Are you talking about daily housekeeping or actual room service (food delivery)? In all my life, I've never ordered room service as it is criminally expensive.

Housekeeping.

The last few hotels I've stayed at, including one in Seattle, didn't do housekeeping unless you were staying more than 2 nights and then only on request. They would happily send up more towels or whatever you need but were limiting the number of rooms they actually entered each day. Covid was the excuse but really I think it was short staffing.

Either way, I'm shocked that they would refuse to clean your room for a week. Of course, if you didn't ask, they won't.

I didn't ask, given what they told me on arrival. Anyway the reception was often unstaffed, too.

Partly why I just stick with the chains, at least for now. Very very predictable, and while you won't get the best experience at the hotel, you get a lot of guarantees that it at least won't be a bad experience.

Maybe this will be different when I'm traveling more for the sake of traveling, but for the most part I'm traveling to see something specific in a city rather than the city at large.

When I was in a hotel last time, there was no room service either, but that's fine for me as long as clean towels and bed sheets are provided at the lobby whenever I need.

What hotel? Whenever I've stayed in Seattle $300 a night will get you room service.

I haven't been staying in a lot of hotels recently but not servicing rooms has been pretty common over the past year in my experience. (Ostensibly because of COVID.)

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