Peeing in hotel kettles?!

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Me, DH and DC have just checked into an airport hotel, flying in the morning. First thing I do is put the kettle on for a cup of tea. DH pulls a face and says ‘urgh, I wouldn’t use that, people pee in the kettles!’. I told him not to be so ridiculous and proceeded to drink my cup of tea, although all the while thinking of pee. Which rather ruined it anyway.

Am I BU for using it? Or is he being ridiculous? Is peeing in kettles actually a thing?! And does it vary from say, um, a Travelodge or the Radisson Blu?!

I have used many hotel kettles and not once have they smelt of wee

I have never pissed in a hotel kettle.
But thanks for putting the idea in my head

I’ve stayed in hundreds of hotels, some posh, many grim, I have never witnessed wee or any other bodily fluids in the kettle!

I always inspect the kettle; after an unpleasant incident in magaluf years ago.

We had a stag group in the room next door, and saw them all being escorted from the building with their suitcases.
One of our party went to investigate...one of them had done a shit in the kettle, and then boiled it.

Always boil and dump (the water to be clear) and wash cups with boiling water too
Can imagine some people will have weed in any receptacle going...

I just bought a travel kettle to take with me for my holiday next week.
Only I've heard that people wash their underwear in kettles, as in boil water put undies in for a bit then take out and dry as it would kill bacteria

Perhaps they use the kettle because they have left their penis beaker at home😀

I had someone pee in the iron once. I used to work in hotels

Just a thought - There's a phrase I see a lot on MN (which I hate by the way, but that's another story)...

"That boils my piss!"

Maybe that's how they do it...

I've not heard about that. Boiling eggs in them though.

I once staying in a hotel in Birmingham, someone had pissed in the bin. I thought that was bad enough but I’m kicking myself now as I never checked the kettle 🤢

OP - Interrogate DH. Is this a suppressed memory of him doing this very thing when he was younger and on holiday with his mates in Ibiza ?...

Brilliant reference there Sir Gawain

I have always refilled and boiled the hotel kettle - first heard of this >30 years ago. May be an urban myth but I'm taking no chances

It's something my DP said after he's worked in London on a big building site. Subcontractors would apparently crap into kettles, bins and allegedly the soap dispensers. Want to hope this isn't true as I'm always forgetting shampoo and using the Premier Inn soap dispensers!

I've heard of people boiling their underwear in a hotel kettle to wash it 🤢

I thought most hotel rooms were en suite? Surely much harder to piss in a kettle than a toilet.

I have worked in Housekeeping in the past-NEVER heard of this.
However we used the same sponges to clean out the tea/coffee cups which we had cleaned the toilet with!!!

charliebear78 why why why would you do that???

A least a kettle pretty much sterilises itself.

I'm very germ-phobic and hotel rooms are a particular cleaning hot spot of mine. But can't say I'm too fussed with the kettle.

I take clinell wipes and go over everything before we settle in/unpack.

Also I will never ever use a hotel ice bucket and make sure to always give the TV remote and light switches really good cleans. The stuff you know would get handled lots if someone was holed up in the room poorly that the cleaners wouldn't clean

I have read on Disney forums of Americans using the coffee pots to hear hot dogs not envy.

I worked as a chamber maid in my youth and always rewash glasses and boil kettle a few times before I use them.
I think the peeing in kettles only applies to rooms with no en suite but you never know. 😜

I had someone pee in the iron once. I used to work in hotels
How, just how? I struggle to fill the iron with a jug and water.

Now I've got to take a travel iron and a kettle every time I stay in a hotel.

I always wash the cups since I heard they use the previous guest’s towels to dry them.

Always rinse the kettle. Kettle cuisine is common amongst men working away, eggs, frankfurter sausages, boil in the bag fish and rice etc.

Also apparently the remote control is absolutely filthy and very likely to have had bodily fluid traces on. I wonder how often that is cleaned? A hotel programme suggested putting in a Ziploc bag and using remote through that.

Enjoy your stay. xx

Every hotel I've stayed at recently has had complementary coffee out in the lobby by 6:00 AM, so that will have to be my solution from now on. One place (a Marriott budget chain) had coffee out all night.