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Hotel Pricing?
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Hi Josh

Seems that most hotels, even upscale hotels, tend to run cheap when it comes to carpet cleaning in the rooms. Perhaps it will be different in your area, but that's what I have seen. They like to lowball the price. And typically they're not very loyal either - they’ll quickly move on to the next bottom feeder that comes along. It's a tough market. In our area, if you can get $8-$10 for a hotel room you’re doing pretty good. It’s a hard way to make money. And a lot of times there are crews who drive around the country cleaning blocks of hotel rooms for next to nothing.

On the other hand, I've seen that cleaning hallways, banquet rooms, and lobby areas can be profitable; sometimes in the very same hotels that are holding back the money for room cleaning. In some hotels they'll separate rooms (housekeeping) from common areas (banquet dept). If you can get into cleaning their common areas, it can be a good gig.

Another problem that I've run into in hotels is that they frequently change management. You can get a good thing going with a manager who loves you, and six months later that person is gone. You have to start all over again. Also, most of the time hotels are owned by hotel groups; and some of those are out of state so it can sometimes be difficult to track down your money. Have I talked you out of it yet? 

But, if you are determined to do hotel rooms, hot water extraction would be the most appropriate way to clean the residential/commercial carpet you'll have in a hotel room. OP cleaning could also work.

 I hope this gives you a balanced overview of what you might run into. In my commercial carpet cleaning business, I just passed on room cleaning. Seems like there are more reasonable ways to be successful. :-)
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Messages In This Thread
Hotel Pricing? - by blubby07 - 10-11-2017, 03:09 PM
RE: Hotel Pricing? - by encapman - 10-11-2017, 07:38 PM
RE: Hotel Pricing? - by blubby07 - 10-12-2017, 03:29 PM
RE: Hotel Pricing? - by encapman - 10-14-2017, 07:11 AM
RE: Hotel Pricing? - by NorbertM - 10-29-2017, 11:35 AM



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