I’m referring to the really high dollar places like Whitney Houston died in.
I’m assuming the roach motels just flip the mattress over to hide the blood and body fluid stains.
Whitney died in the tub. Thirteen inches of water if anyone wants to know. Would that tub get replaced? Would a rich customer paying $500 a night for a full suite want to bathe in that tub if it wasn’t replaced?
They’ve found folks dead on the carpet, sofas, mattress, and nearly any other piece of furniture in a room.
I think its a given the carpets and furniture would be professionally steam cleaned.
But is that good enough for the fancy places? Would they just strip the room down to the walls. Repaint and refurnish these high dollar places? Or do they just replace anything stained and call it good enough?
If the tub gets replaced, it’s because the manager rips it out and puts it on ebay.com.
I don’t see them going to any expense if somebody croaks. Why would anybody care? If somebody did, they could just assign another room.
Granted, $500 per night isn’t the highest possible rate for a room in a major American city, but to say that a room that runs that much is not in the top 2% or so of major hotels is silly and impresses no one.
Four Seasons, Intercontinental, Waldorf Astoria, Ritz Carlton: High end or not?
Whitney may not be the best example. I think they said she was found within a half hour.
But, really with hotel maids, it seems unlikely anybody would be in a room more than a day before they’re found. They could have a bloody room, but it wouldn’t have any significant odors.
From what I’ve read, the biggest damage would be from the Cops. They typically cut out segments of carpet or bedding for stain evidence. Maybe even pieces of drywall for splatter evidence?
Related Q: if a person just dies in their sleep, not in any messy suicide/drugs overdose/chainsaw accident kind of way, would they actually create much mess, assuming they were discovered within a few hours?
I’ve never seen a real live dead body, so I don’t know these things. I assume bodily waste tends to be released after death as the muscles relax, but is that always the case? Will the mattress under a dead body always be icky?
I don’t see why they’d bother refurbishing, so long as there wasn’t a mess - I mean, as a prospective guest, I certainly wouldn’t care. I just assume that, in any sufficiently old and large hotel, some of the guests have died there - and it’s possible they died in my room. What does it matter? Believing in ghosts is for children - dim ones, at that.
By a similar token, it wouldn’t bother me to learn that my apartment’s previous tenant had died there, so long as he wasn’t killed by mold or something else that might still be a health problem for me.
This is the motel room we should be wondering about. (Dead body hidden under the bed and not found for two months; room was rented several times in the interim; “foul odor” finally prompted complaints).
My mother-in-law died in her sleep of a heart attack, and I was there before her body was moved (my husband unfortunately found her).
There was no smell, no mess. We later donated the whole bed to Goodwill, and they didn’t mention anything about it being dirty or unusable. I don’t think there was any bodily waste.
All in all, pretty clean.
Now that I think about it, I was also there within an hour or so of my gram dying of simple old age. Again, it was clean - no smell, no mess.
I’ve always heard that too. Your bladder and bowels empty after death. Not a very dignified way to be found. But, I’d assume the morgue guys expect it.
If you were fully clothed it might contain most of the mess. The room might not require all that much cleaning.
