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How clean do you leave a holiday place?

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  • McKneff
    McKneff Posts: 38,857 Forumite
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    If we go to a hotel for any length of time we usually just get the staff to do the room every other day. All we do is ask for a refill of the coffee and tea. The rooms don't need servicing every day and Im quite capable of making a bed.
    They are always grateful that they have one less room to do and save a bit of time.
    But always left tidy.
    make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
    and we will never, ever return.
  • good_advice
    good_advice Posts: 2,653 Forumite
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    We strip all beds
    wash up and put away
    turn fridge off and leave door open to defrost
    take all rubbish to the big bins
    cooker top is wiped down every time it is used.
    sometimes I move things around, like kettle and toaster. I put back to where it was.
    The secret to success is making very small, yet constant changes.:)
  • peachyprice
    peachyprice Posts: 22,346 Forumite
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    liney wrote: »
    Tidy - However, I do not go on holiday to clean toilets and ovens!

    I don't go on holiday to even use the oven! :rotfl:
    Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence and face your future without fear
  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    turn fridge off and leave door open to defrost

    What if there are new people arriving that afternoon?
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 17,413 Forumite
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    As a family we all go away in August for a fortnight Usually to a rented house There are 7 of us,myself DD and son-in-law 4 boys plus 2 dogs and the hamsters.We always have our last nights meala out before we come home and the boys are all resposible for cleaning thier own rooms up.At 18,14,13 & 10 they are quite old enough to clean up and myself and their Mum also do the mainliving areas and my son-in-law does the kitchen.We have always cleaned and cleared up at the end of the fortnight it would seem rude and disrespectful not to. but then I usually clean and tidy my house before I go away anyway as I don't want to come home to a messy place.I live in a fairly small house so untidyness would show very quickly in my house,plus I just don't like it.
  • Honey_Bear
    Honey_Bear Posts: 7,482 Forumite
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    As someone who lets holiday accommodation, it's always interesting to hear guests' views.

    We charge as little as we can so that families can have a Devon 'beach, bucket and spade holiday' and we get the same people back year after year. I ask guests to strip their beds so I don't have to change all of them, which if I had to do it would have to include the ones they haven't used. I also ask them to leave it as clean as they found it because if I had to spend a couple of hours cleaning it every Saturday, I'd have to charge them for my time. Most people leave it looking beautiful and all I have to do is put things back in their usual places so that if the next guest phones up and asks where something is, I know.

    It's way off the beaten track and no-one who is willing to clean holiday accommodation would be willing to drive out there, do a couple of hours work and then drive home for a price I could afford to pay without my having to charge at least an extra £50 a week. Anyone who cleans holiday accommodation on a Saturday in Devon or Cornwall knows exactly what they're worth, can get all the work they want, and good luck to them.

    All of the cleaning gear is provided and it's a tad ironic that, generally, the guests who bring/buy their own and leave the bottles behind are usually the ones who appear to use the least effort to actually clean anything. And very, very occasionally I want to point out, really gently, to people that pouring bleach into the shower, sink and loo are not actually cleaning them. But I don't.
    Better is good enough.
  • Torry_Quine
    Torry_Quine Posts: 18,872 Forumite
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    Always leave it clean and tidy including the toilet and cooker which I naively thought was the norm. Strip the bed as well.
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  • Sagz_2
    Sagz_2 Posts: 6,251 Forumite
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    As I usually take dogs with me I make an extra effort to leave the let cleaner than I found it. Its hard enough to find places that allow dogs (4+) and I'd like to think that I would be welcomed back.
    Some days you're the dog..... most days you're the tree! :D
  • melanzana
    melanzana Posts: 3,953 Forumite
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    Come on...no one here is going to say they trashed the place. Because we, and they, don't do that.

    It happens all the time though. I've read some awfully scary stories.

    Who does that trashing, and why...I'd love to know.,
  • Lilyplonk
    Lilyplonk Posts: 1,145 Forumite
    I stay in a caravan on a small holiday park for 2wks every year.

    It's spotless when we arrive with all beds made and ready to crawl into. Their leaflet asks us to empty all food, turn off the fridge/freezer leaving the door open and to place all used bedding/towels/tea-towels within the shower cubicle - makes it much easier for the laundry girls and cleaners when they get into the place.

    I make a point of wiping the cooker down every time I use it, make sure that I clean off the kitchen worktops, clean the microwave/kettle/toaster, wipe the inside of the fridge and wash the salad/veg drawer.

    I always buy toilet cleaner and use it every night, whenever we go out and last thing before we leave - it's something that I'm fanatical about at home as well.

    I've never had any complaints about how I've left a property - in fact, with one place I had a phone call from the owner the evening we got home to thank me for how clean I'd left it - she reckoned I'd left it cleaner than it was when we got there :rotfl:.
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