The tray per room category:
three items or eight
A tray with twelve sachets looks generous and is cleared away two thirds unopened. A tray with three sachets looks empty when the guest stays a week. This guide describes which items belong in which room category, what reception hands out on request and how rooms and arrivals become the number of cases.
Standard, superior, suite
The category does not decide the quality of the items, which is the same across the line. It decides the number.
Standard room
- Vanity kit
- Dental kit
- Shower cap
- Everything else at reception
Superior and business
- Plus shaving kit and sewing kit
- Plus the bamboo comb
- Comb without handle, because it lies flat
- On a long stay a top-up on the third day
Suite
- Plus manicure set and hairbrush
- Sleep set on the pillow
- Loofah sponge in the shower
- Hygiene bag discreetly in the bathroom
What lies there, what reception gives
Not every item belongs in the room at every arrival. The rule of thumb: what every guest needs is laid out; what every tenth guest needs, reception gives.
Laying out
Vanity kit, dental kit and shower cap are opened at almost every arrival. They lie in the bathroom, and housekeeping replaces them with the linen. In the suite, sleep set and loofah are added, because both belong to the stay, not to an emergency.
Topping up
Shaving kit, sewing kit, manicure set and earplugs are not needed by all guests. Those who hand them out on request at reception or through housekeeping save two to four sachets per arrival and clear away less unopened. The guest who asks gets it within a minute.
The box
Where no tray stands, the cardboard amenities box of the Green Classic line holds the small items together: cotton pads, cotton buds, nail file and shower cap in a 7 cm cube. Empty, it comes for filling yourself, and then the sachets of the Elegant line lie in it.
| Category | Laid out | On request |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Vanity kit, dental kit, shower cap | Shaving kit, sewing kit, comb |
| Superior, business | plus shaving kit, sewing kit, comb | Manicure set, earplugs |
| Suite | plus manicure set, hairbrush, sleep set, loofah, hygiene bag | Second set on a long stay |
| Spa, changing room | Loofah sponge, shower cap, comb, hair tie | Nothing that must not get wet |
A word of honesty: The split above is our recommendation from practice, not a rule. A house with many business travellers lays out the shaving kit, a family hotel the comb.
From rooms and arrivals to the case
Three numbers are enough: rooms, arrivals per room and month, sachets per arrival. Then comes the pieces per case.
The calculation
Rooms times arrivals per month gives the arrivals per month. Times sachets per arrival and per item gives the monthly need per item. Divided by the pieces per case gives the cases per month. Round up, and add one case as reserve.
An example
A house with 80 rooms and on average twelve arrivals per room and month has 960 arrivals. If a vanity kit lies in every room, that is 960 vanity kits a month, and a case holds 1,000: so one case a month, twelve a year. The dental kit comes 500 to a case, of which the house needs two a month. The shower cap 1,000, one case.
| Item | Pieces per case | Lasts at 960 arrivals |
|---|---|---|
| Vanity kit | 1,000 | around a month |
| Dental kit | 500 | two weeks |
| Shower cap | 1,000 | around a month |
| Shaving kit, if laid out | 500 | two weeks |
| Sewing kit, if laid out | 2,500 | two and a half months |
| Comb with handle | 750 | three weeks |
What the calculation does not know
Whether the guest takes the sachet along. In city hotels with one night per booking the use per arrival is highest, in a resort with a week per booking it is lowest per night. Those who have both count with arrivals, not with nights, and are right.
All items with picture, contents and pieces per case are on the page Green Amenities in paper sachets.
Frequently asked questions about the tray
What executive housekeepers and buyers ask about the composition.
Put together a tray for your house?
Tell us rooms, categories and arrivals per month, you receive a proposal with case numbers and a sample pack.
