Posted on 12/27/2017 8:40:22 PM PST by Morgana
Guests at several Walt Disney World resorts will experience tightened security and revised safety policies in the coming weeks.
Disney has already implemented changes at the Grand Floridian, Polynesian and Contemporary resorts near the Magic Kingdom, which include the removal of 'Do Not Disturb' signs.
The signs have been replaced with 'Room Occupied' messages that will tell employees that guests are currently inside the room, but will not stop maintenance and staff from entering.
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I had a friend who worked security at Disney and said that WDW and Disneyland are the #5 terrorist target in the US. The #1 is the Statue of Liberty. I guess they’re trying to delay the inevitable “welcome to Disneyworld, have a magical- oh my God! boooooom dirka dirka
I presume yes - the point, I think, is to try to prevent another Vegas shooting. Some sort of maid service WILL happen every day, at the very least garbage collection. It’s doubly ironic because Disney was testing opting out of maid service over the summer and fall and NEVER does maid service as part of the Disney Vacation Club rooms (timeshares). Now they’ve “added a perk” of maid service to DVC rooms.
Frankly I don’t have a problem with this.
One of those maids walked in on me right as I got out of the shower.
She just stood there staring.
I said,
“Remind you of The Tower of Terror?”
She said,
“No...It’s A Small World.”
They should at least knock, or announce themselves, before entering.
To not do so could get their azzes capped in some instances.
Anyone who puts up with this deserves to be b!tch slapped in front of their kids and called a pu$$y.
And if your kids are able to compel you to go, you deserve it.
If one cannot expect privacy at a hotel, DO NOT CHECK IN.
Not one penny.
Isn’t this a bit absurd?
If they’re really certain something bad is happening from a room, why would a traditional sign stop them? Worried about LV shooting from their rooms? So what, bust down the door!
Otherwise, yeah, don’t just walk in on us.
I walked into my hotel room once, with a cell phone just about to shut down from a dead battery, while I was on a conference call. The maid was cleaning up, and I motioned to her continue, and plugged in my phone. Then watched her in the closet door mirror as she wiped down the the rim of the toilet, the sink, and the inside of the coffee pot, with the same rag -- in that order.
I've never used a hotel coffee pot since, until I have washed the basket and carafe out with soap and water, and run several carafes of water through it.
Hmm, sounds like the typical lefty solution to a problem: punish everyone by making them sacrifice a comfort or privacy expectation. They’ve taken advantage of their screw-up - somehow missing the fact that a guy can fill his hotel room with artillery - and now the average citizen loses another right. Brought to you by the same kind of control freaks who destroyed the enjoyment of flying with the TSA.
It is absurd. Do they expect a maid to walk in to empty trash cans and find a dozen rifles on the bed? You could easily conceal a couple of rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammo in luggage. If this is a security thing, it is useless unless they are going to regularly search luggage and vehicles. Talk about an invasion of privacy. I’ll never visit their overpriced properties.
What I recall was Disneyworld is considered number 2 behind the White House; Disneyland is number five behind Capitol Hill and Time’s Square.
Statue of Liberty is considered a hard target being on an island; if it suddenly jumped to number one, it’s because of specific intelligence.
Tech services had a particular time with these signs; a guest would complain about something broken, the tech would show up to fix it, find a DND, and walk away as policy.
As WDW is a self insured property, it's also financially worth while to take this step. They've had guests with medical issues who were only found after the mandatory welfare check after the DND was on the door after 48 hours. Fighting lawsuits from family after a guest is left injured or passes on is a huge cost to the resort; only takes one of them per month to make this a financially viable choice.
Lastly, it's also a staffing issue; you book in staff to handle so many occupied rooms, a significant portion has DND signs up, which means you're overstaffed. Next day, few DND signs, and you're suddenly understaffed and scrambling.
As for privacy, you're renting a room; if you're really bothered by someone entering, stay somewhere else. Steps taken to help guests, however, include scheduling when ‘Mousekeeping’ won't visit, so if you want to take an afternoon nap, no problem.
“No...It’s A Small World.”
Snicker!
Thanks for planting that song in my head..... I will be there in 3 days!
Politics aside, I love Disney. Fly in, bus here, bus there, bus everywhere. Pools, food, and fun! I love it every time.
I also have no doubt, there are those that would love to do Disney harm... One year my 7 year-old daughter caught a lizard as we approached EPCOT. I told her to let the lizard go before we got insie the park. She stopped and set it on the side of the sidewalk in the greenery. As I looked back to tell her to come on, I saw security approaching the area she set the lizard down with a dog.
I have no idea where they came from, but being former military, I said, they are all over their OPSEC...
If they do that well, they can mess up Trump at the Hall of Presidents. I give them that!
>>Some sort of maid service WILL happen every day, at the very least garbage collection.
Which means never leaving stray cash on a countertop as you empty your pockets. Staff will steal paper money claiming they thought it was a tip (but strangely enough they never take the pocket coins).
Have they ever established a timeline of when the windows in Vegas were busted out, when the hotel security arrived, when the shooting began, and when the shooter died?
I know that they clamped down on info but determining when the windows were smashed out (before or after security) would help. Certainly with all of the cameras and devices in Vegas, it should be something that can be determined.
And if a hotel guest busts out his windows in Disney resorts, something not so good is probably going to happen (even if it is just what passes for a rock star these days throwing furniture out the window).
Well if they are gonna knock first then all you need is a special box to hank on the door knob. When someone knocks then it produces the sound of a large vicious dog.
When I travel on business, I simply put the “Do Not Disturb” sign up when I get in and don’t take it down for the next week. I do fine when I’m alone at home for a week without strangers keying in, so I don’t see much use for strangers coming in when I travel.
And no, I don’t set up up my room to go on a shooting spree...I just don’t really need people combing through my place.
But Disney can do as they wish, and I’ll try to keep track of which companies are willing to respect my privacy a bit by not forcing their way into my (temporary) residence.
...and on that note, AirBnB seems to work well - never had to deal with with people keying into those places, and rented many.
I hate to break the news to Disney, but unless they plan to also rifle through luggage and garment bags, they are not going to prevent another Vegas shooting. And even if they do, something on a smaller scale will still be a piece of cake with just a 3 or so trips to load up.
The way to prevent these killings is to not set up venues where 20,000 people are sitting ducks to people who rent rooms overlooking them. In other words, use some COMMON SENSE.
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