Confessions of a Hotel Housekeeper

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-25303242

After reading this short article, I am reminded just why I always make it a point to tidy up our room a little and leave a nice tip in our room at the Granada. (I think I left a significantly larger tip the year some party crasher shat on the top of our toilet lid. And with the help of a massive wad of paper towels, I cleaned up the brunt of it so the maid wouldn't have to.)

I can only hope that the person who stays in the room before us had the same courtesy, so that the room will actually be cleaned before we use it.


Just a reminder, please remember to tip your housekeeping staff reasonably wherever you stay. These people have pretty thankless jobs, so a few extra bucks can go a long way.

 

[Cheiron]

I almost never use their service if I'm there less than 4 days. No need to. Its not like I require my linens and towels cleaned at home. If I need trash thrown out though, then sometimes I do.

Otherwise, I always clean the glasses before I use them, and I never use the ice bucket unless there's a plastic bag for it.

I don't tip. Mostly because a majority of the time I'm on the tax payer's dime, but also because I don't feel that you need to tip unless you are requiring them to go above and beyond an easy clean.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

^^^^ There's your lid-shitter!




j/k Scott! :Smokedev:

 

[Savage Pumpkin]

I don't tip. Mostly because a majority of the time I'm on the tax payer's dime, but also because I don't feel that you need to tip unless you are requiring them to go above and beyond an easy clean.

My feelings exactly. If you use your room as a party room and like you said needs to be cleaned "above and beyond: a tip would be required IMO. Otherwise its a waste of money. Now if we are gonna get into the Progpower hotels (some of them). No tipping should be necessary at all with the inflated hotel prices. I would think that the hotels SHOULD (but most likely won't) pass their good fortunes on to the hired help.

 

[nailz]

Now if we are gonna get into the Progpower hotels (some of them). No tipping should be necessary at all with the inflated hotel prices. I would think that the hotels SHOULD (but most likely won't) pass their good fortunes on to the hired help.

That is horse shit, especially with the conditions we've left some of our rooms in. Not only do we tip well, we generally really try to clean up as much as we can. We even request garbage bags.

You know the hotel doesn't pay its staff any more than it does any other day, so taking that out on the people who have to clean up after you is a real dick move.

 

[mëtålspëd]

How did that room look around 7am Sunday morning? I lost all coherent thought... and I think my position in space and time, around the 5am mark in your room

 

[mëtålspëd]

Oh and as an aside... I don't think they work that hard at this particular RI. We lucked out, and got the same exact room this past year, as the one previous. While we were moving in, we actually stumbled upon a preparty ticket from the previous year. I think it was on one of the windowsills..

 

[kellsco]

I always ask for several trash bags the first day of check in so that I can make a decent attempt at keeping the room up. If we can't actually make it downstairs to the Granada's trash area ourselves, at least all they have to do is carry out the full bags after we leave.

A couple of years ago a person staying in the apt with us actually made fun of me for picking up trash, bottles and keeping the place generally cleaned up. They said "That's what the maids are for!!!"

Uhhh....not when the room looks like a week long frat party they are not! :Smug:

And we always pitch in a few bucks each for a tip.

 

[Savage Pumpkin]

That is horse shit, especially with the conditions we've left some of our rooms in. Not only do we tip well, we generally really try to clean up as much as we can. We even request garbage bags.

You know the hotel doesn't pay its staff any more than it does any other day, so taking that out on the people who have to clean up after you is a real dick move.

Whoah easy there tough guy. I never said that I wouldn't tip. But what I did mean was that if you leave the room as it was when you first entered the room, why tip? BUT, if you do leave the staff extra work to do, sure you should tip, why wouldn't you?

 

[Pellaz]

I always leave a tip unless the service has been lacking. I've worked for tips far too much to shaft someone else who is similarly situated. If I get above-and-beyond service, my tip amount soars appropriately.

If I'm making enough money to spare a coupla bucks here and there for tips, hell, I figure it's the least I can do.

 

[booB]

I didn't know you were supposed to tip your housekeeper until I read this thread. But then, I don't travel a lot, so I suppose I'm not doing the world TOO much of a disservice.

 

[nailz]

How did that room look around 7am Sunday morning? I lost all coherent thought... and I think my position in space and time, around the 5am mark in your room

Lets just say 5 large trash bags later, it looked like it resembled a room someone had a party in rather than a garbage dump for the greater Atlanta area. And I don't even want to THINK about the bathroom John spent 4 hours in, recycling his alcohol and food content for the night. :zombie:uke:

 

[AngraRULES]

Lets just say 5 large trash bags later, it looked like it resembled a room someone had a party in rather than a garbage dump for the greater Atlanta area. And I don't even want to THINK about the bathroom John spent 4 hours in, recycling his alcohol and food content for the night. :zombie:uke:

LOL that was great.

And we even tried to leave you guys a little present passed out on the couch...

 

[nailz]

LOL that was great.

And we even tried to leave you guys a little present passed out on the couch...

If it was up to me, I would've just let housekeeping deal with that gift.

 

[AngraRULES]

If it was up to me, I would've just let housekeeping deal with that gift.

LOL you think it ended when we reached our room... There was more once we closed the doors.

Hahahahaha he actually slept in the middle of the kitchen floor and woke up on the floor of one of the rooms embracing someone else's shoe.

But obviously, names of the involved shall remain undisclosed.

 

[mëtålspëd]

LOL you think it ended when we reached our room... There was more once we closed the doors.

Hahahahaha he actually slept in the middle of the kitchen floor and woke up on the floor of one of the rooms embracing someone else's shoe.

But obviously, names of the involved shall remain undisclosed.

Last I heard the shoe was in therapy.

 

[spag]

When I'm in a room, I leave the DND sign in the entire stay, most always just a few days at most. I might ask for extra towels, but never have them clean the room till I'm gone. I never leave a huge mess, and no, I don't leave a tip. I guess like from the article, there might be a pile of change on a table or something, but mostly because I don't want to carry it with me. If I left a big mess for some reason, I would leave a tip though. I can only imagine what some housekeepers have had to deal with over the years.

 

[Gunstar9]

I always tidy up after myself in a hotel room. I can't believe how trashy some people are. Every PPUSA I've been to I don't leave my room in a mess. That party up at VII... I don't know how much the maids had to clean up. But that wasn't my room

 

[nailz]

LOL you think it ended when we reached our room...

Considering how long it took getting to the elevator, I figured it had to have lol.

Hahahahaha he actually slept in the middle of the kitchen floor and woke up on the floor of one of the rooms embracing someone else's shoe.

I would've let him keep it, had it been mine. lol!

I always tidy up after myself in a hotel room. I can't believe how trashy some people are. Every PPUSA I've been to I don't leave my room in a mess. That party up at VII... I don't know how much the maids had to clean up. But that wasn't my room

If that was our room you're refering to in the Granada on the 3rd floor, we actually cleaned up quite a bit before we left. But it was a total disaster.

 

[AngraRULES]

Considering how long it took getting to the elevator, I figured it had to have lol.

I would've let him keep it, had it been mine. lol!

LOL he danced around, screamed a lot of politically incorrect things, lost a half-heated sandwich and eventually collapsed.

Poor shoe...