Hotel lovers - do you know what you sleep on?

softmee

So, i am just writing this because i can't belive whats going on here in hotel industry. When i first came to Ireland i was unfortunetly working few months in a hotel ( 5* ). To my surpise the housekeeping norm in that hotel was to clean bathrooms with used guests pillows and towels!
I thought it was exeption and it doesnt happen anywhere else, but i was curious and every time i talk to somebody who works in hotel i ask about it. Bad news: I think i asked about 10 girls all toghether and they do this everywhere! It's not like housekeepers are doing this just to their own convenience because its quicker, supervisors are not only aware of this they also do train new workers to clean this way too!
I think this is absolutely disgusting and it puts me off staying in any hotel. I suggest you should all ask if they do this before you stay.
Just imagine -sleeping on the pillow case which was used before to clean toilet. Or using towel which was used to clean the floor! :mad:

orourkeda

Controversial

RayM

softmee wrote: »

Just imagine -sleeping on the pillow case which was used before to clean toilet. Or using towel which was used to clean the floor! :mad:

Or sleeping on a pillow case which, over the years, has probably soaked up the equivalent of my body weight in drool. Or using a towel which was previously used to dry hundreds of people's most intimate bodily crevices.

I prefer not to (over)think about these things, and place my trust in the fact that they (presumably) use washing machines in these places.

DundalkDuffman

Ah Lovers of hotels, I was expecting something about lovers in hotels, either way its pretty disgusting.

thebigbiffo

does seem pretty OTT alright.

but they are run through a boiling hot washing machine so i wont cancel that weekend away just yet...

stovelid

I'm usually so drunk when I'm staying in a hotel room that I couldn't care less if I was sleeping in the toilet and indeed, sometimes have.

MarkR

Once they clean them afterwards... They probably boil wash them also, so no germs left I presume.

W.Shakes-Beer

Once there isn't any big dirty pubes or shíte stains hanging out of them its all good.

Agricola

This is why I always bring my biohazard suit when staying in hotels.

Kevin Duffy

I only rent the rooms by the hour anyway, so I'm ok. Thanks for your concern though.

Joey the lips

When i have used a tea towel a little i use it to dry my hands and the kids. Then if something spills on the floor i wipe it up and throw it in the wash.

I am guessing no one will be staying with me any more..


Dont whites go in the boil wash anyway...?

OutlawPete

There should be song called: Hotel Lovers.

They were just a pair of Hotel Lovers,
Spent their days dreaming of each other,
Their affair was something undiscovered,
They fucked and sucked on dirty covers.

UglyBolloxFace

DundalkDuffman wrote: »

Ah Lovers of hotels, I was expecting something about lovers in hotels, either way its pretty disgusting.

Ha you and me both. It's the only reason I clicked the thread.

orourkeda

Agricola wrote: »

This is why I always bring my biohazard suit when staying in hotels.

I bring some of this with me into a hotel room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1tRvDfyIE

Seloth

Didnt we have this exact thread like two months ago?

opinion guy

softmee wrote: »

So, i am just writing this because i can't belive whats going on here in hotel industry. When i first came to Ireland i was unfortunetly working few months in a hotel ( 5* ). To my surpise the housekeeping norm in that hotel was to clean bathrooms with used guests pillows and towels!
I thought it was exeption and it doesnt happen anywhere else, but i was curious and every time i talk to somebody who works in hotel i ask about it. Bad news: I think i asked about 10 girls all toghether and they do this everywhere! It's not like housekeepers are doing this just to their own convenience because its quicker, supervisors are not only aware of this they also do train new workers to clean this way too!
I think this is absolutely disgusting and it puts me off staying in any hotel. I suggest you should all ask if they do this before you stay.
Just imagine -sleeping on the pillow case which was used before to clean toilet. Or using towel which was used to clean the floor! :mad:

Who cares so long as they are machine washed afterwards

Ostrom

Worked in one for many years it is fairly common.

