There are often lots of service calls for clogged sink drains. Easy solution: just take out the stopper, right? While this decision makes it easy for maintenance, it comes at a price. What if guests need to close the sink? What is their reaction to seeing a chasm where they might lose something?
Another solution used by some properties is to install a grid strainer drain instead. Guests won’t lose most items down the drain, and maintenance calls decrease.
Other properties leave the stoppers because of the experience they want for guests.
What do you have in your sinks? Stopper, grid strainer drain, or hole? Is it providing the guest experience you want? Are the number of maintenance calls reasonable?
Ah yes, we used to have a combination of stoppers and open drain holes. I thought fishing out toothpaste caps, water balloons, and diamond rings was rather poor guest service when the maintenance call could have been avoided in the first place. So I changed all of the sink drains at our camp facility to grid strainers several years ago. I not aware of any guest complaints regarding not being able to stop up the sink. And sink clogs have been eliminated other than the very rare, occasional hair clog.