Originally Posted by
m0hamed
The best hotels note your housekeeping preferences (we like to be out of the room) and will monitor your movements either by CCTV or front desk and ensure daily housekeeping and turndown are performed without you needed do call each time.
Preferring to be out of the room for housekeeping would seem the default preference. What's annoying is having housekeeping at your door when you're about to go out, ask them to come back in ten minutes, then go out for hours, come back and find that housekeeping hasn't returned or that they're in the room.