how messy are you in hotel rooms?

[Spinneret]

not very

 

[serenitynow]

If the trash cans were bigger we wouldn’t be so messy

 

[ronandannette]

The same amount of messy as I am at home, I'd imagine. I don't purposely do anything different.

 

[fly girl]

I don't do messy. It is orderly and left orderly for housekeeping. They work hard enough, I am not adding more on to their workload.

 

[tvguy]

Pretty neat. But most of our hotel stays recently have been one night, a place to sleep and shower before continuing our road trip.

 

[bcla]

I'm usually not in one long enough to make it really bad. I do remember staying at an "efficiency suite" style hotel once where housekeeping was only once a week and even after 7 days I never had housekeeping come by. I think I got clean towels about every other day at the front desk.

I won't necessarily tidy it up since housekeeping does. But if there's water around the sink I'll dry it off with a towel and then toss the towel on the floor. And used towels always go on the floor unless it's a hotel that doesn't provide housekeeping every day. I'll leave bar soap in the soap dish. It usually stays if there's daily housekeeping but I think that usually gets replaced (and the previous one cleaned) when a guest leaves.

I don't like 6 pillows on a king size bed so I always place most of them elsewhere and let housekeeping handle it. I'll put as much as I can in the trash, but if it's a pizza box I'll just put it next to a can.

I would never trash a place, but I won't do my own housekeeping.

 

[JLTraveling]

Not messy at all. I do put used towels on the floor as generally requested, and if I have trash bigger than the room trash can I'll neatly pile it beside the can. And of course, I don't do the dusting and stuff. But I think it's just rude to trash a hotel room, those people work hard for not nearly enough money.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I don't think I am messy at all.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Very not messy. My mother was a housekeeper at a motel in Wildwood, although back in the 70s they were called chambermaids. I know how hard she worked cleaning up after people.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

My husband and I are pretty neat when it comes to hotel rooms. We also leave a nice tip too. Both of us have worked in a resort hotel environment, although not in housekeeping, but we’re very familiar with how some people are total slobs and don’t care how they leave the room and most housekeepers don’t make that great of money either.

 

[Meriweather]

Not messy at all. Just like home, everything in place and straighter up.
I can't live in messy

 

[CynBeth]

We try to be good putting things away so they have an easy time cleaning and on the few trips we took last year if there was not daily room service and our trash cans overflowed we took it and threw it away in the can in the lobby.

 

[WDW Traveler]

Like most, we keep the room neat and tidy. Putting things in their place before we leave for the day. Make the bed (staying DVC when they don't come in every day). Towels are hung up. Everything is put away or if we have snacks, water, left neatly on the counter. I always tell my husband, we don't live like slobs at home, we don't live like slobs just because we are on vacation. lol

 

[tzolkin]

Not messy at all. The first thing I do is unpack and organize everything neatly. I will tidy up often and we make the bed daily. I find it very stressful to have a messy room and to dig around in a suitcase, so it makes for a more relaxing vacation when everything is neat.

Last year we did our first vacation where the kids (16, 18, 23) stayed completely separate from us (on another floor in the same building). Spouse and I had a suite with couch area and larger balcony so they spent a good bit of time hanging out in our room. But the few times we stopped by their room, we didn't even step inside because it was such a mess. Everyone just had a small carry-on, so I don't even know how they had enough stuff to be that messy.

 

[kanerf]

Fairly neat, but more hotels should have vacuums in the rooms. I do leave crumbs as I tend to eat breakfast in the room.

 

[andreas272]

When I'm in the room, not so much! Especially when I'm getting dressed but I clean up when I leave the room and when I check out.

 

[rangerxenos]

Depends upon who I'm traveling with. If I'm by myself, it's usually very organized. I have several friends that, when I travel with them, it looks like a suitcase exploded in the room.

 

[sheilafri]

Less messy than DH. Same as at home.

 

[Moliphino]

I don't make a mess, but I'm not as neat as my mother, who would make the beds every morning even with daily housekeeping.

 

[Smugpugmug]

I try my best to be as clean as possible. I live out of my suitcase/carry on bag when I travel so I don't put stuff everywhere. As a kid my mom made my sister and I make our beds at hotels so I do that now even as an adult.