Tips on how you keep your Hotel room organized.

[BaseballMoM2007]

There will be 4 of us in a room at AS Sports next month and I am stressing about where to keep all of our stuff any tips on how you keep your things better organized. I am thinking a pop up hamper, maybe a couple of sweater things that hang in closet, extra hangers, and a plastic shoe organizer. Is that overboard? We will be there for a baseball tournament plus vacation and will have extra stuff we don't normally have.

 

[MinnieMSue]

Call housekeeping and they will bring extra hangers - don't pack your own. Pop up hamper is very handy. We have a hanging toiletry bag for the hook on bathroom door (or could go on closet area bar). Hanging shoe bag if the hooks that go over door are very flat - if they are too big it won't let the door shut. You can put toiletries in that.

 

[tlcdoula]

I am with you, I can't stand the room to be messy. Digging for things drives me crazy. I tried using travel cubes to keep my cloths in side my suitcase they worked great. I put all my shirts in one, shorts in another etc and you can even put them on hangers and zip around the hanger then take them out and hang them right in the closet. I always pack a shoe organizer and hang it on the back of the door, all the small items can stay in there.

Have a great trip!!!

 

[Jadyreen1282]

Bring a hanging shoe organizer for your things. They work great for odds and end.

 

[Babsy]

WE LOVE travel packing cubes. We keep everything organized in those and live out of the suitcase. No packing/unpacking except toiletries and laundry (we bring a laundry (small foldable duffel) 'bag' - goes to the laundromat or home in that duffle).

 

[AllieBoo]

Definitely a pop up hamper! We bring one or two every trip. I also have a hanging toiletry bag for the bathroom.

 

[biminibigblue]

We have stayed with 4 in an All-Star room a couple times. I am totally crazed when it comes to keeping hotel rooms organized! I always bring 2 pop-up fabric bins (from the dollar store). One goes on the bathroom vanity for gathering all of our toothbrushes, toiletries, etc. Not only is everything not spread all over the counter but mousekeeping only has to move one thing to clean up the area. The second bin goes on the little dining table and catches all of our chargers, magic bands, and other loose items. The pop-up hamper is great for laundry. What helps us most of all is taking a few minutes on arrival day to make sure everybody knows where everything goes. We always designate one spot for shoes (right under the window in an AS room), one spot where any souvenirs go (usually top rack of the closet area), a place where snacks go, and so on. Another thing I always bring are magnetic chip clips. We find a new use for these every trip, like closing curtains tight, posting info on the back of the room door, gathering wires, closing up half-eaten snacks... so many uses!

 

[Nancyg56]

I have a fabric travel osmotic bag thing that I put all of my cosmetics and toiletries in. It has a little handle on it so taking it to and from the vanity is easy. I store it right n top of my suitcase, which I keep upright right under my hanging clothes. I put a large plastic bag in my suitcase and as I use clothes, I put them in that bag in my suitcase. I cannot stand clothes hanging around anywhere, so dirty clothing is already "packed" to go home.

I bring a power strip and all our devices are plugged in one spot. I have a little package of plastic clothes pins that I use to hang bathing suits on that little line on the shower after they are rinsed out.

WE also have a shoe spot in the room, depending on which resort we are staying at. That is another thing that drives me crazy! Shoes strewn all over the room.

I must add that the mug thing makes me crazy too. I keep a clean hand towel folded near the sink and all mugs are washed out and placed there. Dirty mugs laying around are just not okay with me.

 

[loves to dive]

Another one with the hanging toiletry bag. The good thing about it is you don't have anything on the sink, it is all in the bag, use it and put it back. We keep ours packed at all times so any time we go on a trip all we have to do is just grab it, when we get home if we've used all of something, we refill immediately. I always use the laundry bag they provide for my dirty clothes, they go immediately in that when they are taken off and it has it's own little space in the corner of the closet area. I don't remember if they provide them in the value resorts but it would be easy enough to just put an empty hefty trash bag in your luggage. That way dirty clothes are not mixed with clean and I just put the entire bag in my luggage (it does have to get sort of squished and rearranged to fit). I have all my packages sent back to the resort and don't pick them up until the last full day we are there, that way there isn't a lot of clutter from that. If that doesn't work, pick them up every other day and you can combine them all into one big bag and use the other bags for laundry. I would use the top of the clothes rack to put any baseball gear you have, that will keep it up and out of the way. We always unpack that way you don't have open suitcases taking up room, they can stand in the closet area with less space used.

 

[MainMom]

If your kids have electronics or books I recommend some kind of cube or tub to put by the bed. I brought two of those foldable cubes you can buy for shelving units for my kids. It really worked great to keep their stuff in one spot.

We would put sunglasses, pins/lanyards, magic bands, etc on top of the dresser/tv stand. Shoes went in one spot. Foldable hamper in the closet. Power strip for charging. Everyone has their own hanging toiletry bag from LL Bean. We hung those in the closet. They could easily be taken down and used and then put back.

 

[BethR9]

Asking for more hangers is a great tip I wouldn't have thought of!

 

[mousefan73]

What drives me crazy is all that extra "junk" that floats and collects in a room.. between disney stickers the kids get, the magic bands, the phones, the sunglasses, the hats, hte swim goggles, I was going crazy..

the rooms had sometimes those wall peg things Each of us got a tote bad ( the dollar or two ones from the disney store). These were our "junk" drawer... All pool stuff, hats, glasses etc.. went in here... I would aslo keep one drawer as MY junk drawer, Here I tossed all paper stuff, schedules, receipts, travel docs....

clothes etc... are not such a big deal,, use suitcases and hangers..

We also used the bottom drawer as our shoe drawer.. this is why I do not put my clothes in the drawers.. Some people use them as a dirty clothes hamper and I have to admitt, we use them as a shoe drawer.

the other drawers were our souviner drawers.. all bought stuff got put there. .

 

[Nebraska_Disney]

We brought one of these this last time on our 10 day trip: We tried to keep our room as organized as possible

 

[Nebraska_Disney]

The other "hint" I had is that when we go to our room, we unpacked everything and found a home for it. Extra suitcases were stored/stacked inside each other. We used the coat hooks to hand packs and jackets, we then used one of our bigger suitcases to put dirty clothes into each night. This helped keep the clutter off the floor and made packing to go home easier in the end too.

For all the papers and such, I found a home for them by the TV and brought a folder from home which I put additional papers/stuff in. We tried to keep bags/luggage out of the way as much as possible and we put all of our extra shoes/sandals over by the entry by where rooms connected (at CBR). We also only had Mouse Keeping come in every other day, as it was nice to just leave stuff on a bed and not finding a home for it each morning.