I do not like the practice, it started during the covid lockdowns. But they will not deny requested services. I think it will reverse as people start to complain. Many hotels have just recently started hot breakfast and open pools back up.
As long as they replenish the crappy coffee and I have clean towels, I'm good. I typically don't stay in hotels more than a night or two. I usually prefer using a VRBO/AirBnb situation for longer stays.
I have seen the maids with their carts in the hallway and they've let me take what I need. Typically, there seems to be enough supplies for a couple of nights already stocked in the rooms.
I kind of clean my hotel room (and especially bathroom) anyway, whereas I'm not compulsive about it at home. I think that's because my mother was a hotel maid for a while, having just emigrated at the age of 19. Or maybe I'm just that vain with people I'll never meet.
As long as it doesn't mean I'm sleeping in somebody else's bed linen, it's okay.
I tidy up the bed and make sure things are neat in the bathroom. I don't leave things on the floor, so all the maid has to do is make the bed properly. I'm not a slob at home and I'm not one in a hotel room either.
It would not worry me too much as long as the supply of tea & coffee requisites were maintained!.
I've only ever stayed in hotels for up to a couple of weeks, within the UK, and in connection with work.
I did see in some a message that how you left the towels indicated if you wanted clean ones that day. They seemed to change them anyway.
I would though treat the place, and its staff, with respect, and keep the room clean and tidy. For example, if I splashed the table when making a cup of tea, I wiped it up.
What bothered me more was that I was unable to listen to the radio in my room. If one was provided at all it must have been as some form of extra channels on the televisions, but I could not operate them because the establishments never supplied instructions for those baffling remote-controllers! Those days are over - I have since retired - but I think if I were ever to stop in a hotel again I'd take a small portable wireless.
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