Motel checklists
Printable starting points, not a substitute for your cleaning, safety, accounting or privacy procedures. Keep guest-sensitive details out of shared checklists.
Motel housekeeping checklist
- Confirm departures and early-arrival priorities
- Separate stayovers from turnover rooms
- Check out-of-service rooms before assigning work
- Follow the property’s approved cleaning and safety procedure
- Inspect the room using the property standard
- Record maintenance defects and assign a follow-up
- Release ready rooms only after required checks
- Update the shared room status and hand off unfinished work
Motel night-audit checklist
- Confirm the property’s business date and handoff time
- Review arrivals, departures, stayovers and no-shows
- Reconcile room status with the reservation record
- Review charges, payments and balances in approved systems
- Check reservation changes and channel exceptions
- Record incidents using appropriate privacy controls
- Assign unresolved tasks to an authorized staff member
- Complete the property’s business-date close procedure
- Leave the morning shift an actionable handoff