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AIBU to not wee in the hotel kettle?

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greatauntfanny · 30/05/2021 19:21

Summary of events:

  • In hotel room with new(ish) partner.
  • Go to make myself a cup of tea, ask if he wants one.
  • His eyes widen and he yelps 'No! Don't use that! People wee in them!'
  • I have never heard this and say something along the lines of 'What? Why would anyone wee in the kettle? There is an ensuite.'
  • He says that everyone knows you should never use the kettle in your hotel room because people wee in them 'and worse'.
  • I tell him I'm going to take my chances and make a cup of tea (although I boil it out once first to be on the safe side).
  • He looks repulsed and says 'I can't believe you're doing that, that's disgusting, I didn't think you were like that' (basically how I'd expect him to react if I actually did a wee (or 'worse') in the hotel kettle myself.
  • We go out later for an after-dinner walk and he points at a dog poo and says 'look, there's your dessert.'
  • We are getting ready for bed and he picks up kettle and asks me if I want a cup of wee to take to bed.

So, question, in case you haven't guessed: is weeing into the hotel kettle 'a thing' (in which case IABU for making a cup of tea in what is essentially a toilet) or is my partner being weirdly OTT about this? Girls group chat theories have so far ranged from he's an extreme germophobe (red flag) to he's testing my reaction because he's 'into' poo and wee related 'activities' (also a red flag) to he wees in hotel kettles himself (also a red flag).

The only non-red flag is that he's right and people are weeing into their hotel kettles left right and centre which would be a a green flag for him but a red flag for the rest of society. I'm not really sure what outcome I'm hoping for here. Help me out?

OP posts:
Slippy78 · 30/05/2021 22:00

I've heard about it plenty of times, never done it myself though.

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 30/05/2021 22:05

When I worked as a chambermaid, we had to wash the cups and saucers with bleach. Since then, if I stay in a hotel I always wash the cups and rinse them very, very thoroughly.

OverByYer · 30/05/2021 22:06

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll jeez far worse than I imagined. People really a re gross.

SticksAndStoned · 30/05/2021 22:09

I know someone who shit in a kettle on a ferry so....

SticksAndStoned · 30/05/2021 22:20

Having said that, boiled traces of piss are probably better to ingest than what they find on ice cubes in bars ..

CovidCorvid · 30/05/2021 22:20

I know someone who blocked the loo in a hotel with a massive shit and used the teaspoon to chop the poo up so it flushed. Rinsed the teaspoon and put it back with the others! I said why didn’t you bin it and he said he was worried he’d get billed for it! Never use a teaspoon at the Croydon Hilton!

Bettyboopawoop · 30/05/2021 22:20

I once read a post on Facebook from a cleaner at pontine that had to clean a dreadful chalet, one of the things on her list of jobs in that chalet was to clean the shit out of the kettle.

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 30/05/2021 22:20

I would have dumped him after the dog poo comment.

Blossomtoes · 30/05/2021 22:22

He’s bonkers. Why would anyone wee in the kettle when there’s an en-suite. He’d have pissed on his chips/in his kettle as far as I’m concerned.

CovidCorvid · 30/05/2021 22:23

@Blossomtoes

He’s bonkers. Why would anyone wee in the kettle when there’s an en-suite. He’d have pissed on his chips/in his kettle as far as I’m concerned.
I guess if one person is in the shower with the door locked/or having a bad time on the loo and the second person is desperate for a wee? 🤷‍♀️ The windows don’t open far enough to piss out of! 😂😂🙈
seven201 · 30/05/2021 22:25

I wish I could un-read this. Don't know if I'll ever be able to use a hotel kettle again just in case!

Blossomtoes · 30/05/2021 22:26

@seven201

I wish I could un-read this. Don't know if I'll ever be able to use a hotel kettle again just in case!
Just boil it a couple of times and throw the water away, you’ll be fine.
Bettyboopawoop · 30/05/2021 22:27

Pontins not pontine lol

Youdoyoutoday · 30/05/2021 22:29

Never in my life have I heard of this!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 30/05/2021 22:30

When I worked as a chambermaid, we had to wash the cups and saucers with bleach. Since then, if I stay in a hotel I always wash the cups and rinse them very, very thoroughly.

It's ironic, when you think about it, that they always give you individual sealed sachets of tea, coffee, sugar etc. as nobody would accept even a big communal jar of it, let alone an open bowl; and yet, all along, the really grimy 'weak link' is the kettle and/or the cups themselves.

SavannahLands · 30/05/2021 22:31

I have never Weed in a Hotel Kettle, but l can remember watching a TV Documentry about Stag and Hen Parties and the trouble they caused around Blackpool. One hotel keeper said that she had called the Police on a number of occasions for rowdy drunken behaviour involving excrement and vomit in Kettles and Kebab Meat stuck to the lampshades and walls in the room rendering it unusable and need of redecoration and a new Kettle!

Stroopwaffle5000 · 30/05/2021 22:36

I've just asked my OH, who is a Deputy Manager for Premier Inn. He says it's not a normal occurrence but it has been known to happen. You'll be pleased to know that the kettles are not just left in that state though lol. In the past 3 weeks he's had to deal with a decomposing dead body and a room which had been covered in a guest's faeces, so I guess it could be worse!!

Stroopwaffle5000 · 30/05/2021 22:43

@HollowTalk

I think in Premier Inns the thing they drape over the bed (containing the logo) is supposed to be pretty disgusting.
The throws have been discontinued in my OH's Premier Inn due to Covid.
womanity · 30/05/2021 22:44

I used to use hotels a lot for work. I’d do a sacrificial boil and I travelled with my own cup.

WrongWayApricot · 30/05/2021 22:44

I'm a germophobe (red flag apparently Hmm) I don't think people piss in kettles but I wouldn't be using hotel cups or spoons {who's touched them?) and I couldn't stand filling the kettle up from the bathroom tap. So I don't use the kettle in hotels. I think your partner saying a dog poo is your dessert is a red flag, either he has the humour of a five year old or he really believes you basically drank piss out of a kettle.

MrsFlinch · 30/05/2021 22:55

I’d never heard this before but I’m sure it was also referenced on Goggle Box recently.

I never use the kettle in a hotel anyway.

Kokosrieksts · 30/05/2021 23:45

@seensome
used to clean rooms years ago, never came across piss in kettles but the cups are only quickly rinsed under the tap, with no fairy liquid, so that thought makes me queasy.

What??? The cups don’t go through a dishwasher?

I’ve been making drinks in the room all the time not suspecting anything grim.

CervixSampler · 30/05/2021 23:52

Wow, that would boil my piss for sure.

Lilymossflower · 31/05/2021 00:11

Piss kettle or not, he sounds like a dick

MrsMercury · 31/05/2021 00:16

inside no 9 made a joke about this in this weeks episode