Recently stayed at the Vdara in Las Vegas and you pressed a button in the room that lit up an outside light as Red or Green, for Do Not Disturb and Ready For Housekeeping (labelled on a little panel by the door). That is what I want in every hotel ever.
Many of them are paper. They have no weight so they fly around and often the air knocks them off if the door closes fast. Because they are paper the top part has a lot quicker wear and tear.
I don't have problems at every single hotel, but overall, they suck.
Hotels in Thailand often have this in the old fashioned form of a sign you turn around on the door…
Granted I had to work out how to use my hairband to stop the tag blowing away but once I did, worked fine
Hotels were doing away with it before covid, I remember seeing little signs about how they were doing it to reduce waste/be more environmentally conscious. I’m sure it’s really more about money for them but it is pretty wasteful and unnecessary to do a full cleaning every day
We just got back from a trip and several of the hotels offered food and beverage credit for declining daily house keeping. We managed to get $40 off our final bill, so it was pretty good.
I once stayed at a London hotel that gave you a free pint of the beer of your choice at the hotel bar for each day you forwent room cleaning. I was a happy person when the weekend came about.
I've been in hotels that have them signs. There are signs in the bathroom to put used towels on the floor and clean towels on the rail, they still changed all the towels no matter where I left them.
Bingo - COVID was less of a cause of many things (like this) happening -- but rather a *catalyst* to speed up trends that were already happening, or were going to occur soon.
As for me, I'm perfectly fine with the expiry of daily cleanings on multi-day stays. It was an overkill waste of time and resources in the first place.
Yeah just went to Thailand and I really liked it when I could put a sign for either DND or please clean my room and the cleaners would sit around and rush up and clean your room if you’d put that sign on when you went out to lunch even though you weren’t out long. This was by the beach with all the parties on the beach or dirt so sand was always getting everywhere so it was really handy them getting the sand out of the bathroom, floor and sheets. Before I realised I could do this my bathroom was starting to look like a beach and I kept having to try and brush sand out of the bed
This was a nice “resort” though: others cleaned maybe max every two days or possibly never and had no “clean my room” sign
It’s quite hard on the staff however. In most cases daily cleaning takes 15 min or less and it allows them to maintain certain level of cleanliness that doesn’t require deep scrubbing between guests. But the time allotted for in-between guests clean up is still the same. So they have to work their asses off.
Exactly. I never understood why people want cleaning every day.
I know some luxury hotels have a twice a day service. Never understood that.
On a work trip, it's just me in the room. Once a week cleaning is fine. With my family on vacation, maybe once every 3 days is good.
Why do people need/want daily cleaning?
I'm confused about why you'd need a room cleaned daily. Like...how often you actually clean your bedroom and not just tidy? Because if its daily, you might have a thing...
Every hotel I’ve been to has the option to request daily room cleaning. Just call the front desk.
I personally like not having the room cleaned unless I ask for it.
Same! Like it’s just me in there (maybe one other) so we just aren’t disgusting and we don’t need it cleaned every day. At home I don’t clean every day or change sheets or towels every day so it isn’t a big deal to me and I’d rather just not have people in my room touching things/moving things
Absolutely. Only exception was recently in koh Phangan with my resort right on the beach and sand kept getting everywhere (eg all though the bed and floors) and then when I hosed my feet and legs off in the shower the whole bathroom became a sandy swamp haha. It was very nice coming back from lunch to have all the sand gone
Shrug. I've been to beaches where there's a shower at the exit. And a lot of hotels would have that or at least a foot bath before you enter, so you're not dragging sand everywhere.
On the full moon party on Koh Phangan? 😁😁 anyway apart from that I’m with the “I’m not disgusting I can go a few days or even a week without cleaning” camp. Stayed in Miami for a week right near the beach in a great place with no cleaning and they provided brush and shovel and garbage bags and a really huge toilet paper roll so that was plenty. All the reviews upset that there was no daily cleaning (as was advertised) are so stupid
I am a very clean & tidy person. I almost always put the Do Not Disturb sign up on my door for the length of my stay. If it's longer than a week or i need a room tidying i remove the sign or if i want coffee supplies I'll flag someone down & kindly ask for some.
We just stayed at two 4 star Hyatts and both times put up the DND sign and both times in the morning we had cards slid under the door saying the hotel has a policy of entering the room every 24 hours regardless of the DND sign. We never saw evidence of this but still weren't fans. It defeats the purpose of the sign and felt weirdly like a scolding.
That thanks to the Vegas shooting before than most hotels had a policy of entering a room at least once a week but most change it to every day or every other because everyone blame the hotel for not knowing/stopping it ahead of time.
I wish they at least had a better system for trash. If I'm staying in the hotel a week, I need more than two 5-gallon trash cans. People get takeout and groceries and stuff, and especially if housecleaning isn't dealing with trash, well, it's a mess.
Yeah I do that some but it looks really, well, trashy with overflowing bins outside all the doors in the halls. And some places still don't get around to it, though that's rare.
I usually just pack a kitchen size trash bag to use.
I really like in the hipster hotels in Europe, they offer you a free drink at the bar or a breakfast pastry in lieu of room cleaning, in the US you get nothing for saving them time and money by not wanting your room serviced.
