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the_siobhanSomebody on my f-list posted this video a while back.
For those who don't want to click on it, it's a clip from some expose-style news show doing a segment on cleaning practices in hotel rooms. They film some housekeeping staff cleaning the used glasses by spraying them with a little glass cleaner, wiping them off with a (also used) hand towel and putting them back on the counter as clean. One of them without stopping to change the plastic gloves she wore while cleaning the toilet.
At the time I thought "Ew" but didn't put too much thought into it past that. Everybody knows there are businesses out there that cut corners to save money. And being paranoid about every single thing that might go wrong isn't really my thing.
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the_axel and I were in a hotel on Friday night. And a housekeeping cart went by and I looked at it, and I thought about that video, and I wondered - if "proper" hotels do cart the glasses off each day to be washed and sterilized - where do they put them?
Because in our room alone there were two water glasses and two glass coffee mugs. Multiply that by every room on the floor and there was no way the housekeeping cart that was already piled high with towels and pillow cases and those little packaged soaps would have room for the space and weight taken up by all that glass. That would require a second person coming around with a separate cart just for dealing with glassware.
And in all my years of staying in hotels, I've never seen one.
So is there anybody on my f-list who has ever worked in a hotel and can shed a little light?
Because as much as I think most North Americans are bat-shit crazy when it comes to germs, if they aren't even using soap on the damn things - I'm bringing a travel mug every time I stay in one from now on.
For those who don't want to click on it, it's a clip from some expose-style news show doing a segment on cleaning practices in hotel rooms. They film some housekeeping staff cleaning the used glasses by spraying them with a little glass cleaner, wiping them off with a (also used) hand towel and putting them back on the counter as clean. One of them without stopping to change the plastic gloves she wore while cleaning the toilet.
At the time I thought "Ew" but didn't put too much thought into it past that. Everybody knows there are businesses out there that cut corners to save money. And being paranoid about every single thing that might go wrong isn't really my thing.
But then
the_axel and I were in a hotel on Friday night. And a housekeeping cart went by and I looked at it, and I thought about that video, and I wondered - if "proper" hotels do cart the glasses off each day to be washed and sterilized - where do they put them?Because in our room alone there were two water glasses and two glass coffee mugs. Multiply that by every room on the floor and there was no way the housekeeping cart that was already piled high with towels and pillow cases and those little packaged soaps would have room for the space and weight taken up by all that glass. That would require a second person coming around with a separate cart just for dealing with glassware.
And in all my years of staying in hotels, I've never seen one.
So is there anybody on my f-list who has ever worked in a hotel and can shed a little light?
Because as much as I think most North Americans are bat-shit crazy when it comes to germs, if they aren't even using soap on the damn things - I'm bringing a travel mug every time I stay in one from now on.