Things that hotel maids do that are annoying...

[TwixOwl]

Currently staying at a hotel in Europe. Each morning I make my bed but leave a sign on the door for maid to clean like empty bins, clean bathroom etc.

Every time I come back to the room she's unmade the bed and bed sheets/duvet presented on the end of the bed in a folded multiple times square lump. I have to unfold whole lot!

I find it odd!

So my question is, what annoys you in hotels that the maids do?

Shes what now???
So you have to re-make your bed every day?
I'd waiting behind the door with a shovel 😉
Or I'd complain to reception

Tuck the duvet into the bottom/sides of the mattress. This really infuriates me... just why?

Yes, I make the bed beautifully, but she just moves whole lot to fold in a pile end of the bed. The sheets are not new or anything. So I have to unfold whole lot and remake the bed again.

"Maids"? Room attendants or housekeepers.

Thank you miss sunshine I knew there was a better word but couldn't think what.

I have never known house keeping un make the bed!!! I really dislike the folding of the toilet roll into a point but I appreciate they are showing they've been there. Maybe that's what housekeeping are trying to do for you. It's strange though!

Maybe I've been lucky but every abroad hotel stay I've had they've been great. And always made the beds

I have never stayed in a hotel that housekeeping fold up the bedclothes at the bottom of the bed. I tend to make my bed, but they come in and do a better job of it.

I really don't like when the duvet is tucked under the mattress as pulling it out is necessary and usually results in the slightly too small sheets coming out as well.

However, I used to be a housekeeper in hotels and there are far more irritating things that guests do than what housekeepers do.

Just leave the bed unmade like most people, & see what she does.

I wish they wouldn't make the bed tbh. Then I wouldn't have to unmake it to get into it.

I also wish they wouldn't take all the excess cushions and decorative bits that I've hidden in the wardrobe and put them back on the bed.

I tend to leave the 'do not disturb' sign up permanently unless I actually need something from them, which I rarely do.

I dread to think. 🙈

I hate the 'pointy toilet paper thing'.
Fine if I wanted to de-wax my ears but pointless (😂😂😂) for what I really want to do.

Are you in Germany, OP? That's what my German friends do (to ventilate the sheets).

The thing that annoys me, like one of the PPs, is tucking my sheets in around the mattress - I have to pull them out again every time as I like the sheets wrapped around me.

Leave the bed unmade so you don't have to redo it or put a huge sign on the bed - or where you put the other sign - that says not to touch the bed because it's already made.

Open the curtains if I’ve left them closed.

A couple of years ago I stayed in a hotel during a really hot spell and the window faced south. There was no air conditioning. I left the curtains closed to try to keep the room a bit cooler but came back to find them pulled fully open and the room was like a furnace!

I’d not made any effort to tell the housekeepers what my plan was so while I was irritated there wasn’t any cause to complain.

Hear hear to both these points. As another former room cleaner, people are pigs, and not always the people you would think. I had spring break gangs of undergraduate boys, bachelor parties and doped-up backing bands for nostalgia acts (this was in the US) who left the rooms spotless and tipped generously, and also polite-looking elderly golfing couples who used the towels as toilet paper or to clean their golf shoes of wet grass and earth.

I think my worst was the middle aged American golfer with the stack of dirty mags next to his bed who liked to stay in the room while it was cleaned. Our youngest housekeepers were only about 14 or 15, and i wasn't much older. Grim.

Put unwashed cushions and counterpanes on the clean linen including the pillow where I'm about to put my face. (I know that's not their fault, it's the branding team or whatever) I remove them as soon as I get in the room.

When sharing a room, we know where we've left our respective towels. I hate coming back to a room where the towels have been folded and put back on the shelf so you don't know which is whose.

I always untuck all the way around the bed as soon as I've removed the grimey bed accessories.

(But I understand the tucking is to make it look neatest)

I tend to make the bed so I can then use it as a "table" to sort stuff into my bag.
No I am not in Germany, but Scandinavia.

I remember in the Czech Republic I used to fill the kettle with bottled water and every day the whole kettle was emptied. After a couple of days I stopped doing it.

I always put the "Do not disturb" sign on the door and ask them in the corridor when I want to swap towels or need extra loo roll etc. I'd far rather they didn't come in!

I don't have them in my room. I just spent myself and leave the rubbish outside the door if the bin gets full.

When you ask for the room to be made up and its not! A recent, UK, work trip and I put the sign out. Returned late to find the same wet towel- yes, there was only 1 to start with! The bins had been emptied though!

All the additional cushions, runners and other tat which gets returned to the bed, despite leaving it off or in a cupboard

The origami toilet paper! I just think 'err, someone has moulded and touched all that end'.