All linen for any large hotel is usually rented from large contractors and returned weekly for washing (i.e. twice a week Celtic linen show up with pallets of table cloths, pillow cases etc, and we would return used linen to them for washing). I can only imagine they are put through an industrial strength boiling before returning. Towels are usually washed onsite if I remember.

angelfire9

What they do, for clarification purposes is when you go into clean a room where the guest has checked out, you strip the bed and put the dirty linen to one side and normally there is at least 1 clean towel left in the bathroom and this is used to dry the glasses in the bathroom after cleaning ditto the delph in the room, when you've cleaned the sink you use the towel to dry it plus towels are great for cleaning mirrors! and afterwards washing to wipe the floor dry and the bath/shower dry
This towel as well as all the rest plus the bed linens are sent out to the likes of Connaught Linen or Celtic Linen for cleaning and new towels & sheets straight out of a packet or out of the linen trolley are put on the bed for the next guest

I don't see any problem with this personally
The linen companies subject the linens to massive temperatures in the washing & drying process & in the ironing (for bed linens) so there is no risk from using them

I have NEVER in all the hotels i worked in, used a towel to clean a toilet
That's what toilet brushes are for!
:cool:

flash1080

The bed linen and towels are still cleaner than the hookers.

starbelgrade

Couldn't care less as long as I get Hotel Sex.

Hotel Sex rocks.

softmee

Oh, so most of you dont see any problem with it. :eek: Now i understand why its so pupular.
Enjoy then.

hondasam

softmee wrote: »

Oh, so most of you dont see any problem with it. :eek: Now i understand why its so pupular.
Enjoy then.

If they did not wash them afterwards it would be a problem. I'm pretty sure this is not the norm in a lot of hotels.

Gary ITR

I slept on the bathroom floor of a hotel last year so I couldn't give a toss

Yahew

I have often stayed in hotels where the cleaner came in while I stayed there - nothing done to linens, some dressing of bed, and more work in the toilet. Once I was in a room where they hadn't cleaned from the previous resident, they gave it to me uncleaned by mistake. There were no spare rooms so they cleaned while I was there.

In that case every piece of linen was removed and replaced, as was every towel etc. If they used the linen they were going to nuke to clean the toilet it would make sense. In fact it would be cleaner, as they would otherwise by using cleaning materials in any number of rooms.

But I got clean linen, and the dirty stuff went to a laundry bag where it was no doubt nuked at > 90C, at an industrial cleaners.

And OP, surely you realise this?

angelfire9

I should add that I stayed in a hotel in NYC 2 years ago and my daughter had a MASSIVE nosebleed overnight that ruined 2 perfectly good pillows, I rang house keeping in the morning and the girl came with a bag and gloves and took pillows & pillow cases and put them in the bag and marked it "for incineration"

I found this interesting I doubt they'd do it in Ireland!

angelfire9

Yahew wrote: »

I have stayed in hotels where the cleaner came in while I stayed there - nothing done to linens, some dressing of bed, and more work in the toilet. Once I was in a room where they hadn't cleaned from the previous resident, they gave it to me uncleaned by mistake. There were no spare rooms so they cleaned while I was there.

In that case every piece of linen was removed and replaced, as was every towel etc. If they used the linen they were going to nuke to clean the toilet it would make sense. In fact it would be cleaner, as they would otherwise by using cleaning materials in any number of rooms.

But I got clean linen, and the dirty stuff went to a laundry bag where it was no doubt nuked at 90C, which is what I use for linens.

A guest that stays in a room for more than 1 night doesn't get linen changes every day (every 3 days is the norm) you should have gotten fresh towels though

Yahew

angelfire9 wrote: »

A guest that stays in a room for more than 1 night doesn't get linen changes every day (every 3 days is the norm) you should have gotten fresh towels though

Yeah I know. That wasnt my point. ( And you dont get new towels unless you throw them on the floor in most hotels these days - for the "environment").

