Room Attendant / Camarista — Colonial Hotel

Responsibilities

• Clean and prepare guest rooms in colonial hotel to boutique standard — typically 8–12 rooms per shift
• Apply appropriate care to heritage surfaces — Talavera tile, carved stone floors, antique wooden furniture
• Strip and remake beds with hotel linen
• Full bathroom cleaning and restocking — heritage bathrooms often have distinctive materials requiring specific care
• Restock room consumables and Yucatán-specific amenities — local soaps, hammock positioning, regional welcome products
• Report maintenance issues — colonial properties require attentive damage reporting
• Handle interior courtyard and corridor presentation as applicable

Requirements

• Previous hotel or domestic cleaning experience preferred
• Care and respect for heritage surfaces and antique furnishings
• Physical stamina in Mérida's heat — colonial hotels without central air rely on ceiling fans and cross-ventilation
• Detail orientation
• Reliable attendance

Benefits

• IMSS, Aguinaldo, vacation + premium
• Staff meals, uniform

Work environment

Colonial boutique hotel in Mérida. Working in a restored henequen-era mansion — courtyard with tropical plants, wicker furniture, carved stone arches — is one of the most distinctive hotel working environments in Mexico.

About the role

The caretaker of a living piece of Yucatán heritage. A Mérida colonial hotel is not just an accommodation — it is a restored mansion that tells the story of Yucatán's 19th-century henequen era. The room attendant who tends it carefully, who polishes the Talavera tile without scratching it, who opens the shuttered window to let in the morning air — is caring for something that has survived 150 years and deserves to last another 150.