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 ??!

Self catering holidays I strip all beds, tie up bins, clean the bathrooms, kitchens sides and towels in a bath (even clean ones).

Hotels I strip the beds and tie the bin. (Rooms clean we don't go in and throw stuff everywhere)

Once on holiday DN was sick all over her and DSis bed the night/morning we were leaving. We bagged the bedding up with a note to the cleaning staff.

We have only left a tip once in Edinburgh when the cleaners would come in once a day and tuck DD's teddy bears in bed

glasses stacked with remaining liquid in the top glass

That is utterly disgusting. And not a time saver at all.

Stop doing that. Your dining companions will thank you.

Stripping beds makes it look like there os something on the sheets imo.

Stacking plates at a restaurant table is not exactly creating a nice ambience, more canteen-like. I want to enjoy being waited on otherwise I might as well be at home and save the money!

I would leave it tidy :-
hair-dryer back in the draw, used towels in a pile on the floor or in the bath
rubbish in the bins.

I wouldn't strip the bed!

Always strip beds, leave bedding and towels on bed. Bag rubbish, take it to larger bin. I know cleaning is included in the cost of the room but if I can make someone's life a bit easier I will. Wouldn't do it if I was in a rush

Wouldn't even think of plate scraping or stacking. I really wouldn't like to be at a table where anyone started doing that.

I straighten up and put used towels in the bath, it's universal for 'they need washing'. I don't strip the bed as I don't want to know what I've been sleeping on!

I don't clean hotels rooms but rubbish in the bin and towels are the bath as basic courtesy!

Holiday cottages/airbnb I'd clean round the kitchen and bathroom plus if we've brought any of the outdoors in with us (!) then a quick hoover, sweep out the ash if there's a fire etc.

Pre smoking ban people would put out fags in dead glasses. We had ashtrays fgs. I also worked in a pub with a garden and people would trap wasps under glasses on summer evenings. Picking up a glass with a drunk, angry wasp in it in the dark. That was good.

Rubbish in or near bin
Towels in Bath
pull bed neat but not so neat it looks as if it's been changed :)
All leaflets etc they leave out that I move out of the way back in place
woukd never strip the bed but not sure why

I'm actually glad I don't dine out irl with some PPs on here!

glasses stacked with remaining liquid in the top glass

Just WHY would anyone do that at the table? It's disgusting

Stripping beds and leaving bins on the counter is odd, and a bit yuck (the bins thing)

Stacking plates in a restaurant is pretty grim too

I'll only move plates if I'm with the kids, and it's more for my own ends than the wait staff.

It depends how you live while you are in the hotel room - there is little actual tidying to do once you have packed because presumably you didn't throw wrappers on the floor or spray toothpaste everywhere or leave the hairdryer on the floor or drinks puddles on the surfaces (or did you?) I treat the hotel like my house in the sense that I behave reasonably tidily as I go along, and leave the actual proper cleaning for a separate occasion, which I would not inflict on my guests. In the hotel I am the guest, and I don't do the cleaning.

In my house, when people come for dinner, if they are nice enough to go into the kitchen after dinner and help tidy up, they are welcome (I don't expect them to! but family do tend to) - because they are my friends and we do things together. If someone started scraping plates and stacking glasses at the table (EW!) I would be furious and find a way to stop them.

Similarly - at a restaurant table, if someone starts behaving disgustingly with the remains of what might have been a very nice meal, they spoil everything because they are showing gross lack of consideration for the difference between relaxing / entertaining time (eating, drinking, chatting) and tidying time (not to be inflicted on guests so close to a meal). In one's house, even though you are the person doing the work as opposed to staff, and even if you would accept help, you should still keep them separate. In a cafe or restaurant, you are paying the staff and of course they are kept separate. And you ruin that separation and that social time and space for your friends if you start banging about like Mrs Overall.

