Do hotel "families" pass the bedding/towels down from the high end hotels to the lower end ones?

High end hotels have more demanding customers. So they have better towels.

Many (not all) hotels have the hotel name stitched or tufted on the towels, so it wouldn’t be very easy to pass those on to a lower end chain. I imagine it can happen, but it’s not the normal modus operandi.

The more important question: Why do you get soft and absorbent towels on the first day of your stay, but get crappy old rough towels for all the remaining days? If noticed this at so many hotels. It’s like – once you are there, they can treat you like crap because they know you won’t leave.

High end hotels dispose of the high end linens more quickly, while cheaper hotels keep the lower cost versions in use longer.

But they don’t pass them down the chain; that would be inefficient, cause inventory confusion, and an accounting headache to shift inventory from one cost center to another.

I worked in a hotel that was coming out of bankruptcy; some of the linens were so thin you could see through them. If I had to take extra towels to a room, I had to make sure there were no holes in them.

Prolly not…although the chance of hand-me-downs is pretty high among hotels in the same chain—like Hilton, for example.

Remember, too, that many hotels, much like hospitals, farm out their linens now.

They do an awful lot of cleaning. Many of the ratty towels end up as cleaning rags.

I worked at a low end hotel that was part of a large “family” that included higher end hotels. We just got our stuff from Walmart. It seems complicated to send all that stuff around.