The sheets are washed more often than your sheets at home. The toilets and tub are scrubbed more often than yours at home. In every conceivable way, your home is dirtier than a hotel room, so why do so many people say things like “you couldn’t pay me to sit down in a hotel bath tub”. I work in the hotel industry, and I know how hard the housekeepers work, the cleaning products they use, the inspection methods that are used to keep them honest, and the cleaning schedule they adhere to (at least for the property I work at). My house has NEVER been as clean as a freshly serviced hotel room at the property I work for. Yours almost certainly hasn’t either.
It’s probably more a matter of familiar dirt and germs, versus the strange ones of hotel rooms. Also, my house doesn’t have random strangers’ dried semen splurged everywhere, as far as I know.
People are cynical and suspicious of anything that’s not “theirs.” People will have no problem using their own toilet that they haven’t cleaned for years, but are suddenly germaphobes once they leave their own home. I agree, it’s totally ludicrous; hotel rooms get cleaned every day, or at least between every customer.
Then again, probably depends on the hotel. I’ve certainly stayed in hotel rooms that were clearly not up to the standards of the Plaza Hotel, but I still used the toilet and shower.
Well, it does depend on the hotel.
Well, I’ve never had investigative reporters take germ samples from the sheets in my house. They tried once, but I chased 'em down the street with a shotgun, and filled their dadburn hides with rock salt.
All it takes is one “investigative” program that has them sweeping a hotel room with ultraviolet lights and coming across oodles of white stuff all over the duvet, walls, etc. to cause people to swear them off limits forever.
I guess I’ll be the bearer of bad news here…
Well, they really don’t wash those comforters. My grandma used to always put the comforter in the closet when she walked into a hotel room, which I thought was stupid until I had a friend who worked as a night manager in a hotel who totally had sex on them.
I still don’t put them in the closet, though, I just don’t roll around naked on them myself.
I have no problem with the cleanlines of hotel rooms except for once when through an open door I saw a maid spit into a glass and then wipe it round .
Now years later I will never use a room glass to drink from.
Go down a few blocks to the $38/night motel and you may have a different opinion. Hotels, where the doors open in to the halls ways, are inevitably very clean and fresh, and even most motels are, too, but there are many dung piles masquerading as vacation lodgings out there.
$38/night, eh? And where do you live again? We have some vacation time coming up…
But seriously, folks, Jim and I have stayed in lower-end motels and hotels all over two countries, and while the cleanliness levels definitely varied, I’ve never felt like we were in an unclean room anywhere. My almost-universal complaint against hotel/motel rooms is that we can’t get them cool enough for us - are those thermostats on the walls actually connected to anything? It’s a cool night outside, and we still have to run the air conditioner to get the room cool enough for us to sleep in.
Yeah, but when was the last time you took a black light around to check? Just sayin’.
Some friends of mine were driving cross country and stopped for the night in route. As they got off of the interstate there were two hotel options, one a 3-4 star national chain, the other a 1-2 star budget $39 /night place. The husband pulls into the budget hotel and his wife complains about staying in a dumpy hotel. The husband tells her, look were just going to get some sleep and get back on the road tomorrow morning, I don’t want to spend a lot of money. They check in and go to their room. She sees the worn thin carpet and the outdated comforter on the bed and sighs. She pulls back the sheets on the bed and notices a $100 bill laying on the sheets. She yells to her husband, who is in the bathroom that they are checking out and going across the street to the nicer hotel. She was 100% sure that the sheets had not been changed in that room!
Exactly. “Hotels are clean” is no more true than “Hotels are dirty.”
At Dragon*Con last year, I was in a newly-remodeled room which was easily one of the cleanest hotel rooms I’ve ever seen. I’ve been in others where walking across the floor in socks resulted in socks that looked like I’d walked a mile down a dirt road.
As others have said, “it’s your filth”
Here’s an extension of that. I hate changing diapers, it’s disgusting. I never had kids and when I have taken care of a child, it’s disgusting that’s all.
So when I ask a mum or dad how they do it, they are like, "I hate changing other kids diapers but when it’s your own kid it’s different. It’s like it’s an extension of you. Like when you go to the bathroom yourself.
I don’t know about the poster quoted. When we travel, we attempt to always spend one might in Mesquite, NEvada. Very nice rooms, last time we were there they were $27/night. A big pool, spa services available, restaurant…casino…
I think some things in a hotel room are clean - as the OP mentions they are cleaned almost daily.
However, some things can be quite filthy. Probably one of the dirtiest things is the remote control. Most everyone grabs it with whatever crap they have on their hands and the maid never cleans it.
The comforter never gets cleaned. The telephone - nope.
It is just a matter of realizing what the maid cleaned - and I’m sure most of them do a fine job - and what they rarely if ever clean.
Well, did she take the $100? Because you can get an OK room for a hunnert bucks.
I guess it all depends on where your staying. I once had the pleasure of staying in The Debonair Motel in New Haven. This was a roach motel complete with dirty movies for free. I was going to get into bed and my bf grabbed me and leaned down and pulled a tiny bug off the sheet. I asked him what is it and he says, it’s a crotch critter. I was young and clueless and the says, It’s a crab. I went balistic and ran out of there. I guess they didn’t change the sheets in that room.
I know a woman that cleans rooms for the Motel 6 and it is back breaking work. She was pregnant and doing 18 rooms so I don’t know how clean they were. She said no one ever tipped her.
I have stayed in really nice hotels that are spotless. I guess it really depends. They have a website that rates motels and it would be wise to read up on a place first. I always remove the comforter no matter where I stay. I wear slippers. There is a lot of DNA in those rooms.
My favorite hotel is ‘The Camden Harbor Inn’. Spotless. Another is ‘The Glen’ in NH.
It’s a lot more common for a hotel to get bed bugs than any given person’s home… unless they’ve just returned from a trip to a hotel.
That said, I travel a lot and stay in a lot of different places. You couldn’t pay me not to use the toilet in the hotel when I gotta go. I don’t care who was just there.