Am I the only one that has a hard time gettin work in hotels? Aren't hotels supposed to be clean? Don't people who pay $75.00 to $125.00 a night to stay there appreciate walking in the establishment and seeing clean carpet? My most recent experience was a convention center inn. Stanley Steemer has been cleaning this place and the carpets look terrible. So I bid this job and offered a free cleaning demo. No response. My bid was for 8cents quarterly, 10 cents, semi-annual, and 12 cents yearly, using the Cimex. Am I too high or what?

that your price for rooms as well? they usually are looking for a flat room rate, ie: $10 or $20 per room.

for all other areas, like restaurants, halls, conference rooms, etc... i give them a sq.ft. price. your prices should make you $$$ with a Cimex and are low i think...i would NOT lower them anymore than that.

i have a hard time getting them to stick to the frequency they agreed to. therefore, my per sq.ft. price has been going higher and higher the longer they put me off.

could be the HOH (head of housekeeping) or whomever else you'd deal with is just too busy. but keep offering those free demo's. make sure your appearance is neat and well groomed! don't want to scare any prospects off now ~

thanx --- D.

I've had several hotels as customers over the years. The problem is that salaries are low in the hospitality industry. Job turnover -- General Manager, Executive Housekeeper, Food & Beverage Manager, etc. -- tends to be rapid. So it's hard to keep a strong & steady personal relationship going.
I did several hotels in the Boston area owned by The Flatley Company, which sold them all at once to Starwood, probably the country's largest hotel holding company. I got nowhere trying to continue the relationship with the new owners.

I hear you. When I first got my Cimex 3 years ago, I approached some Best Western Motels, and talked to the Maint. Supervisor. He was not intersted in my price as he was having someone "clean" the rooms for a flat 5.00 per room. I haven't been back. In fact talking with Rick , he had pretty much prepared me for that very thing. I have heard of some of the guys doing O.K. with Motels, it probably varies, I would rather concentrate on better opportunites.

Thanks for your response guys. My pricing was for hallways, lobby and stairways. They did not ask for room prices. I am about ready to forsake hotels altogether. It is amazing to me that they have such an investment in carpet but do not want to maintain it. Oh well, I have encountered other businesses with the same mind-set. Just keep on truckin is all I know.

what i have experienced so far with hotels is that they have their own cleaning machines, and aslong as they run over the carpets, they are happy. I have several hotels that i do alot of work for, and make good money. However the ones i make alot of money with at first seem to drop me after a while and invest in some type of steam cleaning portable machine. They do have money set aside just for that purpose, maintain carpet, however, the more of it they (the manager or engenier) save the better they look to corprate. If they dont bite, move on to the next hotel, their are plenty.
I always mention that when i clean, not only is it better, but they can rent rooms and set up ballrooms almost immediately after i am done...that is definately a value to them. Especially to busy hotels.

i get $100-$200 per room no lying lol .and they call me atleast once a week.sometimes more but he just like all the toys that i have rotovac glided wands op and now the cimex he like all the diversaties and he is sold on encap now .

Anthony, how many rooms at one time do you do for $100 to $200? One room? Two rooms?

Are these for regularly scheduled cleanings, or for emergency visits like an extended stay hotel that allows pets and they have an accident in one room?

We do some hotels that have more than 100 rooms. So at your rates, we could clean all the rooms in the hotel with a 2 man crew in 2 days for $15,000? Does that sound about what you make? Am I getting the math right? Almost $4,000 per day per man sounds pretty good to me.

Or am I wrong?

I think C. Carson somehow missed A. Hernandez "wink wink nudge nudge" here.
But, getting back to the point: one way to come up with a pricing policy for hotels might be the following: in your head, kind of write off the idea of making any profit on the actual rooms. Set a price for the rooms that would be covered by whatever you actually pay your helper, employee, or whoever it is who would actually do the work in the individual guest rooms. That way, you would look at a hotel as a collection of public spaces -- hallways, function & meeting rooms, lobbies -- and would give them a sq. ft. price that made sense for you only on these areas. Use the rooms price as a loss leader (better a break-even leader) in order to get the rest of the building.

yes they are kinda like emergency situations and it is an extended stay type of place they are all suites and have kitchens and such. today i just finished up there doing some powerwashing for them lol they ask me for everything lol but i'll do anything also. and $1500 isnt to bad for a days pay anyway .i wear all kinds of hats and i'll always be in buisness. but commercial is all i really want

i started with a perkins, same owner had three hotels, 7 buks a room for first hundred, (i can do 100 rooms in 6 hours, used to do nursing homes..heheheh)

three hotels with a hundred rooms each....

2nd hundred 6.75 a room
3rd hotel 6.50 a room

i have in writing the rooms are bimonthly..... if they cancel price goes up and I charge them 30% cancelation fee....

i started with a perkins, same owner had three hotels, 7 buks a room for first hundred, (i can do 100 rooms in 6 hours, used to do nursing homes..heheheh)

three hotels with a hundred rooms each....

2nd hundred 6.75 a room
3rd hotel 6.50 a room

i have in writing the rooms are bimonthly..... if they cancel price goes up and I charge them 30% cancelation fee....

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