My point was that in the case where they use the linens to clean the linens are then nuked.

mconigol

OP whatever you do never stay in a hostel!

oppenheimer1

I'm getting a certain sense of deja vu from this thread. OP did you post this exact topic before a few months ago?

Cian92

angelfire9 wrote: »

What they do, for clarification purposes is when you go into clean a room where the guest has checked out, you strip the bed and put the dirty linen to one side and normally there is at least 1 clean towel left in the bathroom and this is used to dry the glasses in the bathroom after cleaning ditto the delph in the room, when you've cleaned the sink you use the towel to dry it plus towels are great for cleaning mirrors! and afterwards washing to wipe the floor dry and the bath/shower dry
This towel as well as all the rest plus the bed linens are sent out to the likes of Connaught Linen or Celtic Linen for cleaning and new towels & sheets straight out of a packet or out of the linen trolley are put on the bed for the next guest

I don't see any problem with this personally
The linen companies subject the linens to massive temperatures in the washing & drying process & in the ironing (for bed linens) so there is no risk from using them

I have NEVER in all the hotels i worked in, used a towel to clean a toilet
That's what toilet brushes are for!
:cool:

If your staying in a hotel this is exactly what happens, only the cleanest linen is ever sent out to hotels. The higher the star rating your hotle is the better quality (and less likely to have even the smallest stain) linen and towels you will receive. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Unless you are staying in a hospital, that is another story altogether.

I thought everyone knew this by now. Don't see the issue once they're washed at a high temperature. I mean, wouldn't it bother you more that a towel has been used to clean someone's arse crack than used to clean a mirror?

What you DO need to watch out for are the bedspreads. They almost never get cleaned - perhaps twice a year if you're lucky. Just think of what they're covered in. The first thing I do when I stay in a hotel is take off the bedspread if there is one.

Also, those glasses in hotel bathrooms are usually cleaned with the same manky cloth as the rest of the bathroom, including the toilet. I've started to notice the maids carrying clean glasses in their carts, so perhaps this is changing, but I'd have to be pretty desperate to drink out of a hotel bathroom glass. Blech.

ScumLord

I don't feel so bad for pooing in hotels beds now.

opinion guy

ScumLord wrote: »

I don't feel so bad for pooing in hotels beds now.

You are truly well named

ScumLord

opinion guy wrote: »

You are truly well named

It's not so bad, they don't have to clean the toilets so it evens out.

Mint Sauce

stovelid wrote: »

I'm usually so drunk when I'm staying in a hotel room that I couldn't care less if I was sleeping in the toilet and indeed, sometimes have.

Same here, and even then, by the time I do go to bed, am only going to be in it for a few hours.

So I think i'll take my chances as well.

krudler

you get bombarded with germs all day every day from every surface, you'll be grand

Captain Havoc

@OP, the keyboard you are using now probably has more germs on it than your jacks.

Lurching

Ignorance is bliss......I've survived this long without contracting hotel borne viruses, so I think ill live!

If it looks and smells ok, I don't give a crap.. Stayed in a place once filled with all of forms if wildlife. The lady running the place was eating the locusts/moths as she tried to kill everything. Still slept there afterwards except I made sure I was very very drunk for it.

Latchy

Captain Havoc wrote: »

@OP, the keyboard you are using now probably has more germs on it than your jacks.

The steering wheels in cars have even more again ...

Some hotels abroad will have the chambermaids come around just after breakfast time to change all the bed Linen and clean the bathrooms and you can see all the stuff they use in their trolleys .

Sometimes if your not to bothered they will clean bathrooms or change bedding as you are preparing to go out as there might be 20 rooms on each floor to get through .

Money has to be one of the worst things you can touch.. Worse than any hotel bed I'd say.

Latchy

Yes money is something we don't give much thought to , how may times has a note being in some smelly pocket and touched by hands that's being everywere ? Yuck

/ runs off to get a fresh batch of clean £100 notes from the ATM machine