

Biggest downside to this is for sleeping kids. Even with a door stopper someone knocking and trying to open the door will likely wake a sleeping kid. They will also proceed to call you as if you’re up to no good in your room and it needs to be entered asap.

I also dislike being on vacation but not being able to reliably nap or have sex because someone might come in on me at any time.

If you’re at the park all day and not getting back until the afternoon you likely won’t even notice this. But if you want to nap with young kids it’s a problem.

I spent $10,600 to stay at the Poly and had Disney staff barge in when my daughter was showing. She came out naked into the room and the person didn’t even care and proceeded to do this weird check around the room including looking behind curtains.

If you’re a sexual assault victim or understandably concerned about being alone with a stranger in their room, this will bother you.

Disney fanatics claims other hotels do this but I’ve traveled all around the world and never experienced having hotel staff enter my room to perform an inspection.

Seems like a huge safety risk as last time this happened my child was sleeping and my husband thought someone was breaking into the room. He could have tried to attack the hotel staff over self defense and eventually someone will do this. I don’t see how cleaning staff are trained security guards or have the proper training to be checking for trafficking or weapons. It’s all security theatre.

Four Seasons doesn’t do this.

I have stayed at WDW many, many times and this has never happened to us.

It’s happened every day but you weren’t in the room. If you’re away at the parks all day you won’t notice it. But if you have kids who nap, it’s a major disruption. Or if you’re just unlucky and stay back in the room and get out of the shower and a Disney employee is in your room, or at best you hear someone trying to get in your room and know your kids are at the park.

You sound hysterical

Answer the door. Tell them to please be quiet while they do their check.

It's not a big deal.

Have you ever had a sleeping toddler who needs a nap? I can’t imagine spending $1k a night and really not minding that hotel come into your room and “inspect” it. This would absolutely wake my child and is plain bizarre.

Go to Reddit and find the posts about the women who have come out of the shower to find a Disney employee in their hotel room. Really. Go tell them that they are hysterical. One man went on a walk and while he was gone his underage daughter had a male employee enter the room and see her nude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downside of staying onsite are the mandatory daily room safety inspections

Even if you have a deadbolt and DND sign, Disney will have staff enter your room to inspect it. They don’t care if your kids are napping or showering. Entire threads on Reddit about people who have been barged in on.

Biggest downside to this is for sleeping kids. Even with a door stopper someone knocking and trying to open the door will likely wake a sleeping kid. They will also proceed to call you as if you’re up to no good in your room and it needs to be entered asap.

I also dislike being on vacation but not being able to reliably nap or have sex because someone might come in on me at any time.

If you’re at the park all day and not getting back until the afternoon you likely won’t even notice this. But if you want to nap with young kids it’s a problem.

I spent $10,600 to stay at the Poly and had Disney staff barge in when my daughter was showing. She came out naked into the room and the person didn’t even care and proceeded to do this weird check around the room including looking behind curtains.

If you’re a sexual assault victim or understandably concerned about being alone with a stranger in their room, this will bother you.

Disney fanatics claims other hotels do this but I’ve traveled all around the world and never experienced having hotel staff enter my room to perform an inspection.

Seems like a huge safety risk as last time this happened my child was sleeping and my husband thought someone was breaking into the room. He could have tried to attack the hotel staff over self defense and eventually someone will do this. I don’t see how cleaning staff are trained security guards or have the proper training to be checking for trafficking or weapons. It’s all security theatre.

Four Seasons doesn’t do this.

I have stayed at WDW many, many times and this has never happened to us.

It’s happened every day but you weren’t in the room. If you’re away at the parks all day you won’t notice it. But if you have kids who nap, it’s a major disruption. Or if you’re just unlucky and stay back in the room and get out of the shower and a Disney employee is in your room, or at best you hear someone trying to get in your room and know your kids are at the park.

You sound hysterical

Answer the door. Tell them to please be quiet while they do their check.

