hotels - tidying the rooms.

[joko]

just curious to whether others feel the same really

when i stay somewhere, i dont want anyone coming into the room, any more often than say every 3 days or so - ideally not at all until i ask.

i dont need the covers on my bed straightening, i dont need someone going round moving stuff about

one place had placed a set of ceramic whales, right beside the bed- on the window ledge, where i want to put my clock, book, drink etc, so i moved them to the other end, out the way - also so i didnt break them.

every single day she came in put them back where she wanted them... every day moved them back... this was a pretty crazy woman in general though - had a nightmare there - they stole stuff, threw my things away, refused to give me a key etc.

but i assume there are other things similar that go on in other places.

i know some have a system where you let them know if you want new towels or a change of bedding, with a hook on the door or something etc

so what do you think? do you want daily 'faffing', or just be left alone?


i just watched 4 in a bed and apparently they went in the room 2-3 time a day and just straightened their things, lined things up, folded things etc - that would irritate me.

cheers

[grasscarp]

I was in a hotel in Singapore on business. Very top hotel. They constantly tidied when I wasnt there. Came in after work to find a cake on a plate for me. Started to eat it and decided it was the most delicious cake ever. Stopped halfway and went for a swim on the fifth floor open air swimming pool. Came back into room ready to eat the other half. It was gone..... Never forgotten this. They can be too zealous.

[SpikeyBush]

Why can't hotels of the same chain have the same TV package? In Amsterdam I got there at 9pm Sunday night and put channel 24 on for the TopGear Ferrari special. The following Sunday I was in their branch in Heerlen in southern Holland. Put channel 24 on, it was the same TV, same remote control, same everything but channel 24 was not BBC2. It was something I would not like my kids to see. Thanks to that I missed the TopGear British Leyland special. I had to endure Sandy from Milton Keynes receiving pleasure from three men instead. I kept that channel on for three hours in the hope TG would come on eventually. Honest!

[snags]

''receiving pleasure from three men''

Clarkson, May and Hammond?

[jno]

that's what the Do Not Disturb signs are for (that and not waking you up). But if you've got ceramic whales it sounds as if you're in some kind of independent B&B, and they tend to have their own rules. If you don't like the landlady all you can do is move.

[SpikeyBush]

Snags, Clarkson must be impotent (the way he drives and the amount he smokes), May's 'lad' dropped off so he says and Hammond can't reach.

[joggerjayne]

I thought the "Do Not Disturb" signs were so that the chambermaids don't try to let themselves in when you're mid shag.

[Eve.]

I've stayed in hotels for both work and leisure, lived in some for a while.

I'd use the DND sign if nothing needed doing, put any towel to take away in the bath etc... I always find the compulsion to leave the hotel room tidy though before I leave it, I know there are people coming in to clean it but I wouldn't leave it a mess for someone else to clear up.

[joko]

i think its the sheer amount of times in one day they come in - as grasscarps example - in this tv show they were in and out numerous times - which is unnecessary and makes you wonder why... are they just nosy? are they just hoping to catch you at it?

i once stayed at a revolting B&B and the owner barged in the room at the crack of dawn and stood staring at me an my boyfriend naked in bed. unfortuantely we were in the situation of having no choice but to stay there again one night years later and remembering this, i stuffed the bottom of the door so he couldnt get in... he went ballistic and shoved and shoved, he was outraged ... he was a horrible seedy little man...
i had a horrible feeling he was watching us too...either by camera or spy hole...
there was a huge list of horrible things - remotely turning the telly off so hed save electricity - both times - or perhaps to make us get bored and have sex?
he was actually resealing little plastic one-portion cartons of jam... so many times that the edges were covered in little fibres and grit!
a pot of marmalade with actual mould around the top, stale, 3yr old crackers for breakfast, a massive spring sticking up through the bed...
every thing was ancient and tacky - flock wallpaper, 1970s carpets, it was like faulty towers - it was like a comedy film set.... i didnt mind that side of it actually - as a set designer it was very interesting haha.

[Barmaid]

A couple of years ago we stayed in quite a posh hotel with the kids in a family room. We were a bit late up and so consequently there was a bit of a rush to get down to the pool for a swim before breakfast. We left the room in a hurry making it look like the four horsemen of the apocalypse had partied there all night.

Imagine my shame when we went back to collect our stuff to go out to find the scattered clothes neatly folded, the cases closed and put away, the beds made, the laptops and various games neatly stacked, the towels refreshed and hung up, the dirty crockery removed etc. Whilst I was grateful, I was absolutely mortified.