No housekeeping? For you 25$ to spend at the hotel
Hotel chains are trying hard to save money, obviously also reducing the service that is offered to the [...]
Hotel chains are trying hard to save money, obviously also reducing the service that is offered to their guests. One way that has been invented recently is to eliminate daily room cleaning. The excuse often adopted to justify this choice is that doing so will help save the planet by reducing pollution. As if a person who tidies up a bed, or cleans a room is responsible for global warming.
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The days when hotels carried out afternoon room rearrangements seem so long ago.
In the United States, many chains have effectively eliminated the daily room turndown service by making it on demand. This means that if a guest wants to have the hotel attendants come to the room in the morning, he or she must specifically request it.
Just before the outbreak of the pandemic I was in London at Doubletree Victoria And there was an offer that proposed 1,000 Hilton Honors points for each day the cleaning was waived Of the room.
In the course of my world tour I came to New Zealand and also stayed at the Hilton Auckland (full review soon), here I found a similar proposition, but instead of points money was offered to spend in the hotel's restaurant.
As you can read, again The motivation is that of travel sustainability: if that were the case then they should offer me a discount on the stay and not a credit to spend at the hotel, but by doing so the hotel would lose certain revenue, instead the voucher forces the guest to have to consume to see the credit recognized.
The way it works is simple: if you hang the card outside the room door by 2 a.m., they will be credited 25$ to spend At the hotel bar and restaurants. The only sore point is that this credit is per room not per occupant, so if two or more are traveling, the value drops significantly.
In conclusion
Of course at our house we don't wash the bathroom every day, we don't change the towels every day, and we probably don't even make the bed to perfection. When you go on vacation, though, you're looking for something different.
When I travel for work I stay at most a couple of days in the same hotel, of course if I could I would choose points and not a credit to spend in the hotel. If, on the contrary, I travel for fun with my family, it is nice not to have to worry about anything and always find the perfect room when returning to the hotel.
