Towels in hotels (saving the environment!)

Squall Leonhart · 06-09-2015 05:58PM #1

Just noticed lately that almost every hotel I visit has a card stuck up asking you to kindly consider reusing your towels "to save our environment" (cough.. The hotels pocket more likely :-)), and instruct you to hang up your towels if you are happy to reuse or leave in the bath/on the floor if you would like clean towels. I have gone along with the option to just reuse a towel, yet usually find the towels are replaced anyway. What's the point of the environment notices?!

Stheno · 06-09-2015 05:59PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Just noticed lately that almost every hotel I visit has a card stuck up asking you to kindly consider reusing your towels "to save our environment" (cough.. The hotels pocket more likely :-)), and instruct you to hang up your towels if you are happy to reuse or leave in the bath/on the floor if you would like clean towels. I have gone along with the option to just reuse a towel, yet usually find the towels are replaced anyway. What's the point of the environment notices?!

To make you feel guilty if you don't hang the towels up

One eyed Jack · 06-09-2015 06:02PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Just noticed lately that almost every hotel I visit has a card stuck up asking you to kindly consider reusing your towels "to save our environment" (cough.. The hotels pocket more likely :-)), and instruct you to hang up your towels if you are happy to reuse or leave in the bath/on the floor if you would like clean towels. I have gone along with the option to just reuse a towel, yet usually find the towels are replaced anyway. What's the point of the environment notices?!

There's clearly nothing wrong with the notices as you're able to read and understand them. It's the members of staff that don't care enough to do their jobs properly are the problem there.

I always prefer the fresh towels option myself anyway.

Squall Leonhart · 06-09-2015 06:06PM

I've stayed in places that try the same craic with bedsheets.. (place this woodcarving of an animal on the bed if you'd like clean sheets).. There I draw the line!

LeinsterDub · 06-09-2015 06:08PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

I've stayed in places that try the same craic with bedsheets.. (place this woodcarving of an animal on the bed if you'd like clean sheets).. There I draw the line!

Why you hardly change your bedsheets at home every day

lollsangel · 06-09-2015 06:08PM

I bring my own towel I have a thing about using other people's towels

Señor Fancy Pants · 06-09-2015 06:09PM

If you steel them, they don't have to clean them!

Problemo solvedo!

Medusa22 · 06-09-2015 06:10PM

I don't wash my towels after every shower (sure I'm clean getting out, aren't I?) so I hang them up to dry and use them again a couple of times. When I'm in a hotel I do the same, I hang up the towels so I can re-use them a couple of times and the staff haven't replaced them in the places that I've stayed in anyway, so it seemed to work.

Squall Leonhart · 06-09-2015 06:14PM

You're absolutely correct in your assertions about the bed sheets not being changed daily at home, but I don't spend upwards of 80 a night to sleep in my bed at home, so I'll take advantage of the luxury of fresh bed sheets in hotels :-)

Guy:Incognito · 06-09-2015 06:22PM

Señor Fancy Pants wrote: »

If you steel them, they don't have to clean them!

Problemo solvedo!

Steel towels? How do they work?

Archeron · 06-09-2015 06:24PM

Señor Fancy Pants wrote: »

If you steel them, they don't have to clean them!

Problemo solvedo!

I really love the environment, so I steal the sheets too, just to be sure.

Medusa22 · 06-09-2015 06:25PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Steel towels? How do they work?

You need Uri Geller on standby to bend the towels around you.

The Backwards Man · 06-09-2015 06:26PM

I've stayed in a hotel where the housekeeping staff made an effigy of me out of a towel (or it may have been some sort of domesticated animal, hard to tell), it was like one of those balloon dogs only with a towel. With the message 'we hope you are enjoying your clean towels

' pinned to it. They were probably saving the environment by not having them stupid printed messages printed everywhere.

Señor Fancy Pants · 06-09-2015 06:27PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Steel towels? How do they work?

You tell me Bender

I'm telling a Mod on you!

PARlance · 06-09-2015 06:34PM

I appreciate it when they put the "save the environment" sign beside the 6 little plastic bottles of shampoo/body gel/conditioner.

Diamond Doll · 06-09-2015 06:36PM

LeinsterDub wrote: »

Why you hardly change your bedsheets at home every day

You would if you've had sex ... and sure you're hardly going to be staying in a hotel unless you're having sex ... so yup, I'd be expecting fresh sheets each day!

(I probably wouldn't be too bothered if it was a business trip or something.)

