How to keep a Hotel clean?

Hotels are a difficult space to keep clean.

Especially in this environment of viruses impacting our every day life, it is especially important. Hotels are areas where there are a lot of people moving around, touching surfaces and coming and going, the cleanliness must be impeccable.

Every time a person enters the premises they touch many surfaces. The most vulnerable surfaces are at the front reception, in the common area bathrooms, in foyer areas where there are lifts and some larger premises may even have escalators.

Front Reception / Bar areas: 

• People touch and lean on front reception desk and bar counters
• Reception staff are constantly touching computers, door handles to common work spaces, taking patron's credit cards, membership cards etc
• Patrons are touching the Eftpos machines when entering their PIN numbers

Common area bathrooms:

• Patrons and staff are touching the door handles when entering the bathrooms and opening toilet doors
• Patrons are touching the flush buttons
• Patrons are touching the taps to wash their hands
• Patrons are touching air hand dryer buttons to then dry their hands

Lifts:

• Patrons will use their fingers and hands to press the appropriate buttons 
• Patrons rest on the rails around the walls while waiting for their level 

Escalators:

• Patrons will invariably put their hands on the side hand rails

Poker Machines:

• ​Patrons put their hands on the machines particularly the buttons to place their bets.

​All these areas are hot spots to contaminate the patrons coming in after other patrons have moved about the premises and used these items commonly found in all hotels. It is critical to prevent the spread of germs and virus such as the prolific virus known as Covid-19 Corona Virus.

As a Hotel, it is important that we use a very experienced Cleaning company to complete this cleaning process.

Most cleaning companies carry out cleaning in a number of different capacities such as:
End of Lease Clean - When a tenant is vacating a property, they are required to lease the property in as good a condition as possible, not withstanding general wear and tear of the property.

Bond Clean - This is another name for an End of Lease Clean. The Bond is paid initially at the commencement of a lease to guarantee that the tenant looks after the landlord's property. When the tenant vacates the property, with all being in order and the property being handed over in as good as condition as when the tenancy began, they will get their Bond back. The cleaning of a property is an important component to present the property in it's best condition and get the Bond back in full.

Commercial cleaning - This is what we engage a cleaner to complete. A commercial clean can include premises such as ours as a hotel or it can be for any of the following establishments.

• Motel
• Manufacturing plant
• Factory
• Cafe / Restaurant
• Shop

General House Cleaning - General house cleaning is a standard clean that someone might employ a cleaning company to complete on an ongoing basis such as weekly, fortnightly or even monthly or seasonally.
The types of cleaning that would be completed would include the following areas of a house.
Kitchen, bathrooms, lounge room, rugs, curtains, carpets etc.

For some people employing a cleaner is a luxury. For us as a Hotel it is a necessity to keep our staff and patrons safe. Especially in times such as these.