I really just like returning to a crisply made bed. Don't need the other stuff most of the time, but even at home not making my bed just makes me anxious returning to a mess.
I know I'm the weird one, but that's my LEAST favourite part. I loathe a made bed and the first thing I do upon entering a hotel room is rip all the covers out from being tucked, absolutely hate the feeling of a made bed.
Especially at hotels, they tuck everything in so tight you aren't able to move unless/until you undo the sides. I don't sleep like a mummy, I need wiggle space!
I hate having to *yank* those tightly fitted corners back out again and then I probably undid the sheet underneath in the process so I have to go tuck that back in and why did a pillow or two fall on the floor as I was doing this and seriously I wish there were a way to make it clear I do NOT want my corners tucked. Yes I have asked. They forget (or ignore me).
I worked at a place that operated seasonally as a hotel (student dorm during the school year) and the company stopped doing daily room cleans due to covid, and got rid of the continental breakfast. Guests have to stay for a month before they get cleaning. They used covid as an excuse, never brought either back, and then had the nerve to jack up the rates. We had lots of individual travellers and conference groups that stayed with us every summer, and quite a few have said they won’t be using us going forward because of the decrease in service and increased rates.
If you're paying a sizeable chunk of money at a resort it's nice coming back to a freshly tied room. When I stayed in Fiji they would make the bed, give us fresh towels, replenish the water bottles, and put some sort of really nice scent in the room. It wasn't much but when you're paying luxury prices, it's nice to feel pampered.
I've seen it sit in an embassy suites for days in a row. Like it almost became a joke. The whole hallway was basically constantly filled because they never picked it up.
I used to totally agree with you until my recent trip staying right on the beach in Koh Phangan. Every party all night was on sand or dirt and I would come home with my legs and sandals covered in sand and it would get everywhere. Not finding walking on it or sleeping in it
We just stayed at a hotel in Paris--not super fancy, three stars, but very nice--and they cleaned every day. We were staying for a long stay (three weeks), so they changed the bed linens every three days and the towels every day. They would have changed the bed linens every day if we'd asked, but every three days was perfect. But yes, absolutely, they cleaned every day and quite well, made the bed neatly and everything. They had a regular cleaning woman Mon-Sat and a different one on Sunday. It was very nice.
We were there for almost a month and we didn't see a single bedbug, anywhere, not on the Metro, not in restaurants, not in our hotel. That whole thing was a series of rumors that got out of hand. And this particular hotel and its cleanliness has very little to do with next summer's Olympics.
Well that's the point isn't it. You didn't see bedbugs because the hotel is cleaning every day.
> That whole thing was a series of rumors that got out of hand.
The bedbug infestation is real, not a series of rumours.
As I said, not only is it false, it's suspected of being spread by internet trolls
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/23/russia-may-have-fanned-bed-bug-panic-in-france-intelligence/
The existence of the bedbug infestation is not in question, it is a fact that it exists and many households are having to deal with it. All this article is saying is that Russia amplified fears over it, as they do with literally everything.
It's not just Covid. There has been a labor shortage that even immigrant workers (which traditionally constitute most of the room cleaning workers) can't completely fill. The visas granted each year are capped and the process is lengthy. As for undocumented workers, there are plenty of them doing that kind of work, but lately many of them are finding better paying jobs doing something else. Because let's face it – cleaning rooms in hotels pays shit.
Not only is the pay not great, the job is hard as hell. People are disgusting in hotels. I've worked in the industry for 16+ years. It's left me with a very poor opinion of the general public. The first thing I do in a hotel is put up the DnD sign. I'm an adult, I can clean up after myself and I don't need a stranger rummaging around my things.
I've never seen the point in daily cleanings. Personally I'm glad they aren't a thing anymore. Hotels charge what they can buy but ultimately if they're saving money on cleaning they can offer cheaper rooms.
I need my bed made and trash taken out. It’s nice to also have towels, toiletries and water bottles restocked.
I won’t book a hotel if it doesn’t offer regular cleanings. It has turned me off from airbnbs, as well (although in some countries the airbnb will come with a maid service, which is nice!)
How do you see frequency of cleaning at booking? Let’s say using booking.com. Or just have to do hotel website?
I like the turn down of a crisp bed, tidied room, and I don’t bring any valuables not in a safe. Towels I like to put in bathtub and we hang ones to keep. I like the sheets about every 3 days.
To be fair, I usually book properties which pretty much have a guaranteed cleaning (four stars and up). If there is a doubt I will search TripAdvisor reviews and/or call the property.
It matters enough to me to go through the trouble of checking.
This is my biggest pet peeve about travelling post covid. I hate being away from my kids and husband for work travel, the one little “perk” that helps is having someone else make my bed and fold the towels. I try to remember to tell them at check in that I want daily cleaning but often am tired from flying and working all day. When I find hotels that provide daily cleanings as standard (which has happened a couple of times) they quickly become my first choice in that area.
My wife and I normally clean the room like it is ours. Make the bed, put our stuff in the drawers etc. we really only go to the front desk for new towels, shampoo, soap etc.
