While some hotels pair up maids to clean larger rooms, most maids work solo, and interact only on a very superficial level with guests and coworkers. “It is something we are not supposed to do, but many do it anyway.” 4. “Something else we do sometimes is that we use the toilets in the guest’s bathroom, but only if we are super busy and don’t have enough time to go to the staff toilets,” the maid in Orlando says. Exhausted maids who have more time than usual to clean a large suite may secretly catch a few minutes of shut-eye in a guest’s bed. THEY MIGHT USE THE TOILET IN YOUR ROOM.Īlthough most hotels forbid maids from napping or using the toilet in guest rooms, some maids break the rules. “I’ve gotten a ghd straightener and a designer jacket.” 3. “They're supposed to go back to the person who found them and anything they don't want is donated to charity, but usually the supervisors go through and take the good stuff first,” Booboo_the_bear, a maid who has worked in several five-stars hotels, shares in a Reddit AMA. If the items go unclaimed for a set period of time (perhaps 45 to 90 days), some hotels allow maids to keep the items they've found. THEY KEEP ITEMS THAT GUESTS LEAVE BEHIND.Īt most hotels, maids must report any items they find left behind in a room after a guest checks out. “I hated leaving a room not fully cleaned, but there is absolutely nothing you can do about it,” another former hotel maid admits on Reddit.
Sometimes they have high expectations, but they don’t give you enough time.” Because of the time crunch, most maids are not able to clean each room as thoroughly as they'd like, and they skip tasks such as vacuuming, scrubbing the bathtub, and cleaning under the bed.
“To be honest though, management is more annoying. “I find it annoying when a guest has made too much mess to fix in the given time,” she tells Trivago. Depending on the hotel, maids may be assigned a list of rooms to clean or choose rooms to meet their daily quota, which typically ranges from 10 to 16 rooms.Īccording to one maid at a five-star hotel in Orlando, Florida, maids often feel pressure from their supervisors to clean rooms quickly. Hotels have different housekeeping policies, but most maids are allotted 28 to 40 minutes to clean each standard room and up to an hour for a suite. Here are a dozen secrets about their duties, including the constant time crunch, the bizarre (and horrifying) things they have encountered in guest rooms, and the reason they suggest you don’t use the hotel cups. We wanted to learn what their job is really like, beyond the “Do Not Disturb” signs and chocolates on pillows. I’m looking for work these days, so creating this blog has given me a sense of purpose as well as a creative outlet.Hotel maids get little respect (or money) for their physically demanding work. I like to keep the blog fun and hopefully educational, but the preservation of these images is what’s most important to me. As an LGBT individual, what does compiling all of these photographs for the larger community mean to you? There is something very reaffirming about seeing these vintage photos of gay couples, seeing that we’ve always been around. I still buy original photos, but they are getting so expensive that I’m just about priced out of the market. I started looking on Google Images and discovered that these sorts of photos were all over the Internet. I rediscovered them in a box a few years ago that’s what got me interested again. I collected them for years and years, but during one of my many moves they were stored away and forgotten. The Huffington Post: How did you come across all of these photographs? Jeffrey Gent: I started noticing vintage photos of male couples at the 26th St.