International Housekeeper’s Week – PEHN Picnic at the Albert Park Lake

This event honoured the hard work of the Housekeeping Teams  and was attended by about 40 housekeeping professionals  from Clarion Suites Gateway, Park Hyatt Hotel, Radisson Hotel and Crown Towers Hotel. Suppliers were also present BlueStone Recruitment, Marie Brereton Uniforms, MCohn and Associates Linen Supplier, International Interior Images, IKON cleaning services and SleepTight Services.

This was the first time PEHN organised such an event. As usual time poor in organising the event and the weather threatening to dampen the fun, the event was a great success, attendees brought food, sandwiches from Park Hyatt and lovely scones with cream and jam, beverages contributed by Crown and chips from Radisson, BBQ and other food by PEHN.  There were games organised and  all enjoyed the fun. Including creating a hat out of materials provided. which has shown the artistic side  and resourcefulness of the housekeeping staff.  The event kicked off at around 4:30 and finished by around 6:30 just before the clouds opened up.

The event was a great success. In future we will include a similar event in our yearly calendar aiming to get the Housekeeping departments from various hotels  together at least once each year! After all, it was “International Housekeeper’s Week ! “

The next event will the Annual General Meeting in October and a PEHN Christmas Party in December, which is going to be a formal affair this year, so everyone can dress up in their finest, please check the website www.pehn.org for information. Or email us at pehn.aus@gmail.com  to include you in our email data base.

The committee would like to extend Special thanks to the organisers for all the hard work in planning and setting up , carting out all the food from the car to the site (did not have to go to the gym for a week afterwards), Margaret Fernandes – Radisson Hotel (Vice President), Marian Stratford – PEHN President, Karen Bingham – PEHN Committee, Lynabel Carreon – Clarion Suites Gateway (Committee) and as well to the above mentioned hotels and suppliers who attended and supported this event!