Are you ready, Paris Las Vegas senior management team? If you’re listening out there, I’m about to help add at least a half-million dollars to your annual bottom line, maybe more. It’s easy: all that it requires is one change to your Room Management Policy and a training session with your housekeeping staff.
Stop leaving the lights on in your unoccupied guest room bathrooms all day long.
Your “Conserve” cards in the rooms indicate that you want your guests’ help in saving water, energy, etc. But you’re cooking off electricity in every single room, in a few thousand rooms, every single day, most of the day, just so that a new guest has two seconds of extra light in the room hall upon entry.
Ridiculous, unnecessary policy – the Cost/Benefit Ratio on this policy is way way off.
[Your hallways are well-lit, people will be able to see their way into their rooms just fine. I assure you, no one cares, no one will notice, and if they do you'll hear about it at the front desk and you can change the gameplan for that guest in that room only for their stay.]
I don’t know what your electricity costs out here in Las Vegas, but for easy math let’s assume it’s a half dollar per day for 12 hours or so of electricity to power all those bathroom lightbulbs for no one:
$0.50 per day x 2900 rooms x 365 days = $529,000
You’re welcome. If you’d like to comp me a Suite for the opening of March Madness weekend in 2010, I’d be more than happy to take it. Cheers.