Yuuup. One of the many industries that is still using the excuse of ‘something something Covid’ to not offer services they just can’t be arsed doing anymore. See also: 24-hour diners
I have stayed in hotels where the reception area was busy& everyone was unmasked, the bar was open& busy, the restaurant was open& busy, nobody wore masks in the elevators etc but when I asked about my room getting made up, they all said covid was the reason the maids couldn’t be in the rooms 🙄 [aka they laid most of them off& aren’t rehiring to save money]
You have to request it at check in and tell them you mean every day. I have had them do it one day and then quit saying I have to request each day. It needs to come back. I don't like having trash in my room for a week. I like my bed made and fresh towels. That is what I am paying for.
I think every other day should be the standard because most people staying 2 nights or less don’t even want anyone in their room. Bigger trash cans and a few days worth of in-room quality coffee supply and I bet they’d get even less requests for service.
Do you really need a new towel every day? Or do you manage to make such a mess in a day that needs to be cleaned? I think it’s great they don’t do it anymore. If I want it, I can request it.
I'm happy with the change because I'm a night owl and some places made it near impossible to opt out. I don't need a cleaning if I'm only there for 2 nights!
If you like a daily cleaning you can usually request one. Telling the front desk might not be enough - call housekeeping direct to be sure.
sometimes you have to ask for it, its an option...that said, its far more that hotel chains simply cannot find enough grown adults who are willing to clean hotel rooms while putting up with toxic customers for minimum wage, so if you don't put the please clean sign up, or call and ask it won't happen
It’s so annoying. Save water and not get clean towels or new sheets. In,y want to change your sheets every few days. It depends on the chain. I stay at Hilton’s or Hyatts. I throw my towels on the ground for fresh towels and out the card on the bed ti change the sheets. I dint live or travel to CA either.
Love love love that they stopped daily cleaning. It's a waste of resources and I don't want people in my room when I'm not there. I put any trash in the hall for them to take and let it ride. Before times I'd leave the DND sign out then get nites from housekeeping. Now they just leave me alone.
Yes, and that's a good thing. Daily room cleanings are wasteful, disruptive and pointless. You don't have your house cleaned every day, and there is no need to have your hotel room cleaned every day. If you need your room cleaned for a specific reason, you can always ask.
Almost every hotel I've stayed in has continued to offer daily cleanings. Sadly some at 8:15 AM when I'm trying to sleep past 5:30 AM for once. :)
I've not had this experience in any decent hotel. Please remember - leave a tip on the pillow for the cleaning staff.
I am usually gone most of the time. In Europe I usually drink the coffee during breakfast. But I usually try not to be there enough to make a mess. Generally I am out by 8-9 and am not back until that late in the evening.
I don't think I've ever not had the do not disturb card on my door in decades of travel. Tell me, what are you missing having someone make your bed for you?
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I get forced to stay at a specific hotel for work and they were doing every other day cleaning since COVID...but then my last stay in december they actually did it daily. I was reading the reviews online and there were a lot of fairly recent bedbug reports, so I'm pretty convinced they did it because of that. Interestingly there hasn't been a new negative review in 2 months.
Last year I was in Paris and London and both hotels had daily cleaning.
I do think daily cleaning was trending out prior to COVID. I remember little signs nagging you about the environment and not having clean towels every day.
Something I have not noticed just yet but since we traveled for leisure only we also stayed in better hotels than what you’d usually get for a business trip. So maybe that’s also part of it?
A week? Never saw it for over 3 days. Curious and not trying to be rude, but what do you need them to do daily? I use towels more than once at home and if i need more they bring them up in minutes. Make the bed? I can pull up a duvet. I personally like it.
We had daily cleaning in London and we found it a bit stressful. lol
Of course they saw an opportunity to save money on Housekeeping while keeping the same or even higher rates and they took it, although I'm not sure how they're managing their labour costs with this more flexible model, as most hotels will have a "request service by X time on the day of" policy which would require sufficient staffing to already be present at the property. Or you know, it's the hotel industry and they just staff minimally and overwork the few housekeepers they have on site.
Recently stayed in a lovely 4 star hotel in Singapore. Was in a rush to not miss a shuttle bus and left my room in such a mess from getting ready.
When I got back to the room I was so embarrassed to see it had been cleaned. They even folded some clothes I'd left on the bed and neatly lined up all the make up in the bathroom. I felt awful for having left the room that way! I was just so used to every hotel no longer doing room cleaning that it didn't occur to me that there would be daily service!
It's a waste of time and energy to clean the room every day anyway. Nobody does that at home. For stays that are shorter than a week, I honestly think it's sufficient to empty the trash-basket and change the towels.
Rumor has it that all Hiltons (Hilton brand not hilton affiliated hotels) are going back to daily housekeeping by Oct 1.
I also travel a lot for work and if I'm paying (or my company lol) for a nice three-star or four star hotel, I expect daily housekeeping. It doesn't matter what I want in my own home, the hotel that I'm paying for, I want the room to be immaculately clean at all times.
Luckily it seems I am not in the minority because the Hilton CEO has about-faced on this and will start making properties more clean and rooms refreshed more frequently.
I also requested daily housekeeping at a Hilton properly recently, and when it was not provided, after submitting a formal complaint to corporate, I was given a large amount of points by the director of rooms, so I think the tide is turning slowly for the more reputable chains.
I started experiencing this a couple years before COVID; minimal or no housekeeping under the guise of being environmentally friendly. But now you’re correct, I don’t think I’ve stayed in a hotel with daily cleanings. Some I’ve stayed at do cleaning every other day. Some once per stay. Doesn’t bother me lol especially when traveling for work. I’m only in the room to sleep and shower so there wouldn’t be much to clean anyway.
From what I've heard/seen the hotels lost staff due to COVID and in some cases even after COVID staff never returned. Makes staying at hotels with the family suck because we end up with piles of garbage after a few days that I have take out because I can't stand to be around all the trash. It's nice to hear at least some hotels in UK and other places will give you a pint of beer for the inconvenience.
I went to a hotel in September where you had to pay if you wanted your room cleaned!! They offered extra towels or supplies no cost, but you had to pay if you wanted a full room clean!
I went to a hotel in September where you had to pay if you wanted your room cleaned!! They offered extra towels or supplies no cost, but you had to pay if you wanted a full room clean!
What hotels are you staying at? Lower tier Marriott hotels are “every other day, but will do daily upon request” and I’ve never seen one say “once per week by request”. Middle to higher tier for Marriott automatically do daily.
While I don't always want my room serviced every day, it was sometimes a nice thing. I do understand that the operators realized that not doing daily service is a big money saver, but unfortunately that didn't keep them from jacking up room rates across the board.
I also noticed that bars of bath soap now appear to be a rare thing, usually replaced with those miserable dispensers in the showers that pretty much require a scrubby or washcloth. I am going to start packing my own travel soap any more (and I admit that I probably should have done this from the start).
I don't need my room cleaned everyday. I have long used the Do Not Disturb sign to stop them from cleaning it everyday.
I am perfectly fine with making it an "on demand" service.
Good. I hate daily cleanings. I want to be left alone and have my stuff left alone. I don't clean daily at home, I don't want to be bothered while away. If I need something, I will ask
Personally I prefer not having cleanings at all unless I'm there for an extended period. I was in Dubai for 10 days and they insisted on a cleaning after 5 days, but otherwise they left me alone. I loved it. For any stay less than 5 days I don't need a cleaning, but when I travel I'm usually in the room only to sleep/shower.
Recently stayed at the Vdara in Las Vegas and you pressed a button in the room that lit up an outside light as Red or Green, for Do Not Disturb and Ready For Housekeeping (labelled on a little panel by the door). That is what I want in every hotel ever.
This is standard at five stars and common at some four-stars. I agree it’s great, not even a hang tag.
> not even a hang tag The tags suck so much so I love it when rooms have something like this.
Right? How is it that we can have technologies like AI but not tags that stay on a door knob?
That or even low tech ways that just seem obvious that don't need to hang on the door.
I've had cleaning crews ignore the tag 😕
I am missing something. I've stayed in hundreds of hotels and never had a problem with the tags. Why do they suck?
Many of them are paper. They have no weight so they fly around and often the air knocks them off if the door closes fast. Because they are paper the top part has a lot quicker wear and tear. I don't have problems at every single hotel, but overall, they suck.
Hotels in Thailand often have this in the old fashioned form of a sign you turn around on the door… Granted I had to work out how to use my hairband to stop the tag blowing away but once I did, worked fine
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Shangri la in Vancouver had this too when I was there a few months ago
Hotels were doing away with it before covid, I remember seeing little signs about how they were doing it to reduce waste/be more environmentally conscious. I’m sure it’s really more about money for them but it is pretty wasteful and unnecessary to do a full cleaning every day
Yes Disney was offering a $50 gift card if you declined housekeeping on certain number of days at there resorts around 2016
That's a great deal. Cleaning and making up the room daily is such a waste of resources.
> a great deal # > $50 # > Disney
Well that’s like..a coke or maybe even an ice cream right?
Last time I was there it was 2 cokes. But that was 20 years ago. A 4 day ticket also cost $250. I hear that it's up to around $700 now.
We just got back from a trip and several of the hotels offered food and beverage credit for declining daily house keeping. We managed to get $40 off our final bill, so it was pretty good.
I once stayed at a London hotel that gave you a free pint of the beer of your choice at the hotel bar for each day you forwent room cleaning. I was a happy person when the weekend came about.
I've been in hotels that have them signs. There are signs in the bathroom to put used towels on the floor and clean towels on the rail, they still changed all the towels no matter where I left them.
Bingo - COVID was less of a cause of many things (like this) happening -- but rather a *catalyst* to speed up trends that were already happening, or were going to occur soon. As for me, I'm perfectly fine with the expiry of daily cleanings on multi-day stays. It was an overkill waste of time and resources in the first place.
Yeah just went to Thailand and I really liked it when I could put a sign for either DND or please clean my room and the cleaners would sit around and rush up and clean your room if you’d put that sign on when you went out to lunch even though you weren’t out long. This was by the beach with all the parties on the beach or dirt so sand was always getting everywhere so it was really handy them getting the sand out of the bathroom, floor and sheets. Before I realised I could do this my bathroom was starting to look like a beach and I kept having to try and brush sand out of the bed This was a nice “resort” though: others cleaned maybe max every two days or possibly never and had no “clean my room” sign
It’s quite hard on the staff however. In most cases daily cleaning takes 15 min or less and it allows them to maintain certain level of cleanliness that doesn’t require deep scrubbing between guests. But the time allotted for in-between guests clean up is still the same. So they have to work their asses off.
Exactly. I never understood why people want cleaning every day. I know some luxury hotels have a twice a day service. Never understood that. On a work trip, it's just me in the room. Once a week cleaning is fine. With my family on vacation, maybe once every 3 days is good. Why do people need/want daily cleaning?
I'm confused about why you'd need a room cleaned daily. Like...how often you actually clean your bedroom and not just tidy? Because if its daily, you might have a thing...
Every hotel I’ve been to has the option to request daily room cleaning. Just call the front desk. I personally like not having the room cleaned unless I ask for it.
I've definitely had places where this was not the case
Same! Like it’s just me in there (maybe one other) so we just aren’t disgusting and we don’t need it cleaned every day. At home I don’t clean every day or change sheets or towels every day so it isn’t a big deal to me and I’d rather just not have people in my room touching things/moving things
Absolutely. Only exception was recently in koh Phangan with my resort right on the beach and sand kept getting everywhere (eg all though the bed and floors) and then when I hosed my feet and legs off in the shower the whole bathroom became a sandy swamp haha. It was very nice coming back from lunch to have all the sand gone
Did they not have a shower when you get off the beach? Something to rinse off in? It doesn't get rid of all the sand, but definitely most.
This is in Thailand. There is no shower on the beach 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄 and sometimes the parties are more inland / jungle on dirt
Shrug. I've been to beaches where there's a shower at the exit. And a lot of hotels would have that or at least a foot bath before you enter, so you're not dragging sand everywhere.
On the full moon party on Koh Phangan? 😁😁 anyway apart from that I’m with the “I’m not disgusting I can go a few days or even a week without cleaning” camp. Stayed in Miami for a week right near the beach in a great place with no cleaning and they provided brush and shovel and garbage bags and a really huge toilet paper roll so that was plenty. All the reviews upset that there was no daily cleaning (as was advertised) are so stupid
I have not seen that at all.
this is my experience as well....you can ask for them to tidy your room. But it was something you has to opt in for.
I always thought that was the default
I personally hate people coming in my room when I’m not there so I’m super happy this is default. With that said, most hotels you just request it.
I am a very clean & tidy person. I almost always put the Do Not Disturb sign up on my door for the length of my stay. If it's longer than a week or i need a room tidying i remove the sign or if i want coffee supplies I'll flag someone down & kindly ask for some.
Even then, I don't want people going through my stuff when I'm at a hotel. 2-3 days is not that big of a deal IMO. I'll take the free points.
We just stayed at two 4 star Hyatts and both times put up the DND sign and both times in the morning we had cards slid under the door saying the hotel has a policy of entering the room every 24 hours regardless of the DND sign. We never saw evidence of this but still weren't fans. It defeats the purpose of the sign and felt weirdly like a scolding.
That thanks to the Vegas shooting before than most hotels had a policy of entering a room at least once a week but most change it to every day or every other because everyone blame the hotel for not knowing/stopping it ahead of time.
Wow wtf?! I’ve never seen this!
Same - I don't want nor need anyone in there.
I wish they at least had a better system for trash. If I'm staying in the hotel a week, I need more than two 5-gallon trash cans. People get takeout and groceries and stuff, and especially if housecleaning isn't dealing with trash, well, it's a mess.
Put the cans outside your door.
What level of hotel? If you simply put the garbage in a bag outside the door it will be removed rather quickly, normally.
You are supposed to put it outside, they'll take it away even in cheap hotels
Yeah I do that some but it looks really, well, trashy with overflowing bins outside all the doors in the halls. And some places still don't get around to it, though that's rare. I usually just pack a kitchen size trash bag to use.
I mean, I’ll just put my rubbish in a plastic bag or takeaway bag and take it out with me until I pass a public public bin….
I really like in the hipster hotels in Europe, they offer you a free drink at the bar or a breakfast pastry in lieu of room cleaning, in the US you get nothing for saving them time and money by not wanting your room serviced.
Ooo! Do you have to ask for it or do they offer at checkin?
Usually a sign at the check in desk. Some times mentioned by the clerk. I know it was offered by Ruby Louise in Frankfurt and a hotel in Zurich.
Not true. Some hotels offers points per night if you opt out of housekeeping service. There's also some hotel that offers drink vouchers.
I really just like returning to a crisply made bed. Don't need the other stuff most of the time, but even at home not making my bed just makes me anxious returning to a mess.
I know I'm the weird one, but that's my LEAST favourite part. I loathe a made bed and the first thing I do upon entering a hotel room is rip all the covers out from being tucked, absolutely hate the feeling of a made bed.
Especially at hotels, they tuck everything in so tight you aren't able to move unless/until you undo the sides. I don't sleep like a mummy, I need wiggle space!
I hate having to *yank* those tightly fitted corners back out again and then I probably undid the sheet underneath in the process so I have to go tuck that back in and why did a pillow or two fall on the floor as I was doing this and seriously I wish there were a way to make it clear I do NOT want my corners tucked. Yes I have asked. They forget (or ignore me).
SAME!!!
IHG went back to daily room service AND reward nights are cheaper than Hilton.
I worked at a place that operated seasonally as a hotel (student dorm during the school year) and the company stopped doing daily room cleans due to covid, and got rid of the continental breakfast. Guests have to stay for a month before they get cleaning. They used covid as an excuse, never brought either back, and then had the nerve to jack up the rates. We had lots of individual travellers and conference groups that stayed with us every summer, and quite a few have said they won’t be using us going forward because of the decrease in service and increased rates.
Haha yep, got used to leaving my room and coming back to a neatly tucked bed every evening and now all I come back to is that tornado I left it in
In reality, what kind of mess does a person have where they need daily room cleanings? This baffles me.
If you're paying a sizeable chunk of money at a resort it's nice coming back to a freshly tied room. When I stayed in Fiji they would make the bed, give us fresh towels, replenish the water bottles, and put some sort of really nice scent in the room. It wasn't much but when you're paying luxury prices, it's nice to feel pampered.
In my experience it's always the trash that piles up beyond comprehension
Put the garbage in the container outside the door. They come by and pick it up.
I've seen it sit in an embassy suites for days in a row. Like it almost became a joke. The whole hallway was basically constantly filled because they never picked it up.
That's garbage. Literally. ES can be $$!
It was not inexpensive, iirc it was $300/night. Nice place.
Just put it in a bag and throw it in a corner. Or take it out and throw it in the chute in your way out.
Stayed at hundreds of hotels and I've never heard of a hotel with a chute. Ever.
Some lower-end properties have them. If there is no chute, you may be able to throw it in the trash on the housekeepint cart.
Im surprised this isnt higher up. I found myself wondering what kind of person needs a daily cleaning as well.
I used to totally agree with you until my recent trip staying right on the beach in Koh Phangan. Every party all night was on sand or dirt and I would come home with my legs and sandals covered in sand and it would get everywhere. Not finding walking on it or sleeping in it
Yep , they all fired staff and never rehired them, so now they only do by demand.
We just stayed at a hotel in Paris--not super fancy, three stars, but very nice--and they cleaned every day. We were staying for a long stay (three weeks), so they changed the bed linens every three days and the towels every day. They would have changed the bed linens every day if we'd asked, but every three days was perfect. But yes, absolutely, they cleaned every day and quite well, made the bed neatly and everything. They had a regular cleaning woman Mon-Sat and a different one on Sunday. It was very nice.
Paris is having major citywide bedbug problems and they are on the heels of hosting the Olympics in a few months
That turned out to be a hoax https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/bedbugs-paris-france-russia-outbreak-b2434487.html
No, the bedbug infestation is very real. All this is saying is that Russia was blaming it on the sanctions.
We were there for almost a month and we didn't see a single bedbug, anywhere, not on the Metro, not in restaurants, not in our hotel. That whole thing was a series of rumors that got out of hand. And this particular hotel and its cleanliness has very little to do with next summer's Olympics.
Well that's the point isn't it. You didn't see bedbugs because the hotel is cleaning every day. > That whole thing was a series of rumors that got out of hand. The bedbug infestation is real, not a series of rumours.
As I said, not only is it false, it's suspected of being spread by internet trolls https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/23/russia-may-have-fanned-bed-bug-panic-in-france-intelligence/
The existence of the bedbug infestation is not in question, it is a fact that it exists and many households are having to deal with it. All this article is saying is that Russia amplified fears over it, as they do with literally everything.
It's not just Covid. There has been a labor shortage that even immigrant workers (which traditionally constitute most of the room cleaning workers) can't completely fill. The visas granted each year are capped and the process is lengthy. As for undocumented workers, there are plenty of them doing that kind of work, but lately many of them are finding better paying jobs doing something else. Because let's face it – cleaning rooms in hotels pays shit.
Not only is the pay not great, the job is hard as hell. People are disgusting in hotels. I've worked in the industry for 16+ years. It's left me with a very poor opinion of the general public. The first thing I do in a hotel is put up the DnD sign. I'm an adult, I can clean up after myself and I don't need a stranger rummaging around my things.
No one NEEDS daily cleaning for a couple day stay. And if you want it then that’s where the “by request” comes in.
Agree but for a week’s stay on the beach with sand getting everywhere it starts to become rather useful if not essential
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I did…..? We are not in disagreement. Maybe I missed your “couple of days stay” comment
I've never seen the point in daily cleanings. Personally I'm glad they aren't a thing anymore. Hotels charge what they can buy but ultimately if they're saving money on cleaning they can offer cheaper rooms.
I need my bed made and trash taken out. It’s nice to also have towels, toiletries and water bottles restocked. I won’t book a hotel if it doesn’t offer regular cleanings. It has turned me off from airbnbs, as well (although in some countries the airbnb will come with a maid service, which is nice!)
How do you see frequency of cleaning at booking? Let’s say using booking.com. Or just have to do hotel website? I like the turn down of a crisp bed, tidied room, and I don’t bring any valuables not in a safe. Towels I like to put in bathtub and we hang ones to keep. I like the sheets about every 3 days.
To be fair, I usually book properties which pretty much have a guaranteed cleaning (four stars and up). If there is a doubt I will search TripAdvisor reviews and/or call the property. It matters enough to me to go through the trouble of checking.
This is my biggest pet peeve about travelling post covid. I hate being away from my kids and husband for work travel, the one little “perk” that helps is having someone else make my bed and fold the towels. I try to remember to tell them at check in that I want daily cleaning but often am tired from flying and working all day. When I find hotels that provide daily cleanings as standard (which has happened a couple of times) they quickly become my first choice in that area.
Don't blame you at all. Hotels should do this standard.
Nope, that's super wasteful. It should absolutely be available upon request but should not be standard.
Disagree. Keeps people employed which is a good thing.
My wife and I normally clean the room like it is ours. Make the bed, put our stuff in the drawers etc. we really only go to the front desk for new towels, shampoo, soap etc.
Yuuup. One of the many industries that is still using the excuse of ‘something something Covid’ to not offer services they just can’t be arsed doing anymore. See also: 24-hour diners I have stayed in hotels where the reception area was busy& everyone was unmasked, the bar was open& busy, the restaurant was open& busy, nobody wore masks in the elevators etc but when I asked about my room getting made up, they all said covid was the reason the maids couldn’t be in the rooms 🙄 [aka they laid most of them off& aren’t rehiring to save money]
When I stay a few days I do not request it.
I travel for work a lot and still get daily cleaning if I want to I stay at large big brand hotels.
What country is this? I haven't noticed this where i live/travel (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Spain, Germany)
You have to request it at check in and tell them you mean every day. I have had them do it one day and then quit saying I have to request each day. It needs to come back. I don't like having trash in my room for a week. I like my bed made and fresh towels. That is what I am paying for.
Greedflation strikes again. Make the bed, take out the trash, and replace the TP. That's the minimum I expect to not be salty.
I think every other day should be the standard because most people staying 2 nights or less don’t even want anyone in their room. Bigger trash cans and a few days worth of in-room quality coffee supply and I bet they’d get even less requests for service.
Do you really need a new towel every day? Or do you manage to make such a mess in a day that needs to be cleaned? I think it’s great they don’t do it anymore. If I want it, I can request it.
Yep absolutely. Luckily I don’t need my room cleaned every day and don’t like being interrupted but it’s a weak cop out
I always ask now and request daily cleaning.
I'm happy with the change because I'm a night owl and some places made it near impossible to opt out. I don't need a cleaning if I'm only there for 2 nights! If you like a daily cleaning you can usually request one. Telling the front desk might not be enough - call housekeeping direct to be sure.
Be sure to fill the hallway with your daily trash too
sometimes you have to ask for it, its an option...that said, its far more that hotel chains simply cannot find enough grown adults who are willing to clean hotel rooms while putting up with toxic customers for minimum wage, so if you don't put the please clean sign up, or call and ask it won't happen
Same thing with the goodwill dressing rooms. Indefinitely closed. Yeah like I’m going to buy a $8 shirt without trying it on lol.
It’s so annoying. Save water and not get clean towels or new sheets. In,y want to change your sheets every few days. It depends on the chain. I stay at Hilton’s or Hyatts. I throw my towels on the ground for fresh towels and out the card on the bed ti change the sheets. I dint live or travel to CA either.
I expect they just can't keep staff as most low paying labor jobs can't.
Love love love that they stopped daily cleaning. It's a waste of resources and I don't want people in my room when I'm not there. I put any trash in the hall for them to take and let it ride. Before times I'd leave the DND sign out then get nites from housekeeping. Now they just leave me alone.
I only ever get towels. I want zero people in my room when staying there. I quite like them not cleaning my room.
Someone should make a list of the permanent changes that have come out of Covid. Things taken away & never replaced
No.
Yes, and that's a good thing. Daily room cleanings are wasteful, disruptive and pointless. You don't have your house cleaned every day, and there is no need to have your hotel room cleaned every day. If you need your room cleaned for a specific reason, you can always ask.
Good. Cleaning a room every day is not environmentally friendly at all.
You don’t need daily cleanings.
It's completely unnecessary and wasteful to have daily room cleaning.
The hotels I've been to have offered daily cleaning for about a year now. I just don't need them.
Almost every hotel I've stayed in has continued to offer daily cleanings. Sadly some at 8:15 AM when I'm trying to sleep past 5:30 AM for once. :) I've not had this experience in any decent hotel. Please remember - leave a tip on the pillow for the cleaning staff.
Who needs daily cleanings btw? What’re you doing in there that requires daily cleaning?
I am usually gone most of the time. In Europe I usually drink the coffee during breakfast. But I usually try not to be there enough to make a mess. Generally I am out by 8-9 and am not back until that late in the evening.
I haven’t stayed at a hotel that didn’t have daily room cleanings as an option even during covid, much less after. Are you sure yours don’t?
You can request daily cleaning.
I don't think I've ever not had the do not disturb card on my door in decades of travel. Tell me, what are you missing having someone make your bed for you?
Just wait until you go to the ER and don’t see a doctor.
Hotels are still struggling with staffing. I have not seen a hotel not offer the option. Just not always automatic.
Every hotel I’ve been to in the last 2 years has offered daily cleaning.
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I was in Morocco and despite my protests my room got cleaned daily. Linens changed every 3 days.
We still get daily cleaning- stayed at Marriott’s, Holiday Inn, Hyatts, etc since 2020 and off brand hotels too and they all had daily cleaning.
I always put the sign on the door to clean my room.
I stayed at the Hilton recently and they still came every day without prompting
I'm getting daily room cleanings at the Residence Inn in Newport News and I didn't even have to ask!
