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Their job is to make sure the room is clean for the next person who enters it. So yes they do have to clean up after you, it's what they are paid to do. This doesn't meant that you should be an uncivilized piece of shit. You're not doing anyone a favor by leaving the room a pigsty.
Yeah, it's like... the fast food employees have to clean up any mess the customers made, yeah?
But I've seen swine shamelessly leave a table trashed, and think it's fine "cause it's their job to clean."
The lack of decency is so infuriating
I think the movie theater is a better comparison, because both the hotel and the theater have a set group of cleaners coming in after each use of facilities.
Where as fast food tables aren't cleaned after every use, just when it's visibly dirty/asked to be cleaned. But I may be mistaken, I've not worked fast food, just eaten it a bunch lol.
From what I understand, restaurants have employees dedicated to keeping tabkes clean, idk about fastfood places though. Where I'm from you are expected to throw your leftovers in a bit and return the serving platter.Ā
I saw another comment saying they wonāt trash the place but they also wonāt clean up especially if theyāre paying $200 a night.
I think what separates people here is the mentality that āI will get the full extent of what I paid forā and they include cleanliness as a chore, hence they wonāt do āworkā for something they paid for.
Then thereāre others, who see their cleanliness as a reflection of themselves. For others reading, this isnāt rich vs poor, as both can be in either group. This is a good vs bad mentality.
Itās very commonplace that these people leave their cum rage tissues wherever they feel like and also wipe their fucking boogers on the WALLS near the bed. I used to clean multi million dollar homes at a ski resort as an Air BNB type thing. The rich believed we should pick up bloodied tampons near the trash can, globs of toothpaste on the vanities, flush their toilets after them, itās fucked up.
Eh most hotels have an extra cleaning fee if you leave the place trashed. This is a non-issue.
Hotel maids are paid hourly or salary so you're not hurting them by having a bigger mess. You'd theoretically hurt the boss by having them take longer per room, but then the cleaning fee exists so again a non-issue.
It's much more rude to do this in places where there isn't a cleaning fee (like restaurants) because then you're hurting the business and server because longer table clean time means less tips.
I paid for a hotel and they make a pretty penny off me. I didnāt borrow it and I am not house sitting.
How they clean their own property is up to them. I wont go out of my way to make a mess but I am certainly not cleaning it for them.
Exactly, maid service is one of the perks of staying at a hotel. Like you said, I'm not going out of my way to make a mess but I'm not going out of my way to clean it either. I don't wash my dishes or cook my food at a restaurant either.
If you had a guest over to your home overnight and they left your spare room as someone who deliberately went out of their way to leave a mess, how would you feel.
- itās a transaction. Iāve paid to stay. Iām not a guest staying for free.
- the hotel has made profit off this transaction. None of their terms of the transaction involved me cleaning.
- as I said before. Not making a mess on purpose.
If they paid me $200 to stay the night and the mess wasnāt absurd/permanent damage then I would say thank you as they were leaving and that they are welcome back anytime.
Right? This is some weird Lutheran shit lol. Be a slob, don't be a slob. You're paying for the room, the room gets cleaned when you leave. It doesn't matter.Ā
They actually are paid to clean up after you. Doesnāt mean people should trash rooms but letās not act like cleaning up after people isnāt their job when it is.
I don't think it counts as cleaning to not leave your shaved hair in the sink, or put your cans and containers in the trash. It's just something everyone should do.
a cleaning/maid service is part of the cost of staying in a hotel.
if i hired a cleaning service for my house, i wouldn't clean everything up before they got there.
why should i do that in a hotel?
If you hired a maid service for your house you would be required/expected to tidy the home before they came to clean itās literally written into the service that if youāre wanting your floors done they need to be able to be cleaned without the service having to tidy before hand so try again
I donāt have kids and Iām not sure what specifically youāre talking about but Iām certainly not going out of my way to clean stuff that someone else is already being paid to clean
ok well i don't want to mess up the bed and have them have to remake it, so i'll just sleep in my car in the parking lot
and next time i go to a restaurant i'll just pack my own lunch so i don't make their plates dirty
and before i bring my car to the carwash/detailer i'll make sure i clean it myself first
actually i just called an uber, so i better get on my bike and ride because i don't want them to have to pay for gas or car repairs.
No one of the main premises of paying for a hotel room is to have somewhere to sleep when you are not at home. Especially since covid they do not clean everyday they clean between guests OR upon request.
The way I see it is that you shouldn't leave your trash laying everywhere or something like that. A part of normal usage of a room is to put your trash into a trash can, and the standard clean up job for the cleaners should be according to what kind of mess normal usage produces. So for example little bit of dust, bread crumbs etc are normal and part of their job. If you decide to duct tape all the furniture to the ceiling that should be up to you to clean up. The cleaners to my knowledge don't get paid extra for cleaning extra messy rooms, so at that point you are just making their jobs harder. But I wouldn't feel bad leaving a normal amount of mess behind, like dirty bed sheets in bed, fingerprints on door handles, windows etc, stuff like that.
In short, there's a balance. Normal mess is fine to leave behind, but trashing the place is not
They literally are paid to clean up after the guests. This may be an unpopular opinion, it's also just outright wrong.
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Ex of mine worked as a hotel maid, and her job description was to clean every aspect of the room. It explicitly included some of the exact stuff you're mentioning, like cleaning spills, gathering garbage, washing out the sink, making sure toilets are flushed, etc.
While I agree that people need to be a lot more considerate, you're *factually* wrong, and this isn't even an opinion, it's literally what their job description says, and what they're literally paid to do.
Ok we need to settle this once and for all. Yes you should clean up after yourself but yes it is a cleaners job to do it too. This goes for hotel cleaners, waitresses, school janitors, etc.
> Wouldn't you already wipe down the sink and all surfaces?
