What is commonly expected when staying in a room at a hotel or resort property includes that everything is clean, the bed is comfortable, and that items in the room are replenished or restocked — but I have noticed issues with too few tissues in hotel rooms recently.
Issues With Too Few Tissues In Hotel Rooms?
I really had not thought much about this until I read what FlyerTalk member Tim Fountain posted in this discussion:
A trend I’ve been seeing at almost every Hilton recently in US establishments, to stuff 3-4 tissues into the empty box and call it good, as opposed to putting out a new box of tissues once the old one is depleted. It’s not acceptable. Am I the only one to notice this new penny pinching by Hilton? And no, 4 tissues is not going to cut it, especially when I have a cold, hayfever or congestion due to the smoke up here in the NE at present. Just ridiculous. Grr
I can confirm that this “trend” is not only occurring at hotel and resort properties that are part of the brand portfolio of Hilton.
The above photograph shows the discovery of only a few tissues remaining in the tissue box in the bathroom of a room in a Holiday Inn Express & Suites hotel property at which I stayed recently. They came out in a clump when I attempted to remove the top tissue.
I even recently stayed in at least one hotel room in which no tissues were supplied at all.
Final Boarding Call
Are tissues that expensive that they cannot be replenished on a regular basis at hotel and resort properties as they had in the past? Could the reduction of members of housekeeping staffs be a contributing issue, as they may not have the time to check the tissue boxes? Perhaps the paper products industry is still experiencing disruptions in the supply chain from the height of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic?
Although this is not exactly a problem which portends the end of the world as we know it, finding only a few tissues left in the tissue box is annoying in the best of circumstances…
…but perhaps not nearly as inconvenient as being in the middle of a shower — only to find out that the bulk dispenser of shampoo or body wash was empty, out of product, and not replenished…
All photographs ©2023 by Brian Cohen.
