News and notes from around the interweb:
- Any excuse not to provide housekeeping.
I specifically elected to have my room serviced while here – but put my DND on yesterday to take a nap. Never had it on today and expected my room would be serviced as requested.
Is this really a policy?
byu/SmilingSarcastic1221 inmarriott - $250 back on 2+ night Vancouver hotel stays October 1, 2024, and February 28, 2025 this has been a great offer in the past and I’m glad to see it return.
- Alitalia’s brand returns along with its reputation as one of the worst airlines in the world? Why would anyone remind customers of Alitalia?
ITA Airways doesn’t intend to fully rebrand as Alitalia, but on Friday, the Miland-based carrier said it would start using elements of the defunct brand, perhaps as a way to resonate with passengers.
From the end of the year, the ITA logo will be presented alongside the Alitalia logo, while the airline’s official tagline will become: ‘ITA Airways – Inspired by Alitalia.’
- Delta working to add a Delta One lounge to Minneapolis according to CEO Ed Bastian “MSP needs one, and we’re working and trying to figure that out, so we’ll be coming … with some ideas,”
- Tru dat.
I Bet He Saw This and Said…
byu/Western-Sky88 inamericanairlines - They met on a United Airlines cross-country flight, and got married on one too.
- Now we’re getting somewhere with Delta in Austin, beyond just flying migrants out of border cities.
Delta’s also adding an AUS to Panama City, FL (ECP) route.
AUS-ECP/IND/MEM/TPA are routes that American recently exited. AUS-SFO is interesting, Delta seeks to capture business traffic between Austin and the Bay Area.https://t.co/lccXuRZx23
— Ishrion Aviation (@IshrionA) September 28, 2024
- Spirit Airlines eliminates close-in redemption fees for awards within 28 days of travel, and makes wifi a benefit for Gold elites.
- Cathay Pacific business lounge at Hong Kong airport forced to shut after fire, 250 evacuated The Pier. (HT: @crucker)
Everybody knows that those “do not disturb” signs are actually code for “bang on my door anyway.”
Tell the desk if your room is not cleaned , with fresh linens , you will not pay any add-on fee .
Better yet , give the housekeeper $ 15. as a motivator .
easy to imagine, somebody waddling through the halls 3 times a day, checking off every door with a DND. Much less expensive than cleaning.
Miami and Austin are basically Delta hubs. Same for Orlando, which actually has a crew base. Makes sense. Detroit is a legacy hub but doesn’t have the O&D traffic like a Miami or Orlando. Same for Cincinnati, which has been hubbed, de-hubbed, and made a focus city so many times that I’ve lost track of the current status. And yet, there are still some gaps in Texas service, like Lubbock and Corpus Christi. And Delta has horrible flight times out of San Antonio. I also remember when Delta made plays in Raleigh and Indianapolis.
Unlike service in India at a JW Marriott where I mistakenly left the DND sign on door at 10am and did not return on 9pm, and with a call to housekeeping they came at that hour to clean room!
I don’t get it – I never need/request daily housekeeping. Only prima donna’s and/or slobs seem to have a need for daily housekeeping. Begs the question – do those who request daily housekeeping clean their homes and change the sheets daily?
@David: Same. I don’t want anyone in my room, and I have no need to have anyone in my room.
I suppose some people figure once they’ve paid the room rate they might as well have fresh towels every day.
Many hotels only give 2 towels, 2 face cloths and 2 hand towels. Sometimes you get a bath mat. I often put one towel down on the bathroom floor in the area the bath mat doesn’t cover. After a night, I need new towels. And generally, hotel trash cans are small. The trash generally needs changed after a night. Likewise, the complimentary bottled water needs replacing after a night. As for my bed, the sheets don’t have to be changed but I do like my bed made for me. That’s why I stay in a hotel.
I thought I would chime in on this topic because I honestly think it is very wrong for hotel or motel staff to abuse the *Do Not Disturb* sign at all because it could easily end up very bad for any hotel
I was a hotel manager and the housekeeping supervisor would continue to recheck during the day for any DND signs. If they were still on at the end of the day we gave the front desk a list so when guests called we could inform them that the sign was on all day. It eliminated most no service issues. The housekeepers did not want to see a DND sign as i meant they would lose those allocated minutes for cleaning the room.
Marriott keeps finding new ways to Bonvoy guests. Remember not so many years ago when Marriott had a philosophy of taking care of their people so those people would take care of the guests? That would seem like a joke nowadays. Marriott seems to be run by people who hate their jobs and badly want to share their misery with guests.