The rooms are fine for a small town highway hotel. Staff are pleasant but housekeeping is bad. Someone else’s earplug was on the carpet throughout my recent stay.
Despite registering for daily cleaning at check in AND hanging the door card on the door by the required time, housekeeping staff at this hotel consistently manage to skip cleaning the room at least once during every stay. Apparently hotel management have no system to confirm that rooms requiring cleaning have actually been cleaned or maybe they condone this as a way of reducing labour costs.
It’s a shame as the Sandman would be a decent basic travel hotel if it wasn’t for the housekeeping (or lack of). Staff need to pick their game up and take some pride int heir work and management need to actively confirm that rooms have been properly cleaned.
Skipped room cleaning has happened to me on multiple stays and has always been reported to front desk staff - management is aware and the problem has not resolved. Most times desk staff offer a tepid apology and clean towels. To give credit where its due, once several months ago the front desk lady on shift did come to the room to take the garbage and refresh the towels after housekeeping again conveniently skipped cleaning the room that day.
In response to the manager’s commitment to review these issues with staff and do better, it may help in doing so to know that we confirmed at check in that we wanted the room cleaned every day and the front desk employee confirmed that she would enter that into the system. While that should be enough, we always made sure the door card was hung out before 10 am as well. This is both a systems and personnel problem, and if you want to improve your reviews both need to be addressed. I hope the team does better in the future, as our experience reflects laziness and apathy by the cleaners and by on-site management who should be physically confirming that work is done before cleaners leave for the day.