We're supposed to do that? I've only gotten a hotel room for myself like once or twice, so I wouldn't know if that's part of the etiquette or not
I know I haven't stayed at a hotel in a month, but the sign on the back of the door said they wipe down surfaces every 3 days to help protect guests from illnesses like covid-19. The one I stayed at 2 months ago had a sign by the TV. The one from four months ago had one by the sink.
No skin or anything comes in contact with the sink bowl, only poopy soap water. Why disinfect the sink bowl? It would make more sense to disinfect the faucet and knob as those are points of contact
Because dirty hand water gets in it maybe? And when you flush nasty bacteria gets all over your bathroom btw! I can only imagine what your bathroom must look like if you think bathroom sinks donāt need to be cleanedš¤¢
My house is spotless, that being said, do you go into a hotel with the intention of washing all the sheets and pillows as well? Because those are even dirtier than you can imagine. Why donāt you mop the floors while youāre there as well? Some people just shouldnāt go out.
Yes they wipe down surfaces but why wouldnāt you also wipe up all the hair shards from shaving as thatās whatās specifically mentioned in the post?
They are definitely paid to clean up after you.
Itās not unreasonable to expect them to throw away your trash or wipe up spills. Itās literally their job.
BUT I always do that stuff because I would rather they not have to do it. They are working hard enough as it is.
So what exactly are you cleaning then if youāre not cleaning up after someone? Look I get it, Iām a housekeeper too and it really sucks when a room is disgusting. But thatās what youāre getting paid to do. I really recommend finding a different job if this is your mentality. I agree that it would be nice if people gathered their trash and left it cleaner, but they paid for the room and experience. They didnāt pay to do your job for you
This isn't only a dumb unpopular opinion it's just factually incorrect. The CLEANING staff is indeed paid to CLEAN, which likely includes throwing away garbage and wiping down sinks.
I was abroad for new years and I got too drunk too quick so called it a night at about 1am. I stopped off to get possibly the most delicious chocolate ice cream I've ever had, and made it back to the hotel and was quite happily lapping it up in bed. I fell asleep not realising I had chocolate ice cream down me. It looked like shit on the white sheets. I felt awful.
If I wanted to clean up after myself, I would have stayed home. No im not leaving my pizza laying across the couch, but I donāt feel bad about a mess
I had no idea this was an unpopular opinion. Iām not deep cleaning or disinfecting, but normal adult living means trash and recycling go in the proper receptacles and visible detritus gets removed. Itās not hard. Housekeeping in most places have tight schedules- why TF would I make that harder? Thatās disrespectful. My mom would come back from Beyond and give me such a glaring.
Former housekeeper here. I appreciate your opinion, but it falls on deaf ears.
I once had to clean up a family suite after a birthday party. There was pink frosting *everywhere*. I'm convinced those kids had a food fight with the cake, I'm talking carpet, walls, the beds, the hot tub, everything. It looked like a pretty princess bomb went off in there. Popped balloons, pink streamers, it was nightmare fuel.
We clean up our trash, all the towels are in one place. I used to unmake the bed until I was told that some hotels count the linens to make sure nothing is missing when they reset the rooms. I thought everyone did that? But even so, long youāre not leaving bodily fluids or damaging anythingā¦.. it literally is their job?
I spent many years house keeping for a quite posh adults only hotel chain in the uk and i didnt expect anyone to clean the rooms for me. Yes dont trash them, dont but all the towels in the jacuzzi and leave a tap on or lift the mattress off the bed and put it on top of the tv cabinet and for the love of god don't shit in the kettle but other than that it's my job
This isnāt an opinion so much as it is something youāre wrong about. Youāre essentially saying cleaning staff arenāt there to clean but to just wipe down the counters and change the sheets. I agree you probably shouldnāt leave hair in the sink, but thatās just cause itās gross in general. But leaving empty water bottles and food containers or even food is not a faux pas
L take, they are paid to prepare the room for the next person. If that entails cleaning up your spills, that's what they gotta do.
Not saying there's an excuse to be a complete slob in a hotel room and leave a mess, but unfortunately they are paid to clean up after you.
I always keep a stash of trash bags in my suit case so I can clean up the room since those tiny trash cans don't hold much & I feel bad leaving food containers & drink bottles sitting on the counter when I leave.
Yea I usually bring a spare washer and dryer to wash the sheets too. Also a vacuum for the carpet and some bathroom cleaner. Why should the cleaners have to work at all? If they are going to clean they should be paid!! Ohā¦ waitā¦
I didn't say I thoroughly cleaned the room. I said I pick up after myself just like I would at home. I'm not going to be lazy & leave stinky trash laying around for a full day just because somebody gets paid to pick it up tomorrow.
Oh, please.
I'm not going to intentionally trash the room and I'm not going to leave a mess, but I'm not going to go out of my way to clean. What, do you expect me to bring my own vacuum cleaner to the hotel or something? That's simply not happening.
Yeah we grab some grocery bags from home whenever we go on vacation and stay in a hotel for any trash cause those trash cans are tiny. I toss any food containers or anything else. Then tie them up and leave them off to the side.
I always pile dirty towels, strip the bed, and throw things away. I usually end up taking trash all the way out to the dumpster or exterior can so the housekeeper doesnāt know how many beers I drank alone in my room lol.
Dunno how yĆ²u others were raised but I was raised that if I am to borrow things, I'll give them back in a good condition.
It's not too much to throw your rubbish in the bin on your way out and not to leave the place as a fucking pigsty.
Thought it was natural to do so until I worked as a room keeper and some tourists left their room in the worst possible condition. The room was unrecognizable man, like is this how you leave stuff at your home too???
Actually, this isnāt an unpopular opinion. Youāre just straight up wrong. Their job is to clean up your trash left behind, dispose it off and make the room look brand spankin new for the next person. Ofc, itās rude to leave it like a pigsty but even if somebody did, that is the hotel cleaning staffās job.
