How to Practice Etiquette as a Hotel Guest
Staying at a hotel is an opportunity to relax and enjoy yourself in a place other than home. While you may want to make yourself at home, it's important to practice proper etiquette. The extent of your manners cannot only have an effect on your stay, but can also affect the employees at the hotel. There are ways to make sure you are a wonderful guest who will be welcomed back any time.
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Throw out your own trash. When you eat or even open toiletries, throw whatever you don't want into the garbage can. While the housekeeping staff will come into the room to tidy things up, you can still clean up after yourself.
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Be kind to the hotel employees and say "please" and "thank you." Whether you are staying one night or several, you should be polite and genuinely nice to those who work at the hotel--not only just for the sake of doing it, but also because you may be treated better. The employees may be more willing to be extra accommodating to you if they know they're helping someone who is respectful and pleasant.
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Give adequate tips to the employees at the hotel. People you should tip include the bellboy, room service and the valet. Pay them what they deserve and thank them for their service.Tipping cheaply may result in mediocre service for the rest of your stay at the hotel, as not many people want to make a massive effort for very little money.
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Sort your own dirty clothes from the hotel's dirty linens and towels. Housekeeping shouldn't have to sort through your dirty underwear and shirts to get to the towels and pillowcases they need to take to be laundered. When you finish using the towels and linens, put them in a single pile so they are easily accessible, and put your dirty laundry elsewhere.
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Avoid being demanding. Whether you are calling for extra pillows or ordering room service, give them enough time to fulfill your request. While you may want things done sooner rather than later, there are other people staying at the hotel, and some of them are making the same requests you are.
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