I am actually quite angry about this! I have two small children and a lazy P / exP and when I choose to take time off from mess and filth - quite legitimately, either by going somewhere where they're charging for doing it for me as a business, or by keeping it in the kitchen in my house and relaxing in the dining room - I really resent that some dickheads are prepared to fuck with that division in the misguided notion that they are being "considerate" or "well mannered". Just grow the fuck up and stop trying to win brownie points for being some milk monitor or something - you are ruining it for everyone!

Just grow the fuck up and stop trying to win brownie points for being some milk monitor or something - you are ruining it for everyone!

exactly this!!!

I'd rather my fellow diners didn't start scraping and stacking plates after dinner in a restaurant, but I'd let it go with a sigh. Lots of people feel anxious about having other people waiting on them.

I'm not sure the comments about being disgusting, grim or milk monitory are in order.

I was once ticked off by a fellow restaurant diner for thanking the waiter for filling my wine glass and removing plates. It wasn't a direct criticism. She just announced it apropos of nothing and naming no names.

Apparently the done thing is to ignore waiting staff. What a tiresome fucking cunt.

I am actually quite angry about this!

You are, aren't you Maudlin.

"Apparently the done thing is to ignore waiting staff"
Done thing by who? Ill mannered people!

And there was me thinking that if you were actually relaxing and enjoying your meal out, then you wouldn't be interested in what was going on at the next table unless they were doing something really disruptive. I certainly wouldn't get really angry about it because it wouldn't even catch my attention, as that's focused on my dinner companions and the table conversation...

I may stack my plates, it depends where I am. If it's a 5* posh restaurant then there's no need as the service should be such that there's no need. If it's my local cafe then I do because they are always busy and the wait staff appreciate us making life a wee bit easier for them. DH and I both used to work in catering and hospitality, and you can always tell the people who have worked in the industry as they are always polite, helpful and say please and thank you.

I always do, I'm sure they appreciate the little extra effort

This thread is interesting. We're just back from holiday and whilst I did make sure the toilet was ok, I didn't really do anything else apart from putting rubbish in the bin and dirty towels on the bathroom floor/in the bath.

I'm bemused at the thought that one should strip the bed in a hotel. Fair enough in self catering and I know Forest holidays are keen for you to do it, but when you're paying a sizable amount to stay somewhere, surely linen stripping is included as part of the service. Ditto cleaning the surfaces.

Likewise in restaurants, I'd be awfully bemused if someone started stacking plates and trying to tidy up. Apart from anything else I thought professional waiting staff carried the plates back in such a way that wouldn't work if they were stacked.

I leave a tip for the cleaning staff, but I'm not sure if I'm leaving too much or too little. How much would be normal for a week?

Stripping the bed is a bit weird.

We always leave hotel rooms tidy, especially the bathroom and all towels in the bath.

And in restaurants - plate stacking is just not the done thing and is very bad manners. It would single you out as someone unused to 'naice' establishments.

Yes, as a former waitress, the plate-stacking, however well-intentioned, does scream 'we think your service is SLOW and we're being PA about it, and when you come to offer a dessert menu we're going to sigh...'

I also used to be a chambermaid, and think there's a distinction between helpful and unhelpful ways to leave a hotel room. Some people actually make the beds, or some of the beds in a multi-bed room, which means room cleaners then need to unmake them to figure out whether they've been slept in and sometimes then strip and remake beds that haven't been touched unnecessarily. And some people refold their used towels and put them back on the bathroom shelf, which gives you the same issues, and possibly involves you putting unused towels in the laundry, when that wouldn't happen if you stuck used towels in the bath and left slept-in beds alone.

The real time-saver for a room cleaner is if you've put all your rubbish in the bin, rather than left it scattered around the floor and surfaces, and haven't left anything that might be rubbish but might also be a forgotten item which the cleaner then needs to bag and log etc. If you'd left me uncluttered surfaces so I could get straight in to cleaning, and not done anything revolting like a turd in the bath or walked a load of grass clipped and mud into the carpet from the golf course before rinsing off your golf shoes in the bath and leaving it full of muck and grass, then you'd have done all that can be expected.