How clean do you leave a holiday place?

lostinrates

GwylimT wrote: »

We leave hotel rooms etc in the state that we find them, I think it's rude not to.

I don't.


I'm unable to travel at all now , but in years before that hotel stays have usually been whistlestop breaks, luckily in very nice hotels.


I have only once used a holiday lodge, we left in clean, instructions were to strips beds, but there was no vacuum or anything so beyond the tiled kitchen floor I couldn't do much.

I wouldn't strip a bed in a hotel ( I tend to fold sheets back so its near) , nor can you vaccuum in one even if you want to. Things like getting ready to go out have on occasion made a mess ( for example, I dropped talcum powder bottle once as I was packing, :eek:). I do try and leave the place neat and clear and READY to clean. I cannot imagine leaving mess or rubbish not in bins for example.

One of the things hotels do is provide employment, but if we took some employment away by meaning rooms bArely ever needed cleaning they don't feed back into local economy as well.

Fwiw, the bleach /loo cleaner in the loo every night would be met very poorly at some country places, where too much can be very bad for septic tanks or klargestors. When holidaying in countryside especially in smaller farm stay b and b's it might be worth considering impact of things that might not effect everyone in their normal household routine. How often you bleach, what washing stuff you use if there is a washing machine for example. This won't impact on jobs, but will potentially impact on overheads for particularly smaller businesses, and can have environmental impact in the worst cases.

catkins

lostinrates wrote: »

I wouldn't strip a bed in a hotel ( I tend to fold sheets back so its near) , nor can you vaccuum in one even if you want to. Things like getting ready to go out have on occasion made a mess ( for example, I dropped talcum powder bottle once as I was packing, :eek:). I do try and leave the place neat and clear and READY to clean. I cannot imagine leaving mess or rubbish not in bins for example.

One of the things hotels do is provide employment, but if we took some employment away by meaning rooms bArely ever needed cleaning they don't feed back into local economy as well.

I strip the beds in hotels because I know what a time consuming job it can be. Of course it depends how many people are checking out on any particular day and how much cleaning each room takes but I know not every guest will strip the bed or leave the room immaculate so it's pretty unlikely I will be doing anyone out of a job!

shiney85 wrote: »

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!!

Yes, most places have a paid cleaner, although some holiday places are cleaned by the owners. That is fair enough but if they have more than 1 property and all the renters leave the places in a state they can be hard pushed to get them clean in the time available. I also know from experience that often renters are requested to leave a property at a certain time but think nothing of leaving hours later. I used to turn up to clean and holidaymakers would be sitting around in night clothes eating and I am not talking early morning!


I had to get the places clean in time for new arrivals (who often again turned up early and got irate if they could not go in).


You could almost guarantee the ones that thought nothing of leaving a place 2 or more hours after the requested time were also the ones that left it in a disgusting state.

liney wrote: »

Tidy - kitchen surfaces wiped, floor brushed, and beds stripped. However, I do not go on holiday to clean toilets and ovens!

Don't you clean the cooker top if you use it? I don't clean inside the oven - maybe give it a quick wipe over but I always clean the hob.


I would never ever leave a hotel, caravan, cottage etc without cleaning the toilet!

catkins

shiney85 wrote: »

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!!

Yes you are on holiday but, in all honesty, how long does it take? I clean as I go every day like I do at home so the evening before and/or the morning I leave it doesn't take that long. Quick sweep and/or hoover, strip the bed(s), wipe the bathroom and kitchen sinks, quick clean of the toilet. If everyone helps it takes barely any time at all


How long does it take to strip a bed? It's the making of it that takes the time but that little bit of saving can make a difference to the cleaner.


I just found cleaning holiday places a pretty hard thankless job and I like to do anything I can to help them

shiney85

Catkins, I stay in big brand chains, not boutique b&bs, so I'm not hurting some poor couple trying to clean ten rooms on their own. The places I visit have dedicated teams of cleaners. As I explained, I leave things tidy, when I'm in Center Parcs accomm I will make sure dishes are clean and put away, the tops are clear etc, but the point of a holiday is that you have a break from the norm, and although it's my job to clean my own house, someone else is being paid to clean my holiday home; you don't go to a restaurant and offer to wash up your dishes!

lostinrates

catkins wrote: »

I strip the beds in hotels because I know what a time consuming job it can be. Of course it depends how many people are checking out on any particular day and how much cleaning each room takes but I know not every guest will strip the bed or leave the room immaculate so it's pretty unlikely I will be doing anyone out of a job!