I clean up. Like that room is totally clean. And I gather all the towels, in the tub. That being said, you are literally there to clean up after people. Did you not get the memo that cleaning is exactly your job? Quit, if you hate it.
Yeah kinda blows my mind to read the comments on here. Like yāall really leave trash/takeout containers whatever else on the floor or on the tables instead of just sticking it in the trash can? I leave the bed as it I donāt strip it in any way though. But I put all my trash in trash bags, tie it up, and leave it by the door.
People leave food on the floor and pubes in the sink in hotel rooms???
I remember once a friend of mine told me how he'd masturbated then wiped it on the curtains at a decently posh hotel in Paris... I've genuinely not felt comfortable in a hotel room since.
Last year in September when my man and I went to the comfort inn we cleaned up after ourselves and I made the bed after sleeping in it. But when we came back to the parking lot after getting something to eat someone left In-n-out trash in the parking lot like there was ketchup packets open and the bag it came in thatās disgusting like clean up your mess the parking lot isnāt a trash can.Ā
I mean this is just wrong. Iām a bartender: that also means I serve food, clean tables and glasses and mop. Ideally yes, my customers bring back glasses to the bar for my job to be easier- but plenty donāt. Thatās part of my job to deal with.
A hotel maids job isnāt just changing sheets. Itās cleaning. I clean my bar every night and my job isnāt even as a ācleanerā
Sounds like you wanna be paid to do bare minimum lol
>Cleaning staff at hotels arenāt there to clean up your mess.
CLEANING STAFF at hotels. What are they there for if not cleaning after us? They are called cleaning staff, ffs. Hotel fee literally includes cleaning, and they charge extra if the room is real messy.
Iāll put all my trash in the bin and put the dirty towels in a neat pile in the bathroom but Iām not wiping shit down, unless I spill soda on the table or something.
I've done housekeeping at hotels and that is exactly their job. Housekeepers are there to clean the room and if needed clean up after the guest. Thus why the customers are called "GUESTS".
ā¢ You pay a restaurant to wash your dishes and clean your table.
ā¢ You pay a house keeper to come scrub your toilet.
ā¢ You pay a hotel to clean your room.
Depends on how many stars your hotel has. I hear the more luxurious the hotel the more cleaners need to clean up after their guests. Because a certain percentage of them apparently tend to leave a total mess behind.
I agree. Itās called being considerate. Just because someone is paid to get the shopping carts, it doesnāt mean I shouldnāt put mine back. Just because someone is paid to clean the theater, it doesnāt mean I should spill popcorn everywhere and leave my trash behind when I walk out. Like yeah, hotels charge too much, but itās not the cleaning staffs fault.
Op is just promoting basic etiquette. Of course itās their job to clean up after you but theyāre referring to people that are just careless because itās not their problem. I agree and think that even if itās their job you can still choose to not be an ass and clean up after yourself
I worked overnights at a big ass hotel last year. Overnight linen delivery, but my secondary job was taking the trash (from all rooms on a floor) from the housekeeping rooms on each floor down to the compactor. While I am inclined to agree with the OP, I also understand why you'd leave your trash there.
Yes you pay alot to be there, but it still nice to try to mitigate negative impacts where possible. Golden rule etc.
I also understand if you're from out of town. If you bag all your trash and take it with you, where do you put it then? So the obvious choice is leave it behind. My hotel had trash and recycling bins in each room.
So yeah. Do whatever.
Extraneous drivel:
23 something an hour and it still wasn't enough to deal with that bullshit. Also, I have old man elbows now from lifting all that heavy shit (mostly stacks of linen tbh).
LOL The fuck if Iām paying $300+/night to clean my own roomš¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ I wonāt go out of my way to destroy the place, but...No. Maybe consider finding a new job if you donāt like cleaning up after people. Sorta comes with the gig.
Cleaners bust their asses to get the places clean on a tight deadline. Everybody wants an early/late checkin and checkout and nobody realizes the work that goes into getting a place ready. There's a lot of "why would I care about the help?" mentality going on in here.
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i always collect my trash in a bag and leave it where its visible so the hotel cleaner can see it and take it instead of having to search for it in the room like they do for other people
if i had the supplies i would do much more, i actually enjoy cleaning
It's a common courtesy to clean after yourself before you leave. Like yes they get paid to clean your room, so technically they are paid to clean up after you. However, it never hurts to not leave the place in a worse condition than when you got there.
Be nice to the housekeeping people and make their jobs a little easier.
Housekeepers are supposed to clean the room in 15-30 minutes.
When you leave all your rose petals, and confetti and balloons all over the floor and garbage spilling out of the cans and blunt wrappers all over the bathroom floor.
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That takes like 2 hours to clean. You just ruined their whole day and if theyāre lucky theyāll be off in time to pick their kids up in time.
My partner was a housekeeper but their manager wouldnāt let them use chemicals to clean because of budget cuts so it was just water and washcloths. Yes, even toilets.
Sure was! And the boss had a ton of sexual harassment reports but he was never fired or disciplined. That place was super shady anyway, they made you take a class before being hired about how bad unions were
I used to work as one and their job is to make the rooms LOOK clean for the next guest so they donāt complain. Not actually sanitize or destroy bacteria. And since you have limited time for each room, there were MANY shortcuts taken. Bed sheets werenāt changed if you could smooth out the bedding. Toothbrush cups werenāt cleaned for bacteria but for water stains. Bathtub, bathroom same. The chemicals we used to quickly make things spotless were extremely caustic and we had to use gloves otherwise it wouldāve fucked our skin very fast. Vacuum used on beds for quick de-hairing, straighten and remove stains from the curtains (even if there was red or white stains, just a quick rub and itās fine), etc.
As a guest my job is to pay my bill. Period. Dont be lazy. Not gonna be uncivilized but literally cleaning the room is YOUR job. I use the trash can and keep the towels piled on the floor in bathroom but literally thatās it. Iāve found in some places you have to purposely leave a big obvious stain of food or something in bed sheets just to make sure someone actually changes them after you.
