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, 22 Aug 2008 00:17:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 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://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2006/08/31/hotels-profit-by-making-check-out-times-earlier/#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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