HotelChatter || Does Housekeeping Really Listen When You Don't Want Your Sheets Changed?

Every year blah blah millions of litres of water blah blah save our planet blah blah If you would like to re-use your towels, please hang them on the rack. If you would like them changed, please leave them on the bathroom floor. Thank you for saving the planet blah blah blah.

Those ones. Has anyone ever got that system to work?

I'm a bit of an eco-warrior in my spare time, when I'm not flying around in noisy polluting aeroplanes burning carbon like there's no tomorrow. I'm also clean. My sheets and towels don't need changing every day.

But! In every hotel I leave my towels neatly placed on the rack. I leave a large note in the bathroom and on my bed, in English and in the native language - in Spanish as well if staying in Miami or California - stating:

"Please do not change my towels and sheets today. I want to use the same ones. Thank you." I ring up the hotel desk and housekeeping and tell them I specifically do not want my towels and sheets changed. I tell all the maids I see in the corridor not to change anything. I wait until they come to clean the room, and remind them again.

But nobody pays the blind bit of notice. The housekeepers change my sheets and towels every single day, sometimes twice a day if I've been wasteful enough to shower in the afternoon.

Is it a lesson in not being anal? Or am I doing something wrong?

Does anyone else ever have the same problem? Let us know.

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juliana
HotelChatter

hmmmn (none / 0)

i don't really recall an instance where i said don't change my towels/sheets and they did anyways. in fact, it's been a while since i can recall one of those little notes on the nightstand.

but maybe housekeeping is really worried about bed bugs and thus don't want to take any chances. although, you look like a pretty clean person...

by juliana on 10/29/2007 at 11:41 AM

Hotelmgr
HotelChatter Member

Re: Does Housekeeping Really Listen When You Don't (none / 0)

I believe you are not doing anything wrong and I don't understand what the problem may be?!

I know a lot of hotels where the staff is quite happy not to replace bed sheets and/or towels (and a lot of places where guests wrongfully expect the towels will be replenished more than once!).

You may not be staying in the right kind of place (((-: or maybe it is against the hotels' policy not to replace towels, although they want to make believe that they are trying to 'save the planet'.

PS: off topic, but I hope you enjoyed our dear French (uber) President's show yesterday on 60 Minutes. In case you missed it, it's all over the internet.

by Hotelmgr on 10/30/2007 at 11:13 AM

femmefatale
HotelChatter Contributing Editor

Re: Does Housekeeping Really Listen When You Don't (none / 0)

It's only ever a problem in posh hotels.

The maids tell me that the 'matron', so to speak, comes round to check their work after they've cleaned the room, and if they don't change the sheets and towels they get a pasting.

So I guess it's not their fault. But it is messed up.

They also throw all my plastic refillable bottles away. I've taken to hiding them in the shoe-cupboard. Any other tips, let me know.

by femmefatale on 11/01/2007 at 10:27 AM

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HotelExec
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Re: Does Housekeeping Really Listen When You Don't (none / 0)

Here's a way we can all be proactive and tell management that we want change. Contribute to change! http://www.donotchangemysheets.com

by HotelExec on 6/27/2008 at 11:40 AM

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