_So back in Covid times, every hotel added a $100 surcharge for Performative, Extra-Deep, Not Like We Usually Do Cleaning.
This mostly involved removing any magazine or menu that might be helpful to a tourist. Ditto shampoo that wasn't nailed to the wall.
The single ply parchment toilet tissue Hilton's many sub-brands now offer would embarrass Norman Bates and his mum.
Stripped bare, these Spartan Rooms now exist at chain hotels all over the GTA, and perhaps the world. Three years ago, these rooms went for about $200.
Now, there is a thin chance you will get change back from $400. There will be six or seven add-ons to your receipt in addition to taxes.
That once "free" bottle of water in the room will now cost $2, if you haven't climbed to Silver Status in a reward program. For any info about the hotel itself, download apps and QR codes. Honors indeed.
Reception--now better protected behind plastic than any salad bar--will demand your ID. This despite the steeplechase of membership numbers and card info used to make the revervation. Who are you if it's not you?
I will stop now.
Their "how did we do" survey has just come by e-mail. I gave them a six.
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