I'm not quite sure I understand all the fuss about the turn down service. I get turned down enough at home why would I want to get turned down at Disney?
I guess I should say that some of the things that I ask for at Disney are apparently easy to turn down. I routinely ask for Matthew McConaughey to be waiting in my room at check in but that never happens... At this point I have to wonder if the problem is that Matthew McConaughey waiting in your room is equal to a deluxe amenity and I am staying at Plop Century.
Perhaps if I'm staying at Plop I should be making more reasonable requests, like having Will Ferrell waiting in the room. Is Will Ferrell a value resort request? I could get into a lot of trouble running around WDW with Will Ferrell. I could see the two of us riding around in our Duber donkey carts trying to talk the CM's into letting the donkeys ride Spaceship Earth with us. The donkeys would probably like the Gran Fiesta Tour better but that ride is not worth burning a Fast Pass.
I'd hate to think that if you stay at a Value Resort you can only have someone like Gilbert Gottfried. Can you imaging all the complaining and whining you'd hear from him! "The shampoo bottles are too tiny!". "Now they are too big and screwed into the wall!!" Nope! Nope! Nope.... Not gonna go there. If I'm staying at Plop I'm going to keep my room request to :GROUND FLOOR CLOSE TO TRANSPORTATION:.
That leads me to wonder who I can request if I am staying at a Moderate resort. I'm thinking Matt Damon is a safe bet. He's a solid, dependable kind of guy, not flashy like Matthew McConaughey, who would go running around WDW screaming "ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT!!!" Yep. That Matt Damon is a Moderate Resort request for sure.
The other quandary is who can you request if you are staying at a DVC resort? I have a stay coming up at Saratoga Springs. That's that horsey resort so I should probably ask for somebody who looks good on a horse. I'm gonna go with Antonio Banderas here. Heck... he'd look good riding a
scooter, or even a donkey!!! As a bonus I'm 100% sure that we will have no problem sneaking Rodger the Donkey into the room at Saratoga Springs. Rodger the Donkey would probably be confused for a cast member at Saratoga Springs. People would probably be running up and trying to pose for pictures with the Saratoga Springs donkey. Can you imagine the line for pictures if Antonio Banderas was sitting in the Duber Donkey Cart driven by Rodger the Donkey? Now that would be a good use for a Fast Pass!
We are also going to spend a night at the Polynesian. That's a Johnny Depp resort for sure. We'll probably run into him passed out in the bushes. We'll look for the trail of empty wine boxes so we can zero in on his location. We'll drag him back to the room and prop him up on a chair on the balcony. He will probably sober up by the time the fireworks start. One can only hope...
So there ya go... My room requests all thought out. Every time I walk in the room I get my hopes up only to find an empty room. My request is turned down. That turn down service is one cut I am in favor of Disney making. Perhaps with all the money they are saving from not having to pay Johnny Depp's Bar bill they can bring back a night parade to The Magic Kingdom...
~NM