Those shiny hotel photos you see online are often misleading.  The room is spotless, the sheets are crisp and white, and ...

What are the first things you do when you arrive at your new hotel room or Airbnb? Jump on the bed to test its firmness? Unpack your clothes? Check for bedbugs? You may want to add a quick cleaning to ...

Jesse Fudrini of Concept Cleaning gave the couches in several Long Island hotels a thorough cleaning — something that looked like it hadn't been done in quite some time. With air travel at levels not ...

When it comes to hotel cleaning failures, the one Bill Mapp saw on a recent trip to Richmond, Virginia, is a standout. After checking in and getting settled at an all-suites property, Mapp, a ...

Tanya Varevskaya is one busy housekeeper. "Our procedures have changed a little bit since COVID-19," she says. "Remotes, telephones, coffee makers. Everything we disinfect." It’s her job to sanitize ...

More than a hundred hotel workers and their supporters marched on a grey day last February, wearing bright red knit hats and carrying signs with a message: CLEAN HOTEL ROOMS SAVE JOBS. In the tourism ...

In the 1997 romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, an early-on indicator of Jack Nicholson's character's eccentricity comes into focus as he sits down at the café where he is a regular and unpacks his ...

Darren Dowling's image of his tidied-up hotel room went viral on Facebook, leading to a debate over the responsibilities of guests. Darren Dowling/Facebook While most hotel guests rely on housekeeping ...

An Assembly committee took up a bill that would repeal COVID-19 era cleaning standards for hotels, with opponents arguing hotels would no longer clean rooms daily and hotel representatives countering ...