You can find all the manners of hotel amenities. Body lotions, shower caps, bar soaps: the selection is incredibly large, with different sizes, formulations and designs. So, the question is, what should I offer to my guests, luxury or low-price hotel amenity sets? The answer is much more complex than you thought.
Hotel amenities: what’s inside?
Let’s start from the composition of a guest amenity kit. The number of the products, considering both cosmetics and accessories, is essential. You can reduce your budget or please your customers with everything they might need. It all depends on how many products you decide to include.
The low-cost version consists of a bottle of bath foam & shampoo, a bar soap and a shower cap. On the other hand, if you want to pamper your guests, you should arrange a larger selection of toiletries.
A large number of different products, cosmetics and accessories compose luxury hotel amenities. Therefore, your guests will find an intimate wash, a shaving kit, an oral care kit, a comb, and a vanity set. Besides, you should provide all the necessary for the perfect shower, including a body wash, a shampoo, a conditioner and a body lotion. If there is a tub, you should also offer some bath salts.
It’s your choice: you can save money or astound your guests with a rich, vast array of hotel amenities. It all depends on how many products you decide to offer.
Guests’ expectations are proportional to the rank of the accommodation. Obviously, customers expect more from a luxury hotel than from a boarding house.
Nonetheless, each different accommodation can spoil their guests with a high-quality set of toiletries. The rank of accommodation does not define the hotel amenities. Farm holidays, b&b and residences too have designed luxury hotel amenities. The point is, how much do you want to invest in your customers’ satisfaction?
Beyond the brand
Sometimes, we think that the best hotel amenities are the ones produced by famous perfume designers. However, that’s not true.
Apart from the brand, there are a lot of high-quality cosmetics with natural formulations and elegant packaging. Even if they don’t have a famous logo printed on, they can perfectly fulfill your customers’ needs.
Made in Italy: quality guaranteed
Both for luxury and low-cost hotel amenities, made in Italy means high-quality. Customers pay more and more attention to this detail. It is a guarantee, a certainty and a plus, especially for foreigners. “Made in Italy” is a brand itself, appreciated and longed for all round the world.
Italian products can make the difference for all kinds of accommodation.
Low-cost hotel amenities: how to combine quality and affordability
Low-cost does not mean poor-quality. You can use a few strategies to keep the budget down. You can reduce the number of products, choose standard toiletries and select smaller sizes, with elegant, basic packaging. Your guests will appreciate your friendly, easy-going hospitality if you offer them essential, and yet good-quality, hotel amenities.
Every time your guests leave, you must throw away all the cosmetics and accessories they’ve used. Furthermore, many customers bring them home with them, as a souvenir. That’s a real wastefulness. At the end of the day, this means a huge cost for the accommodation.
As we said, if you want to keep the budget down, you can opt for smaller bottles and tubes. Alternatively, you can choose a wall mount soap dispenser. You can reduce the consumption of the cosmetics and the cost of the packaging.
What’s more important, you can focus your investment on the quality of the product rather than on its package. That’s the best move to impress your guests.
The right size
How much quantity of each product should you offer to your customers? That’s something you should consider carefully. Sizes reflect the general level of your proposal.
You have to find the right size to avoid any waste and, at the same time, fulfill your customers’ expectations with a proper offer. The main point to consider is the length of the stay. If you host a family for a whole week or a businessman for a single-night stay, things are pretty different.
There are no rules here. Everything depends on the context you are working in. In any case, always choose quality.
The real luxury for hotel amenities
To sum up, we can say that there is no dilemma between luxury and low-cost hotel amenities. You must look for the right quality at the right price. You can please your guests with first-quality toiletries without the expense of a trademarked product.
When we talk about hotel amenities, luxury means:
- Intoxicating perfume
- Natural, non-aggressive formulation
- High-quality raw materials
- Refined, elegant packaging
- Large selection of specific cosmetics
In conclusion, you have to keep this in mind:
- If you are looking for low-cost hotel amenities, you can reduce the number of the products or offer a few more products with a standard formulation. Otherwise, you can choose a wall mount dispenser to avoid the cost of the packaging.
- Luxury hotel amenities are not necessarily trademarked products. You should select, instead, natural formulations, elegant packaging and a vast array of toiletries.
- You can also combine luxury and low-cost hotel amenities for the same accommodation, according to the rank of the room. So, for instance, luxury hotel amenities for the suites and standard hotel amenities for regular rooms.
