Damage to hotel room

Demforeigners

How hard is it to wet a towel and clean it up? There would have been no issue then apart from maybe the towel being paid for which would be fair enough.

mikemac2

A private company with trained staff is required for vomit?

Someone better tell every young lad in a summer job in the local hotel and nightclub who does the toilets.

Graham

mikemac2 wrote: »

A private company with trained staff is required for vomit?

Someone better tell every young lad in a summer job in the local hotel and nightclub who does the toilets.

Nightclub vomit is almost always drink induced.

What exactly did the OP have to cause the vomiting as a non-drinker? I certainly wouldn't expect housekeeping to go and mop it up. Something like norovirus could close a hotel while an outbreak is addressed.

y0ssar1an22

€500 seems nuts. could you contact the bank and ask them why they allowed the transaction to progress? other than that, ask the hotel for a full invoice

Phoebas

Dial Hard wrote: »

This is going to be one of those threads where the OP never returns and posters on either side of the divide just spend a few pointless days sniping at each other.

So the OP has left a big mess behind and fecked off leaving others to deal with it.

again?

casscass4444

Phoebas wrote: »

So the OP has left a big mess behind and fecked off leaving others to deal with it.

again?

OP is away at the awards ceremony for the "it's not my job to clean up after myself" award.he came first place.
"If thou are a pig,your clean up bill shall be big"

5rtytry56

casscass4444 wrote: »

OP is away at the awards ceremony for the "it's not my job to clean up after myself" award.he came first place.
"If thou are a pig,your clean up bill shall be big"

OP is being awarded distinguished medal of honour for outspoken pukey hotel guest.

Straight Talker

riemann wrote: »

So you didn't clean up your own vomit?

Fully deserved fine, maybe next time behave like a civilised member of society.

Get down off your high horse and lol at the 43 ass kissers thanking the comment.The man was unwell and continued to feel unwell the following morning.Fully deserved fine at 500 euros.Go away out of that.;)

nhunter100

Straight Talker wrote:

Get down off your high horse and lol at the 43 ass kissers thanking the comment.The man was unwell and continued to feel unwell the following morning.Fully deserved fine at 500 euros.Go away out of that.

It's not a fine it's a charge for the cost of cleaning the bathroom by specialist cleaners and the lost revenue from a room that could not be sold for 3 days.

road_high

Straight Talker wrote: »

Get down off your high horse and lol at the 43 ass kissers thanking the comment.The man was unwell and continued to feel unwell the following morning.Fully deserved fine at 500 euros.Go away out of that.;)

Why didn't he just be upfront and tell them-explain how unwell he'd been and apologise. Sometimes a bit of communication and respect for others can go a long way...

Tell me how

Straight Talker wrote:

Get down off your high horse and lol at the 43 ass kissers thanking the comment.The man was unwell and continued to feel unwell the following morning.Fully deserved fine at 500 euros.Go away out of that.

Calling people ass kissers because they've a different opinion to yours? And you think this poster is on a high horse? Seriously?

How unwell would you have to be to not be able wipe a towel around the place?

OP said nothing about leaving the hotel and going to a Dr or A&E.

casscass4444

Straight Talker wrote: »

Get down off your high horse and lol at the 43 ass kissers thanking the comment.The man was unwell and continued to feel unwell the following morning.Fully deserved fine at 500 euros.Go away out of that.;)

He should have cleaned up after himself the animal and deserves every penny of the fine.are you saying that if a relation or friend of yours was working in that hotel and they were expected to go in there and clean up after this animal you would find this acceptable. And probably at minimum wage.
Ffs the days of the skivvy and upper class landlord are gone.this rate you would want to equip cleaning staff with shovels and powerwashers. The likes of this op would want to be kept in a slatted shed not a hotel

wordofwarning

OP I would ask the hotel for the alleged cleaning bill.

Was it a chain or a family run hotel? I would hazard a guess they are family run and chancing their arm that you won't question it

Even if they were 100% full, they would have emergency beds ie the hotel might have 100 rooms to hire each night but in reality has an extra 5 for burst pipes, a room not fully clean due to poor housekeeping each. So this notion of they were out of pocket is unlikely.

