Re: holloway question

<earthage wrote:

> EnEss wrote:
>> Just about all hotels have daily housekeeping service, even super budget
>> motels, unless a guest asks the HK staff NOT to clean his or her room for
>> some reason. Otherwise, HK staff will clean the room, whether the guest
>> is
>> checked out or not (unless there's a Do Not Disturb sign on the door and
>> the
>> maid knows the guest hasn't checked out). When they get to it is another
>> matter. They get to it when they get to it. Sometimes it can be very
>> early
>> (which can be a pain sometimes), but it could be much later...late
>> morning
>> or even early afternoon.

> I'm talking about cleaning a room after checkout. If her roommates had
> checked out, they made not have cleaned the room immediately, so when
> her mother and stepfather got to the Holiday Inn, things may have still
> been in the room like the toothbrush.

Well, this isn't my area of expertise, but I don't know of any reason why HK
staff would clean rooms of checked out guests sooner than they would rooms
of guests staying over another night. The HKs just start getting around to
the rooms at a certain time every day and they're done when they're done.
I'm sure mgmt gives staff a certain time by which all rooms must be clean
and ready.

Just about every hotel and motel I've been to has had a check-in time which
is the earliest a new guest can access the room. I've heard of people
getting to a hotel ahead of check-in time and having to wait while the room
is cleaned before they get keys to go in.

I think it's a misconception to assume HK staff pounce on a room the second
a guest checks out to insure that room gets cleaned first.

At any rate, I do remember reading NH's mother was let into the room her
daughter had occupied (w/ 3 roommates) and found NH's things all packed,
along w/ her purse, passport and other personal items. And I also heard the
mom saying on one of the shows that she's occupying the same room her
daughter was and has been since she got to Aruba. I thought that was kind of
weird too.

But it does sound like the room was not entered between the time the group
checked out and the hotel was informed that a guest was missing and there
might be an investigation.

> This has nothing to do with this but just made me think. I once took
> my luggage to my car before checking out of a Marriott, and when I went
> back to the room to make sure I had gotten everything, the tip that I
> had left for the maid on a table in the room was gone but the room had
> not been cleaned at all. I guess someone must be outside waiting for
> guests to leave so they can grab the tips.

Could be. It might have been the HK herself, or himself, checking the room
to see if a tip is left and collecting it before getting around to clean the
room. But yeah, it could be a thief too. The world is full of opportunistic
sleazes.

NS
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