turn-down service
a service offered by a hotel, to prepare your bed for the night
TRANSLATION
turn-down service = Der abendliche Service eines Hotels, bei dem das Bett für die Nachtruhe aufgedeckt wird. --- GOOGLE INDEX turn-down service: approximately 1,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Guests will receive a bottle of champagne with chocolate-covered strawberries in their room, a long-stem rose, plush in-room robes, TURN-DOWN SERVICE, private use of the inn's indoor hot tub and sauna, and a continental breakfast.
(The Times Record, Maine U.S.A.)
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With a dedicated room service, a pet sitter and even a TURN-DOWN SERVICE for their doggie beds, pampered poodles such as Barrington are being offered the full treatment by top hotels hoping to lure their owners on holiday.
(The Australian)
(The Times Record, Maine U.S.A.)
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With a dedicated room service, a pet sitter and even a TURN-DOWN SERVICE for their doggie beds, pampered poodles such as Barrington are being offered the full treatment by top hotels hoping to lure their owners on holiday.
(The Australian)
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turn-down service
noun phrase
- In hotels, the practice of folding back the blanket and sheet of the bed in the evening, sometimes accompanied by putting a mint on the pillow or a cordial on the night stand.
(The Travel Industry Dictionary)
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Remember when mum came into the room before bedtime, read a story, fluffed the pillow and pulled the covers up so that you felt safe and snug and ready to go to sleep? In English we call this "tucking in" (Pour me a glass of wine while I go tuck Johnny in).
Many hotels offer the same service, just without the bedtime story and of course without mum. It's called the "turn-down service" and is carried out by the service personnel (once called the maid). The basic version of the turn-down service involves folding the bed covers back. As an added touch, some hotels place a small piece of chocolate or hard candy on the pillow so that your teeth have a nice coating of sugar while you sleep.
Other hotels offer "premium" turn-down service that might include fresh towels, placing a relaxing CD in the stereo system or replacing all of the toiletries (shampoo, toothpaste, hand cream) that you stuck in your luggage when you arrived.
If you are uncomfortable with the idea of a stranger barging into the room, advise the hotel that you would like to "turn down" (reject) the turn-down service.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I think the turn-down service adds a nice personal touch to a hotel stay."
noun phrase
- In hotels, the practice of folding back the blanket and sheet of the bed in the evening, sometimes accompanied by putting a mint on the pillow or a cordial on the night stand.
(The Travel Industry Dictionary)
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Remember when mum came into the room before bedtime, read a story, fluffed the pillow and pulled the covers up so that you felt safe and snug and ready to go to sleep? In English we call this "tucking in" (Pour me a glass of wine while I go tuck Johnny in).
Many hotels offer the same service, just without the bedtime story and of course without mum. It's called the "turn-down service" and is carried out by the service personnel (once called the maid). The basic version of the turn-down service involves folding the bed covers back. As an added touch, some hotels place a small piece of chocolate or hard candy on the pillow so that your teeth have a nice coating of sugar while you sleep.
Other hotels offer "premium" turn-down service that might include fresh towels, placing a relaxing CD in the stereo system or replacing all of the toiletries (shampoo, toothpaste, hand cream) that you stuck in your luggage when you arrived.
If you are uncomfortable with the idea of a stranger barging into the room, advise the hotel that you would like to "turn down" (reject) the turn-down service.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I think the turn-down service adds a nice personal touch to a hotel stay."
