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Don't drink from glasses in hotel rooms!
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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.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: health; hotels; publichealth; sanitation
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To: GOP_Lady

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.


21 posted on 06/05/2008 6:09:24 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: GOP_Lady

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.


22 posted on 06/05/2008 6:09:38 AM PDT by Krankor (N)
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To: netmilsmom

And I’m sure they would appreciate being informed as well. Businesses want and need to hold onto customers.


23 posted on 06/05/2008 6:10:33 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: Krankor

LOL.


24 posted on 06/05/2008 6:10:54 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: Krankor
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.

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.

25 posted on 06/05/2008 6:15:37 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: GOP_Lady

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.


26 posted on 06/05/2008 6:17:40 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Iron Mom. (but really made from Gold plated titanium))
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To: Renfield

What did they do? The video doesn’t work for me.


27 posted on 06/05/2008 6:20:12 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Renfield
When I was in high school, I worked for a resort hotel in the Poconos (it's famous for it's champagne-glass-shaped hot tubs), as well as Mt. Scary Lodge (also in the Poconos). Let's say what I saw as a chambermaid both cured me of any faith I had in the essential cleanliness and decency of people, and the thoroughness of hotel cleanings.

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*

28 posted on 06/05/2008 6:20:17 AM PDT by Malacoda (A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
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To: codercpc

>>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.


29 posted on 06/05/2008 6:22:32 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Iron Mom. (but really made from Gold plated titanium))
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To: CarrotAndStick
Not to scare you, but there are microbes and bacteria that are capable of thriving, leave alone surviving, in undersea volcanic zones.

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.

30 posted on 06/05/2008 6:23:21 AM PDT by meyer (Still conservative, no longer Republican)
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To: GOP_Lady

And a little bit of Jack Daniels, for sure.


31 posted on 06/05/2008 6:26:21 AM PDT by devistate one four (Nam 67-68)
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To: newnhdad

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.


32 posted on 06/05/2008 6:28:00 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Iron Mom. (but really made from Gold plated titanium))
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To: meyer

Ouch. LOL.


33 posted on 06/05/2008 6:33:53 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: netmilsmom

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.


34 posted on 06/05/2008 6:36:46 AM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: netmilsmom
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.

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.

35 posted on 06/05/2008 6:43:34 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

>>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!


36 posted on 06/05/2008 6:57:20 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Iron Mom. (but really made from Gold plated titanium))
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To: newnhdad

I agree with your wife, you’re crazy.


37 posted on 06/05/2008 6:59:02 AM PDT by libertybell
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To: newnhdad

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!


38 posted on 06/05/2008 7:09:36 AM PDT by angcat (Indian name "She who yells too much")
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To: GOP_Lady
You can always WATCH them change the sheets if you want to. I have done that.

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!" :)

39 posted on 06/05/2008 8:03:44 AM PDT by IamConservative (Character: What you do when no one is looking.)
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To: Renfield

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.


40 posted on 06/06/2008 12:36:04 PM PDT by swarthyguy (Osama Freedom Day: 2500 or so since September 11 2001! That's SIX +years, Dubya.)
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