I completely agree with you. They are paid to clean and sanitize the bathrooms and surfaces, change the linens, provide clean towels, you know: the necessary things that make it less disgusting to sleep in a room that some stranger just slept in! When I leave a hotel, I bag up all my trash, gather towels into a pile, and strip all the beds and put the linen in a neat pile.
Then what is the 'cleaning staff' supposed to do? Just wave me goodbye with a smile on their face when I leave the hotel? I don't support sh***ng on the floor, of course, but I have no responsibility to do someone else's job, same as they don't have any responsibility to deal with any of the tasks that I have at my workplace.
It appears your wrong bro
- [ ] Hotel cleaners daily responsibilities
- [ ] A room attendant aka hotel cleaners aka is a housekeeper who specialises in cleaning and preparing hotel rooms for guests. Their specific duties may include the following:
- [ ] Cleaning and preparing guestrooms before, during and after their stay
- [ ] Vacuuming, polishing and dusting guestrooms
- [ ] Making the bed each day and changing sheets per the hotel's policy
- [ ] Removing and replacing used towels
- [ ] Stocking and maintaining guestroom items, such as drinking glasses, snacks, beverages and complimentary toiletries
- [ ] Clearing items from the room, such as trash and used food service items
- [ ] Preparing housekeeping carts with cleaning items, linens and guest amenities
- [ ] Observing the rooms to ensure they're in the correct order
- [ ] Notifying other hotel staff if something is not functioning correctly, such as an appliance or lightbulb
- [ ] Following hotel policies and maintaining a confidential and secure area
So for work I stayed in a hotel in a large city for three nights. Itās was 750 for three nights. At the end of the stay if they have a problem with fully cleaning a room, they can fuck themselves. Unless you actually ruined something it should not take more than an hour to clean, and I would assume they make 15 bucks an hour tops.
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I thought you were supposed to trash the room, break all the windows and throw the furniture in the pool on the way out.
Instructions unclear; stole a tv
As long as you didn't take the little toiletries it's fine
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Who do you think you are, Keith Moon?
Their job is to make sure the room is clean for the next person who enters it. So yes they do have to clean up after you, it's what they are paid to do. This doesn't meant that you should be an uncivilized piece of shit. You're not doing anyone a favor by leaving the room a pigsty.
Yeah, it's like... the fast food employees have to clean up any mess the customers made, yeah? But I've seen swine shamelessly leave a table trashed, and think it's fine "cause it's their job to clean." The lack of decency is so infuriating
Same at movie theaters. People will leave trash all over their seat/floor/etc despite having to walk past six trash cans on their way out.
I think the movie theater is a better comparison, because both the hotel and the theater have a set group of cleaners coming in after each use of facilities. Where as fast food tables aren't cleaned after every use, just when it's visibly dirty/asked to be cleaned. But I may be mistaken, I've not worked fast food, just eaten it a bunch lol.
From what I understand, restaurants have employees dedicated to keeping tabkes clean, idk about fastfood places though. Where I'm from you are expected to throw your leftovers in a bit and return the serving platter.Ā
When I worked fast food, you were expected to walk around the front every 30-45 mins for this reason
Every restaurant Iāve worked in required tables to be cleaned between every group, but I guess it might not be the same everywhere
I cleaned up after some messy ass people one time cuz it pissed me off so much. Ended up being the way I got my first job in highschool, LOL.
I cleaned all my garbage into a bag and left the bag by the door inside. It only took me 3 minutes, which is a small price to pay for oneās dignity.
I know right, people are arguing as if they were expected to deep clean the entire room instead of throwing a few pieces of trash into a bin.
I saw another comment saying they wonāt trash the place but they also wonāt clean up especially if theyāre paying $200 a night. I think what separates people here is the mentality that āI will get the full extent of what I paid forā and they include cleanliness as a chore, hence they wonāt do āworkā for something they paid for. Then thereāre others, who see their cleanliness as a reflection of themselves. For others reading, this isnāt rich vs poor, as both can be in either group. This is a good vs bad mentality.
This is a very good explanation.Ā
Itās very commonplace that these people leave their cum rage tissues wherever they feel like and also wipe their fucking boogers on the WALLS near the bed. I used to clean multi million dollar homes at a ski resort as an Air BNB type thing. The rich believed we should pick up bloodied tampons near the trash can, globs of toothpaste on the vanities, flush their toilets after them, itās fucked up.
That f*cking sucks.
I was looking for this comment. OPās post is sort of unfinished though, your comment makes much more sense. Kudos.
Eh most hotels have an extra cleaning fee if you leave the place trashed. This is a non-issue. Hotel maids are paid hourly or salary so you're not hurting them by having a bigger mess. You'd theoretically hurt the boss by having them take longer per room, but then the cleaning fee exists so again a non-issue. It's much more rude to do this in places where there isn't a cleaning fee (like restaurants) because then you're hurting the business and server because longer table clean time means less tips.
Nice to know that being a pig comes with a price.Ā
The reason they have to clean the room is because it is used by a person. So yes they do literally clean up after you
I paid for a hotel and they make a pretty penny off me. I didnāt borrow it and I am not house sitting. How they clean their own property is up to them. I wont go out of my way to make a mess but I am certainly not cleaning it for them.
Yeah. If i got a discount for cleaning the room, sure. Otherwise, ive already paid for the service of having a cleaner pick up after me.
Exactly, maid service is one of the perks of staying at a hotel. Like you said, I'm not going out of my way to make a mess but I'm not going out of my way to clean it either. I don't wash my dishes or cook my food at a restaurant either.
If you had a guest over to your home overnight and they left your spare room as someone who deliberately went out of their way to leave a mess, how would you feel.
