I had to clean 7 rooms by myself. Three of them were check outs and the rest were occupied. When doing a checkout room, I have to clean everything. Make the beds, clean the bathroom, dust, vacuum, resupply the soaps/towels, and check for any items that do not belong to the resort. When cleaning an occupied room, I only have to change the sheets if they’re dirty, dust, vacuum, and resupply soaps/towels. Two of the checkouts were on the first floor and everything else was on the third floor.

I cleaned the first checkout, then went to the next, but the Guests were still there. So I went up to the third floor to work on the occupied rooms. There was no one in them which was nice because I don’t want Guests telling me what to do. That all took about 3 hours.

Then…the next room was a checkout. Usually they’re out early. So here’s how it went.
Me: *knock knock knock* housekeeping.

…no answer.

Me: *knock knock knock* housekeeping.

…no answer.

So I start to open the door and I hear:

Guest: NO! GO AWAY!!!!!!!!

So that scares the crap out of me and I run downstairs. I finish the rest of the rooms and do that one last to make sure she’s not there.

I work in the Coronado Springs Resort next to Animal Kingdom. EVERYONE I work with speaks Spanish. They all start jibber jabbering away and I can’t understand them. And I know they talk about me. But anyway, I’m in the housekeeping department and had to clean 8 rooms today. It’s not as easy as I thought it would be. It’s actually like physical labor. I like making the beds, but I do not enjoy cleaning the bathrooms. I worked for 8 and a half hours today and finished all the rooms by 3:00. My scheduled time off was 4:30, so I thought I’d be able to leave early…but I didn’t. We walked around and helped other housekeepers. I finally got off and now I need to sleep!

January 23: Applied and did the web based interview. Got an email right after it to schedule my phone interview.

January 26: Phone interview at 6:30pm. It lasted about twenty minutes. Then got an email thanking me for interviewing.

February 9: ”Congratulations!” email! Housekeeping for Fall 2012.

February 10: Paid $300 fee and signed up for arrival on August 8th.

February 17: Received my Onboarding email, confirming my arrival.

My name is Tony. I have recently been accepted into the Disney College Program for the Fall 2012 season! I am so excited to start my internship with Disney at the Walt Disney World Resort. My arrival date is August 8th. I have been hired as a Housekeeping cast member for one of the hotels.

I would like to meet my fellow cast members. If you are a Housekeeper, message me and tell me about yourself!