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!!

What kind of hotels wipe glasses and mugs in the room anyway?

You see chambermaids pushing trolleys full of replacement glasses and mugs, biscuits, coffee and teas in the corridors on a daily basis. This is because they take them away to be washed properly and replace them.

Ex housekeeping manager here albeit years ago. The towels and bedding are boiled so hard. In most places I'd consider them clean. I'd always give the cups by the kettle an extra wipe when I stay in a hotel though as you don't know which cloth the cleaner used to wipe them with. They were cleaned in the room not replaced in the 4* I worked in, and you couldn't stand over every cleaner in each room to check they had used the right cloths and not just the one they'd cleaned the loo with!

My sister and my mum have both worked for different hotels and all towels and bedding etc were washed to inch of their lives. Neither wiped cups either, always replaced. Even the shower curtains get replaced weekly they said.

Article recently said that The Dorchester wash towels at 30 degrees

Do you use the glasses, plates, cutlery etc in the hotel or is that filthy too? There's germs everywhere and most of us survive.

Inadvertently - we didn't have a trolley, we had one of those checked laundry bags filled with our supplies and it was an exhausting job so the staff didn't bother taking things up and down stairs (we were told to avoid using the lifts as guests didn't like to see us using them/blocked them up ) and it was never an option given to me to take stuff down to the kitchen so I just went along with it. It was a well known middle range chain that cost £50-60 per night (17 years ago).

They boil wash them so I don’t care. People have vomited everywhere. Sneezed on their hand and touched places. Germs are everywhere.

Some of these are somewhat over the top. I just wrap myself entirely in cling film whenever I leave the house. I find that protects me from most germs.

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I often wonder how germaphobes have sex. Especially oral sex.

Can people stop saying “chambermaid” please. I’m a housekeeper in a hotel and it’s a pretty condescending term imo plus we have four 6 foot uni lads on our team who I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t refer to as “maids”.

And all our mugs and glasses go through the dishwasher and we don’t sniff test the sheets

I remember the bridal suites were always the most awful - vomit and condoms everywhere

I was appalled to discover that quite a lot of people do poohs into the drinking receptacle you find in most hotel bathrooms.

I alway's take my own towels and my own pillowcases, it's the way i am, and im not hurting anyone.

@airbiscuit
I was appalled to discover that quite a lot of people do poohs into the drinking receptacle you find in most hotel bathrooms.

Elaborate where you got this gem, because no amount of hover could I get a shit into a glass

@PlainSpeakingStraightTalking they are generally big, white a porcelain. They also have a hair wash facility, you just pull the handle

they are generally big, white a porcelain. They also have a hair wash facility, you just pull the handle

I’ve stayed in a lot of hotel rooms in my time and I’ve never seen anything remotely like this.

I’ve stayed in a lot of hotel rooms in my time and I’ve never seen anything remotely like this.

Every hotel I have stayed in has had one. Quite often say Armitage Shanks on it

Can you post a pic?

Would not occur to me to pack towels, they are changed every day in a hotel and boil washed (I hope) so I assume not an issue!

Ye gods I bet the people who believe that people shit in hotel glasses regularly are the type that share those ridiculous urban myths on Facebook
Terminally hard of thinking
Hopefully all the germophobes will stay at home meaning peace and quiet for all the normal people who understand that there are bacteria and germs everywhere but thankfully most of us have a decent immune system

Can you post a pic? I'm not in a hotel at the moment so don't have a picture to hand

Well I still don’t have the first notion what you’re talking about

LaurieMarlow, AirBiscuit is taking the piss. She’s talking about the toilet.

Oh

Sorry for being thick