Comments on: Hotels profit by making check-out times earlier http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2006/08/31/hotels-profit-by-making-check-out-times-earlier/ Living the first class life -- at coach prices Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:55:54 -0700 hourly 1 By: Marco http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2006/08/31/hotels-profit-by-making-check-out-times-earlier/#comment-24487 Marco Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:49:05 +0000 http://upgradetravelbetter.com/?p=300#comment-24487 goodday, I am a small hotel owner from belgium, early checkout also allows us to make earlier checkin Please also remember that a 400room hotel is rarely fullbooked. a checkout before noon (11 am.) just gives us a 75% smoother planning goodday,
I am a small hotel owner from belgium, early checkout also allows us to make earlier checkin
Please also remember that a 400room hotel is rarely fullbooked.
a checkout before noon (11 am.) just gives us a 75% smoother planning

]]> By: Mike Sullivan http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2006/08/31/hotels-profit-by-making-check-out-times-earlier/#comment-172 Mike Sullivan Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:39:00 +0000 http://upgradetravelbetter.com/?p=300#comment-172 Well, not only the late check-out fees, but by getting guests to leave their rooms earlier in the day, and only permitting new arrivals to check in much later at some properties (as late as 4:30 PM in a few hotels I've been in), a big or busy hotel can do with fewer housekeeping staff. Obviously, it takes less staff to turn over 400 rooms in five hours than it does to turn them over in three or four hours. Well, not only the late check-out fees, but by getting guests to leave their rooms earlier in the day, and only permitting new arrivals to check in much later at some properties (as late as 4:30 PM in a few hotels I’ve been in), a big or busy hotel can do with fewer housekeeping staff.

Obviously, it takes less staff to turn over 400 rooms in five hours than it does to turn them over in three or four hours.

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