Hotel Cleaning

I don’t do many hotels, but the ones I do are priced like this:

* $20/room with a minimum of 10 rooms at that price. This is for normal sized room. $25 with protectant.
* Suites are of course higher priced.
* Common areas are .18 to .21/square ft. . . . Protectect for another .08/square ft.

If I’m called for just one room, my minimum is $65.00. Hotels are usually price shoppers, but our Dry In One Hour is a real plus. Good luck.

Hi Mark,

My name is Mike. We clean about 20 or 30 hotels every 3 to 4 months. I have all the info you need. I have some proposals I can send you as I did for Nevyln in Georgia. I’m not sure how many are going to bite on $20.00 a room. Just depends on the area. Hope all is well. One tip—offer to do a room as a free demo. They hardly say no and after seeing what you can do, you will get the job.

Mike Nowlin
956-607-2776

Budget hotels (Super 8, Motel 6, local mom and pops) will only do rooms when they get too dirty which is too late and they are all about price. Mid-range hotels (Comfort Inn, Fairfield Inn, Holiday Inn Express) will do rooms and commons once a year usually based on franchise requirements and price is important but service is equally important. Full to limited service (Marriott, Hilton, Hampton) will require carpets cleaned as often as quarterly, the carpets are better quality, dry in 1 hour is huge and price is usually based on what their budget says…a busier hotel usually has more money to spend.

Dave,
What do you usually charge per sq ft? For furniture? Just curious in the hotel setting! Thanks!

Jeff,

I have never been able to figure out how to charge per square foot…not that I am not so smart maybe, I did take Purdue calculus 2 sem for my degree, I just could never wrap my mind around charging for the walking areas around a bed and through the MBR and kids rooms and paths around beds and moving or not moving furniture and how all of that works in the real world…So we charge by the room, and have never charged by the sqft. I have checked the pricing comparisons and I feel that it all comes out a wash. (Easier to calculate, add, subtract discount and add tax…my math today stinks and I can more easily calculate this way…my hat is off to those of you that charge by the sq ft…when I am driving down the road my mind would explode trying to figure up a price.)

We charge $45/room or area. Smaller than an average sized room is perhaps $35…larger maybe $60-$67.50…. I have never cleaned a B&B room or motel room for les than $35 ea in quantity…no reason to, they can rent the room that evening and get their money back, plus. Also, we have an advantage that no one has…we are quiet and can clean a room with occupant next door, or across the hall.

Furniture: sofas $79 – $89 Love seats $69 Chairs and recliners $39 – $49.

Most of the time I might use the upper figure and perhaps discount 15%.

Sometimes I do not…I never ever give any discounts after 5PM or on Saturdays…

I hope this helps a little. Hope to see you in LV.

Dave

Low tech here…

I just use the quote book and give the item and cost and any discount..I have done a few proposals, but they are stupidly simple.

Absolutely nothing fancy at all or that formal….

Sorry,
Dave

P.S.

(Just spent 3 hrs in MainStay Suites cleaning 1 room of massive amts of Kool Aid, another with yellow dye from a magic marker and coffee removal from the lobby cafe area…Will make up the bill tonight but it will exceed $250…
no proposal, they just automatically call me now.)

Find out what they want done based on a yearly schedule. The money is in the common areas;halls,conf. rms, lobby… Not the rooms. If they are having these high traffic areas done 2-4x per year–its not enough. I do 2 super 8 each month; mainly 2-3 hall ways of 1200-1400sf ea(thats 4-6 total) take about 1.25-1.5 hours each hall(upto $119 ea) BUT-they have to have them pre vac’d. Ive done some rooms, but I hate doing them.