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!!

airbiscuit is pulling your leg, people. And making a rather dry point about the purpose of bathrooms.

I don't bring my own towels to hotels
I don't wash new clothes before wearing them for the first time
I don't wash new sheets before sleeping on them for the first time
I don't make my partner shower before sex
I don't wipe his penis down with a Dettol wipe
I don't wash towels after one use

I revel in my germy existence.

This thread has been a real eye-opener - there are some crazy folk out there

I stay away in hotels every single week - I'm strong as an ox and have never caught anything from a towel/pillow case/sheet etc. I fly regularly for work with hand-luggage only if it's just for a night or 2 - where on earth would I put towels? Also, I have more than enough washing each week, I'm not on a mission to create extra work for myself...

She’s talking about the toilet. OMG have I been drinking out of the toilet all this time

What the hell is that thing I have been pooing in?

I wipe my skin on hotel towels, I'm not licking them. Even if there's a few bugs on them I'm sure there's worse on every door handle we touch.

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

The thing is, I will freely admit that I'm being batshit about towels (although not about the glasses!) because I'm not a germaphobe at all. My house is currently a tip and I don't care about door handles, coins or any of the million other things that germs lurk on. But towels are the thing that I'm batshit about.

How many of you can honestly say that you don't do anything that other people would think was certifiable? There's a thread at the moment about bonkers things that people do. I don't do any of those things, so in the grand scheme of things, I'm quite happy to be batshit about towels

The only way to be 100% sure that you're not going to catch any nasties is to rock up to your hotel room wearing full NBC rig and carrying a flamethrower.
Simply give the room a once over with the flamethrower. Job jobbed.

The fact that the hotel will be a pile of ash is neither here nor there, at least all the germs, bugs and other nasties will be sorted.

PanBasher no, I suggested a better alternative upthread. Camp out in the hotel grounds.

I often wonder how germaphobes have sex. Especially oral sex

I imagine they don't do either! Too much exchanging of fluids and skin cells and saliva

Only ever took my own towel after dying my hair 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

@Roussette. Your suggestion will be needed for when the hotel is a pile of ash.

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

Neither have I, it's weird isn't it? I have dogs though so I probably repel them.

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

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.

Hands JudgeRindersMinder a clip board and pen

😂😂 @JudgeRindersMinder

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

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.

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

We are exceedingly bwave little soldiers

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

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

I always use hotel towels.

"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.

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. 🤷‍♀️

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!

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