Hotel vacuums.

[durango159]

RoyalFan

It's happened at numerous hotels and all of them had Sebo/ Windsors!! It's not the filtration issue, it's the cleaning power issue. Many hotels have the auto sensing models and they just don't get low enough to the pile to do enough! It's happened at many Sheraton's, Westin, Wyndham, Embassy Suites, The Penn Stater... every single one had Windsor vacs!!! Yet I have stayed at Best Westerns that used Hoovers and slept great. Ramadas with Sanitaires- slept great. Quality Inn with Sanitaires- slept great. Best Western with ProTeam ProGen - I also slept great!

 

[vacuumdevil]

@durango159 cheep hotels , sounds like a personal problem.

 

[johnsmith96]

Tacony

At my college, we have a very large 8 story library that is free standing. The whole building has powder a light magenta colored carpet, EVERYWHERE, besides bathrooms and the marble atrium. They use cordless tornado (riccar supralites) on the maid carts, and Windsor's.

 

[royalfan]

@durango159 My SEBO X4 definitely out cleans any Royal vacuums my own or any of the others you've listed that I've used. Sounds like the hotels aren't maintaining them.
You should consider staying in nicer hotels maybe?

 

[oldskoolguy]

Disney uses Windsor Sensor (I think they're either s12 or xp12 machines, maybe both) on the maids carts, and will leave a Sanitaire SC679j in the room if it is mostly carpet (or no matter the proportions of carpet and hardwood at their aulani resort in hawaii), or a 2 motor sanitaire if it is at least 40-50% hard floor. I have seen some hawaii hotels use the Windsor sensor as well. I know one of them uses the xp12. The cruise ships also had dyson ball canisters along with windsor s12s when I last took a trip in 2013. I have aso been to a bostonarea hotel where the maid's cart had a lindhaus activa pro, then another i n the phoniex area with a pro team (I think) dual motor upright. I've also seen orecks at a red roof inn (from outside the hotel due to the outdoor hallways).

 

[tekjunkie28]

I think most of the hotels in Myrtle beach on the ocean front are no longer carpeted. Which kind of suprises me because I'm thinking humidity and cool floors in a air conditioned room equals a broken hip. If we have to stay in a hotel its always a fairly nice one. My wife gets points and all kinds of stuff so I just do whatever she does LOL. The last few hotels we have been in were pretty clean from what I could tell, thankfully.

 

[ultralux88]

!!CAUTION!! Flapitation in progress, watch for hose!

Personally I feel the central vac is a more ideal solution. Just imagine how much it costs to maintain and replace portables, bags, filters, belts, brush rolls, cords... All of that can be eliminated so easily. One big dirt bucket to empty, less noise, no indoor emissions. The attachments on something like a Spencer are so well made they'll last forever, and that low pile carpet will easily come clean with a good suction only nozzle and a proper amount of air flow.

 

[gregvacs28]

Guess the vacuum.

 


Was watching an old favorite movie and saw this on the cart.  I'm not an upright person so not sure what brand it is.  This was 1988 and that vac looks a lot older than that, IMO.

 

[amtraksebo1997]

My experience at hotels.

Vacuum cleaners in hotels is a topic that has always interested me, because hotels in general hold a soft spot in my heart. I like the thought of vacuuming around 2000s era hotels on a cloudy/rainy day. I know it's a bit odd, but it's not a weird way, trust me. Anyway, I think the earliest memories of seeing vacuums in hotels was going to an indoor water park and hotel when I was younger, and seeing some Proteam Proforce uprights and a Eureka Mighty Mite. At another indoor water park resort, I saw a Sanitare clean-air upright of some kind being used to clean an entry mat (it was black, and I think it was bagged, but I'm not entirely sure) More recently, I went to Castaway Bay in Sandusky a few years back, and while I didn't see any vacuums there, I did see a couple Shark steam mops (the hotel's rooms were floored, so I guess their presence makes sense). Finally, at a Holiday Inn, I saw some modern Bissell Powerforces, and at a Comfort Inn, I saw some direct-air Sanitares.

 

[amtraksebo1997]

In addition to this...

I've also taken a liking to cheap commercial vacuums that are recolors of domestic ones. Vacuums like the commercial Hoover Elites, commercial Orecks, bagged Sanitares, etc. I know these machines aren't the greatest things for commercial use, but I just find them really aesthetically pleasing. It's to the point where the only versions of vintage vacuums that I want to get are the commercial variants of them. It also feeds into my love for dated hotels (excluding all the nasty stuff that can be found in them with a black light lol). If you're into things like liminal spaces, you'll probably understand. So in short, I believe in cheap commercial vacuum supremacy!

 

[human]

I don't stay in hotels as often as I used to, but the last few I've stayed in, ranging from a Days Inn to a Marriott, had fake hardwood floors in lieu of carpet. I don't mind that, except at the coast, where they never seem to manage to get all the sand up, but I guess it beats having the sand ground into the carpet.

 

[wstonehockertv]

Let's not forget wet-dry vacs in hotels. They come in hand for unclogging toilets and for other areas in the hotel that lack carpeting.

 

[kirbyman65]

This is the worst vacuum I’ve ever used in a hotel

This is a pretty much a bisslle power force that’s heavy and has a slightly better filter. I really didn’t like it.

 

[wstonehockertv]

Correction, that's a Dirt Devil identifying as a Royal.

 

[tolivac]

Bagless vacuums HAVE NO PLACE for motel/hotel cleaning and other commercial use.The dust IS a workplace hazard.Plus these vacs blow out more dust than bagged vacuums.They belong in the dumpster! The machine in the picture appears to have a bagless bin.

 

[wstonehockertv]

I agree. If the hotel room is all bare floors, a backpack machine or a bagged straight-suction canister like the Eureka Mighty Mite will work.

 

[panasonicvac]

I've went on Royal Caribbean a few times and they use NaceCare/Henry the clean the rooms.