Most hotels know how much they spend monthly on cleaning products, but few know how much it costs to clean a room. This distinction is essential: without a per-unit cost, you can't compare suppliers, you can't detect waste, and you can't budget correctly for a busier season.
Cost structure for a 50-room hotel
Cleaning costs in a hotel fall into 4 main categories. Each should be measured separately:
- •Laundry (bed linen, towels, tablecloths) - typically 45-60% of the total
- •Room cleaning (surface, bathroom, window products) - 20-30%
- •Common areas (lobby, corridors, restaurant, elevator) - 10-15%
- •Special products (disinfectants, seasonal products) - 5-10%
Laundry calculation: the biggest cost
A 50-room hotel with an average occupancy of 75% and linen changed every 2 nights processes:
- •37-38 occupied rooms × 4-5 kg of linen/room = 150-190 kg/day
- •For daily towels: add 30-40 kg/day
- •Total: 180-230 kg of laundry processed daily
At a cost of 2-3 MDL/kg (retail products), laundry costs 360-690 MDL/day. Switching to a professional concentrated detergent (0.5-0.8 MDL/kg), the cost drops to 90-185 MDL/day - a saving of 270-500 MDL per day.
Per-room cleaning calculation
A complete room cleaning consumes on average: