Housekeeping is a great way to distinguish an excellent hotel from an average one. No matter how luxurious or high-tech your hotel may be, if the rooms are unclean or not up to standard, you’re destined for failure. To ensure exceptional standards are met, it’s essential to equip your staff with the right tools.

Let’s not overcomplicate things, though. Here is a list of four key items we think are the essentials for creating a five-star guest-ready room…

Housekeeping Trolleys

The centre of housekeeping. The foundation to greatness. A saving grace. Housekeeping trolleys really are your best friend, so it’s worth taking your time and making sure you get the right one that works for you and your team.

At Aslotel we supply the Ascolia range, which is manufactured in Belgium. Ascolia products are easy and quiet to manouvre, optimise space and have a sleek and discrete finish. From linen trolleys, bag holders and room service trolleys, you’re guaranteed to find a suitable fit for your hotel needs.

Cleaning Supplies

We all know there’s nothing worse than walking into a hotel room and seeing smears on the mirrors or stray hairs on the sides. When striving for high customer satisfaction, you can’t afford for mistakes like this to happen. Luckily, that stress can be quite literally wiped away by investing in a few good quality cleaning supplies.

A cleaning staple in our eyes are microfibre cloths. Whether it’s polishing doorknobs or making mirrors sparkle, these will do the job. Plus, did you know that at Aslotel, our pack of ten microfibre cloths are safe for allergy sufferers and in line with BICSc colour coding!

Our eco-friendly E-Cloth Hotel Mop System is another showstopper that always delivers. Its super thin mop head means it can fit under almost any surface, and with a handle that extends up to 1.5 metres in height, not an inch is left uncleaned. It also uses a simple water spray, lowering costs significantly whilst also being kinder to the environment.

Laundry Bins

The amount of laundry can easily get very out of hand. But don’t panic, there’s nothing a good system can’t solve. Laundry bags and linen trolleys can be a great way to get your laundry system in order.

Product spotlight – the Ascolia Protea Trio Bag Holder Hotel Trolley is the perfect solution to your laundry problems. Available in three alternative sizes, this is the ideal way to categorise soiled linen, making your staff’s lives easier. Don’t need that many bags? No problem, it can also act as a garbage bag for any leftover waste.

Organisation tools

You can have every cleaning product and trolley under the sun, but if there’s no effective communication channel, everything falls apart. Making sure staff are fully trained and know who to report to is vital for success. Whether this is using physical checklists, digital apps, reporting tools or two-way radios, finding the right communication system for you helps ensure not only higher productivity and higher quality but also increased employee satisfaction and, therefore, lower staff turnover.

Investing in these tools really is a win-win for both staff and guests. Not only will your customers receive the service and quality that they deserve, but your staff, too, will feel more appreciated, leading to increased motivation and efficiency.

So, what are you waiting for?

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