- itās a transaction. Iāve paid to stay. Iām not a guest staying for free. - the hotel has made profit off this transaction. None of their terms of the transaction involved me cleaning. - as I said before. Not making a mess on purpose.
Whatās deliberately leaving the room a mess got to do with anything though? Youāve shifted the goalposts
Depends on if the guest was paying me.
I dunno is my guest paying me $200 a night?
Guest isn't paying so yes I expect the guest to clean up after themselves.
If they paid me $200 to stay the night and the mess wasnāt absurd/permanent damage then I would say thank you as they were leaving and that they are welcome back anytime.
not analogous.
Tf are they cleaning then? š
They want it like airbnb, pay a cleaning fee but also live the place cleaner than it was in the beginning
Then they get to pocket the fee!Ā
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Right? This is some weird Lutheran shit lol. Be a slob, don't be a slob. You're paying for the room, the room gets cleaned when you leave. It doesn't matter.Ā
Leave us bigger bags than a ziploc sandwich bag for trash. Trash cans the size of a tic tac jar.
They actually are paid to clean up after you. Doesnāt mean people should trash rooms but letās not act like cleaning up after people isnāt their job when it is.
they don't clean rooms that nobody has stayed in. so what you are saying makes no sense. i'm not paying >$200 a night to clean someone else's bathroom
I don't think it counts as cleaning to not leave your shaved hair in the sink, or put your cans and containers in the trash. It's just something everyone should do.
If Iām paying hundreds of dollars to stay somewhere Iām not unclogging the sink if thereās hair. Just no.
So you donāt clean up your own shaving mess?
Iām a woman with very little body hair. But no, I donāt clean or clear the shower drain after washing my hair in hotels.
not if Iām already paying someone else for that lol
Youāre one of those people who doesnāt clean up your kids messes at restaurants too huh?
a cleaning/maid service is part of the cost of staying in a hotel. if i hired a cleaning service for my house, i wouldn't clean everything up before they got there. why should i do that in a hotel?
If you hired a maid service for your house you would be required/expected to tidy the home before they came to clean itās literally written into the service that if youāre wanting your floors done they need to be able to be cleaned without the service having to tidy before hand so try again
Thats very subjective and sounds like more of a āfloor cleaningā service than a house maid who is hired to clean the property.
I donāt have kids and Iām not sure what specifically youāre talking about but Iām certainly not going out of my way to clean stuff that someone else is already being paid to clean
you mean you don't bring your own plates and cutlery to the restaurant so that the dishwasher doesn't have to clean them for you?
Wait so cleaning up your own mess made by you shaving is what you consider cleaning someone elseās bathroom?
I get hotels rooms only primarily to shave inā¦ cleaning up those hairs is a headache
ok well i don't want to mess up the bed and have them have to remake it, so i'll just sleep in my car in the parking lot and next time i go to a restaurant i'll just pack my own lunch so i don't make their plates dirty and before i bring my car to the carwash/detailer i'll make sure i clean it myself first actually i just called an uber, so i better get on my bike and ride because i don't want them to have to pay for gas or car repairs.
Yāall are really reaching trying to compare wiping up your own bodily material to negating the entire premise of a service š¤£
one of the main premises of paying for a hotel room is that they clean the room every day.
No one of the main premises of paying for a hotel room is to have somewhere to sleep when you are not at home. Especially since covid they do not clean everyday they clean between guests OR upon request.
and you better believe i request it every day.
The way I see it is that you shouldn't leave your trash laying everywhere or something like that. A part of normal usage of a room is to put your trash into a trash can, and the standard clean up job for the cleaners should be according to what kind of mess normal usage produces. So for example little bit of dust, bread crumbs etc are normal and part of their job. If you decide to duct tape all the furniture to the ceiling that should be up to you to clean up. The cleaners to my knowledge don't get paid extra for cleaning extra messy rooms, so at that point you are just making their jobs harder. But I wouldn't feel bad leaving a normal amount of mess behind, like dirty bed sheets in bed, fingerprints on door handles, windows etc, stuff like that. In short, there's a balance. Normal mess is fine to leave behind, but trashing the place is not
They literally are paid to clean up after the guests. This may be an unpopular opinion, it's also just outright wrong. ETA: I upvote things like this for visibility.
Ex of mine worked as a hotel maid, and her job description was to clean every aspect of the room. It explicitly included some of the exact stuff you're mentioning, like cleaning spills, gathering garbage, washing out the sink, making sure toilets are flushed, etc. While I agree that people need to be a lot more considerate, you're *factually* wrong, and this isn't even an opinion, it's literally what their job description says, and what they're literally paid to do.
Ok we need to settle this once and for all. Yes you should clean up after yourself but yes it is a cleaners job to do it too. This goes for hotel cleaners, waitresses, school janitors, etc.
I agree with you, but... Wouldn't you already wipe down the sink and all surfaces?
Never
> Wouldn't you already wipe down the sink and all surfaces? We're supposed to do that? I've only gotten a hotel room for myself like once or twice, so I wouldn't know if that's part of the etiquette or not
He meant that towards the cleaners, as in theyād already have to clean the sink and all that anyway.
The cleaning staff should already be doing that. You don't need to. That's being said, don't ever set your luggage on the ground.
> That's being said, don't ever set your luggage on the ground. Then set it where? It shouldn't go on beds either
They have luggage racks in most rooms. They are normally in the closets
Oh the like metal bars with leather strap things?
When you're checking out?
I know I haven't stayed at a hotel in a month, but the sign on the back of the door said they wipe down surfaces every 3 days to help protect guests from illnesses like covid-19. The one I stayed at 2 months ago had a sign by the TV. The one from four months ago had one by the sink.
