Revealed: 35 Shocking Secrets & Tips By Hotel Employees They Never Tell Guests

Usually, that reason is hotel protocol but on an off-day, a housekeeper will use these 3 knocks as your final chance to get your room cleaned or your towels changed. It’s also your 3-strike rule for them barging in, in which case, you forgot to leave the Do Not Disturb sign up.

This may return us to the snooping aspect of a hotel maid’s job but their favorite part of checking you out, and who you are as a guest, is reading your notes and documents. Leave a simple package behind and they can see where you live or came from. Write down your thoughts on a bedside pad and they’re inside your head. We think we’d rather have them try on our clothes.

Most hotel room safes aren’t actually that “safe.” Hotel staff, in general, has access to it if need be and this surprisingly includes the housekeeping department. Since these mini-safes aren’t really insured against external theft, it might behoove any guests carrying valuable items to ask the front desk to hold these materials for them in their personal safe.

Earlier we discussed how mini-bar bills are the most avoided bills in the hotel industry. It’s easy to complain or deny that you were the last guest to break into that forbidden fridge. However, the reason hotels will void your mini-bar bill isn’t that they’re “good for it” – it’s because they’re just tired of hearing the same excuse from every guest that tell their maids someone drank that small, over-priced beer before you checked in.

It’s a pain in the neck to get the smell of cigarette smoke out of a hotel room and at times, the hotel maids are at loss for what they can do to clean it properly (if they have time). The reality of the situation is that they want you to smoke so they can charge you up the wazoo for damages. This way, they make a little extra dough for cleaning supplies or, well, whatever else they want to spend it on.

If you thought to blacklist guests from not just one hotel, but many, was pretty harsh then you’ll love this one. Hotel staff, especially housekeeping, definitely keep tabs on those guests that check-in to have an affair or a one-time encounter. We may have already covered that yes, maids gossip about their guests. However, if you’re a regular and your face is familiar to them for obvious reasons, you’ll never live it down.

Hotel maids have a discrete arsenal of cleaning weapons that can be at home in your pantry or in your bathroom. Instead of soap, vinegar and water do the trick and leave a surface spotless (if they have time). Another trick of the trade if the benefits of using a toothbrush to clean the cracks and small corners in hotel bathrooms. That’s not a bad tip to remember for house cleaning, either.

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