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've worked in a few hotels spanning a few years, and it's something I've not come across, though have heard of, but more as an urban myth than an actual thing.
I've come across some disgusting, funny or downright baffling things in hotels, but that's not one of them.
Thankfully 😃

I used to work for a solicitors who did a lot of work for a well known high st chain. One of the cases they were dealing with was an employee who allegedly pissed in the staff kettle on their last day. No idea how it ended but the case was known in the office as the 'kettle pisser'

It's stuck in my mind a bit 😳

In the hotel I used to work in, you'd see the cups ect being used for all sorts. I'd never ever use the cups or kettle in a hotel room now. They also used to use the dirty guest towels to clean the bathroom with.

I always wash the cups out. My mum worked in a hotel as a chambermaid and when they were shown how to clean the rooms the towels were used to wipe round the bathroom, including the toilet, and then the same towels were used to dry the cups.

My DM never actually did that, but I always thoroughly wash the cups just in case.

For fucks sake, I'm in a Travelodge tonight and I've brought my own cup, teabags and milk in a flask to use. I was looking forward to my cup of tea, you've ruined it! The kettle is really small anyway.

I have, however, been over the light switches, toilet flush handle and remote with my clinical alcohol wipes. Using the remote through a plastic bag is GENIUS, thank you!

Torridon19 yes, definitely the voice of experience with DH and dodgy lads holidays to Magaluf/Malia/Ibiza etc! Although I seriously hope he was not the culprit!!!

I’m not feeling ill yet....

I take my own cups and drinks.

A mate that's an ex maid at a local posh hotel told me they wipe out the cups and glasses with the same cloth they clean everything else with.

This was on the way to a hotel - I washed the cups with hand soap and boiling water that time, next time I'm taking my own cup. And apparently kettle now.

elehantina ooh go on, live a little!

Another former hospitality worker here who has never encountered, or even heard of, this! I’ve seen some weird and icky stuff, but never this.

A frisson of piss in one's tea adds body!

Eww. Is this a thing? Perhaps it’s where the saying, Boils my piss comes from? 🤢

Certainly will proceed with caution on my next hotel stay.

I once stayed at a not cheap hotel in Pittsburgh. Opened drawers to put clothes away, and found a plastic cup of piss at the back of the drawer. I got upgraded to an executive suite pretty quick...

When I was about 18/19 i stayed at a Travel Lodge with a group of friends. After we’d checked out and were on our way home one of the boys announced that he’d peed in the kettle before leaving. He seemed quite proud of himself and also to think this was a fairly well know ‘rocks n roll’ kind of thing to do, just a step above taking the little soaps and shampoos - the rest of us were totally disgusted of course.

I worked in hotel housekeeping for years and saw some utterly disgusting things but never pee in a kettle. Did find a set of false teeth in one once though. I don’t think they’d been boiled. 😆
If it makes soneone feel better we wiped down the bathrooms with the used towels but always did the toilet last. Cups and glasses were dried with that blue kitchen roll stuff.

And if the piss is boiled, does it matter? It may give your tea an extra interesting hot on the palate, like a fine wine.

Brilliant. I'd throw the kettle out of the window except they're nailed shut.

We used to have three different coloured cloths for cleaning different things, but used them in every room. So same one to clean each bathroom. It always felt like I was wiping someone piss onto someone else's toilet.
Yup, plenty of peeing. Irons, kettles, into bedding, wardrobes, on other people.... That was odd.

IME it's sleepwalkers who are the main culprits. I found a naked guy outside my office once.

I'm sure someone talked about this on QI.

OK, I'll be buying a kettle as well as mugs every time I stay in a hotel from now on.

Urgh.

I've seen spunk - stains up the walls of hotel rooms, but never heard of the pee in the kettle before.

I’ve heard of this being a thing tbh, never experienced it myself but it’s definitely a thing - I always take my own kettle if I’m away in hotels now.

There’s this guy on YouTube, Ashens, who reviews things. One day he reviewed a hotel room and found a pube atop the kettle !

You could get really neurotic about all this. i stay in hotels a lot for work and use the kettle, cups, remote etc. Never suffered any adverse effects still alive. Chill.

I remember reading on here once that someone boiled eggs in a hotel kettle and another poster came on to say how disgusting that was.

Compared to the stuff posted here boiling eggs is pretty tame

Well at the hotel I work the cups are all washed in a dishwasher downstairs. If we’re busy the clean ones run out and we have to trek down to the kitchen for another load. Then we get a bollocking for going over our time allowance per room (18 mins). So I can understand why someone who is on minimum wage aka £2.74 per room could be tempted to give the used mugs a quick rinse and dry with a used cloth to avoid a telling off. Personally I wouldn’t. I write that I’ve taken five mins for a break instead so my time is still correct.

And I dry round the wet shower with the used towels before cleaning so that my cleaning cloths don’t get sodden meaning I don’t have to trek to the laundry to get more clean dry ones - see above point re 18mins per room.

Minimum wage jobs are shit.

why would u anyway its more like theyd be p0issed and go in the sinkrather than the toilet