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Hotels should start proposing discounts for not cleaning the room every day. If I stay in a place for a couple of weeks, I’d be happy to have the bedsheets and
by Renaud 4y ago
Hotels should start proposing discounts for not cleaning the room every day.
If I stay in a place for a couple of weeks, I’d be happy to have the bedsheets and towels changed once and the room made like every 3 days at most.
I mean, most of us don’t do more than that at home. Less room cleaning would save on staff and laundry et be a net benefit for the environment.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Hotels should start proposing discounts for not cleaning the room every day. Hotels have, in many cases, just stopped having daily room cleaning, without offering a discount: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hotels-end-basic-amenities-no-more-housekeeping-skimpflation/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hotels-end-basic-amenities-no-m...
- grogenaut 4y agoBut that is a discount, they didn't raise your rates.
- PakistaniDenzel 4y agoIt's equivalent to the shrinkflation you see in supermarkets, I wouldn't call that a discount
- grogenaut 4y agoI think the same way you can't a have a sale year round if it's been a year it's just what they sell.
- bombolo 4y agoYou mean same price for not cleaning and paying premium for cleaning
- rippercushions 4y agoMany Marriott hotels have been offering 500 rewards points for not cleaning your room for years now. It's all or nothing though, you can't just reduce the frequency of cleaning.
- moeffju 4y agoThat was ended in August 2020: https://onemileatatime.com/marriott-eliminates-make-a-green-choice/ https://onemileatatime.com/marriott-eliminates-make-a-green-...
- supernova87a 4y agoThis causes unexpected problems. Depending on how it's implemented (and in a "fair" way or not), the housekeeping / cleaning staff object to this sometimes on grounds that they're being deprived of hours of work. So in fact I have experienced at some hotels (off the books of course), the housekeeping staff asking you to not accept the points-for-no-housekeeping option. It's kind of like the situation I heard a where a new "green"/eco building was being built on campus. The plumbers union objected to the decreased amount of copper pipes being installed and the associated lesser amount of labor they were employed for (due to water saving fixtures, no flush urinals, etc) so the university had to give in to allow all the usual pipes to be installed even if they weren't to be used. (or maybe it was in union anticipation of the eco-solution failing some day and needing to fall back on the traditional plumbing setup). Conflicting incentives...
- nicbou 4y agoLabour that is not used inefficiently can be allocated to other purposes. Of course that's just on paper. In reality one person pockets the profit and they eat dirt.
- dumpsterlid 4y agoOk but I'd still rather have a building built with a bunch of useless copper pipes than have the plumbers union annihilated and then have plumbing get gutted as a good paying job and life... and then have plumbing systems everywhere made by people who hate their job and get paid shit? That sounds like a recipe for a literal shitstorm.
- mr_mitm 4y agoI've stayed in hotels that gave you a choice: a voucher for a drink at the bar or getting your room cleaned (except for the last night). Seems fair to me. I could decide each day if I really needed room service or if I'd rather get a free beer.