talked to the owner of a Bangkok cheap hotels that I stay at about how to save energy and how that will make her more profit. I came up with several ideas that I know will work to bring down the energy that this Bangkok hotel uses, which should help them to keep the prices cheap and the doors open.
I have been thinking about energy allot lately and I talked to the owner of the
a Bangkok cheap hotels that I stay at about how to save energy and how that will make her more profit. I came up with several ideas that I know will work to bring down the energy that this Bangkok hotel uses, which should help them to keep the prices cheap and the doors open.
The owner a Thai Local named Tor, like everyone these days likes the idea of saving money and saving the environment. Here are some of the ways that we put in place.
Notes on the registration desk and all of the hotel room doors that say if you do not turn off your air con when you leave the room that management reserves the right to charge you more per day.
We asked that the guests stick towels down on the floor by the door to get the room cooler faster and to keep the room cooler if they are in for the night.
We made fans available to the guests on request. A fan uses a lot less energy and many people will forgo the aircon all together or just use it to cool the room down then let the fan run all night.
The has 20 rooms and if we can get just a 10%!r(MISSING)eduction in the energy used it will translate to big money every year and she can feel better for doing her part to fight global warming.
What ideas do you have or that you have seen that we can also do to save energy.
Reply to this In Asia I usually stay in cheaper places that have air usually under or not too much more than $20 U.S. Many of these places have energy reduction light bulbs. First thing I do is put a larger wattage bulb in the socket so I can read and actually see things in the dark! I do shut off my A/C, shut off the lights and TV plus make sure the refrigerator door is shut tight before I leave my room but I refuse to stay in a gloomy room!
Reply to this On tv's and DVD many times today they stay on in standby mode they like phone chargers are little energy wasters that can be turned off just by pulling the plug out of the wall.
On the light issue I too sometimes have a hard time so what i do most times instead is use some magnify glasses pretty cheap to buy and helps reading pins on sim card reloads.
I like the idea of making sure that the refrigerator is closed tight.
Reply to this While on the subject the owner Tor at Thaihouse Inn Bangkok has been following up on my suggestions and her energy bill Has dropped more than 15% all ready! Free money for her with just a little bit of effort from her staff and hotel room guests
Reply to this "On the light issue I too sometimes have a hard time so what i do most times instead is use some magnify glasses pretty cheap to buy and helps reading pins on sim card reloads."
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I'll still stick with the higher wattage light bulb and skip the magnifying glass!
(Because I am a foreigner I am already paying
more for my room than a local would anyway!)
Reply to this One classic issue is the towel and bedsheet replacement policy of the hotels. I don't know how many hotels I have visited (in Thailand or elsewhere for that matter) where they strew these little notices about saving the environment around the room and ask guests to refrain from changing towels unless necessary. It doesn't matter how neatly I hang the towel back on the hanger, the cleaning staff will exchange it for a new one anyway... And what happens to all these half-finished soaps that are often replaced with fresh ones every day? 😊
Reply to this When I am on the road, most of the cheap hotels I stay in in Thailand just leave the towels folded up on the foot of the bed. If I only need one towel I leave the dirty one in the bathroom and the clean one still folded up. Usually they only take the used towel. Some places I have been in (Philippines) they had a sign that said put the towels you want changed in the bathtub.
Along the same note of the half used soap, in the Philippines (in a slightly better hotel than I use in Thailand) I noticed that half used toilet paper rolls were always replaced with full rolls without leaving the half roll behind. After a couple days I asked the cleaner if they were throwing the partly used rolls away and that I wasn't that fussy that they couldn't leave the partly used roll behind. The cleaner said that they don't throw them away they just use them for cleaning mirrors and other things like that.
I have no idea what they do with the half used bars of soap! One really cheap hotel in Cambodia just left the used soap on the sink for the next customer (me) along with a used community toothbrush! I left the toothbrush behind when I checked out, have no idea if anyone would ever brush with a second hand toothbrush but it wouldn't be me!
Over the last dozen years I have noticed more cheap hotels with the little box near the door where you have to insert the key tag to turn the power on. Take the key out when you leave and all of the power turns off. This saves a little energy, although if you want to cool the room off when you make a 5 minute errand you can't!
Reply to this Those little boxs by the door can save 40% of a hotels electric bill! I think that they should also have a way to shut off the air when a window is open I have seem many times where people will have the air on and a window open. The hotel that I worked with did not have the money to install the boxes but just a sign posted saying that the hotel reserved the right to charge more for the ones that had the air on recieved lots of vollentary cooperation enough to be noticable on the electric bill.
I will some times take the soap with me and use it later on if it is a bigger bar of soap.
Reply to this I rarely use the soap that is in the hotels for bathing, at least in the cheap hotels. I prefer to have my own favorite brand with me or buy a larger "man size" bar from a Seven Eleven type store.
In the Philippines I would hand out the tiny sized hotel soap bars to some of the beggar kids on the street (Ermita area.)
One cheap place in Laos just shut the power down for almost half the day to save money! (It was up by the "Plain de Jars" area in Phonsavan.)
One hotel in Butterworth, Malaysia, next to Penang, (named the P.P.) Hotel would change a single sheet every day. I didn't care for only one sheet and a (probably grubby) thin blanket! I did a deal for a second sheet to put between me and the blanket and they washed those 2 sheets every 4 days. Saved a little water and electricity and I did not have to have a used blanket next to my skin.
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