They don't ALL have to be ready at 4PM. People get in late and hopefully tell them that when they check in.
They AREN'T always ready at 4pm TODAY and you're promoting operational changes which would only increase the frequency of late room access??
Every single other hotel I've stayed in has managed to be able to know what rooms they can enter early, except the one that has its tech strapped to me.
The difference with
hotels is they don't need to turn-over every room, every night. When a 200 room Hampton Inn is operating at 75% occupancy (which is actually high for a hotel), they could leave 50 rooms completely uncleaned when the staff leaves for the day--or have them working late into the night--and still have enough capacity to accommodate all new arrivals.
A hotel and a timeshare are two different animals. Especially a Disney timeshare. We both know that Poly and Grand Floridian rent out every single room virtually every night of the year. That
does not happen with a run-of-the-mill Hilton, Marriott or any other chain.
In the past, after Magical Express was eliminated, there was no way to tell DVC you were leaving for the 6AM flight except actually talking to a human in the lobby. It looks like the app fixed that, as I could actually check out online. If that problem has been fixed, why are they still barging into my room early?
The reasonable conclusion is that they are first cleaning rooms from early departures who used the app, and then looking for additional work.
Disney has the cameras of Vegas and their tech strapped to my wrist. It knows where I am all the time and let me know exactly my room status when I got on property in an Uber. And somehow they can't do this in reverse and have to enter my VGF room at 9AM?
You cannot honestly believe this is a thing. That Disney has cameras lining the hallways and uses facial recognition software to ID every guest and track their comings-and-goings? Or that housekeeping staff is outfitted with portable RFID readers which are capable of telling when/who is in a particular guest room?
(BTW, most people have multiple MagicBands these days, plus the app installed in their phone, smartwatch, etc. Only certain devices have a battery-powered active sensor which allows their presence to be detected from a distance. Most only function when physically tapped on a reader.
In other words, there's no useful way to tell which guest is attached to which device. Especially not in a hotel with 1000 rooms, 5000 guests and 20,000 RFID enabled devices.)