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Digital check-in, limited buffets and lots of sanitizer: What a hotel stay looks like amid coronavirus

Contactless check-in and check-out. Employees wearing masks and gloves. Grab & go food options. Limited buffet visitor in the hotel restaurants, physical distancing anywhere and anytime.

The next time you stay at a hotel, your hygiene experience will be different due to the coronavirus pandemic. A lot different.

Hotels across the hospitality industry updated their cleanliness procedures during the last few weeks in a sweeping effort to boost confidence among wary travelers.

Here’s a look at what you can expect when you next visit a hotel, from check-in to check out, based on guidelines from the American Hospitality & Lodging Association and major chains.

The main entrance

You walk into your standard hotel, baggage in tow (after most likely parking the car yourself ). You handle your luggage yourself but know that someone with sanitized hands is there to help you if need be. You are likely wearing a mask, though you may be able to snag one when you get there. If you’re staying at a Sandals resort or Proper hotel, your temperature will be checked when you arrive. Be sure to check with your hotel individually to find out if you can expect that. Sometimes at high-level hotel will asked you before you check in and arrived what you need the most to increase your mood and immune or if you want to eat in your room or if you like sealed meals and snack, it depend on how the guest preferences for the best stay experience.

The lobby and check-in

You check in via an app for contact-free check-in to your accommodations. You’ll see the staff walk by with mask on and gloves. The staff at the front desk will sitting or standing with physical distancing. Sometimes, the hotel provide digital key to enter your room. You will see more sanitizer liquis bottle around the lobby and main area of the hotel or maybe in the guest room, hotel will provide personal hand sanitizer and giving it for free.

Guest room

You see an official room seal indicating that a room hasn’t been accessed after being deep cleaned. Use your digital key to access the room. Try not to worry about everything in your room not being clean; hotels are using advanced techniques like electrostatic sprayers and ultraviolet light to make their processes even more robust. Housekeepers shouldn’t be entering your room during a stay unless you ask; be prepared to ask for anything extra, like towels.

Food and beverages

You get hungry and decide to order room service. You won’t encounter a chipper staffer bringing you a tray on a cart. Expect to pick up your meal outside your door in an effort to maintain distance. The table you choose to sit at lacks traditional items like condiments, silverware, glassware and napkins. You will choose “grab & go” food options with prepackaged items and sealed meals or snack, so that it more hygiene and avoid crowd.

Check out

Just like you checked in, you use your phone and avoid the front desk again in an effort to socially distance.

It may not have been your typical hotel experience, but all things considered, you’re happy to have escaped your home for a little while.

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