How clean do you leave a holiday place?

Nicki

Seems a bit odd to deep clean a hotel room or strip the bedding to me. I don't think of myself as being particularly entitled but like others say I put rubbish in the bin and used towels in the bath and that is it when I check out of a hotel room. I don't strip beds or clean the bathroom.

The end of stay clean is part of what you are paying for and it is also what the chambermaid is being paid to do. I don't routinely pay full whack for a service and then do part of it myself to save someone the effort of doing their job. I wouldn't pay full price for a hair appointment and offer to blow dry my hair myself or tell a waiter in a restaurant that I would pop in to the kitchen and grill my own steak! Why is staying in a hotel any different?

Paypeanuts

Ha I stayed in a top rated 5 star last week, I got my own juice at breakfast and the waitress was mortified and apologetic at being slow, she clearly felt absolutely humiliated, even when I explained she wasn't slow, I was just happy to help myself.

I hate to think what the cleaner would have felt if I'd stripped the bed or cleaned the toilet!!

Tosca3

Well, a bit of a !!!!!! alert here. No way in a million years would I be stripping beds in a hotel, things would be left tidy, that's as far as I go.

In self catering, again tidy and the cooker would be cleaned if I had used it. I don't go on holiday to do cleaning.

Newly_retired

In a hotel, guest house or b &b, I leave the place tidy, rubbish in bins. I make my own bed when I am coming back that night, but almost always I find it has been remade and my things moved. Eg we have a specific arrangement of pillows, but the chambermaid puts them back how they are trained to do. I find that annoying. I pull the covers back on leaving but do not strip the beds.
In a holiday let, it depends what the instruction book says, but I would normally strip the beds we have used and put used sheets and towels in the bath. I clean all surfaces and put the Hoover round, but I don't dust bookshelves or clean the bathroom more than a quick wipe round. After they have changed the beds it will all need hoovering anyway.

Often we have found a place looks superficially clean on arrival, but you soon realise you need to wash the cutlery and glasses before you use them!

At one place we were meant to clean fully and of course I did so, but normally I consider it is part of the cost.

Waffle_On

This has brought back memories of my days as a chambermaid in a hotel. I remember going into one particular room and finding condom wrappers in the bin...and on the side table, and in the bed. I then had to go round the room checking every corner for the used condoms, one of which was wrapped round the wheel of the office chair (I never did get the whole thing off, but with rubber gloves, scissors and 45 mins I removed most of it - lovely!)


When I go away I leave things tidy and do a basic clean - washing up done, surfaces clean, rubbish taken out etc. I don't do a deep clean unless it's part of the deal.

flubberyzing

Generally, "as I found it". But that being said, I consider that I've paid to NOT have to clean a toilet/bath for a week!


That being said, if it was a place belonging to a friend, I would. But otherwise I'm of the view of "that's what cleaners are for."

tori.k

I do when renting self catering but in hotels I just fold back the bed and make sure nothing left on the side's I do always leave a tip for the room staff as a thank you, but oddly I do always make my hotel bed in the mornings while staying think it's just a morning routine thing.

Honey_Bear

DigForVictory wrote: »

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.

Please can I adopt your son if you get tired of him?

lostinrates wrote: »

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.

For that very reason, I don't use scanners in the supermarket. Ever. But stripping a bed doesn't do anyone out of a job, it just makes the cleaner's life a little easier.

SCFC1961 wrote: »

"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"

I agree with you, they would not have received a booking from me!

Someone I know gave up running a bed and breakfast completely because they got tired of having to buy new mattresses to replace the ones that adults from stag and hen parties kept wetting. They are not a group booking that most organisations actually look forward to - they just need the money.

We rented a boat on the Thames a couple of years ago with another couple, and were allowed to take two dogs provided we paid an additional, small, non-returnable 'Dog Deposit.' Absolutely fine. That family-owned organisation also charges a very, very hefty additional deposit for stag or hen parties, considerably more than dogs which can get extremely dirty around rivers. There's a reason stag and hen parties have a bad reputation and clearing up after one that's been out of control is a vile experience.

We let two types of accommodation - a self catering chalet and two rooms in the house we live in. There is very little overlap between the guest groups.

We ask the chalet occupiers to leave it as they find it, and that includes making the beds up with clean bedding. Anyone that doesn't will be paying an additional £50 the next time they book. Simples.

The two rooms in the house are let, predominately, to touring theatre people or scientists, and their stays vary from a week to six months. Anyone who strips the bed is more than welcome to come back any time, if they empty the bin they go up in my estimation and I have one regularly returning lodger who actually vacuums his room weekly!

PenguinOfDeath

About as clean as I found it, which in the last case of SC, not very! There wasn't even any cleaning stuff apart from washing up liquid, no cloths or anything.

I'm alway extra careful not to spill anything or stain the bedding, carpets etc... I was away on a hen do a few years ago and a couple of the girls got fake blood all over the bathroom and carpet, I was pretty embarrassed to be with them!

daisiegg

Honey_Bear wrote: »

Please can I adopt your son if you get tired of him?



For that very reason, I don't use scanners in the supermarket. Ever. But stripping a bed doesn't do anyone out of a job, it just makes the cleaner's life a little easier.



Someone I know gave up running a bed and breakfast completely because they got tired of having to buy new mattresses to replace the ones that adults from stag and hen parties kept wetting. They are not a group booking that most organisations actually look forward to - they just need the money.

We rented a boat on the Thames a couple of years ago with another couple, and were allowed to take two dogs provided we paid an additional, small, non-returnable 'Dog Deposit.' Absolutely fine. That family-owned organisation also charges a very, very hefty additional deposit for stag or hen parties, considerably more than dogs which can get extremely dirty around rivers. There's a reason stag and hen parties have a bad reputation and clearing up after one that's been out of control is a vile experience.

We let two types of accommodation - a self catering chalet and two rooms in the house we live in. There is very little overlap between the guest groups.

How does listing occupations on a booking form prove whether the group is or is not a stag/hen party? I cannot see the link!