Posted on 06/05/2008 5:42:55 AM PDT by Renfield
View the video at this link, and be prepared to get very angry:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1329217643?bctid=1329232712
This is a public health issue. Send this link to everyone you know.
Hot water won’t kill germs, assuming it’s tap water, which can’t be too hot to burn your hands. It may simply rinse away some germs. Killing germs reliably requires boiling water.
Heck, those maids do a lot better than I do at home. I’m a firm believer that if you pour something more powerful in the glass than what was in there before, it should pretty much kill anything bad.
And I’m sure they would appreciate being informed as well. Businesses want and need to hold onto customers.
LOL.
Not to scare you, but there are microbes and bacteria that are capable of thriving, leave alone surviving, in undersea volcanic zones.
All it takes for these microbes is to evolve a protein to counter whatever the glass cleaner attacks the microbe with.
Oh and let me add one more thing. If you don’t want anyone in your room, leave a note stating that the sheets don’t have to be changed, only towels. Maids LOVE those rooms.
At home, we don’t change our sheets every day. Even on a week’s vacation, a family has no need to have their sheets changed. If you make the bed (even if that is just pulling the bedding back up to the top) and leave a note, then the maid will just clean your bathroom, vaccuum, empty your trash and be happy as a clam. Make a friend and your stuff will be safer.
When I worked them, you had eight hours to clean 20 rooms. The supervisor checked them and then you went to an empty room and watched tv, on call for any other rooms. Anyone who let the sheets stay, was given extra towels! We loved them.
What did they do? The video doesn’t work for me.
Once, someone actually took a dump in the room's personal pool. The tub should have been drained and disinfected throughly, but Maintenance scooped out the big pieces and poured a cup of clorox in the water -- that was it.
Don't get me started on working in restaurant kitchens. I swear, between those jobs, I now hate staying in hotels or eating in restaurants. *shudder*
>>I do have to ask though, how often were the bedspreads laundered?<<
In our hotel, once a month you were on a run of nothing but bedspreads and blankets.
You were required to pull about 80 spreads and blankets and drop off new ones. Actually, everyone wanted to do that job. So I would say that in a good hotel, the spreads and blankets have about a once a month rotation. Understanding that this would be 30 days with two people sleeping in a bed, nearly 100 DNA might be just right.
But that’s the chance we take staying in a Hotel.
I believe that there is a strain that strongly resists alcohol called the Kennedyococcus. It thrives in a mixture of cheap wiskey and/or formaldehyde.
And a little bit of Jack Daniels, for sure.
You need a camper and never again stay in a Hotel.
I can understand being clean but wiping your children down after they touched a hotel bedspread is a bit much.
You had a bad experience in one Hotel. If you are carrying that over to ALL hotels, you need a Travel Trailer.
I love ours. We never stay in a hotel.
Ouch. LOL.
In the video I saw she used the same gloves and cleaner to clean the toilet that she used to clean the glasses. And she did it in that order. Toilet first, glasses after. Wearing the same gloves.
Most hotels in the West don't change sheets any more unless you ask - to save water. Some won't even change towels unless you call the front desk and ask to have them replaced every day.
Housekeeping standards seem to be way down over the last decade - even in the better hotels. They are trying to get by with fewer employees, thus they do as little as possible.
>>Housekeeping standards seem to be way down over the last decade - even in the better hotels. They are trying to get by with fewer employees, thus they do as little as possible. <<
So I have a Camper!
My sheets, my towels, my food.
Life is good!
I agree with your wife, you’re crazy.
I take tissues, grab the bedspread with the tissue, toss it outside the room and call room service to take it away. I also use anti-bac wipes on the remote
Good Idea!
The first thing my wife does in a motel room; goes to the phone and orders clean bedding. If she has to, she tells them there is a hair in the bed. When she hangs up, she pulls a hair out of her head and puts it in the bed. Why? She worked in a hotel when she was in college.
I always tease her: "OCB!" :)
At least the maids aren’t smoking.
This is a mgmt issue, hiring and not properly training in hygiene and sanitiation procedures.
Not only that, the green craze has allowed hotels to espouse saving on water etc.
I always check sheets etc, if they look dirty, call the front desk.
Also, if staying for more than a day, leave a tip for the maid, ask if the same one will be there tomorrow, have always treated them like humans and they appreciate it.
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