The latest Santo Domingo hotel to close for remodeling is the Marriott Jaragua which will be closed at the end of April for a full year for remodeling. As mentioned in several other threads this will join a list of closed and/or remodeled hotels in the capital including Melia, Intercontinental( now Sheraton), Hotel Santo Domingo and the Hispanola.
My question is--What becomes of all the furnishings TV's etc. that come out of the hotels? In the case of the Jaragua there are over 300 rooms and suites in that hotel. In all my stays there most of the furniture seemed to be in pretty good shape. All of the rooms in the tower have large flat screened TV's. Add to this all the public areas and restaurants and there has to be a virtual mountain of furniture being removed from this one hotel alone. I assume with a year long remodeling effort they would not re-use most of the stuff. Does it go to a second hand market or is it easier and more cost effective to cart it all to the dump?
When I asked the employees they said they did not know what would happen with it all. They were a pretty disheartened group. Everyone I asked from the front desk to the cleaning staff had been told they would lose their jobs with no guarantee of getting re-hired when the refurbished hotel open. They have to re-apply for their jobs. They all seemed unhappy and distressed with this arrangement. I have always found the employees at the Jaragua to to be helpful and friendly. Everything in that hotel, except the rooms, were overpriced but that is not the doing of the employees.
If the furniture was available I may be interested in getting some of it if the price was right. Does anyone know what becomes of it?
My question is--What becomes of all the furnishings TV's etc. that come out of the hotels? In the case of the Jaragua there are over 300 rooms and suites in that hotel. In all my stays there most of the furniture seemed to be in pretty good shape. All of the rooms in the tower have large flat screened TV's. Add to this all the public areas and restaurants and there has to be a virtual mountain of furniture being removed from this one hotel alone. I assume with a year long remodeling effort they would not re-use most of the stuff. Does it go to a second hand market or is it easier and more cost effective to cart it all to the dump?
When I asked the employees they said they did not know what would happen with it all. They were a pretty disheartened group. Everyone I asked from the front desk to the cleaning staff had been told they would lose their jobs with no guarantee of getting re-hired when the refurbished hotel open. They have to re-apply for their jobs. They all seemed unhappy and distressed with this arrangement. I have always found the employees at the Jaragua to to be helpful and friendly. Everything in that hotel, except the rooms, were overpriced but that is not the doing of the employees.
If the furniture was available I may be interested in getting some of it if the price was right. Does anyone know what becomes of it?
