A hotels success not only comes from their customer satisfaction but also the cleanliness of their hotel. With the clock ticking, housekeeping staff try their best to clean ] hotel rooms and make guests happy. Often times rushing through cleanings, missing important areas of a room, and using the wrong supplies. This can lead to unhappy dissatisfied customers and bad customers reviews for your business. According to a study done by Emprise, a support services company in the U.K. specializing in cleaning and security. Hotel cleanliness is the number one concern of hotel guests. One poor review can affect a hotel’s bottom line, costing the hotel 30 customers and $3,257.84 in lost revenue. Potential customers read these poor reviews, then continue on their search for a suitable hotel. According to an article written on, PhoCusWright, TripAdvisor, customers feel more confident in their decision when they read reviews and 98% say they find them “accurate of the actual experience”. Here are some housekeeping cleaning tips on getting a superb clean and comfortable hotel clean in 1⁄2 the time. Most housekeepers have a checklist with them that ensures their hotel cleaning is effective. This decreases the likelihood of any unpleasant surprises. Here is a guide on how to clean a hotel room in under 30 minute.

Keep Your Hotel Cleaning Supplies Close.

Making sure your hotel cleaning supplies are within close proximity is crucial to effective cleaning. Always place your cleaning supplies in the same place, so you can get to them quickly. Place a towel down, under your hotel cleaning supplies in case a product leaks. You don’t want to make extra work for yourself.

Give yourself some fresh air, and air out the room.

Open the windows and air it out ( close the windows when your done cleaning). If a guest’s room smells badly, they will wonder what else isn’t clean. This only takes a minute and can make your guests happy. Scan the walls and ceiling for spots of stains. Clean up any stains if you see them. Stains are one of the 1st things a guest notices when entering a hotel room.

Vacuuming or shaking the drapes is also very critical towards a clean room.

Some housekeepers also whack the drapes with a towel to get dust out. The drapes should be free of dust or cobwebs after that.
You also want to make sure that the drapes open and close efficiently. While vacuuming the drapes make sure to go from top to bottom. So that everything falls on the floor. Then you can sweep or vacuum the excess when you clean the floor.

Throw out any rubbish remnants of your previous guest.

Carry a new garbage bag, scan
the room you’re cleaning and throw out anything that needs to be discarded. You can also tidy up anything that is slightly out of place. Before starting your hotel cleaning.

Let your bathroom cleaning solution do all the dirty work.

Apply toilet bowl solution, getting as close to the toilet inner rim as possible. Then spray down the shower with an effective tub and tile cleaner. This gives the toilet bowl solution and the shower solution time to work. Making your job easier, requiring less scrubbing to remove soap scum and residue, off bathroom surfaces. Spray down the Let it do its thing, for at least 10-15 minutes before removing soap scum and other debris off these surfaces.

Guests will certainly notice dust in their hotel room.

Dusty room fixtures, are one of the most common complaints of hotel guests.
Dusting, light fixtures, ceiling fans and furniture using the appropriate microfiber cloth, helps remove more dust and debris. Making guests hotel room scream, IM CLEAN. Don’t forget to clean and sanitize the surface, clock, telephone and remote control. After cleaning, high contact pieces like remotes and light switches, hold them up to the light to make sure
there are no fingerprints or dust left on them. Check the remote, phone and clock after cleaning to ensure they are in good working order. Check any wires to ensuring they
are tidied away and in good condition.

There most comfortable place in the room.

The next step is to accurately make the beds, according to your hotel guidelines. Place clean hotel sheets onto a clean bedside table/night stand and strip the bed using the bottom sheet as a ‘wrapper’ to bundle the dirty sheets into creating a package. Scan the mattress, checking for stains and bed bugs as well. Scan under the mattress and on the sides. If there are bed bugs present you would see brown and red stains. You want to be as thorough as
possible while completing this task because this is where the guests are going to sleep. It’s probably the most important piece of furniture in the room.

Achieve a spotless clean in ½ the time.

Re-enter the hotel bathroom. Since, this is one of the most unsanitary spots in the entire room, you want to make sure its sparkling clean. Wipe down the inside door handle with disinfectant spray and leave the microfiber cloth on the inside door handle, when your done. Scrub and rise the shower to remove soap scum and residue. This should take less time. The shower and tub cleaner have had plenty of time to work dissolving stubborn soap scum and refreshing the shower or bath. Use the appropriate microfiber cloth and window cleaner for a streak free clean mirror. Wipe down the sink working from the outside in using the appropriate cloth, paying particular attention to the faucet handles. Dust the cabinets and deodorize the whole room. This is another room that everyone spends some time in. So, keeping it clean will make them more
likely to come back. Last Clean the toilet, working from the outside in with the appropriate microfiber cloth. Replace your hotel amenities, towels, soap and shampoo in the appropriate spot in the bathroom.

A squeaky clean floor.

The floor is another place guests notice first when entering a room. Sweep and then wash the bathroom floor with a microfiber mop to catch any foreign matter, your broom might leave behind. Little particles or hair for instance may be hard to get with a vacuum. Make sure to back out of the room while washing the floor to avoid leaving footprints behind and stepping on wet surfaces. That way you don’t step on the entrance twice.
When you are finished mopping the bathroom floor, use the microfiber cloth on the inside door handle to wipe down the outside door handle after you close the door.

Last, move on to vacuuming the rest of the room.

Some vacuuming techniques include vacuuming into the room over the high traffic areas. This makes sure that you get the most stepped on places. After you finish vacuuming near the windows. Don’t forget to close the windows and adjust the drapes. Then proceed to finish vacuuming the room. Wipe down the inner and outer door handle with disinfectant before exiting the room.

 

Housekeeping checklist:

Microfiber cloths

Clean linens, towels and hotel toiletries

Hotel cleaning supplies, trash & linen bags handy in a caddy.

Vacuum the drapes, or shaking the drapes.

Throw out trash from around the room

Spray down disinfect bathroom surfaces

Dust room fixtures and furniture

Strip and make the beds

Clean the shower/bath, sink and toilet

Sweep and Vacuum the Bathroom Floor

Vacuum the Rest of the Room & Close the Windows

Some Helpful Tips
Check for brown/red stains on bed after pulling up sheets.
Clean one part of a room at a time.
Freshen the shower Curtain with laundry detergent or get a new one.
Make sure there are no fingerprints on any high contact areas
(remote, door knobs, light switches)
Dust the cabinet and clean the grouts.
Vacuum in a W pattern
Vacuum out of the room from wall to door way.
Use color coded Microfiber Cloths