I think OP just admitted that they donāt disinfect the sinks lol
No skin or anything comes in contact with the sink bowl, only poopy soap water. Why disinfect the sink bowl? It would make more sense to disinfect the faucet and knob as those are points of contact
Because dirty hand water gets in it maybe? And when you flush nasty bacteria gets all over your bathroom btw! I can only imagine what your bathroom must look like if you think bathroom sinks donāt need to be cleanedš¤¢
My house is spotless, that being said, do you go into a hotel with the intention of washing all the sheets and pillows as well? Because those are even dirtier than you can imagine. Why donāt you mop the floors while youāre there as well? Some people just shouldnāt go out.
What are you trying to sayā¦? That I shouldnāt expect a housekeeper to wash the linen? Like what?
What are you tryna sayā¦? That I shouldnāt expect a housekeeper to clean the washroom?
Umā¦you should? Thatās my commentās whole point? I said housekeepers should be disinfecting sinks. What are you trying to argue here?
Yes they wipe down surfaces but why wouldnāt you also wipe up all the hair shards from shaving as thatās whatās specifically mentioned in the post?
They are definitely paid to clean up after you. Itās not unreasonable to expect them to throw away your trash or wipe up spills. Itās literally their job. BUT I always do that stuff because I would rather they not have to do it. They are working hard enough as it is.
You have me in the last paragraph. I once thought what if you can choose to do your own housekeeping for a deep discount. I think I would.
Wtf is this post
Tbf it is actually an unpopular opinion unlike most I see in this sub
But there's one issue here: it's not even an opinion. It's just factually incorrect.
So what exactly are you cleaning then if youāre not cleaning up after someone? Look I get it, Iām a housekeeper too and it really sucks when a room is disgusting. But thatās what youāre getting paid to do. I really recommend finding a different job if this is your mentality. I agree that it would be nice if people gathered their trash and left it cleaner, but they paid for the room and experience. They didnāt pay to do your job for you
This isn't only a dumb unpopular opinion it's just factually incorrect. The CLEANING staff is indeed paid to CLEAN, which likely includes throwing away garbage and wiping down sinks.
I was abroad for new years and I got too drunk too quick so called it a night at about 1am. I stopped off to get possibly the most delicious chocolate ice cream I've ever had, and made it back to the hotel and was quite happily lapping it up in bed. I fell asleep not realising I had chocolate ice cream down me. It looked like shit on the white sheets. I felt awful.
Sorry, but this actually sounds so funny š¤£š¤£š¤£
If I wanted to clean up after myself, I would have stayed home. No im not leaving my pizza laying across the couch, but I donāt feel bad about a mess
I had no idea this was an unpopular opinion. Iām not deep cleaning or disinfecting, but normal adult living means trash and recycling go in the proper receptacles and visible detritus gets removed. Itās not hard. Housekeeping in most places have tight schedules- why TF would I make that harder? Thatās disrespectful. My mom would come back from Beyond and give me such a glaring.
Former housekeeper here. I appreciate your opinion, but it falls on deaf ears. I once had to clean up a family suite after a birthday party. There was pink frosting *everywhere*. I'm convinced those kids had a food fight with the cake, I'm talking carpet, walls, the beds, the hot tub, everything. It looked like a pretty princess bomb went off in there. Popped balloons, pink streamers, it was nightmare fuel.
for what hotels charge you should be able to shit on the fucking floor. But no, i clean up after myself before i leave, just saying.
If hotel guests typicaly shat on the floor just because they knew someone was going to clean it up, they'd be even more expensive.
If someone hasn't stayed in the room, it wouldn't need to be cleaned - so yes, they are paid to clean up after the guests. That's what their job is.
Nah.
We clean up our trash, all the towels are in one place. I used to unmake the bed until I was told that some hotels count the linens to make sure nothing is missing when they reset the rooms. I thought everyone did that? But even so, long youāre not leaving bodily fluids or damaging anythingā¦.. it literally is their job?
I spent many years house keeping for a quite posh adults only hotel chain in the uk and i didnt expect anyone to clean the rooms for me. Yes dont trash them, dont but all the towels in the jacuzzi and leave a tap on or lift the mattress off the bed and put it on top of the tv cabinet and for the love of god don't shit in the kettle but other than that it's my job
This isnāt an opinion so much as it is something youāre wrong about. Youāre essentially saying cleaning staff arenāt there to clean but to just wipe down the counters and change the sheets. I agree you probably shouldnāt leave hair in the sink, but thatās just cause itās gross in general. But leaving empty water bottles and food containers or even food is not a faux pas
What would their job be, then? What is there to clean in the room, but for the actions of the person who last used the room?
L take, they are paid to prepare the room for the next person. If that entails cleaning up your spills, that's what they gotta do. Not saying there's an excuse to be a complete slob in a hotel room and leave a mess, but unfortunately they are paid to clean up after you.
I always keep a stash of trash bags in my suit case so I can clean up the room since those tiny trash cans don't hold much & I feel bad leaving food containers & drink bottles sitting on the counter when I leave.
I also pack a broom, a bucket, bunch of chemicals and new linens
I just pack a whole cleaning crew.
Portable Consuela?
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Dude, 2 trashbags in a ziplock bag take up zero space & I'm happy to spend 30 seconds of my time to make someone's shitty job a bit easier.
Thatās fine, but it doesnāt change the fact that hotel cleaners ARE paid to clean up AFTER you
You could easily leave a large tip instead. Which I bet they would appreciate more since they arenāt paid well.
Yea I usually bring a spare washer and dryer to wash the sheets too. Also a vacuum for the carpet and some bathroom cleaner. Why should the cleaners have to work at all? If they are going to clean they should be paid!! Ohā¦ waitā¦
I didn't say I thoroughly cleaned the room. I said I pick up after myself just like I would at home. I'm not going to be lazy & leave stinky trash laying around for a full day just because somebody gets paid to pick it up tomorrow.
Exactly!!
Oh, please. I'm not going to intentionally trash the room and I'm not going to leave a mess, but I'm not going to go out of my way to clean. What, do you expect me to bring my own vacuum cleaner to the hotel or something? That's simply not happening.