Boom_Bap · 06-09-2015 06:42PM

Diamond Doll wrote: »

You would if you've had sex ... and sure you're hardly going to be staying in a hotel unless you're having sex ... so yup, I'd be expecting fresh sheets each day!

(I probably wouldn't be too bothered if it was a business trip or something.)

How messy can a bed get though in the 2 minutes of magic?

As for the towels, I'd generally just use one for a few days, then throw it on the floor and hope to get a fresh one the next day.
There was a hotel in Amman that I stayed in where they came by each evening with the turn down service. For some reason I always asked them for more towels then and would leave them in the wardrobe. I think I was trying to see if I would get a warning from the hotel. You have to entertain yourself somehow when on work trips.

One eyed Jack · 06-09-2015 07:01PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

How messy can a bed get though in the 2 minutes of magic?

Two words Boom - fake, tan.

Waking up the next morning was like that scene out of "Trainspotting"...

0ph0rce0 · 06-09-2015 07:07PM

Ask for extra towels, Then wipe your arse with the towels and leave a post it note on the bog roll saying your saving the environment by not using the toilet paper.

Mr.Crinklewood · 06-09-2015 07:11PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Steel towels? How do they work?

Easily ironed.

darkpagandeath · 06-09-2015 07:12PM

Don't you mean to save them money on the cleaning bills. This ls like off setting ones carbon on a plane. That plane is going to fly with or without you on it you are not offsetting anything.

cml387 · 06-09-2015 07:13PM

I stayed in a hotel once in the UK, (it may have been Hull. Don't ask) where there was a blue line on the bath indicating the accepted water fill level.

Stheno · 06-09-2015 07:15PM

cml387 wrote: »

I stayed in a hotel once in the UK, (it may have been Hull. Don't ask) where there was a blue line on the bath indicating the accepted water fill level.

Most hotels I stay in make it appear the max water temperature is lukewarm

Boom_Bap · 06-09-2015 08:09PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Two words Boom - fake, tan.

Waking up the next morning was like that scene out of "Trainspotting"...

I don't think i've ever been with a fake tanner so I'll need to take your word on that one.

freshpopcorn · 06-09-2015 09:14PM

I used work in accommodation in a hotel before. The hotel had the policy about towels and in general people obeyed it.
Some people used just throw a towel on the floor to get a clean one.
What ever you do, don't use the glasses in the rooms.

cml387 · 06-09-2015 09:41PM

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What ever you do, don't use the glasses in the rooms.[/QUOTE]

Yeah yeah. Urban legend.:rolleyes:

freshpopcorn · 06-09-2015 09:46PM

cml387 wrote: »

Yeah yeah. Urban legend.:rolleyes:

I know people who work in 5 star hotels and the same towel gets used do wipe down all surfaces in the room, toilet, shower, bath and of course give the glassed a wipe down. I've also seen it happen.

rubadub · 06-09-2015 09:52PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I know people who work in 5 star hotels and the same towel gets used do wipe down all surfaces in the room, toilet, shower, bath and of course give the glassed a wipe down. I've also seen it happen.

What did these people say to you when you told them they were degenerate cunts?

I hear chefs have so few kids since their sperm count is so low from jizzing on all the food customers send back.

I can imagine school guidance counsellors, "hmmm, degenerate, sociopath, possibly psychopath -you'll do well in the service industry, where all the scum go to like a magnet".

freshpopcorn · 06-09-2015 09:58PM

rubadub wrote: »

What did these people say to you when you told them they were degenerate cunts?
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It's hard to say it to these people when they are your supervisor. Another trick they thought me is to use a use pillow case so you'll leave no fibers on the glasses.

ElWalrus · 06-09-2015 09:59PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

You're absolutely correct in your assertions about the bed sheets not being changed daily at home, but I don't spend upwards of 80 a night to sleep in my bed at home, so I'll take advantage of the luxury of fresh bed sheets in hotels :-)

Well, if you factor in the mortgage and utilities...

Eugene Norman · 06-09-2015 10:04PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

It's hard to say it to these people when they are your supervisor. Another trick they thought me is to use a use pillow case so you'll leave no fibers on the glasses.

Do they also wrap them in plastic? I've seen hotels being cleaned and the bathroom glasses are replaced.

In terms of getting new sheets or not it generally happens every few days not every day. A different crew does the full clean at the end of a stay or whenever the sheer needs replacing.

Towels in hotels (saving the environment!)

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