4. Piling Trash Outside a Full Bin
Hotel trash cans are notoriously tiny, often holding barely enough volume for a single day of normal use. When you order takeout food, open packages, or accumulate empty water bottles, those small bins fill up remarkably fast.
However, stacking your greasy pizza boxes, half-empty coffee cups, and sticky food wrappers next to an overflowing bin turns a quick room turnover into a frustrating, unhygienic chore for the housekeeping staff. Loose trash forces the cleaning crew to bend down and pick up individual pieces of garbage by hand, which wastes their limited time and exposes them to unsanitary conditions.
If you know you will generate more garbage than the provided bins can handle, act proactively. Ask the front desk for a few extra plastic trash bags when you check in, or use the plastic bags from your own shopping trips.
Consolidate your loose waste into these larger bags and tie them off securely before you check out. If you order food delivery, place the empty containers back into the original paper delivery bag. Keeping your garbage contained speeds up the cleaning process and keeps the environment sanitary for everyone.
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Thank you for the helpful information about proper room etiquette when staying at a hotel/motel.
I worked as a housekeeper. I strip the beds as a guest putting pillow cases in a pile, fitted sheets in a pile, sheets in a pile and duvets. I do this because I worked with a woman who just kept all that on if it looked “clean enough”. N I loved when people did it for me. And I wipe ALL mine and my families hair out off the bathtub. Cause that was the worst
I don’t want to sleep on used sheets that someone else left body waste on
Touché
Don’t forget a tip
Be honest… they don’t want the beds stripped because they don’t always replace the sheets and definitely don’t replace the duvet covers!
That’s what I thought. So I just pile them neatly -easy to see there are no remotes, etc in the pile.
Exactly!!!
I was a hotel housekeeper while in college. So, I do follow these rules. Yes, they are helpful reminders to treat hotel staff with respect.
Great information
All good points, but I also suggest stopping by the front desk (or calling right before you depart) and telling the staff that you’ve actually left – especially if it’s very early in the morning. That way the housekeeping staff can get an earlier start on that room. Several desk clerks have said they appreciate the courtesy
After reading all the 10 Things Hotel Staff Hate I can only imagine how frustrating the staff would be since all the things are what COMMON SENCE should show in this article. I have never done any of those things and can’t imagine that there are people who would not respect some ones property. I believe most of the things is how people were raised poor parenting!