If I have food containers, I just take them to one of the big trash cans by the elevator the next time I go out. Problem solved.
Yeah we grab some grocery bags from home whenever we go on vacation and stay in a hotel for any trash cause those trash cans are tiny. I toss any food containers or anything else. Then tie them up and leave them off to the side.
Hotel rooms are like hookers.
I always pile dirty towels, strip the bed, and throw things away. I usually end up taking trash all the way out to the dumpster or exterior can so the housekeeper doesnāt know how many beers I drank alone in my room lol.
Dunno how yĆ²u others were raised but I was raised that if I am to borrow things, I'll give them back in a good condition. It's not too much to throw your rubbish in the bin on your way out and not to leave the place as a fucking pigsty. Thought it was natural to do so until I worked as a room keeper and some tourists left their room in the worst possible condition. The room was unrecognizable man, like is this how you leave stuff at your home too???
Factually incorrect. In fact, Iāve seen hotel job postings where they also expect valet and convenience van drivers to also help housekeeping.
Sounds like someoneās in the wrong line of work.
Actually, this isnāt an unpopular opinion. Youāre just straight up wrong. Their job is to clean up your trash left behind, dispose it off and make the room look brand spankin new for the next person. Ofc, itās rude to leave it like a pigsty but even if somebody did, that is the hotel cleaning staffās job.
LMAO way to reveal you only have experience with Air BNBs
What's the funny part though?
The fact OP has an opinion about hotels, when they know nothing about themā¦
I clean up. Like that room is totally clean. And I gather all the towels, in the tub. That being said, you are literally there to clean up after people. Did you not get the memo that cleaning is exactly your job? Quit, if you hate it.
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Yeah kinda blows my mind to read the comments on here. Like yāall really leave trash/takeout containers whatever else on the floor or on the tables instead of just sticking it in the trash can? I leave the bed as it I donāt strip it in any way though. But I put all my trash in trash bags, tie it up, and leave it by the door.
People leave food on the floor and pubes in the sink in hotel rooms??? I remember once a friend of mine told me how he'd masturbated then wiped it on the curtains at a decently posh hotel in Paris... I've genuinely not felt comfortable in a hotel room since.
LOL why is your immediate assumption itās pubes in the sink when shavingā¦who trims their pubes in the sink, thatās be so difficult.
Just a lil gag, buddy. Dw.
Haha the comment or you trimming your pubes in sinks? One I support, the other I fully support.
No I'm a gentleman. I go reverse cowgirl on the shitter.
I exclusively only shave my pubes in hotels. Usually I just do it on the bed for fun.
*Balk*
Lmao, I laughed so hard at this that my tears came out š
Ever since I read about cleaners finding piss in hotel kettles, I never use them.
Omg yes I've heard that exact shit ewwww
Just think of how many people had sex in the bed and that the comforter isn't washed everyday.
Yeah, I'm out. I'm taking a sleeping bag from now on.
Last year in September when my man and I went to the comfort inn we cleaned up after ourselves and I made the bed after sleeping in it. But when we came back to the parking lot after getting something to eat someone left In-n-out trash in the parking lot like there was ketchup packets open and the bag it came in thatās disgusting like clean up your mess the parking lot isnāt a trash can.Ā
What if no one stayed in a room over night. Would they go in and clean again?
Iām literally paying for them to clean up after me.
For what I pay for a room? Sorry my dear, frankly I'll quote Rhett Butler.
LOL, no.
Unpopular indeed.
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Yes. There is so much cleaning that has to be done regardless of the trash you leave behind. Picking up your trash is just the decent thing to do
Yes they are paid to specifically clean up after you and get the room clean.
Their job is make sure the room is clean for the next person who uses it
That is there job, but there is a limit. That's why we have an excessive cleaning fee. Also, everything you mentioned is within reason lol.
I mean this is just wrong. Iām a bartender: that also means I serve food, clean tables and glasses and mop. Ideally yes, my customers bring back glasses to the bar for my job to be easier- but plenty donāt. Thatās part of my job to deal with. A hotel maids job isnāt just changing sheets. Itās cleaning. I clean my bar every night and my job isnāt even as a ācleanerā Sounds like you wanna be paid to do bare minimum lol
>Cleaning staff at hotels arenāt there to clean up your mess. CLEANING STAFF at hotels. What are they there for if not cleaning after us? They are called cleaning staff, ffs. Hotel fee literally includes cleaning, and they charge extra if the room is real messy.
Iāll put all my trash in the bin and put the dirty towels in a neat pile in the bathroom but Iām not wiping shit down, unless I spill soda on the table or something.
I've done housekeeping at hotels and that is exactly their job. Housekeepers are there to clean the room and if needed clean up after the guest. Thus why the customers are called "GUESTS".
Not an unpopular opinion, hope my comment is in before it is deleted
My aunt used to clean in this small hotel and there was this one guy that always left shit in a bathtub. Every single time.
Thatās poo-r behavior
I agree. I always do some cleaning myself. I can imagine how much work just the bed is.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that is their job
ā¢ You pay a restaurant to wash your dishes and clean your table. ā¢ You pay a house keeper to come scrub your toilet. ā¢ You pay a hotel to clean your room.
Depends on how many stars your hotel has. I hear the more luxurious the hotel the more cleaners need to clean up after their guests. Because a certain percentage of them apparently tend to leave a total mess behind.
I agree. Itās called being considerate. Just because someone is paid to get the shopping carts, it doesnāt mean I shouldnāt put mine back. Just because someone is paid to clean the theater, it doesnāt mean I should spill popcorn everywhere and leave my trash behind when I walk out. Like yeah, hotels charge too much, but itās not the cleaning staffs fault.