It's not a big deal.

+1. She sounds insane and also is derailing the thread with her off topic ranting.

It’s not off topic. If you stay off property you don’t have to deal with the inspections. Your kids can nap, you can have sex, etc and not worry about a Disney employee knocking on your door mid-day for an inspection.

[Anonymous]

Wow Disney threads always get derailed but this one is the weirdest!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downside of staying onsite are the mandatory daily room safety inspections

Even if you have a deadbolt and DND sign, Disney will have staff enter your room to inspect it. They don’t care if your kids are napping or showering. Entire threads on Reddit about people who have been barged in on.

Biggest downside to this is for sleeping kids. Even with a door stopper someone knocking and trying to open the door will likely wake a sleeping kid. They will also proceed to call you as if you’re up to no good in your room and it needs to be entered asap.

I also dislike being on vacation but not being able to reliably nap or have sex because someone might come in on me at any time.

If you’re at the park all day and not getting back until the afternoon you likely won’t even notice this. But if you want to nap with young kids it’s a problem.

I spent $10,600 to stay at the Poly and had Disney staff barge in when my daughter was showing. She came out naked into the room and the person didn’t even care and proceeded to do this weird check around the room including looking behind curtains.

If you’re a sexual assault victim or understandably concerned about being alone with a stranger in their room, this will bother you.

Disney fanatics claims other hotels do this but I’ve traveled all around the world and never experienced having hotel staff enter my room to perform an inspection.

Seems like a huge safety risk as last time this happened my child was sleeping and my husband thought someone was breaking into the room. He could have tried to attack the hotel staff over self defense and eventually someone will do this. I don’t see how cleaning staff are trained security guards or have the proper training to be checking for trafficking or weapons. It’s all security theatre.

Four Seasons doesn’t do this.

I have stayed at WDW many, many times and this has never happened to us.

It’s happened every day but you weren’t in the room. If you’re away at the parks all day you won’t notice it. But if you have kids who nap, it’s a major disruption. Or if you’re just unlucky and stay back in the room and get out of the shower and a Disney employee is in your room, or at best you hear someone trying to get in your room and know your kids are at the park.

You sound hysterical

Answer the door. Tell them to please be quiet while they do their check.

It's not a big deal.

+1. She sounds insane and also is derailing the thread with her off topic ranting.

It’s not off topic. If you stay off property you don’t have to deal with the inspections. Your kids can nap, you can have sex, etc and not worry about a Disney employee knocking on your door mid-day for an inspection.

Keep your weirdo kinks and self off property. This seems like the best solution.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve stayed in all the monorail resorts and Animal Kingdom. Pros and cons to each. I wouldn’t stay off property because it’s nice to take a break and go back without losing tons of time in transit.

1. GF - the nicest but agree with posters saying it’s priced like a Ritz but the rooms feels like a Hilton. Pros were great Christmas decorations and better food in the casual sit down restaurant.
2. Polynesian- rooms are meh but kids loved the pools, dole whip and Oahano restaurant.
3. Contemporary- IMO most convenient as you can walk to the park or monorail, food is bad except the top floor fine dining restaurant. Pools are good.
4. Animal Kingdom - great lobby, common areas, rooms nicer than other places, food the best, pools great. The big downside was the shuttle bus. So annoying as you are in a long line but no matter how close you get to the front a fat person on a scooter will roll up with 8 relatives jumping the line. Never stayed here again after 4 days and nights of this nonsense.

All of these mean you’ll have daily room inspections at whatever time Disney decides they want to enter your room.

??? If you get housekeeping like a normal person it’s just part of that. It’s never been an issue for us.

If you rent DVC points, you don’t have daily housekeeping.

Regardless the housekeeping is done differently than at other hotels and they too will come in even with a DND sign for the room check. So even if you are napping with a DND sign, housekeeping will still enter.

