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Chevrons · 03/04/2017 15:42

Job interview at a holiday/hotel/B&B place (trying not to identify myself)

Owner is showing me around and explaining how to clean the rooms, systems etc

Gets to the bedding and says "if the occupant has only stayed one night we don't change the bedding, just smooth it out and iron". I.e. The next guest gets the same fucking bedding Envy

That's grim right? And they have FIVE STARS

OP posts:
walchesterweasel · 04/04/2017 20:20

I remember seeing a TV programme where the owners had noticed a bad smell when cleaning the teapot. It was the spout. Never use a teapot with a long spout.

mathanxiety · 04/04/2017 20:21

That is truly horrible.

I saw a sort of candid camera thing/sting programme where 'guests' used a black light to reveal body fluids on hotel sheets in Manhattan. They caught a few places where beds were made in nice tight hotel style but sheets had not been changed.

My grandmother once stayed at the guest house of a boarding school one of my uncles was attending when he was in the infirmary, and when settling into her bed found a bed sock there that didn't belong to her. My uncle changed school at the end of the year.

leighb23 · 04/04/2017 20:23

Good point apples Grin

Alexcor · 04/04/2017 20:23

SIL told me not to use kettle in some countries as some nations boil crabs in them!!

kitkatsky · 04/04/2017 20:29

This is not normal. I worked for a budget 2* hotel during the recession and sheets got changed for new guests. When a guest stayed in room for more than 3 days they'd also get fresh bedding. I'd totally trip advisor this if u don't need the job

BagittoGo · 04/04/2017 20:31

And this is why people on birthday weekends strip their beds - thank you 😊

Acornantics · 04/04/2017 20:45

This is exactly why I hate sleeping in hotels!

Crunchyside · 04/04/2017 20:49

Could it be that she meant the top blanket and not the actual sheets that are in contact with your body?!

mathanxiety · 04/04/2017 20:52

usernjdhkvdgkb Mon 03-Apr-17 21:57:22
Why get rid of the staff?

It's not the staff's fault that the place is so grim - it's the managers who are supposed to train them and monitor quality standards, so they should go.

Presumably you meant you would be getting rid of the management layer?

cherryblossomcarpet · 04/04/2017 20:55

Five stars doesn't mean a hotel is any good. It just means they tick all the boxes for things like side tables, trouser presses etc.

Sheets are changed after every guest in our hotel. Our laundry is outsourced so our staff have no incentive to do otherwise as ironing dirty sheets is more work than taking clean ironed sheets out of the cupboard.

lamborghinicountach · 04/04/2017 21:06

I worked at Center Parcs in Holland. We had different coloured cloths for kitchens and bathrooms. All dishes and fridges were washed with kitchen cloths only. We had our 'own' chalets and the supervisors checked them every turnover.

Beds were ALWAYS changed. If the beds weren't made properly, they would pull the sheets off and you had to do them again, which was a bloody nightmare when it was the top bunkbed!

The worst that happened in those chalets, were the things the guests got up to and the shit they left behind... Grin

Sparklingbrook · 04/04/2017 21:08

The worst that happened in those chalets, were the things the guests got up to and the shit they left behind.

DS2 is going there next week. Shock

bluejelly · 04/04/2017 21:20

I get that this is grim. But really, in the grand scheme of things, no-one actually dies from sleeping on used but unsoiled sheets. Just saying...

stoopido · 04/04/2017 21:27

Vile! I always inspect my bed when staying in a hotel. I once found some pants under the bed in one. I never use the kettle because I know the cups usually don't get changed etc. I have slight OCD when staying in hotels, takes me ages to get into the bed. This is only going to make it worse now! Confused

MistyMinge · 04/04/2017 21:32

Stinky teapot spout?! Had someone put it where they shouldn't? Good god, WTF is wrong with people!

I worked in a pub that had rooms when I was about 16. Me and a friend would clean the rooms on a Sunday morning before waitressing. If someone had only stayed one night and the bedding looked clean we'd often only change top pillow covers and sometimes bottom sheet. The duvet cover was often left. The management were aware. We were teenagers and didn't give a shit. We were often hungover.

Wikky · 04/04/2017 21:47

I'm a little squeamish about sleeping in any bed that other people have slept in even if it has clean sheets 😂 The thought of other people's sheets is horrible.

BTW I don't let my squeamishness stop,me staying in hotels etc as that would be OTT but if I was the queen I think I'd demand new mattresses wherever I went.

TattyCat · 04/04/2017 21:57

Sheesh, I even worry about the cleanliness of my OWN mattress, let alone hotels. Bugger - I'll never enjoy a hotel stay ever again now Sad

I do, however, boil the kettle and rinse the cups out before I use them. DP does the Hmm face, but needs must. I do this because I've always wondered whether they replace the crockery or just wipe it. When I leave a room and the chambermaid's trolley is in the corridor, it doesn't have cups and saucers or glasses on it, so they are therefore just wiped and can't be clean because there's no paraphenalia to do so ... just sayin'.. Grin

TattyCat · 04/04/2017 21:59

I do like the Holiday Inn though - their plastic bathroom 'glasses' are wrapped in plastic and that makes me happy Grin

WankingMonkey · 04/04/2017 22:19

I had a trial day at a raddison blu hotel about 5 years back and I was told if the beds didn't look 'slept in' to just remake them up. Also when being shown how to clean the bathrooms the person 'training' me used the same cloth for the loo, the shower and the sink. Loo first.

Never stayed in one of those since and makes me a bit wary of other hotels too tbh. Just gross.

Tapandgo · 04/04/2017 22:29

Gross. Once tried to go go to bed in a very fancy Edinburgh hotel and on sticking my foot under cover hit a vast wet patch of urine. Bed looked immaculate - but clearly wasn't. Kicked up merry hell .....

Please post review on trip advisor - that should alert manager to make sure it's stopped (hoping manager isn't involved ......)

EmNetta · 04/04/2017 22:31

We once stayed in the best hotel we could find in a Middle-Eastern city - other guests mainly UN types - and I could hardly believe I'd acquired a bed-bug bite after one night there. Now I know why, so thanks for this thread.

user1488540182 · 04/04/2017 22:32

We stayed in a beautiful hotel in Venice while on holiday. husband and I were vacating the room and we saw the maids just smooth over the same bed linen that we had been sleeping on Confused!

MrsMarigold · 04/04/2017 22:33

We stayed in a rather picturesque is dubious place in the himalayas when on Honeymoon and I don't think they washed the sheets at all and there were bedbugs - eughhhh! This thread has given me the heebie jeebies.

Even worse I used to share a flat with a bloke who only washed his sheets every SIX months, his whole room stank and when he washed them it was only at thirty degrees and you could catch a whiff of them ponging on the line. Weird thing was he shagged three of my friends. Now that is dire

NannyJones · 04/04/2017 22:43

Still waiting for ops rundown on today's shadowing! 😂

Center Parcs take 1 night bookings through their spa "aqua sana"

IloveBanff · 04/04/2017 23:07

Havalina "Why is it gross? I woukdnt give a crap unless visibly jizz/skid stained. Its just a bed"

Well that's a very unusual attitude. The vast majority of people expect clean sheets. Surely that's one of the things you're paying for. Not just a bed, but a clean bed.