How clean do you leave a holiday place?

sparrer

melanzana if the press is to be believed it's rock 'stars' ?

I leave a room as clean and tidy as I found it, occasionally (but rarely thank goodness) cleaner. I strip the beds on leaving, having been in business myself I know how time consuming it is. When I used to stay self catering it only took a few seconds to wipe down the kitchen area after washing up, I do it at home so it's habit anyway.

Frogletina

When our children were little we used to go on caravan holidays in Wales every year. I prided myself of leaving the caravan really tidy at the end of our stay.

One year we were sitting outside with our luggage before going to catch our train home when the cleaner came round to clean our caravan before the next arrivals. She went in and immediately came back outside and said


'there is absolutely nothing that I need to do!'



I was like this :j what a compliment.

sillyvixen

last year we went to butlins on a cheapy newspaper holiday (long story), yes the chalet looked clean enough (we used our own bed linen - although it was provided even though we did not pay extra).. however on opening the cupboards every plate, dish, glass, cup, item of cutelery and piece of cooking equiptment was covered in a nasty greasy residue. YUK - spent the first evening washing up in detergent (something the previous occupants clearly did not do), nor was it even checked by the cleaners!

hoglet121

Ive found reading this thread fascinating.

We rarely stay in hotels but when we do I will leave the place tidy (make the bed, put rubbish in the bin, brush the loo) but I don't clean or strip the bed.

For holiday rentals I am glad to clean it on our departure and I have been touched when I've received emails from the owner thanking me for the condition we've left the place in (especially when they said we had to leave it clean and tidy, so of course I cleaned it, I guess not everyone does).

I'm also happy when there is an option to pay slightly less per night to do the cleaning myself. But what really annoys me is when there is an arbitrary cleaning fee added on, to what looked like a bargain rental. I'd much rather the cost was built into the cost of the nights' accommodation, or that it was optional, than finding 'cheap' accommodation comes with hidden extras.

We went away somewhere recently as a large family group and the owners of the accommodation were willing to let us have the cost of the cleaning refunded, but we would have to pay it upfront first and then pass their inspection, so rather than face the prospect of cleaning the place and then still not getting the money back, we chose to pay it, but it did stick in my throat a bit. This is after they had asked for a list of all our occupations at booking time to see if we were 'suitable' to rent their accommodation. It wasn't me doing the booking or I would have walked away. I do understand that some people are really disrespectful and trash places, but that has nothing to do with their occupations at all.

And I have to say, after seeing the standard of some holiday rental accommodation, our best option is often our trusty tent!

suki1964

I'm also pleased to have received a thank you for leaving the apartment immaculate

However I don't think I did lol

Sure I stripped the beds, wiped all the kitchen and bathroom down and swept/mopped the floors, but only being there a week, I wasn't stocked up on cleaning materials. I just used the cloth that was there and a dishwasher tablet and a tea towel for polishing off

Makes me wonder how others leave it...

notanewuser

Lilyplonk wrote: »

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.

That is completely over the top.

Eenymeeny

Interesting question, I always wondered about this too.
l always leave the place 'clean and tidy' although I wouldn't strip the bed in a hotel, as I reckon that's included in the price.
I'd be more fussy in a self catering set up as we've been cooking and 'living' there rather than just sleeping overnight.
(I've also received 'thank you' emails with comments that there was nothing left for the owner to do. Although, I did quietly agree with OH when he complained that I was going over the top by cleaning the dead midge-covered windows and grubby wooden venetian blinds in one Scottish lodge we stayed in!:o;))

shiney85

Wow, I feel like a right grot...if it is requested, I will of course strip the beds, and I'll leave the kitchen clear and wiped down, but I'd never get cleaning sprays or bleach out! I throw rubbish away, make sure I take all my stuff home, but I don't clean, I'm on holiday, and you pay for the cleaners! Perhaps it's because I've always gone on package holidays, Haven and Center Parcs too, I know housekeeping are on a deadline, I've worked in hotels, but come on, you're on holiday!!

FizzWhizz

I used to work for Travel0dge as a guest room cleaner. By far and away the worst offenders for leaving rooms in a state were young couples. Older people (retired) and young families were much more considerate.


Since that job, I have always stripped the hotel beds, tidied up the rubbish and tied up the bin bags when we're checking out; it annoys DH I think but he always has one last 'pit stop' in the bathroom before we leave and I can strip a bed in under a minute, by the time he's done so am I The joy of walking into a recently vacated room to clean and finding it stripped and tidy has stayed with me and I feel it's only fair to pass it on.


We are staying in a lodge in a holiday park this summer and I will leave it as I find it -- if it's immaculate then I will give it an hour or two's clean before we leave, but if it's clearly just been swept and the surfaces wiped (we've found that before) then that's how I'll leave it too.

DigForVictory

I was trained young to include hoovering, scrubbing, bedstripping as part of the packing-up-at-end-of-holiday. (Child labour...)

Now, I am as ruthless, but the hoover is often more powerful than ours so it may take two sons - one to stand on rug, one to hoover it. Still, one has an unexpected enthusiasm for cleaning bathrooms, so that's now "his" job.

Driving off with a sack of kitchen & cleaning rubbish is the roughest bit.