Revealed: 35 Shocking Secrets & Tips By Hotel Employees They Never Tell Guests

In order to get hotel mirrors sparkling clean and completely perfect without a single streak, hotel maids actually use furniture polish. Apparently, Windex is no longer the coolest cleaning item in town. Spray a thick base of this stuff and you will find yourself with a spotless mirror. Although furniture polish is quick and works extremely well, it can cause a lot of buildups and will be very hard to scrub, so do not try this at home.

Hotel workers are generally guided to say yes to every legal and appropriate request from the guests. But several hotel maids revealed that sometimes the requests get incredibly ridiculous and impossible. One guest, for example, asked them to “make the rain stop”. In a sense, this is rather flattering thinking that hotel workers are so powerful, but it can also be rather frustrating to deal with such ignorance to reality and difficult to offer a polite response to such requests.

Bellmen are seriously disturbed by your wheeled suitcase. Bernard Sadow invented the wheeled suitcase in 1970 and from there this has only hurt the bellman’s career, as he used to be a complete necessity and a more useful member of the hotel system. They do not want to hear, ‘no, thanks, I got it’. They have a family to support and need to be needed by the hotel and need your extra tip money.

If you travel often, you are best off using the same hotel every trip, or at least the same hotel chain. If you get to know the staff of the hotel, you will be treated as a special guest, and establish nice relationships with the staff as they start to recognize you. Furthermore, you can get free upgrades on your room, discounts and all kinds of other exciting and unique perks that would not otherwise be available to you if you were a one-timer.

A hotel worker reveals that you never actually have to pay for using the minibar. They are inevitably the most argued charges on every hotel bill. Since it’s maintained by a person, there are always mistakes in the keystrokes, double stocking, delays in restocking and tons of other errors that cause the minibar charges to be the most voided item on the bill.

Apparently, the ideal time to check into a hotel is on Sunday Early on in the month. This is because people on vacation are usually leaving and business people have not yet arrived. Therefore the hotel will not only be quiet but will also allow you to have more rooms to have to choose from. Furthermore, it also leaves room for discounts to be given.

It’s a commonly used hacking trick when an imposter calls your hotel room in the middle of the night to take your credit card number. If this happens to you, it’s best to hang up the phone and go to the front desk and confront any payment disputes (if there even is one). Rule of thumb: the front desk won’t ever call you after late night hours.