The Truth About Do Not Disturb Signs ⛔ | Hotel Worker Explains
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2023
- Do Not Disturb signs DO NOT guarantee complete and utter privacy in a hotel room... But for a very good reason.
I hope you found this video both educational and entertaining! Do you think I did a good job explaining why hotels do not completely honor the DND sign? Have you ever stayed in a hotel that performs daily wellness checks? Please feel free to share your stories!
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This video just makes me never want to stay at a hotel ever again. I am a person with autism and having someone coming in when I had put the "do not disturb" sign up, would have scared me to a complete panic attack. I only use the sign when I'm in my room and don't want to be disturbed, having that violated would just make me feel unsafe. I would much rather do the inspection like you suggested. I have a big issue with people coming into my room, especially when I am asleep, and that is usually when I put up the sign.
When I was in training for the hotel I was hired at, I learned that luxury hotels are huge targets for sex trafficking because of how pretty they are.
I would rather going through security check and having my bags scanned every time I enter the hotel, than having hotel staffs randomly walk in my room. Please violet my privacy when I am fully dressed and awake!
A "fun" fact! I was for a long time, a single female and I always traveled with a very large dog. Pet friendly hotels only. Security/protection trained dog and necessary for my job. He was never left in the room. I always told the desk clerk and management when I left and when I returned. The word didn't get passed at change of shift at the desk. I was in the bathroom, heard the door open, a muffled shreak, a low woof and a thud. The new head of housekeeping after opening the door saw Champ and fainted from fear. He was in his sit/stay position in the entryway and never moved. She thought that we were still out and was doing room checks after maid service. I called for help and she came to on her own. She was fine and actually "met " Champ and liked him. My dog was a Irish Wolfhound and I miss him very much. He passed 3 yrs ago.
I understand that they can and should come into the room at least once a day regardless of whether I want it cleaned. But here's my problem with this. I had my do not disturb sign on at a hotel in Mexico. The hotel employee just opened the door without knocking. I literally had just come out of the shower and was completely naked and some strange man now is standing there staring at me! I felt so violated. I did go talk to management and let them know what had happened and they said that it was a mistake that the person thought they were reentering a different room bringing something that had been requested by the room next to mine. Three days later it happened again. This time I was dressed. They knocked and then immediately opened the door. No pause in between for me to actually answer. This time I was in the bathroom So I was right next to the door. I realized that there are some problems with trafficking, guns, and other things. But I am sorry there should be a required knocking (More than once) and at least a 15 second pause before letting yourself in to make sure that someone isn't in a state of undress. Nobody has the right to come in and see me naked after my shower. As someone who travels alone pretty frequently this is very disturbing to me.
As a woman travelling solo, i would NOT appreciate any random 'wellness' check. Plus, if youve just gone off to sleep after a 16-hour flight. Sorry, but Do Not Disturb means that to me.
As a victim of rape if someone just entered my room if I was sleeping or changing or whatever that would be traumatic. Hotels need to disclose that. That way I know where to stay and not feel violated.
Make no mistake! The "Wellness Check" is ONLY to check the "Wellness" of the hotel for the hotel. It has very little to do with guest safety but everything to do with liability and litigation.
This is not "perceived as a complete breach of privacy l" it IS a complete breach of privacy. Bad people are everywhere. They are just as likely to be working at the front desk as they are renting a room. Noone will be entering my room while I'm there
This makes me feel even more unsafe than I already do at hotels. 😔
This might have saved my brother’s life. He called off work not feeling well. He then collapsed in his room while working away from home. He died and was lying on the floor a couple days later when work and my sister in law got concerned.
What about Deaf guests? Many hotels only have one or two ADA kits, and they often do not set the devices up correctly, if at all. We won't hear the knock, and a door being opened on us can be pretty scary!
This makes me reconsider ever visiting America. I've never heard of this in European hotels, I sincerely hope it doesn't happen here. It freaks me out when I cannot even have privacy in my own room. "9 times of 10, everyone is innocent, but..." is such a weird way of justifying an invasive practice like this. Surely not even in America 1 out of 10 people stay in hotels because they want to harm someone? Of the millions of people who stay in hotels every year, one started shooting people, and instead of doing something about the core issue (we all know what it is), you guys decide you will now have to make every single person unwell with a violating "wellness check" every single day to make sure they are not planning to commit mass murder in the room?
I've been to many hotels and when I put the sign they don't enter. And the sign normally says "please clean the room/do not need to clean the room", not necessarily "do not disturb".
As much as I hate going through airport checks, I'd take that over "being a nervous wreck over unannounced visitors to my room" any day of the week. Being both autistic, and a sexual assault survivor having the threat of my privacy being invaded is traumatic on 2 fronts. Like this isn't even about the moment "someone enters". Just knowing that someone COULD come and do a "wellness check" at any moment would make me on edge, anxious and probably nauseous for my ENTIRE STAY.
I also feel like the fact that the hotel has a copy of my ID, my credit card on file, and usually my License plate number, means they should trust me enough to not invade my privacy without a valid complaint/concern
Well, I would check my belongings everyday at a hotel if I wasn't in the room for a period of time, because that's a great way for thieves to scope out someone's things and able to steal them.
This is why I travel with my own locks for doors. They make some really nice door jamming devices that make it impossible to easily open a door from the outside.
I recently stayed at an extended stay type hotel. And I had my cat with me. I put the do not disturb sign on the bathroom door so the cat would not escape in case housekeeping came in. of course I let the front desk know that I was doing that each time I left. My cat would try to get out every time I opened up the door when I came back in.
The idea of someone walking in on someone during their intimate time or in the middle of getting dressed, or just getting out of the shower, etc, are all super valid reasons to not like this new rule. Even if I can also understand completely why this would be important for hotels to do. Especially since I was also at a hotel where a guest had died and was not discovered until the next day when they didn't check out. The death was avoidable, and I wondered if someone had done something like a wellness check, if that person would still be alive.