How about this? Who changes the sheets and washes the sheets and basically handles the details about the beds? That person should decide how often they want to do that job.
95% of our guests do not care a whit about us changing the sheets after 3 or 4 days and most don't care about 7 days (and the 7 day people will say, 'Don't bother about the sheets, we don't change them out that often at home'). If the sheets look ok, then compromise on changing out the pillow cases. You can also run a little brush across the sheets to get the crumbs out of the bed and tuck everything up tight again.
I say this because we've got 7 rooms and it's a damn lot of work to change out sheets on beds where guests are staying many nights. They have settled in, their stuff is everywhere, it's hard to even get the vacuum thru the rooms, much less get all the sheets & blankets, etc off the beds and redone.
I used to have a 2 day rule. After the first summer that went out the window. Too much laundry for one thing! Guests too settled in for another..
"How about this? Who changes the sheets and washes the sheets and basically handles the details about the beds? That person should decide how often they want to do that job."
Well, thats me and I say never change them on days when something really good is on Oprah no matter how many nights the guest has been here. LOL
"95% of our guests do not care a whit about us changing the sheets after 3 or 4 days and most don't care about 7 days (and the 7 day people will say, 'Don't bother about the sheets, we don't change them out that often at home')."
Sorry, but these folks are paying us for an experience here unlike their typical day to day life. They can tell us all they want about their home schedule, but we've got standards that we don't compromise on no matter what.
"If the sheets look ok, then compromise on changing out the pillow cases. You can also run a little brush across the sheets to get the crumbs out of the bed and tuck everything up tight again."
We don't do that. Its either the whole set or nothing. And when we hit halfway through a four nighter or longer, it gets done. Its my freakin' job and if I didn't want to change sheets, etc. for a living, I would have opened a hardware store.
"I say this because we've got 7 rooms and it's a damn lot of work to change out sheets on beds where guests are staying many nights. They have settled in, their stuff is everywhere, it's hard to even get the vacuum thru the rooms, much less get all the sheets & blankets, etc off the beds and redone."
Goes with the territory I'm afraid. Two rooms, twelve rooms, forty rooms, we gotta have standards at least as high as your average hotel. We have luggage racks, hanging storage space, dressers, etc.
Its a rare guest here staying at least two nights that doesn't use any or all of those options.
"eh I used to have a 2 day rule. After the first summer that went out the window. Too much laundry for one thing! Guests too settled in for another."
Two nights seems a bit excessive, but today its 94 degrees out and most of our folks are outing hiking right now. Even if they shower again today, all it takes is a little more sweat and a set of sheets can feel a little grubby after a couple days of that routine.