Housekeeping and cabinet bodies for hotels and parks
By James Brown · Updated 6 September 2026 · 5 minute read
A housekeeping body replaces the open bed with a lockable cabinet, so linen, cleaning supplies and consumables travel dry, secure and sorted. It suits hotels, holiday parks, caravan sites and student accommodation where a changeover round crosses open ground between buildings. The model we list runs to about 70 km at up to 35 km/h.
Key takeaways
- The gain is fewer return trips, because the round carries a full set of supplies rather than one load.
- Lockable matters: an open bed left outside a room is an invitation and a weather risk.
- Changeover day is the peak, and it is what the vehicle should be sized for rather than an average day.
- Clean linen and used linen need separating, which a compartmented body does and an open bed does not.
What a cabinet changes about the round
An open bed carries as much as a trolley and gets rained on. A cabinet carries a full round's supplies, keeps them dry, and can be left outside a room without anything walking off or blowing away.
The measurable effect is trips back to the store. A housekeeper who can complete a wing without returning saves several crossings a day, and on a spread-out site those crossings are most of the walking.
Sizing for changeover day
Holiday parks and hotels do not have an average day, they have a changeover day and everything else. A vehicle sized for a quiet Tuesday is the wrong vehicle on the day it is needed.
Size the body for the peak round, and consider whether a second machine hired for the season is cheaper than a larger one owned all year. On seasonal sites it usually is.
Costing one of these against what is already in the yard? Every model we list carries its payload, bed size, range and gradient, so you can compare them on the same terms.
Clean and used, kept apart
The practical requirement most specifications miss is separation. Clean linen going out and used linen coming back should not share a compartment, and a body with a divided interior solves that without a second vehicle.
Where the body is a single space, a simple rule about bagging and which end things travel does the same job, provided somebody writes it down.
Common questions
- Can the same vehicle do maintenance work
- A cabinet body is fixed, so it will not carry soil or long timber. Sites doing both usually run a cabinet body for housekeeping and an open or tipping bed for grounds and maintenance.
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Electric utility vehicles listed with payload, bed dimensions, range and gradient, so the comparison is like for like rather than brochure against brochure.
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