Why do hotels charge so much for laundry?

Hotel laundry service is expensive because it involves a lot of labor and resources. Hotels have to pay their staff for the time they spend washing, drying, folding, and ironing your clothes. They also need to use high-quality detergents and fabric softeners that are safe for all types of fabrics.



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Most hotels offer a laundry service where you place your dirty clothes in a bag you can find in your in-room closet, fill out an attached card listing the items you need laundered and the additional services you require (such as dry cleaning or ironing), and leave the bag in the hall.

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Over a year's time, a 150-room hotel will spend approximately $75,000 on its laundry operation, and of that total, about 25 percent will be for linen replacement. By effectively removing stains, a hotel can help optimize its laundry operation and save money by reducing the need to purchase new linens.

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A laundry attendant is in charge of ensuring that clean linens are supplied to the entire hotel. Among the responsibilities include sorting, washing, drying, pressing, and folding clothing and other textile items.

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If it's something that can be cleaned, washed or sanitized and used more than once, it belongs to the hotel, and taking it is STEALING. If you take a towel or towels you may find a charge on your credit card.

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As soon as you realize you left your items at a hotel, call them to notify them. The hotel may have already found your personal property and placed them in a secure lost and found area.

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You can request housekeeping later in the day If you want your room serviced completely, or just need some more tea and coffee for the following morning, call the front desk to arrange it.

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“For example, if a hotel has 100 rooms, the average amount of laundry per room per day is 15 lbs., bringing that total property to approximately 1,500 lbs. per day,” he said. “Using an eight-hour shift, that means equipment must cycle through an average of 200 lbs.

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