Keeping your hotel spotlessly clean

Experts like Alex Polizzi, The Hotel Inspector, know that keeping your hotel looking spotless doesn’t stop at reception or the dining room – if you want to make a really good impression, and gain that all-important repeat business,  your bedrooms need to be up to standard at all times.

Bed linen needs to be beautifully fresh and clean, and anyone who regularly watches ‘Four in a Bed’ will know how particular many guests are when it comes to the finer details. Keep that grouting clean, make sure the bathroom is sparkling and dust every bedroom regularly if you don’t want to lose marks for cleanliness. Carpets are a major area where a hotel or guest house can fall down – you might think that your guests won’t notice that stain on the bedroom carpet, but many reviews on sites like TripAdvisor mention dirty carpets, and mark hotels down for it. It’s well worth keeping on top of your carpet cleaning if you want to make a good impression on your guests.

We all know that hotel guests can be messy. A chocolate, coffee or red wine stain can be difficult to remove if you don’t notice it until the following day, even with cleaning products which are specifically intended for carpet stains. If you attempt to remove a difficult stain with a standard carpet cleaning product but you don’t manage to remove all of it, you can end up sealing what’s left of the problem stain into the carpet fibres so that even when you ask a professional carpet cleaner like 1st Choice Chemdry in to tackle the problem, it might refuse to budge.

There are several different tips and tricks for emergency treatment of stains, but our advice is simple: just treat spillages of wine, coffee or any other liquids immediately soak up as much of the liquid as possible with a clean, dry cloth and keep the stain damp with a wet towel while you call in a carpet cleaning expert. It’s a lot easier to shift a tough stain if it’s still damp.

1st Class Chemdry were called in by the fabulous (and very stern) Alex Polizzi to help spruce up a failing hotel in the new series of Channel 5’s The Hotel Inspector. You can see our handiwork on the show, which airs at 9pm on 13th February.