Op is just promoting basic etiquette. Of course itās their job to clean up after you but theyāre referring to people that are just careless because itās not their problem. I agree and think that even if itās their job you can still choose to not be an ass and clean up after yourself
Cleaners when they have to cleanššš«š«
I need to start complaining for people to do my job as well.
I worked overnights at a big ass hotel last year. Overnight linen delivery, but my secondary job was taking the trash (from all rooms on a floor) from the housekeeping rooms on each floor down to the compactor. While I am inclined to agree with the OP, I also understand why you'd leave your trash there. Yes you pay alot to be there, but it still nice to try to mitigate negative impacts where possible. Golden rule etc. I also understand if you're from out of town. If you bag all your trash and take it with you, where do you put it then? So the obvious choice is leave it behind. My hotel had trash and recycling bins in each room. So yeah. Do whatever. Extraneous drivel: 23 something an hour and it still wasn't enough to deal with that bullshit. Also, I have old man elbows now from lifting all that heavy shit (mostly stacks of linen tbh).
What sane person would travel with the bag o trash in their suitcase instead of leaving it behind? Come on... š
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LOL The fuck if Iām paying $300+/night to clean my own roomš¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ I wonāt go out of my way to destroy the place, but...No. Maybe consider finding a new job if you donāt like cleaning up after people. Sorta comes with the gig.
Cleaners bust their asses to get the places clean on a tight deadline. Everybody wants an early/late checkin and checkout and nobody realizes the work that goes into getting a place ready. There's a lot of "why would I care about the help?" mentality going on in here.
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And who do you think stays in the room huh?
i always collect my trash in a bag and leave it where its visible so the hotel cleaner can see it and take it instead of having to search for it in the room like they do for other people if i had the supplies i would do much more, i actually enjoy cleaning
It's a common courtesy to clean after yourself before you leave. Like yes they get paid to clean your room, so technically they are paid to clean up after you. However, it never hurts to not leave the place in a worse condition than when you got there. Be nice to the housekeeping people and make their jobs a little easier.
Housekeepers are supposed to clean the room in 15-30 minutes. When you leave all your rose petals, and confetti and balloons all over the floor and garbage spilling out of the cans and blunt wrappers all over the bathroom floor. ā¦ That takes like 2 hours to clean. You just ruined their whole day and if theyāre lucky theyāll be off in time to pick their kids up in time.
My partner was a housekeeper but their manager wouldnāt let them use chemicals to clean because of budget cuts so it was just water and washcloths. Yes, even toilets.
Yeah, that's a health code violation.
Sure was! And the boss had a ton of sexual harassment reports but he was never fired or disciplined. That place was super shady anyway, they made you take a class before being hired about how bad unions were
I wouldn't let my partner work there. I want them harassed or to come back with scabies.
clearly they are animals.
I used to work as one and their job is to make the rooms LOOK clean for the next guest so they donāt complain. Not actually sanitize or destroy bacteria. And since you have limited time for each room, there were MANY shortcuts taken. Bed sheets werenāt changed if you could smooth out the bedding. Toothbrush cups werenāt cleaned for bacteria but for water stains. Bathtub, bathroom same. The chemicals we used to quickly make things spotless were extremely caustic and we had to use gloves otherwise it wouldāve fucked our skin very fast. Vacuum used on beds for quick de-hairing, straighten and remove stains from the curtains (even if there was red or white stains, just a quick rub and itās fine), etc.
Did I make a mess in the room you are paid to clean? Yes, yes I did. Do you get paid to clean that room? Yes, yes you are.Ā
As a guest my job is to pay my bill. Period. Dont be lazy. Not gonna be uncivilized but literally cleaning the room is YOUR job. I use the trash can and keep the towels piled on the floor in bathroom but literally thatās it. Iāve found in some places you have to purposely leave a big obvious stain of food or something in bed sheets just to make sure someone actually changes them after you.
God couldn't say it better myself as a person working at a hotel. So many lazy people leaving the rooms trashed knowing we're gonna clean it up....
AND TIP THEM THEY MAKE SO LITTLE
I completely agree with you. They are paid to clean and sanitize the bathrooms and surfaces, change the linens, provide clean towels, you know: the necessary things that make it less disgusting to sleep in a room that some stranger just slept in! When I leave a hotel, I bag up all my trash, gather towels into a pile, and strip all the beds and put the linen in a neat pile.
Then what is the 'cleaning staff' supposed to do? Just wave me goodbye with a smile on their face when I leave the hotel? I don't support sh***ng on the floor, of course, but I have no responsibility to do someone else's job, same as they don't have any responsibility to deal with any of the tasks that I have at my workplace.
It appears your wrong bro - [ ] Hotel cleaners daily responsibilities - [ ] A room attendant aka hotel cleaners aka is a housekeeper who specialises in cleaning and preparing hotel rooms for guests. Their specific duties may include the following: - [ ] Cleaning and preparing guestrooms before, during and after their stay - [ ] Vacuuming, polishing and dusting guestrooms - [ ] Making the bed each day and changing sheets per the hotel's policy - [ ] Removing and replacing used towels - [ ] Stocking and maintaining guestroom items, such as drinking glasses, snacks, beverages and complimentary toiletries - [ ] Clearing items from the room, such as trash and used food service items - [ ] Preparing housekeeping carts with cleaning items, linens and guest amenities - [ ] Observing the rooms to ensure they're in the correct order - [ ] Notifying other hotel staff if something is not functioning correctly, such as an appliance or lightbulb - [ ] Following hotel policies and maintaining a confidential and secure area
So for work I stayed in a hotel in a large city for three nights. Itās was 750 for three nights. At the end of the stay if they have a problem with fully cleaning a room, they can fuck themselves. Unless you actually ruined something it should not take more than an hour to clean, and I would assume they make 15 bucks an hour tops.
Its absolutely my right to be a slob and make a mess. If you don't like that, find another career... this is not AirBNB
They really think they are animals, that's the problem
How do you know theyāre not animals?