During your vacation, a hotel room is your home away from home, but it's much better than your real home as you have clean sheets every day. Here we show you how to thank and appropriately respect the person who made this possible.
Stephanie Land is the author of Maid's sales success, about her time at home while supporting her daughter and graduating online. The situation in the country was by no means unique; Many people make a living in the service sector, and salary and salary standards vary widely.
As a traveler, you can increase these standards through your own behavior, and Land tweeted his suggestions for leaving a hotel room after your stay.
napkins
The luxury of having lots of clean towels in so many shapes and sizes can quickly come to mind. Do you have new ones every day? Or did you just keep it like a towel holder? Land writes that he should pick it up in a rather specific way to make it easier for the person taking it in to clean it and to wrap it with the "wipe in the middle", probably because the wipe is the wettest. and the dirtiest of them all.
Easy cleaning
You won't vacuum or scrub the sink, but there are basic things you can do to make a hotel maid's life easier. People do bad things in hotels and the basics of the country paint a picture:
Remove the hair from the drain. Flush the toilet Put the garbage in the trash.
You wouldn't think you should pull the chain, but apparently it is, so please.
Annoying or not disturbing
Land did not show the "Do Not Disturb" sign, but it became a point of discussion in the comments. In theory, you can leave your DND record throughout your stay, which limits the workload for a cleaner. Unfortunately, it's not that easy. On the one hand, as an article on Travel Skills points out, the DND brand is not a legally binding contract . The cleanliness and management of the hotel can and will enter your room despite the sign, and apparently customers often lie about leaving the sign when they return to a dirty room:
Guests often leave the DND sign on their door when they go out to spend the day. Then when they return, they think that their room should have been somehow cleaned by magic without anyone hurting the DND mark. Then they will call the front desk and complain that their room has not been cleaned and they will lie that they left their DND sign on the door. It happens so often that it's crazy.
But in the context of how your employees help or annoy, not letting room cleaning mean you are likely to lower your wages. In many countries, employees are not paid for the rooms assigned to them, but are not cleaned.
So let the workers do their job: they can go ahead and do it anyway, and at least they can plan to hide their mischievous things in advance.
tip
Although tipping is not compulsory in Australia, some countries expect you to go abroad, especially the United States. How much to tip is a big debate, but it depends in part on the cost of the room and how much your room has been cleaned. Country writes:
Pointe (US $ 10 ($ 14) / day, per person who has stayed) If your stay is several days, tip each day if you expect maid service. Seriously
In 2016, Trip Advisor closed this post with tips on these basic guidelines:
$ 2 US ($ 3) -3 a night up to $ 5 ($ 7) more in high-end hotels. Even more if there are more than 3 people in a room or a suite. Leave the top on the pillow or similar with a note that says thank you. Leave the tip every day when you leave the room, rather than at the end of your stay, as your room can be cleaned by different people every day, depending on the schedule of the staff. If you have extra items like pillows, hangers, or luggage racks brought to your room, tip the person who brings them with them $ 2 ($ 3) or $ 3 ($ 4) Dollar).
With a slight cost of living inflation, $ 10 ($ 14) seems to be on the right track, and the value of doing so every day when you get the service is good. People work differently, so tipping in the end can mean that someone is not in the tip group. Land added that putting a tip on a card with a thank you is one way to make sure they get it:
Leave a message thanking you with the money below.
- Stephanie Land (@stepville), March 15, 2019
Little gestures
If you'd like to do a few more things to help him, Quora interviewed Bruce Claver, who has worked in hotel management for decades . He offered this list of little things that will make life easier for workers:
Remove the sheets and pillowcases and place them on a pile on the floor in front of the bathroom door.
Take all the used towels, washcloths and bath mats and place them on a pile on the bathroom floor.
Take the wastebasket under the desk and the wastebasket in the bathroom and place them next to the bedspread (near the bathroom door).
Replace the iron and ironing board (roll or pull back the ironing rope).
Replace the TV remote control on the day the recording was made.
Open the curtains.
And never, never make the bed. You just have to undo it.
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