Hotel carpet or LVT?

There is no single hotel floor

A standard guest room, a suite living room, a corridor, a restaurant and a bathroom are five different jobs. Treating them as one “hospitality flooring” SKU is how you get a noisy corridor or a swollen bathroom plank.

Standard guest rooms

Carpet is still the usual Australian hotel room: quieter for the neighbour, warmer underfoot, more forgiving of a dropped iron. Carpet tile is the repair story — one burn does not take the room out for a week. Broadloom is the look story. Choose against how your engineering team actually patches rooms.

Suites and accessible rooms

LVT in a suite living room is common, with carpet remaining in the bedroom. Accessible rooms sometimes want a hard, rollable surface. That is a brand and access decision, not a contractor preference. Wet bathrooms stay on sheet vinyl either way.

Corridors

Corridor carpet exists because wheels and acoustics meet there. LVT corridors look sharp on day one and telegraph every trolley at 2am. If a brand insists on hard corridors, budget for acoustic underlayment and accept a different maintenance and noise profile.

F&B and back-of-house

Restaurants often want LVT or a tight commercial vinyl that mops clean. Kitchens and bars at the wet line need slip-resistant sheet vinyl. Do not run dining-room plank into a dish wash.

Damage, cleaning, occupancy

• Carpet hides tracking better; LVT shows grit and chair marks.
• Housekeeping already knows carpet extraction. LVT needs a different chemical set — ask them before you specify.
• Both can be installed in an occupied hotel. LVT still needs a flat, dry subfloor; carpet is more forgiving of a tired slab, which is not an excuse to skip preparation.

Brief the split you want on the quote form, or start from guest-room flooring and hotel vinyl.