Housekeeping at a hotel porte-cochère during Navratri and Diwali check-in sees guest shoes, luggage wheels, and one mat that is wet by noon. The guest entrance still uses an S mat, a rib mat, and a cushion mat together. Cleaning stays lift, hose, dry, rotate.
Quick answer
A hotel guest entrance uses an S mat, a rib mat, and a cushion mat together. SMat Hydra (7 mm) is the first-zone dust-capture mat, and it is also used where water must drain. 3-Rib (6 mm) is the lobby scrape. Cushion Maxx (15 mm) is the commercial doormat. Keep a spare of the same family. Plan the property on hospitality applications.
Match the mat to the hotel zone
| Hotel zone | Mat |
|---|---|
| Porte-cochère, first zone | SMat Hydra, 7 mm |
| Lobby scrape | 3-Rib, 6 mm |
| Finished lobby | Indo Star, 12 mm |
| Commercial doormat | Cushion Maxx, 15 mm |
| Staff or small office door | Smart Plain or Smart Welcome, 10 mm |
| Service entry | SMat Hydra, 7 mm |
| Pool or wash | SMat Hydra, 7 mm |
One compact mat does not cover a lobby where guests walk in side by side. Measure the walking path, then pick the family for that zone. Wider hotel entrances stay on entrance mats. This page supports that selector.
Lobby scrape
3-Rib is the 6 mm rib mat for the lobby scrape. It is supplied in 38×58, 40×60, and 45×75 cm, and in 12 × 1.22 m rolls when the walking path is wider than a single doorway mat.
Use 2-Rib only when the scrape is heavier. 2-Rib is 6.5 mm, in the same cut sizes and in 12 × 1.22 m rolls. The ribbed surface scrapes loose dirt off footwear. It does not replace the S mat in the first zone or the cushion mat beside it.
A finished lobby mat
Indo Star is a 12 mm cushion mat in 12 × 1.22 m rolls when the lobby needs a cushion with a tidier face. Cut the roll to the walking path. Do not stretch a compact door size across the lobby.
When the request is a commercial doormat, use Cushion Maxx. It is 15 mm, in 12 × 1.22 m rolls. Door mats as a category are mainly for small offices and residential doorways. The commercial doormat is Cushion Maxx.
Small doors only
Smart Plain and Smart Welcome are 10 mm PVC coil mats in 38×58, 40×60, and 45×75 cm. Use them at a small hotel office or a staff door. They are not the lobby mat and they are not the commercial doormat.
Those compact doors belong on door mats.
Wet back-of-house
SMat Hydra is 7 mm, in 12 × 1.22 m rolls. At the guest entrance it is the first-zone dust-capture mat. At a service entry, pool path, or wash area it is the mat where water drains through. It is not a wet-only mat.
The cook line is a different floor. Use the wet industrial kitchen guide there, and keep SMat Hydra as the named mat for the hotel’s wet back-of-house.
Festival footfall
Navratri and Diwali check-in fills a mat faster. It does not call for a different family or a new cleaning job. Keep a spare of the same mat the zone already uses. Lift the dirty mat, hose it, dry it, and put the spare down so the entrance is never bare. Luggage wheels do not add a step. That is lift, hose, dry, rotate.
What not to do
- Do not specify a mat for muddy factory gates, ramps, or warehouse approaches as the hotel entrance mat or as a dust barrier. A commercial entrance uses cushion, rib, and S mat.
- Do not stretch one compact mat across a lobby.
- Do not leave the door bare while the only mat is being washed. Rotate a spare of the same family.
- Do not ask housekeeping to learn a routine beyond lift, hose, dry, rotate.
Softurf recommendation
Start with SMat Hydra, 3-Rib, and either Cushion Maxx or Indo Star. S mats, rib mats, and cushion mats are the three families for the guest entrance. Plan the property on hospitality applications, and use entrance mats when the same entrance pattern shows up in an office, school, or hospital. For a made-to-measure length, review custom sizing before you ask for a quote.
Quote via the contact form, call +91 99007 02839, WhatsApp, or email sales-team@softurf.in. Softurf manufactures in Jigani, Bengaluru, and supplies pan-India with GST tax invoices. Fire-retardant PVC; certificate on request.
