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camarero de piso

English translation: room attendant

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Spanish term or phrase:camarero de piso
English translation:room attendant
Entered by: Karen Rosenberg

19:31 Nov 15, 2015
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tourism & Travel
Spanish term or phrase: camarero de piso
If a camarera de piso es a chambermaid, what is a camarero de piso? A male chambermaid?
Many thanks for any better suggestion (UK English)
Karen Rosenberg
Spain
Local time: 01:14
room attendant
Explanation:
An alternative

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Note added at 10 mins (2015-11-15 19:41:59 GMT)
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Room attendants clean and maintain rooms in hotels, motels and other places of accommodation. Room attendants may perform the following tasks: check that rooms have been vacated before cleaning. make beds daily and change bed linen.

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Note added at 11 mins (2015-11-15 19:43:15 GMT)
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Hotel Room Attendant Job Description - Hcareers
Hcareers › tabid › articleid
Standard operating procedures for hotel room attendants, or housekeepers, are taught through the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute and include everything from guest relations to how to properly make a bed and clean a bathroom.

Hotel room attendant job information | National Careers Service
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk › ...
If you are physically fit and would like a practical job in hospitality, this could be for you. Hotel room attendants make sure that hotel rooms are clean, tidy and inviting for guests.
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Darius Saczuk
United States
Local time: 19:14
Grading comment
yes, seems good, thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +6room attendant
Darius Saczuk
4apartment attendant
Ellen Kraus
4 -1housekeeper
philgoddard


  

Answers


7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
housekeeper


Explanation:
Chambermaid is a bit oldfashioned and gender specific these days.

philgoddard
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 55

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Carol Gullidge: decades ago, I moonlit at a hotel on Park Lane. There was one Housekeeper in charge of the chambermaids on each floor; the chambermaids had to clean a number of suites per day, which were inspected by the Housekeeper. In the UK, they are not synonymous
1 hr
  -> And I used to work in a hotel in Croydon and they were called housekeepers :-) You can't generalise about an entire country from one hotel. Also, as Karen points out, chambermaids can't be male.
disagree  Noni Gilbert Riley: gobernanta = housekeeper - another female job title!/Changed since I need to be more emphatic about this not being right instead of diplomatic. In my previous EFL persona I taught English at arange of hotels in Spain - the Paradores, the Melia chain, etc.
1 hr
agree  Patrice
7 hrs
disagree  Marian Vieyra: With Carol & Noni - c/maid and housekeeper different species, notwithstanding your Croydon experience.
15 hrs
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
room attendant


Explanation:
An alternative

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Note added at 10 mins (2015-11-15 19:41:59 GMT)
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Room attendants clean and maintain rooms in hotels, motels and other places of accommodation. Room attendants may perform the following tasks: check that rooms have been vacated before cleaning. make beds daily and change bed linen.

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Note added at 11 mins (2015-11-15 19:43:15 GMT)
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Hotel Room Attendant Job Description - Hcareers
Hcareers › tabid › articleid
Standard operating procedures for hotel room attendants, or housekeepers, are taught through the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute and include everything from guest relations to how to properly make a bed and clean a bathroom.

Hotel room attendant job information | National Careers Service
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk › ...
If you are physically fit and would like a practical job in hospitality, this could be for you. Hotel room attendants make sure that hotel rooms are clean, tidy and inviting for guests.

Darius Saczuk
United States
Local time: 19:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
yes, seems good, thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adoración Bodoque Martínez
1 hr
  -> Gracias, Adoración.
agree  Patrice
7 hrs
  -> Thank you, Patrice.
agree  María Perales
13 hrs
  -> Thank you, María.
agree  James A. Walsh
14 hrs
  -> Thank you, James.
agree  Marian Vieyra: This sounds like an Americanism to me, but it is used here in the UK as well. Never had a male room attendant anywhere in the world.
15 hrs
  -> Neither have I. Thanks, Marian.
agree  Lindsay Spratt
19 hrs
  -> Thank you, Lindsay.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
apartment attendant


Explanation:
I would suggest

Ellen Kraus
Austria
Local time: 01:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
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