Anonymous wrote:I spent 9 days in DC hotels for work last fall. No housekeeping unless requested, and no room service. At a high end hotel. Ridiculous.

You can literally request it daily though. Why didn’t you? We told them when we checked in that we would like daily housekeeping.

Anonymous wrote:I spent 9 days in DC hotels for work last fall. No housekeeping unless requested, and no room service. At a high end hotel. Ridiculous.

Funny, let me guess, you'd never take one of those jobs and yet expect someone else to. You can go a few days without housekeeping, then you request it. How messy do you let a hotel room get?

Anonymous wrote:I spent 9 days in DC hotels for work last fall. No housekeeping unless requested, and no room service. At a high end hotel. Ridiculous.

Damn, that’s a long stay for crap [lack of] service.

I spent 9 days in DC hotels for work last fall. No housekeeping unless requested, and no room service. At a high end hotel. Ridiculous.

Vaccine requirements.

Anonymous wrote:The reduced housekeeping and flights are because they are low paying jobs no one wants. Let's be real. Same with restaurants.

Yes, certainly the same labor shortage facing most hourly jobs at the moment and for the foreseeable future.

The reduced housekeeping and flights are because they are low paying jobs no one wants. Let's be real. Same with restaurants.

Anonymous wrote:No physical menu. I don’t want to pull it up on my phone, thank you.

YES! The last thing I want to do at a restaurant with friends or family is have everyone stare at their phones. But thank god we’re not getting Covid from touching a menu….

No physical menu. I don’t want to pull it up on my phone, thank you.

Anonymous wrote:These are all driven by economic considerations that may make no sense to you but perfect sense to them. They aren’t COVID-based.

The first one makes no sense and the flight attendants repeatedly say it’s due to Covid.

Anonymous wrote:We’ve stayed in all kinds of hotels of varying prices and geographic locations since April 2021 and all have had normal or mostly normal housekeeping except for that very first trip. Some are now every other day or you have to affirmatively request it but it was full housekeeping.

That was not our recent experience at all, glad to hear other places are catching up.

Reduced schedules are also somewhat due to aircraft delivery delays.

https://onemileatatime.com/news/american-boeing-787-delivery-delays/

We’ve stayed in all kinds of hotels of varying prices and geographic locations since April 2021 and all have had normal or mostly normal housekeeping except for that very first trip. Some are now every other day or you have to affirmatively request it but it was full housekeeping.

These are all driven by economic considerations that may make no sense to you but perfect sense to them. They aren’t COVID-based.

To name a few:
(1) United airlines (and probably others) not accepting credit cards and only allowing passengers to purchase items if their credit card is on file in the app.
(2) Hotels offering minimal housekeeping service. Makes me just want to always use Airbnb.
(3) Reduced flight schedules. People are traveling in droves and there’s a need for more flights!

I understand that 2 and 3 are in large part due to the labor shortage that will take years to come back from, but 1? Come on. The flight attendants can use a square and charge credit cards. Shit, they can add a little tip option like everywhere else these days. Way to leave money on the table.