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Its a bit like saying a weeny bit of tax evasion won't hurt the economy though. Or stealing something small won't impact on a business overheads. It adds up.

As I said, we only really stay in hotels and for us visits have been fleeting. One of the things we pay for ( and we do choose to spend on 'good' hotels, its often sensible. And justify able on very short breaks). If I had booked somewhere economy on the basis we cleaned it ourselves ( like clearing your own trays at some restaurants for a lower price) I'd probably feel differently.

catkins

shiney85 wrote: »

Catkins, I stay in big brand chains, not boutique b&bs, so I'm not hurting some poor couple trying to clean ten rooms on their own. The places I visit have dedicated teams of cleaners. As I explained, I leave things tidy, when I'm in Center Parcs accomm I will make sure dishes are clean and put away, the tops are clear etc, but the point of a holiday is that you have a break from the norm, and although it's my job to clean my own house, someone else is being paid to clean my holiday home; you don't go to a restaurant and offer to wash up your dishes!

Whatever type of hotel I stay in, be it a chain hotel or a small hotel I strip the bed.


Maybe things are different now but I worked for a well known large chain hotel as a chambermaid and they certainly did not have dedicated teams of cleaners. If lots of rooms were being vacated on the same day it was a real struggle to get the rooms clean, beds stripped and remade in the time allocated to each room. If even one room was left in an untidy and dirty state it made it almost impossible to clean all your allocated rooms to the standard you were meant to.


I manage to have a perfectly happy holiday and still leave the place clean and tidy, leaving less work for others to do whether they are being paid to do it or not.


I guess we are all different but I know all my family do the same

catkins

lostinrates wrote: »

Its a bit like saying a weeny bit of tax evasion won't hurt the economy though. Or stealing something small won't impact on a business overheads. It adds up.

As I said, we only really stay in hotels and for us visits have been fleeting. One of the things we pay for ( and we do choose to spend on 'good' hotels, its often sensible. And justify able on very short breaks). If I had booked somewhere economy on the basis we cleaned it ourselves ( like clearing your own trays at some restaurants for a lower price) I'd probably feel differently.

I don't "clean" a hotel room but I do strip the bed, leave the towels neat, give the toilet a quick clean and will carry on doing so as I think it is only polite.


I never realised me being clean and helping someone with their job was harming the economy!

lostinrates

catkins wrote: »

I don't "clean" a hotel room but I do strip the bed, leave the towels neat, give the toilet a quick clean and will carry on doing so as I think it is only polite.


I never realised me being clean and helping someone with their job was harming the economy!

I wouldn't leave a dirty loo, when ever I had used it, I would not buy bleach though.

I leave used towels in the sink, or on the loo ready to scoop for laundry, rather than hung up, but it don't get what the alternative is here? Just dropping them when you've dried like a fetid teenager?

I don't strip the bed. When I stay as a house guest anywhere I ask rather than do as well. I know some people would rather do it themselves.

So apart from the bed, not sure we're doing much different, But I would not bleach/vaccuum a hotel after a weekend stay. Nor would I stay somewhere that felt like it needed it before I got there tbh!

Every thing we do impacts a little on financial health. No one more than OS know the important of the little spends impacting on the big ones, Just the same with jobs. I feel guilty every time I scan my own shopping at a supermarket because I know longterm it will cost jobs.

Torry_Quine

I think how you treat a hotel or guest house is not the same as self-catering accomodation. In the former then I leave it tidy but there is no facilities to clean even if I wanted. However when I stay for a week or more self-catering then it's treated as I would my home. Have never had to buy cleaning products but have used those supplied.

p00

We normally rent a house or a caravan because of the dogs but we go top to bottom when we leave. Probably to the point they dont have to do anything when they get ready for the next guests. Cant help myself lol.

xxp00