Do you use hotel towels or bring your own

[Butterfly98]

Conversation I had earlier with a friend has put me right off using hotel towels! She's an assistant manager of a 4 star hotel and said after 2 wedding receptions over Easter weekend some of the bath towels had to be thrown out where guests had been sick after too much alcohol and looked like they used the towels to clean up etc some in one room had worse on it (you can use your imagination). This can happen fairly regularly and the room cleaners wear gloves to put towels and bedding into one bag and clean toilet etc and then wearing the same gloves leave out fresh towels and change the beds with all those germs transferred! Then they move on to the next room and are on a strict timeframe to get them all done as quickly as possible! Laundry decides if towels should be thrown depending on how soiled they are but it all sounds disgusting to me! It's not practical to bring bath towels for all the family especially if going abroad but now after having a nice shower do you really want to wrap yourself up in one of these towels? Thoughts please! Btw I'm not totally OCD about cleanliness though I might sound it!!

[Reastie]

Threads like this make me panic! I have anxiety issues around germs and will not stay in hotels. We do self catering holidays, which tbh I struggle with but I do a big clean when I arrive at the holiday home include sticking everything in the kitchen cupboards through the dishwasher so I know it’s clean. I often bring with me my industrial strength cleaning stuff with me too. I also always take my own pillow as I hate the thought of hundreds of people drooling and sweating on a pillow before me. I know this is OTT and I will get flamed for this. Much of it is down to repeatedly getting ill on holiday as a child where I caught bugs from people at b&bs we stayed in (I’d get ill and many times the b&b owner would say to my mum ‘oh yes, we had that last week’ or ‘oh yes, we had a few guests with those symptoms’). Sometimes I genuinely think it would be more relaxing to stay at home than to go on holiday.

[andherplayfulsheep]

Get a grip, OP.

[c75kp0r]

I use hotel towels but bring my own if I'm using Airbnb. Tempted to bring my own pillowcase to Airbnb now after reading this. Though to be fair I have stayed in Airbnbs that were cleaner than any hotel looked after by amazing hosts who take far better care of their homes than any hotel would.

[Roussette]

Ditto, don't know anyone like this. MN has got very germophobe lately!

[1frenchfoodie]

Of course I use hotel towels. They don’t just beat them clean you know.

[fargo123]

I have never in real life met anybody remotely like the clean freak germophobes that inhabit mumsnet

Me either. Thank goodness.

[MammaSchwifty]

My ancestors laid down in caves, in mud huts, on the forest floor, in shacks during the dark ages, amongst animals, on beds of straw. They shat in bushes, they dug latrines, they defecated in chamber pots emptied into open sewers. They may never have washed, their change of clothes may have lasted years. They drank from streams and wells. They ate food from the ground, on the ground. They brushed the maggots from their meat and ate the crunchy weevils in their grain.

And yet, here I am. I am certainly not going to start worrying about the bacterium count of a dry, boil washed towel.

[MotherOfGodFella]

We are provided with rubber gloves - colour coded for different areas (loo, sink/bath/bathroom surfaces and general cleaning) - but none of us wear them unless there’s a real nasty mess to deal with. Gloves are a faff to take on and off between areas and they’re not allowed to touch each other due to cross contamination so it’s a pain in the arse keeping them separate in our cleaning caddies.

To be fair I’ve worked as a housekeeper there four days a week for over a year, cleaning up after many foul disgusting pigs masquerading as human beings and I’ve not caught anything yet so I’m pretty sure you’re all ok using the towels

[juneybean]

Would love to know what hotels provide gloves for their house keeping staff

[Aldicheckoutworkout]

I admit i used to have anxiety over D and v when my kids were little and when we stayed in a hotel in Egypt i took toilet wipes, bleach and anti bac spray (no towels or bedding) Both kids were really really ill (like vomiting 25 x a day) and i was actuallyquite glad of my own supplies.

[CJSmith2019]

One of the funniest threads I have ever read on here

Yes, I use hotel towels, never occurred to me to bring my own and it's not something I ever plan to do.

[CoolCatKat]

"So let me get this straight. You drape a t-shirt/nightshirt over the weird/sweaty/musty pillow so you don’t have to touch it but then you wear said garment next to your body if you need a spare? Not only completely batshit but illogical too. 🤷‍♀️"
Makes me happy, thats the main thing. Don't worry yourself about it .

[stucknoue]

Of course, they are washed at high temperature as are the sheets! Part of staying in a hotel is fluffy clean towels every day!

[Roussette]

I dont wrap it round the pillow just kind of drape it over because sometime hotel pillows can smell a bit wierd/musty/sweaty. I put a tshirt (nightshirt) on it rather than a pillow case so if i need it i have a spare tshirt

That's about as clear as mud!

The T shirt that's been draped over the sweaty smelly pillow can be worn if necessary?

Is it just me? If I draped something over my pillow at night, it'd be on the floor in about 5 minutes, I wriggle around a lot in bed!

[AlexaAmbidextra]

I put a tshirt (nightshirt) on it rather than a pillow case so if i need it i have a spare

So let me get this straight. You drape a t-shirt/nightshirt over the weird/sweaty/musty pillow so you don’t have to touch it but then you wear said garment next to your body if you need a spare? Not only completely batshit but illogical too. 🤷‍♀️

[CoolCatKat]

"Gilbert1A I always take a tshirt to go over the pillow if you're going to do that why not take a pillowcase??

This. I want to know why too!"

I dont wrap it round the pillow just kind of drape it over because sometime hotel pillows can smell a bit wierd/musty/sweaty. I put a tshirt (nightshirt) on it rather than a pillow case so if i need it i have a spare tshirt.
I think im a bit funny about hotels since we had to stay in a room where the bathroom absolutely STUNK of poo. No other rooms available. We thought , bugger it, and it went eventually, then 24 hours later my son started with Norovirus and was seriously ill for whole holiday, pretty sure hed caught it from the bathroom.

[Theoldwoman]

I have worked in the industry, and in no way did we manage it like your friend said.

I always use hotel towels.

[JudgeRindersMinder]

@Panbasher, thank you -any excuse for new stationery!😂

[Roussette]

I’m setting up a hotel towel user survivors group!

We are exceedingly bwave little soldiers

[BottleOfJameson]

I'm pretty sure I caught scabies from hotel towels once (or possibly sheets). Having said that it hasn't stopped me using them again.

There is no way that happened. They can't survive the wash or away from a human body for more than about 20 minutes.

[Aethelthryth]

Another person who has never caught anything from anything in a hotel room. The idea of taking one's own towels is simply absurd

[Butterfly98]

😂😂 @JudgeRindersMinder

[PanBasher]

Hands JudgeRindersMinder a clip board and pen

[MissUGirl]

I'm pretty sure I caught scabies from hotel towels once (or possibly sheets). Having said that it hasn't stopped me using them again.

[JudgeRindersMinder]

I’m setting up a hotel towel user survivors group!