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Old Aug 4, 2025 | 10:09 am
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Originally Posted by lincolnjkc
That's more than good enough Thanks again for taking the time to do my research for me.



The GM for property that prompted this thread (doing rough rooms numbers per floor x number of floors math a ~150-170ish room HGI, though it's in a cluster of properties owned/managed by the same company, four of them share a parking lot, and I think he's the GM for all (HGI, HIS, DT, HWS, and a Holiday Inn Express (IIRC)) claimed that they averaged 1-2 requests per month in total... I have wondered how often the service does actually get used.

I'm surprised the margin isn't higher -- generally, if I can bill nearly anything to the room it doesn't get questioned and as a result I'm not particularly price sensitive so I always assumed the hotel was marking things up more than ~$2.50 per order; certainly if it's not driving profit it makes sense why a property wouldn't be motivated to make it work.

I also wonder if this (these) properties are struggling financially they're still on the room furnishing package/prototype that I stated seeing be phased out at other properties years ago, pool has been "under repair" for my past few stays, understand that they haven't had a maintenance person in "a long time", etc. Part of me wouldn't be surprised if a reflagging was in their future.
At previous hotels we've typically gotten a discount from the dry cleaner from what's on the pricing sheet that we keep as a commission, around 10-15%. Our current vendor doesn't want to do it, so all we get to keep is a $2.50 processing fee per load(clearly listed on the price sheet). Good math skills, sir. Thing is, we've otherwise had no issues from this vendor so we definitely see it as a service thing, not a profit center. Would be nice though.
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