they are not allowed to come in period without your permission. It is assumed that they have that when cleaning IF the DND sign is not out.

I'd change hotels if that ever happened to me and I'd make a scene for a refund. Not ok and against the law.  

Recently I was at a hotel and was sleeping at 10pm. I wake up to the knocking at other doors. Then suddenly the maid walks in. I shoved her out the door and almost slammed the door on her arm. She claims she was checking to make sure the room was clean AT 10pm at night!!! She showed me her list and my room wasn't on it. I left the next morning and lost out on 4 days that I had prepaid. They refused to give me a refund and now they can enjoy my anger. Who the hell checks to make sure rooms got clean at 10pm at night??? Yes, she really was seeing if rooms were clean but it doesn't matter. It is not ok.

It is not ok for them to do that and any good place knows not to. I don't stand for that shit. It is against the law without your permission. I know you can call it in, but seriously you don't want to. All you can do is bitch and ask for a refund, leave nasty reviews, or leave. Got to think of the big picture, know what I mean?

No matter what, IMHO, leave. Ask for a refund or give bad reviews... but at the end of the day, just leave.  

Granted, my hotels of choice are Aria, Vdara, and Signature there, but no.  Same applies in NYC, DC, and just about everywhere else.  I would complain to hotel management if this ever did happen, and to AMEX as well.  

As for room service coming to our room during interludes on multi-hours, we've been in robes a few times, but they didn't bat an eye.

I always do that when I have a client ... They can't use their key and slip past that.  

Hooking 101.

Provider I see quite often tips housekeeping in advance. Latest session was interrupted by someone from housekeeping dropping off a comforter and wasn't quite sure if was ordered by the gal or not. More interested in getting busy again!

My thought was it could be an attempt for more cash from some others of the staff when word of mouth passed down. All this with the sign on the door!

that after a certain time of day they "assume" that guest just forgot to take down the sign because guests get irritated and unreasonable when their room is not serviced. I "assume" that hotels differ on this policy. At any rate there is nothing magic about Do Not Disturb signs, except the way they sometimes magically disappear off a door in the middle of the night.

Fortunately, my date had not arrived yet.

The housekeeper seemed to feel that I was in the wrong room.  I called down to the front desk and they assured me I was in the correct room.  Not sure what the housekeeper's problem was.

Like Tabu says, always keep the door bolted and latched from the inside.

Regardless of why I'm using the room. Any hotel worth its salt should also be taking any transgressions like that very seriously. Luckily, none of the hotels I've been to have ever done it. I've left DND signs up for an entire 2 day stay, without any housekeeping trying to come in "because maybe you forgot to take it down?".  

I had one hotel where I ordered room service, but forgot to take off the DND sign. Room Service actually called down to the front desk while standing in front of my door, and had them ring my room phone to see if I still wanted the room service, or maybe wanted them to come back later. THAT's how a good hotel should be.

If that was in Las Vegas........not only do the doors have double locks..........but there is a physical bar that hooks to a device on the door frame that also prevents unwanted visitors.........whether they have a key or not............

Someone was NOT doing their due diligence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh, that must have been you.

I engage the night chain or flip over lock making sure she sees me do it.  In my own room,  I have a door wedge...  with an alarm.  Set so an opening door will set it off.  Likely the maid would need fresh underwear if she set it off.

I once lived in an oriental hotel for about two months and housekeeping would at times come in even though that sign was on. I don't travel with expensive things for reasons like this, most of the value in my possessions are electronics which are passcode protected and an occasional decent mechanical watch which when im not using goes into a mini personal safe.

Some hotels have a policy (usually in plain black and white somewhere in the room) that if you have the sign up for more than 3 days, they can and will enter without your permission. This is why I don't stay more than 3 days in the same hotel any more, and the morning of the 3rd day I always call and request something before my day 'starts.' I actually had this happen at a Crowne Plaza in Chicago once, and ended up tipping the girl 20 bucks just to go away lol. That works too.

Thanks...

Everyone for sharing obviously others have experienced similar situations.Just thought it was odd

Entertaining the Housekeeper...

It varies by hotel and I guess human error/carelessness by staff. At a Le Meridian I once stayed at out west radioed my late checkout request to housekeeping and I was never bothered. Some 4 stars disappoint on occasion though.

When I first began working in FL at a 3 star hotel, I was with a gentleman on day 2 of my 3 day stay with the do not disturb and latch on the door around 9am. Housekeeping knocked anyway and I raised up to yell 'Please come back later!" Despite this, the door opened as far as the latch would allow and she got an eyeful of me on top riding his face in nothing but thigh highs and heels while reciprocating him orally.

I have never heard a door shut so quickly as I raised up to ask her to leave. I was only seeing him that day, so I figured it would be okay.  

He and I laughed and resumed our fun. All is well that ends well! (At least that time.

It has happened to me a few times till I started putting the lock on the door each and every time.  Tell the manager.  Usually they will give some of your money back or give you free breakfast or dinner.  I hope this helps.

Juliette

Their DND signs are do not disturb on one side and please clean on another..

Any chance you had the please clean sign facing front?

I actually got very upset during a staycation there as I had many things lined up in spots and it was just a... Hmmmm cluttered get organized mess. I came back to the bed made and a total clutter pigpen. I called downstairs very angry. That's when I learned.. I still don't understand why hotels will do that, but I always double check now!
xo

I have spent at least 4 years in hotels in my 30+ years in business and I can count on my finger the times I have been interrupted by a maid.

That being said, given that some of hobby activity goes on during the late morning/early afternoon hours, I would suppose the potential increases significantly

And I've never had that happen, lucky I guess because a few folks have said it's happened to them.

But I have had this happen to me twice, I check in and get my room key, use my room key in the door, and the room is occupied. I'll never forget the first time it happened it was a suite and when you enter the room you enter into the living room, bedroom and bath furthest from the entry, anyway a guy is sitting in the chair in the living room (fortunately working) and in I walk. The look on his face was like "what the fuck" (rightfully so) the look on my face must have been priceless because his expression changed immediately. I marched down to the front desk and they responded correctly and called him immediately to apologize while I waited for to get the correct key to my room. I can only imagine if he had been doing something other than working.