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!!

[LaurieMarlow]

I was thinking of starting a thread on this but why does anyone use antibacterial wipes?

They’re awful things. Terrible for the environment. Almost certainly bad for our health.

[Butterfly98]

Lol some great responses especially the one about towel poisoning! 😂 😂just to be clear I've always used hotel towels until today's chat made me think! Of course said friend said she would never use them because of her being on the 'shop floor' for too long to know better. Secretly I've always thought she was slightly neurotic but I never knew until today that she brought bath towels on holiday!!

[LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett]

When I used to chambermaid, only certain members of staff were allowed to clean up bodily fluids. They had 'special' training. They also got paid an extra 50p for every clean-up and woe betide you if you got in the way of their special payments!

It's good practice to offer cleaners gloves to pick up anything disgusting, but the gloves would then be binned ime

[SnowsInWater]

Isn't having someone provide thick, white fluffy towels and posh hotel linen one of the joys of staying in hotels? I'm not overthinking it!

[Roussette]

I think camping outside in the hotel grounds would sort everything. Good idea

[LaCastafiore]

I'd be more worried about carpets, most revolting invention of the world ever. Do people bring their own too?

[Longdistance]

What absolute rubbish! I lived in hotels for 15 years flying from here and there and never caught anything. Those towels in hotels are put on a mega hot wash.
The only towels I’d ever take to a hotel with me are beach towels and sanitary towels.

[sweeneytoddsrazor]

Do you take your own cutlery, plates and glasses to a restaurant or pub? Anti bac wipe the atm machine and cash? Read a library book with your marigolds on?

[Roussette]

Yes! Genius! Get carpet overlay for every hotel room you stay in. Just put it down over the normal hotel carpet, (whilst weaing Scene of Crime plastic overshoes of course) and roll it up and take it with you in the morning hahaha

[JessieMcJessie]

I used to be a chamber maid and they used the same cloth for the toilet as they do the cups. I always take a tshirt to go over the pillow.

By “they” presumably you mean “we” CoolCoolKat? Because otherwise you’d have blown the whistle, wouldn’t you, and the rest of your story would be about your colleagues being fired.

Those saying that the towels are hot washed, OP is actually saying that the clean towels are touched by the same gloves worn to handle vomit and piss-soaked towels, so i guess the washing process is irrelevant. I genuinely doubt that though and, in any event, as others have said, I have never met anyone who ever contracted Hotel Towel Poisoning. There are some seriously batshit ideas on this site sometimes!

[Happyspud]

And what worries me is that these sorts of batshit ideas infect vulnerable people.

[LaCastafiore]

Get carpet overlay for every hotel room you stay in.
I can feel a business emerging...

[TheSingingTowers]

I don’t have a problem using hotel towels, sheets etc, but I’m funny about mugs and glasses ( I may have been told that they are sometimes wiped with the bathroom towels!). I just take a travel bottle with some washing up liquid and a sponge, and give them a quick rinse before I use them. Takes up far less space than your own towels

[LaCastafiore]

I use vodka, disinfect the container and my throat. So far so good.

[Roussette]

No way am I ever taking washing up liquid in a travel bottle and a sponge when I stay in a hotel!
May as well stay at home and do the washing up there

[Roussette]

I use vodka, disinfect the container and my throat. So far so good

works too but needs to be lots of it

[EdWinchester]

Even if they’ve been jizzed on, I don’t give it much thought.

They’re washed at a high temperature. I can’t be bothered to be bothered.

The pillow must be the worst. Greasy, sweaty heads on it and only the cover washed. But I’m not a germophobe. You’d never go anywhere if you thought too much about these things.

[BuzzPeakWankBobbly]

Do you draw the curtains in hotel rooms?
Ditto remove the silly end of bed throw-strip

Massive jizz wipes the lot of them.

And they never get laundered.

[BattenburgIsland]

Of course I use hotel towels!!
And I drink from the mugs and use the kettle and sleep directly on the sheets and walk barefoot on the carpets, touch the curtains with my bare hands.. have a bath without bleaching everything first..

Like some feral minger!!
Lol

I can not be arsed with this ridiculously over the top cleanliness on mumsnet sometimes. It's really really odd.

[lljkk]

Germs are good. We evolved to host magnificent microbe eco-systems.

[BuzzPeakWankBobbly]

Starting to wonder what kind of mafia front the two commercial laundries that I know of round me are now.

Apparently it's not actual laundry!

[MerryInthechelseahotel]

Isn't having someone provide thick, white fluffy towels and posh hotel linen one of the joys of staying in hotels? I'm not overthinking it!

I like hard rough towels not soft fluffy ones

[sweeneytoddsrazor]

People use curtains as jizz wipes?
Wtf is wrong with using their socks.

[Roussette]

I can not be arsed with this ridiculously over the top cleanliness on mumsnet sometimes. It's really really odd

Agree.

Luckily these traits are peculiar to MN. No one I know in real life has any of MN's oddities.

[BuzzPeakWankBobbly]

For the glasses and cups why not just boil the kettle and rinse them out that way. Everything sterilised in one go.

Who honestly cba though? Seriously just stay at home.