Don’t Drink the Water!

..at least not from glasses in your hotel room. A secret camera operation revealed that none of the hotel chains investigated properly washed the room’s glasses. Yuck! The fancier hotels always have actual glasses, not plastic cups, in the bathroom and near the mini-bar. They simply rinsed the glasses out, perhaps used a dirty bath towel to clean and dry, and placed them on the little paper cup doily for the next guest. The glasses always look clean, and you just assume that they would be, but with all of the things that the house keepers have on their rolling carts, do you ever see the heavy and bulky racks used to carry glasses? In some of the less fancy hotels, you are left with plastic cups individually wrapped in a plastic bag. I used to look at those a bit suspiciously but now certainly appreciate them much more.

If you stop to think about how gross a hotel room can be - stained bedspreads, bedbugs, dirty carpeting, smoke-stenched rooms - you can now add another item of to be skeeved out by.

Make a mental note, and tell all of your friends who travel.

Add comment November 8th, 2007