This is so weird. We’ve never noticed because getting the housekeeping, someone else making beds is one of the things I like on vacation. Are they doing this to try to figure out if extra people are staying in the room? I can’t imagine why a daily inspection would be needed or cost effective.

It’s a security measure to make sure there isn’t a whack assembling a bunch of weapons (think Las Vegas shooting.) Disney World is a huge target for potential mass casualty events.

I know this is Disney’s “cover” for doing these checks, but based on what I’ve seen on these same message boards, I doubt this is the real reason. People are always asking if they can cram more bodies into these rooms or bring cooking appliances to save money.

I shudder every time I see someone post a picture of a value resort room with blow up mattresses and scooters and furniture blocking the door. If that lithium ion battery overheats - which is NOT a rare occurrence - that whole overcrowded room will die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downside of staying onsite are the mandatory daily room safety inspections

Even if you have a deadbolt and DND sign, Disney will have staff enter your room to inspect it. They don’t care if your kids are napping or showering. Entire threads on Reddit about people who have been barged in on.

Biggest downside to this is for sleeping kids. Even with a door stopper someone knocking and trying to open the door will likely wake a sleeping kid. They will also proceed to call you as if you’re up to no good in your room and it needs to be entered asap.

I also dislike being on vacation but not being able to reliably nap or have sex because someone might come in on me at any time.

If you’re at the park all day and not getting back until the afternoon you likely won’t even notice this. But if you want to nap with young kids it’s a problem.

I spent $10,600 to stay at the Poly and had Disney staff barge in when my daughter was showing. She came out naked into the room and the person didn’t even care and proceeded to do this weird check around the room including looking behind curtains.

If you’re a sexual assault victim or understandably concerned about being alone with a stranger in their room, this will bother you.

Disney fanatics claims other hotels do this but I’ve traveled all around the world and never experienced having hotel staff enter my room to perform an inspection.

Seems like a huge safety risk as last time this happened my child was sleeping and my husband thought someone was breaking into the room. He could have tried to attack the hotel staff over self defense and eventually someone will do this. I don’t see how cleaning staff are trained security guards or have the proper training to be checking for trafficking or weapons. It’s all security theatre.

Four Seasons doesn’t do this.

I have stayed at WDW many, many times and this has never happened to us.

It’s happened every day but you weren’t in the room. If you’re away at the parks all day you won’t notice it. But if you have kids who nap, it’s a major disruption. Or if you’re just unlucky and stay back in the room and get out of the shower and a Disney employee is in your room, or at best you hear someone trying to get in your room and know your kids are at the park.

You sound hysterical

Answer the door. Tell them to please be quiet while they do their check.

It's not a big deal.

+1. She sounds insane and also is derailing the thread with her off topic ranting.

It’s not off topic. If you stay off property you don’t have to deal with the inspections. Your kids can nap, you can have sex, etc and not worry about a Disney employee knocking on your door mid-day for an inspection.

Keep your weirdo kinks and self off property. This seems like the best solution.

Yes kids napping and having sex with your spouse is absolutely a kink.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve stayed in all the monorail resorts and Animal Kingdom. Pros and cons to each. I wouldn’t stay off property because it’s nice to take a break and go back without losing tons of time in transit.

1. GF - the nicest but agree with posters saying it’s priced like a Ritz but the rooms feels like a Hilton. Pros were great Christmas decorations and better food in the casual sit down restaurant.
2. Polynesian- rooms are meh but kids loved the pools, dole whip and Oahano restaurant.
3. Contemporary- IMO most convenient as you can walk to the park or monorail, food is bad except the top floor fine dining restaurant. Pools are good.
4. Animal Kingdom - great lobby, common areas, rooms nicer than other places, food the best, pools great. The big downside was the shuttle bus. So annoying as you are in a long line but no matter how close you get to the front a fat person on a scooter will roll up with 8 relatives jumping the line. Never stayed here again after 4 days and nights of this nonsense.

