What a room preparation cycle is
What a room's preparation cycle is: which event starts it, what it holds, and how it differs from a single cleaning task.
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A preparation cycle is the stretch between two stays: from a confirmed departure to the moment the room is ready to take a guest again.
The cycle begins from a fact rather than from a date — a person has confirmed that the guest has gone. Exactly one checkout cleaning is raised from it. Other work may appear inside the cycle afterwards — a repair, an inspection, a replenishment — and all of it belongs to that one cycle.
What makes the cycle worth having is that it joins things up. Without it a cleaning, a fault, and a second cleaning after the repair are three unrelated tasks, and nobody can answer ‘why is this room still not ready’ in one sentence. Inside a cycle the answer is always one sentence, and always complete.
The facts a cycle records are not rewritten. Where work had to be corrected, the history keeps both what was there and what replaced it, along with the reason.