Do Hotels Gross You Out?

treestump

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 1:39 pm

Well, I wasn't grossed out before reading this thread, but now I sure am! Smile

I always bring along my own pillowcase - I usually bring two to cover the pillow really well.

As long as the room and linen smell fresh and clean, and the carpet isn't dusty, knotty, or has water stains and brown/black spots of gunk, I'm good...

What I hate is eating on china/reusable plates when I go to kosher hotels. I usually end up eating in restaurants with disposable dishes, rather than eating on china and silverware that have been used by thousands of people before me and put into their mouths repeatedly. Yes, I know I wouldn't want to see the kitchens, but out of sight, out of mind....

Zeleze

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 1:50 pm

Is staying at other people's homes diffrent?

I would think hotels are cleaner and all is sterile, or so I would hope ...

cnc

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 1:53 pm

Zeleze wrote:

Is staying at other people's homes diffrent?

I would think hotels are cleaner and all is sterile, or so I would hope ...

They're definitely not sterile.
Did no one here watch the clip of a televison station going to different nice hotels and proving that the linen is not changed between guests?

33055

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 1:55 pm

cnc wrote:

They're definitely not sterile.
Did no one here watch the clip of a televison station going to different nice hotels and proving that the linen is not changed between guests?

I watched it - gross.

https://www.google.com/amp/www...../amp/

33055

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 1:58 pm

Zeleze wrote:

Is staying at other people's homes diffrent?

I would think hotels are cleaner and all is sterile, or so I would hope ...

I have stayed in homes with not fresh sheets. Once there was a used nightgown under the pillow. What is there to do in that situation?

cnc

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 1:59 pm

Squishy wrote:

I watched it - gross.

https://www.google.com/amp/www...../amp/

Yes this - thanks.
It makes me never want to go to a hotel again.

groisamomma

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 2:00 pm

treestump wrote:

Well, I wasn't grossed out before reading this thread, but now I sure am! Smile

Do you eat at weddings?

cnc

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 2:06 pm

groisamomma wrote:

Do you eat at weddings?

I stopped eating at weddings when I saw a cockroach crawl across the table at a high end wedding hall. I have friends that would only use plastic cups at simchas . I thought that they're neurotic but now I'm the same way.

treestump

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 2:08 pm

groisamomma wrote:

Do you eat at weddings?

Not since I saw a hair floating in my soup years ago.

rachel6543

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 2:18 pm

The hotel I stayed on my wedding night (supposedly a 4 star hotel) was awful. I didn't have clean sheets, there were blood stains on it!!! Ick, ick, ick! Really gross!!!

Ahuva

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 2:36 pm

I've been hotel-phobic for years! When I do stay at one I do loads of research and check the bedbug registry. I also bring my own pillow n blanket. Another thing I bring is disinfecting wipes! I wipe door knobs, light switches, faucets....

smile12345

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 3:17 pm

No. You all sound a tad spoilt- I love going to hotels though it's a little too expensive for us at the moment.

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 3:30 pm

In recent years, bedbugs have been a real problem even at nice hotels. I never put anything down on the carpet, and I untuck the blankets to see if there is anything visible on the mattress.

Maya

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 3:35 pm

DrMom wrote:

I like staying in (nice) hotels. I enjoy the change of pace and the change of scenery.

Some of the answers here strike me as slightly neurotic.

This.
Hotels are my happy place. I get easily grossed out from little things, but a lot of the suggestions here are a little extreme. The only things I'm careful with are the bedspreads and the carpeting.

greenfire

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 5:10 pm

MagentaYenta wrote:

There is always the bed bug registry. Doesn't anyone here use it?
http://bedbugregistry.com/

well that explains it Wink

greenfire

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 5:12 pm

I've seen good bad & ugly [even smelly] ... either way not something I make a habit of doing

but sometimes one room is gross & they can move you & that room is actually good [not sure about the bedbugs though]

Fox

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 5:27 pm

I'm totally with Maya and DrMom on this. Unless there's something specific and noticeable, I don't think much about it. I mean, it's not as if my own house is such a bastion of cleanliness . . .

ectomorph

Sun, Feb 12 2017, 9:02 pm

Fox wrote:

I'm totally with Maya and DrMom on this. Unless there's something specific and noticeable, I don't think much about it. I mean, it's not as if my own house is such a bastion of cleanliness . . .

exactly. I'm pretty sure they changed the linen more often than I do at home