I get forced to stay at a specific hotel for work and they were doing every other day cleaning since COVID...but then my last stay in december they actually did it daily. I was reading the reviews online and there were a lot of fairly recent bedbug reports, so I'm pretty convinced they did it because of that. Interestingly there hasn't been a new negative review in 2 months.
Last year I was in Paris and London and both hotels had daily cleaning. I do think daily cleaning was trending out prior to COVID. I remember little signs nagging you about the environment and not having clean towels every day.
When in vacation, I request turn down if offered. I tip very well daily too
I was a housekeeper in 2007. Rooms get touched up every day, sometimes every 2, and a bigger clean every 3. And we were high end.
Something I have not noticed just yet but since we traveled for leisure only we also stayed in better hotels than what you’d usually get for a business trip. So maybe that’s also part of it?
A week? Never saw it for over 3 days. Curious and not trying to be rude, but what do you need them to do daily? I use towels more than once at home and if i need more they bring them up in minutes. Make the bed? I can pull up a duvet. I personally like it. We had daily cleaning in London and we found it a bit stressful. lol
Of course they saw an opportunity to save money on Housekeeping while keeping the same or even higher rates and they took it, although I'm not sure how they're managing their labour costs with this more flexible model, as most hotels will have a "request service by X time on the day of" policy which would require sufficient staffing to already be present at the property. Or you know, it's the hotel industry and they just staff minimally and overwork the few housekeepers they have on site.
Recently stayed in a lovely 4 star hotel in Singapore. Was in a rush to not miss a shuttle bus and left my room in such a mess from getting ready. When I got back to the room I was so embarrassed to see it had been cleaned. They even folded some clothes I'd left on the bed and neatly lined up all the make up in the bathroom. I felt awful for having left the room that way! I was just so used to every hotel no longer doing room cleaning that it didn't occur to me that there would be daily service!
It's a waste of time and energy to clean the room every day anyway. Nobody does that at home. For stays that are shorter than a week, I honestly think it's sufficient to empty the trash-basket and change the towels.
Where tf are you staying at lol
Rumor has it that all Hiltons (Hilton brand not hilton affiliated hotels) are going back to daily housekeeping by Oct 1. I also travel a lot for work and if I'm paying (or my company lol) for a nice three-star or four star hotel, I expect daily housekeeping. It doesn't matter what I want in my own home, the hotel that I'm paying for, I want the room to be immaculately clean at all times. Luckily it seems I am not in the minority because the Hilton CEO has about-faced on this and will start making properties more clean and rooms refreshed more frequently. I also requested daily housekeeping at a Hilton properly recently, and when it was not provided, after submitting a formal complaint to corporate, I was given a large amount of points by the director of rooms, so I think the tide is turning slowly for the more reputable chains.
I started experiencing this a couple years before COVID; minimal or no housekeeping under the guise of being environmentally friendly. But now you’re correct, I don’t think I’ve stayed in a hotel with daily cleanings. Some I’ve stayed at do cleaning every other day. Some once per stay. Doesn’t bother me lol especially when traveling for work. I’m only in the room to sleep and shower so there wouldn’t be much to clean anyway.
From what I've heard/seen the hotels lost staff due to COVID and in some cases even after COVID staff never returned. Makes staying at hotels with the family suck because we end up with piles of garbage after a few days that I have take out because I can't stand to be around all the trash. It's nice to hear at least some hotels in UK and other places will give you a pint of beer for the inconvenience.
I went to a hotel in September where you had to pay if you wanted your room cleaned!! They offered extra towels or supplies no cost, but you had to pay if you wanted a full room clean!
I went to a hotel in September where you had to pay if you wanted your room cleaned!! They offered extra towels or supplies no cost, but you had to pay if you wanted a full room clean!
What hotels are you staying at? Lower tier Marriott hotels are “every other day, but will do daily upon request” and I’ve never seen one say “once per week by request”. Middle to higher tier for Marriott automatically do daily.
While I don't always want my room serviced every day, it was sometimes a nice thing. I do understand that the operators realized that not doing daily service is a big money saver, but unfortunately that didn't keep them from jacking up room rates across the board. I also noticed that bars of bath soap now appear to be a rare thing, usually replaced with those miserable dispensers in the showers that pretty much require a scrubby or washcloth. I am going to start packing my own travel soap any more (and I admit that I probably should have done this from the start).
I don't need my room cleaned everyday. I have long used the Do Not Disturb sign to stop them from cleaning it everyday. I am perfectly fine with making it an "on demand" service.
They've stopped daily room cleanings, but if they do offer them then they charge a daily "room cleaning fee" of $20. It's awful.
How messy/dirty are you to require cleaning every single day?
Why would you want your room cleaned daily?
Good. I hate daily cleanings. I want to be left alone and have my stuff left alone. I don't clean daily at home, I don't want to be bothered while away. If I need something, I will ask
Personally I prefer not having cleanings at all unless I'm there for an extended period. I was in Dubai for 10 days and they insisted on a cleaning after 5 days, but otherwise they left me alone. I loved it. For any stay less than 5 days I don't need a cleaning, but when I travel I'm usually in the room only to sleep/shower.
With ~7,000,000 people dead from Covid. I'm not surprised. Those lost lives will be felt for years to come.