As you might suppose, both microfibre and cotton bedding have advantages and disadvantages. Knowing what they are will help you make the smart choice for your property.

You keep up with the essentials for what your hotel property needs but when’s the last time you’ve checked to see if some of the fun extras, the ‘wish list’ items, are affordable?

Yes. Hotel properties looking to economise sometimes forego mattress protectors. It’s an understandable impulse - they cost around $10 to $40 for a basic, standard style, multiplied by as many beds as you have and regular replacing, the additional laundry expense, it can add up.

Microfibre quilts and duvets are highly popular in hotels and motels, and for very good reason - they offer the soft, warm feel of traditional goose or duck feather and down bed linen, while being much easier to clean and more economical.

Mirofibre mops, microfibre cloths, microfibre tea-towels - even microfibre underwear. The list of new uses for microfibre textiles expands practically daily. But what is microfibre? More importantly, how should it be used and is it really so much better than anything else?