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"Do Not Disturb" or "Room Occupied"?

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I put this under leisurely activities because it involves staying at a hotel. If I made a mistake, i apologies and ask it be moved where deemed appropriate.
That being said...

Disney recently was thinking about, or has already instituted eliminating their DO NOT DISTURB door signs with ROOM OCCUPIED signs after the Las Vegas killings and a recent event in Houston. They also feel an employee needs to check each and every room in a 24 hour period to ensure the safety of all hotel occupants. My hotel group has talk about this and are on the fence. I figured, what the heck, why not just ask everyone what they think.

I would like to ask the membership what they think. I am a bit new and do not know how to post a poll as of yet, and am running on empty after a particularly grueling 14 hour night. I will just make tick marks on a pad to record everyone's choice.

DO NOT DISTURB = No one may enter without explicit permission from the guest. This includes housekeeping. Law enforcement, however, can enter with probably cause.

ROOM OCCUPIED = Room must be check by an employee at least once or more in a 24 hour period. The "or more" is a sticky point. Most states also consider your hotel room to be your legal domicile and legal to have firearms in them where otherwise legal in that state. Guest have been known to keep several in their rooms while attending Gun Shows to protect their inventory. An employee might freak out if they are unfamiliar with current laws and see 15 AR-15s laid out on the spare bed.

So, what do you think? Which would you like to see?
I thank you all in advance.
Goodnight for now.
 
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Do not disturb. People get hotel rooms for a variety of reasons, and use them in a variety of times. Back in the day, I used to do inventory for retail operations. This involved getting a team in to count a stores product all night, then getting a hotel room and sleeping all day. Plenty of folks out there still doing this. If someone knocked on my door at any time of day during this time period, I'd have been none to pleased. Hotels are the end all be all of hospitality service...the last bastion of the service sector where I DONT have to jump through hoops, tolerate rude employees, get x-rayed and patted down, or outright watched the entire time I'm there.

Changing that will not make anyone, or anything, any safer. At all. Please don't change.
 
Leave things alone. Just because one person did such and such, doesn't mean we have to turn the world on it's head.

I suppose "Room Occupied" is the same thing. Does "Do not disturb" carry legal rights?
 
Do not disturb.

Even in hotels we typically make our own bed and tidy after ourselves. We don't need housekeeping and like our privacy.
 
Do not disturb.

Even in hotels we typically make our own bed and tidy after ourselves. We don't need housekeeping and like our privacy.

Exactly. When I'm in a hotel....I just want peace, quiet, and to be left alone.
 
Enter my hotel room without permission at your own risk. Some things cannot be unseen.
 
As bad as it was, I don't think singular incident justifies a universal disregard for reasonable privacy. Keep DND
 
Do not disturb.

Even in hotels we typically make our own bed and tidy after ourselves. We don't need housekeeping and like our privacy.

Interesting. Being on the road for thirty years, I always packed up my stuff into my suitcase except what was hanging in the closet. Unless I was staying for a week or more, then I moved in and used the drawers.

I can't understand how people would leave crap laying around for housekeeping to perv on.
 
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Interesting. Being on the road for thirty years, I always packed up my stuff into my suitcase except what was hanging in the closed. Unless I was staying for a week or more, then I moved in and used the drawers.

I can't understand how people would leave crap laying around for housekeeping to perv on.

Me neither. Though for me it has more to do with being anal and not wanting to look at stuff laying all over the place. If I'm only staying one night I might not unpack my things but otherwise I pretty much always do. See comment about being anal :)
 
I will give my full thoughts later when I get to a computer because being in the industry I have quite a bit to day but I must ask first, Valley I'm assuming you're in the industry? Which department do you hail from so I can possibly understand your perspective.
 
I would prefer to keep it the way it is. Do not disturb.
 
People rent rooms for all kinds of reasons.

If I am in there counting money to go buy some old cars, I don't want en employee walking in and seeing what I have.

There are many things I would not want witnessed by a hotel employee.
 
DO NOT DISTURB = No one may enter without explicit permission from the guest. This includes housekeeping. Law enforcement, however, can enter with probably cause.

It depends on how a hotel wants to define it, but DO NOT DISTURB equaling what you say it equals is not correct in my view.

Its an expectation of privacy which does not exist, do not disturb ideally means you, yah know, do not disturb the guest but the room is not their private property, it is the property of the hotel, a hotel representative may enter the room at any time for any reason if they feel they absolutely must or they have any concerns about what may be happening in a room.

The way around this is to update hotel policy, have it in your terms and conditions upon reservation and upon check-in that a guest signs stating that a hotel representative will check their room during certain hours everyday.

Now unless there are legal concerns, US State and Federal I am missing, simply changing words from DO NOT DISTURB to ROOM OCCUPIED I don't think does anything to solve the issue and may create confusion for some guests if its not an industry standard about whether their room will get serviced or not as DO NOT DISTURB is such a well understood staple of the hospitality industry.

But it's the same as after German Wings, on a once off, insane situation no one could have predicted, we're going to implement all these policies such as at no point can there only be one person in the cockpit etc. on something that will probably never happen again, or once again in 50 years time and by that point everyones so lax on procedure it didn't matter in the first place.
 
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