As someone who worked in a hotel once: Lol. Lmao, even.
I had to ask to do that when I was being trained. Such as, "Oh, I should wipe down the walls of the showers, too, no?" And, "Can I just use the broom to knock down the cobwebs."
Hell, half the time I scrubbed the toilets, you could tell the other cleaners weren't doing it because mold fell out.
Of course, not ALL hotels, but I bounced around a few (same ownership,different buildings)** and they were all kind of mangy and gross.
Edit: Clarity to the once and multiple claim in the same story.
That makes sense, my experience was a lot more corporate clients and we were (mostly) thorough because repeat business was the vast majority of our budget.
Yeah... We didn't use vacuums. They had them on the carts, but I was told to NOT use them (most of them didn't work). So we used lint rollers on a long pole.
Looking at the place you'd never guess how poorly cleaned it was at times. But cleaning the place... Well, let's just say I was usually yelled at for taking an extra 5ish monutes per room so it was actually scrubbed.
Currently working in a "high end" hotel (very well known global brand 4/5* across the board).
The place isn't disgusting but no one working there has enough pride in their jobs to really deep clean, everything that isn't immediately visible upon entering the room is caked in dust, glass panels/walls of showers get dried every clean but only actually cleaned very rarely, usually if there is going to be an inspection coming up.
I work maintenance and while me and my current manager try and do our best, the previous maintenance teams had all just been putting plasters over major issues for the last few years.
The main issue I've seen in my few months there is no one stays long enough to really care about the place/see the consequences of their actions.
Lots of lovely people but most are doing the absolute bare minimum.
Edit: I'll also throw in that trying to be more environmentally friendly (which is good) means lots of strong and effective chemicals for cleaning/various jobs aren't really allowed to be used any more.
Biggest one being proper bleach for the housekeepers.
The common chains like Marriott, Hilton, etc. look nice but I've always seen little areas that show dirtiness. For example, the sink faucet is always a little slimy because they don't bother to wipe it down.
Yeah, the bigger brands tend to be quite prescriptive about how to clean, so area's not included in the check-list can get bad between deep clean intervals.
Glass doesn't have to be translucent/transparent, opaque glass is a thing. All the benefit of the smoothness of glass without people being able to see you.
We do. We all hate the design. The cleaners, the maintanence, the front desk, the management... Only the architect gets a boner from it and insists it's the absolute best design this side of the Milky Way. And the owners/ investors fall for it every time.
You think the hotel or anyone working or using these rooms wanted this? Hotels are designed by architects who have absolutely no idea or care how annoying things are to fix, clean, use, etc as long as they look "good" in their opinion.
I used to work at a hotel that had absolutley no walls around the bathroom. It would just be in the room right next to the bed. The showers in some rooms would also be open consept with no glass surrounding them
As a commercial cleaner myself, I am 100% sure the hotel's cleaning staff would like less glass to clean. Much too often, probably more often than not, buildings are not designed with thoughts of the people who will be regularly maintaining them in mind :T
For example, one of the offices I clean has all white topped desks 💀
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u/SessileRaptor 20d ago
You would think that the hotel would want less glass to clean not more yet here we are.