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Housekeeping - work exchange or professional?

Housekeeping and Maintenance

Josh started this discussion 17 years 1 month ago

Some hostels use work-exchange staff for cleaning the hostel. Other hostels hire outside cleaning companies or employees.

How do you keep your hostel clean and what works best in your situation?

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boofer

17 years

I think, that is a question of prices.

If you have your own employees, they are cleaning the rooms, you know that is the work of the Hostel, and if there made mistakes, there accept the minde.
If you have a company, you say - sorry that was the company, and after many problems you charge with them about the price.

I tryed both, company and employees. The last condition is the best.
The problems are only:
- to organize hollidays
- if one of your emplyees are ill
- to organize freetime, if is verry buzzy
- how much you will pay per hour
- what you to do in the low season
- it is not easy to change in a short time a employer

I have in my Hostel two womens and one student, they are cleaning the rooms. In the season and the weekens they are two every day in the Hostel to until 3 p.m.
In the low season or low periods is only one person in the Hostel.
They have no fulltime job, only 30 hrs per week.
I know, some Hostels working with students together. I think that is ok, but if you change many times, because the left the job, how ever, it´s change also the style for cleaning.
Clean means not any time clean.
Girls see it other than boys! :rolleyes:

Last I will say, it is better for each Hostel, if the guest feel like at home and respect the work others.
I have more time for other work, if not each guest thin, we are garbagecollectors ( look kitchen, bathrooms some times )
danilo

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Josh Hostels

17 years

In the hostels I've worked in there were a few different situations:

200-bed hostel with 4 to 6 backpackers per day cleaning the rooms on work-exchange. It was difficult to keep clean. Employee turnover was high and they weren't motivated.

60-bed hostel with 2 or 3 outside cleaners (paid). They did a great job.

130-bed hostel with a couple of internal cleaners (1 paid, 1 exchange). The cleaning was good.

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boofer

17 years

I tryed both - company and employees.
The employess they I have very taff. The are working hard, prepare the rooms very well and to do something more, if there have time.

So I have no problem at the moment at all.
The company was fast but incorrect.
The rooms was cleaned but not fine prepared , how we like to offer this for our guest.

Every person, they are cleaning need a feeling, to understand what there prepaire.
We had in our network also al lot of discussions, what is better, what not.
You can find very good companies or employees.
Try and test it, and than you can say - yes this is what I want.
Danilo

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