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!!

This, presumably, is why people caravan. Paranoia that someone might touch a teabag before they make tea in a cafe, or have used the toilet in a hotel at any point in the past.

Dd worked in a commercial laundry, everything is washed at high temperature and sheets go through an ironing machine that no germ could survive.

If I started sterilising cups or glasses, or getting out washing up liquid I'd brought with me, to clean things in a hotel room ... my DH would seriously think I'd lost the plot.

I spend my entire life in a chemical warfare suit... You can’t be too careful! Even then, I wonder about the 0.1% germs that survive after I’ve soaked in a bath of Dettox (still in my suit of course)

It would not occur to me to take any towels/cups/ bedding etc to a hotel.....i barely go to hotels but if i was gonna take all that stuff i might as well s/c. .....does anyone take their own microwave??

Oaken I'm not going to be able to sleep now, I'm laughing too much

A microwave might be a useful tool to take. You could sterilise things in it. Must work out how to get my built in microwave out of the kitchen units, next time I go off to a hotel.

All the MN nutters are out in force tonight.

Yes! Genius! Get carpet overlay for every hotel room you stay in.

Not genius.... who’s touched the carpet overlay before you’ve got hold of it. Will the van it was transported in have been thoroughly sterilised first? What about the factory it was manufactured in!

That is food for thought oaken. Need to seriously think about this!

I am now having visions of blokes watching the adult channels in their hotel room, banging one out with one hand, holding the remote in the other then getting up to cross the room.and wipe their knob in the curtains after which they make a nice cupof tea

Babuchak
Have you tried to wash your towels at 30? They don't come out as clean, so I don't buy it. Claridges towels are pristine.

Thomas Kochs, General Manager of Claridges actually said this was their practice on that documentary.

I'm laughing too much

Please don’t laugh... you’ll breath deeply and the fetid air you’re surrounded by will get even deeper into your precious lungs.

I was just chatting to my Mum and mentioned this thread and guess what?! She had a worse story! She read an article in the Independent last yearish about how guests wash their UNDERWEAR by boiling them in the hotel kettle!! Anyone for a nice cup of tea now? Google it if you're interested in reading it.... it hasn't put her off though as she loves staying in hotels

The blokes probably use a tumbler as a penis beaker thinking it through.

I don’t know one single person in RL that has all these hang-ups. Does MN attract all the neurotics?

What about cutlery when you eat out?

All those mouths those forks and spoons have been in......

It has never occurred to me that anyone would take their own towels to a hotel. Maybe if someone had a proven reaction to washing detergent it might be understandable but then there are the sheets etc........

I pack a very small microfibre one in my hand luggage when flying but that is for freshening up during a very long haul or for unexpected delays.

And how many of those mouths have been jizz depositaries

CBC's undercover investigation of Canadian hotels put me off staying in them as a "luxury". At around 15-16 minutes it shows nastiness involving toilet brushes and sponges. Don't watch if you want to enjoy your stays away from home.

I don't take any precautions, just hope for the best though. The carpets disturb me the most, can't imagine they get cleaned often at all?

Never mind the towels! I've seen too many cop films to know there's many gallons of bodily fluids waiting in them carpets!!

In fact let me tell you a story. A matter of 2-3 months max after I met my now DH, I went to a wedding as his plus 1 and stayed over in his fancy hotel suite.

I got out of the shower and dried off by the side of the bed and for the life of me I cannot to this day remember what was so funny, but I stood there with a towel around me laughing that hard at my new beau that I peed all down my leg. I couldn't get to the toilet quick enough and my (post baby) bladder just emptied right there and then on the hotel floor. Yes I was mortified, yes I attempted to clean it up with a wet bath towel but clearly not the best of jobs (and yes he went on to marry me some years later......!)

Always wear flip flops!!

I’m now imagining something like a royal progress a la Henry VIII. He used to move from place to place with a train of carts carrying his furniture, wall hangings etc. Just imagine some MNers rocking up at a hotel with a Pickford’s van containing beds for the entire family brought from home. 🙄. This site truly has more than it’s fair share of fucking nutters.

Bright, white hotel towels put the ones I would bring from home to shame.

You’d never leave the house if you really thought about stuff like this. I’ve never taken my own towels and have no intention of. I think you’d probably need to worry more about the bed and what bodily fluids may have seeped into the mattress. They aren’t rubber like hospital ones now are they! It’s all a bit grim really, maybe buy a tent?

Meh, I am not dead yet