I imagine house keeping tell the front desk OP got sick in the room. They realise they are not full, slapped on a 'cleaning fee' and pulled a figure of their arse for the rest of the bill. €500 seems very rounded for a cleaning fee and loss of letting rooms. I also don't get why they were snakes and slapped it on your card without telling you

I would call your bank for a charge back. I think the hotel will have a challegence justifying this

rubadub

nhunter100 wrote: »

It's not a fine it's a charge for damage and rectifying of same. Hotel totally justified and the OP is lucky he got off so light.

yeah, very lucky, I'm amazed as his good fortune. If this had happened on christmas eve the cleaners might have been not working till sometime in January, and room rates might have been higher. If it was in the corridor he might have got done for a few rooms.

Demforeigners wrote: »

How hard is it to wet a towel and clean it up?

not hard at all, have had to do it myself a few times. I never knew it was such a well paying job. Might take it up at the weekends, 200 seems to be the weekday rate, I could be asking 400 seeing as the likes of hotels stand to lose a good bit.

The taxi soiling fee was mentioned as E140, I'm surprised I do not hear more complaints from taximen as people here are saying the standard charge would be about 200euro for the biohazard people to clean it out. And many taximen would have more pukers on friday nights, so would be down all the weekends profit, they could have been booked up with back to back fares all weekend.

Graham wrote: »

Nightclub vomit is almost always drink induced.

but they should not take the risk. As we have been told this is a biohazard, cleaning up biowaste.

I wonder what happens in a creche, do they evacuate the creche? If the biohazard team are on holidays or booked up do the parents of the vomiter have to pay all the creche fees they would have got from all the other parents, or just their own.

nhunter100

rubadub wrote:

yeah, very lucky, I'm amazed as his good fortune. If this had happened on christmas eve the cleaners might have been not working till sometime in January, and room rates might have been higher. If it was in the corridor he might have got done for a few rooms.

You may disagree with the charge and that's fine. If the hotel can offer an invoice for the cleaning and demonstrate the loss of revenue the 500 euro is legit. Next time the OP may decide not to be a 'dick' and clean up after himself.
Although other than his original post, he has disappeared. Make of that what you will.
I'm seems a lot here feel personal responsibility is too much of an ask.

rubadub

nhunter100 wrote: »

You may disagree with the charge and that's fine. If the hotel can offer an invoice for the cleaning and demonstrate the loss of revenue the 500 euro is legit.

I would question the charge, and the fact they did not find any available cleaners. I would agree with others and guess the hotel just did it "to teach him a lesson" and try and get away with what they could and treat it as a form of fine, which is no doubt why so many posters are referring to it as a fine and not simply a charge.

You described him as lucky to have gotten off so lightly. What would you have expected the charge to be for what he did?

What would it have taken for you to describe it as unlucky? Maybe 12 days over Christmas? a 400 euro biohazard specialist?

It's an interesting subject and this thread would have been more interesting if the OP had told them, as many posters are just hung up on the OP being "a dick" and so think he deserves everything he gets. Doesn't really matter if the OP is gone, I am still interested in the legality of what they did.

If somebody puked in the lobby or restaurant on friday afternoon I doubt they would have waited for the biohazard specialist to turn up on the monday. If this room was already booked they were going to have to refuse the person which could have been huge inconvenience, the lost occupant could also have been having food & drink and other services in the hotel. They could be left negative feedback, online or word of mouth, about having to find a new hotel because the hotel was not able to arrange to clean vomit from a bathroom for 3 days.

nhunter100

rubadub wrote:

You described him as lucky to have gotten off so lightly. What would you have expected the charge to be for what he did?

He was charged for 3 nights the hotel room could not be sold . I don't know what hotel or where. Maybe the OP could tell us. I do know 3 nights in a hotel covering a weekend 300 euro would be at the lower end. I guessed 200 euro for a cleaning company. So to me 500 euro is reasonable if the hotel can justify it.
Now I'm out.

rubadub

nhunter100 wrote: »

So to me 500 euro is reasonable if the hotel can justify it.

right, the fact you called him lucky made it seem you think it was below what you would have expected, but seems it is bang on what you expected.

nhunter100 wrote: »

seems a lot here feel personal responsibility is too much of an ask.

I didn't get that impression from a single poster, let alone "a lot".

L1011

I think the OP has received sufficient advice at this stage, and the thread has devolved to childishness. If they wish to update us in the future this can be reopened.