All of these mean you’ll have daily room inspections at whatever time Disney decides they want to enter your room.

??? If you get housekeeping like a normal person it’s just part of that. It’s never been an issue for us.

If you rent DVC points, you don’t have daily housekeeping.

Regardless the housekeeping is done differently than at other hotels and they too will come in even with a DND sign for the room check. So even if you are napping with a DND sign, housekeeping will still enter.

This is so weird. We’ve never noticed because getting the housekeeping, someone else making beds is one of the things I like on vacation. Are they doing this to try to figure out if extra people are staying in the room? I can’t imagine why a daily inspection would be needed or cost effective.

It’s a security measure to make sure there isn’t a whack assembling a bunch of weapons (think Las Vegas shooting.) Disney World is a huge target for potential mass casualty events.

I know this is Disney’s “cover” for doing these checks, but based on what I’ve seen on these same message boards, I doubt this is the real reason. People are always asking if they can cram more bodies into these rooms or bring cooking appliances to save money.

I shudder every time I see someone post a picture of a value resort room with blow up mattresses and scooters and furniture blocking the door. If that lithium ion battery overheats - which is NOT a rare occurrence - that whole overcrowded room will die.

Except when they do the checks, they aren’t counting bodies. It’s a very quick check that’s cursory and while it wakes up napping kids, I don’t see what they would really discover in the 2-3 minutes they are in the room. When they did my check, they walked from the door to the bedroom (we were in a suite) turned on all the lights, looked behind the curtains and in the shower and then left.

Sometimes they lie about the checks and claim to be replacing lightbulbs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downside of staying onsite are the mandatory daily room safety inspections

Even if you have a deadbolt and DND sign, Disney will have staff enter your room to inspect it. They don’t care if your kids are napping or showering. Entire threads on Reddit about people who have been barged in on.

Biggest downside to this is for sleeping kids. Even with a door stopper someone knocking and trying to open the door will likely wake a sleeping kid. They will also proceed to call you as if you’re up to no good in your room and it needs to be entered asap.

I also dislike being on vacation but not being able to reliably nap or have sex because someone might come in on me at any time.

If you’re at the park all day and not getting back until the afternoon you likely won’t even notice this. But if you want to nap with young kids it’s a problem.

I spent $10,600 to stay at the Poly and had Disney staff barge in when my daughter was showing. She came out naked into the room and the person didn’t even care and proceeded to do this weird check around the room including looking behind curtains.

If you’re a sexual assault victim or understandably concerned about being alone with a stranger in their room, this will bother you.

Disney fanatics claims other hotels do this but I’ve traveled all around the world and never experienced having hotel staff enter my room to perform an inspection.

Seems like a huge safety risk as last time this happened my child was sleeping and my husband thought someone was breaking into the room. He could have tried to attack the hotel staff over self defense and eventually someone will do this. I don’t see how cleaning staff are trained security guards or have the proper training to be checking for trafficking or weapons. It’s all security theatre.

Four Seasons doesn’t do this.

I have stayed at WDW many, many times and this has never happened to us.

It’s happened every day but you weren’t in the room. If you’re away at the parks all day you won’t notice it. But if you have kids who nap, it’s a major disruption. Or if you’re just unlucky and stay back in the room and get out of the shower and a Disney employee is in your room, or at best you hear someone trying to get in your room and know your kids are at the park.

You sound hysterical

Answer the door. Tell them to please be quiet while they do their check.

It's not a big deal.

+1. She sounds insane and also is derailing the thread with her off topic ranting.

It’s not off topic. If you stay off property you don’t have to deal with the inspections. Your kids can nap, you can have sex, etc and not worry about a Disney employee knocking on your door mid-day for an inspection.

Keep your weirdo kinks and self off property. This seems like the best solution.

Yes kids napping and having sex with your spouse is absolutely a kink.

You can schedule the check! I’ve said this repeatedly. You just don’t want them to come ever.