Is it just me that cleans up hotel rooms before leaving ??!

[YouJustWouldntLetItLieWouldYa]

Dp thinks it's odd, I bag up absolutely all rubbish, leave bins etc on counters, used towels will be put in the sink and if I have time i'll strip the bed.

In dps fairness he made the comment when I pointed him to the loo with a bottle of shower gel and wad of loo roll after he left a skiddy in their but seriously, I can't be the only one who does this ?? Am I really the only one who would be mortified at the thought of someone tackling the remains of my breakfast in the loo bowl ??!

I used to be a room cleaner and I would have loved you OP.

We had 20 minutes to clean and turn over a family suite plus ensure.

It was shit, I used to work through lunch to meet the deadlines

Going out and knowing what to do with your plates and bedlinen so as not to annoy hospitality workers is such a minefield that it's a good job that most of us on this thread are at home.

My husband strips beds, tidied , cleans and then leaves a tip! He also collects plates and glasses in restaurants and pubs

We have a team who go ahead of the chambermaids making up the room purely to strip beds. It is such a time saver! So thank you to those who do.

But please don't ever stack plates. You get it wrong and it is annoying! And yes, change seen as passive aggressive in a busy restaurant.

I put rubbish in bins, put the used towels in a heap on the bathroom floor and I ensure theres no skids in the loo or hair in the shower.

I don't strip the bed or go crazy though, but I do stay in a lot of budget hotels, where the receptionist is quite likely to also be the person who cleans the loo, or the person serving me in the bar is picking up towels and I don't really want to think ive spent time chatting with someone who thinks im a filthy pig or who has seen my shit streaks!

I used to stack plates thinking I was being helpful until I read on here a few years back that it wasn't helpful at all so I stopped.

I put rubbish in bins and I'll get rid of any stains from the sink/toilet/bath, but that's the extent of it. Some hotels ask that you put dirty towels in the bath, so I do that if asked, but otherwise I'm afraid I don't really think about doing much else.

I don't stack plates in restaurants either, I think it's a) rude to the people you're sitting eating a meal with, and b), causes the waiting staff more work, because they seem to collect things in a certain way. I've never seen a waiter/waitress carry a stack of plates piled one on top of the other, with a load of cutlery and grotty napkins on top!

A moan about chambermaids.

I once left a new nightie (silk, The White Company) on the back of the bathroom door in a 4 or 5 * Marriott . Phoned a few hours later to see if handed in. Nope. Was pretty disgusted. Didn't write to management but with hindsight should have.

We strip the beds and put all the linen together in the bathroom, ditto towels and load the dishwasher.

I don't clean the room or do more than a basic tidy.

On the other hand I do leave a tip!

I've been a chamber maid at several hotels, I can tell you, it does help because you get a time limit and one person who thought they'd today up and clean makes up time for the dirty people down the corridor who have left the room in a pig sty!
I used to be grateful anyway and the tips left were a great bonus but not being filthy was more appreciated.

Rubbish in bins. Towels in bath.

I don't leave my shit all over the toilet anyway, thoroughly unpleasant.

Similar to stacking plates but just as disgusting is people who put all their rubbish in to pint glasses

Why do people do it? Just leave your used napkin on your plate. Don't squeeze it in to the pint glass for someone else to have to remove later

My first job was as a chambermaid and I always leave a fiver for the cleaner.

It's the hardest job I have ever done and even a small tip from guests would make my day.

I would have preferred a couple of quid left on the side than the room being stripped but any gesture would have been appreciated.

I have also waitresses a lot and I do appreciate plates stacked! But that's because I am very short and o hate having to reach across a whole table to get them.
Because of this I am a plate stacker, all sauce and debris scraped onto the top plate, glasses stacked with remaining liquid in the top glass, I also get under the table and clear up after the little ones who have dropped food and I give the table a wipe.

I was brought up to believe that although we were money poor we could be rich in manners so I always do stuff like this.

I hate it when plates get scraped and stacked on the table.

I loathe it when people start banging about scraping plates at the table. it is a really, really grim habit. And terrible manners. you will never know how much you have annoyed the other people at the table, because they are too polite to tell you, but as this is mn I am going to step in and say: stop doing it. It is very bad table manners, very annoying, and ruins the meal for the people with you.

it IS bad table manners you are right Maudlin.

In hotels: I wouldn't start stripping beds but of course I would leave the room tidy and certainly without rubbish strewn about. If I was staying away with someone who started piling up rubbish bags on dressing tables and yanking off sheets I would think they were making some bizarre statement about how we didn't really deserve to stay away or something and would find it very off putting.

If you stay somewhere like a youth hostel there are certain things you are expected to do because it's more like a communal space where everyone pitches in and I do all of that unhesitatingly, of course. In an actual hotel I would get annoyed by someone aggressively "cleaning" around me when we were guests.

I'm one of these people who would never say a thing, but who finds it very unpleasant indeed.

It's also unpleasant when waiters do it.

When in a pub I always put my empty glass on the bar when I'm leaving too.

I agree Maudlin, it's terrible manners and screams "look at me I'm so well mannered!!"'from the person doing it when it's absolutely the opposite

Troys I do that too but I think it's due to being a bar maid for 14 years!