Do the Resorts, change the comforter's at check-in

[poptartlette]

My mother alwasy told me, "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger.". I'm still alive and have slept in many different beds.

 

[cindyfan]

I always hate it when this subject pops up......like some else said about every 6 months!

BUT........I have discovered one way to try and make sure everything is cleaned and changed......
My DD has bad allergies and I had to request that everything be changed, including the spreads, and VACUMED before we got our room.. If this meant waiting for a room...so be it!
But I do not want to go through the whole vacation with her sneezing, etc because of a dirty room.

ALSO.....when we went to Poly in June, we weren't happy with the first room (smelled like smoke, DD"s allergies to think about again). So we went down and requested another room.
The CM that was switching us asked me if we had "used the bed" at all, he asked if we had sat on it or anything. He also asked how long we were actually in the room!! Seemed to me a rather odd question at the time because only about 15 minutes had passed since he gave us the original room!!
But he seemed to be making sure we had not "dirtied" the room.
What ever???!!

 

[DisneyFreaks]

Well then....Yeah for the Poly!!! Thanks for posting some positive info on this subject cindyfan. I too suffer from allergies but I never thought to request everything be changed. That's a good idea.

 

[CdnMom2]

Wow! I'm so glad now that we are camping on our own air mattresses with our own sleeping bags at Fort Wilderness. I'm going to stop trying to justify a room or 2 at a hotel for us. I never dreamed that the bedding was not ALL washed in between guests at any decent hotel. I wouldn't give any of my own overnight house guests (who are not strangers either) unwashed bedding. And they don't pay me $100 plus nightly for the privelege! Now where can we camp in our own things in Northern U.S. in December on the drive down... LOL!

 

[Tense]

Yeah... this yucky thread pops up and rears it's ugly head. Truth is NO , hotels rarely wash bedspreads, blankets or pillows. Other then request clean ones after you check in, ain't nothing you can do about it.( hey you're lucky if your room get vaccuumed ) and I do stay onsite at WDW and only 4-5 star hotels. 2 years ago the room I had at the Swan/Dolphin had bed bugs. Don't even want to talk about it.
The way I look at it now... Buying that second home seems like a really good idea! I'll have it to vacation in and it will be my home when I retire!

 

[Gigashadow]

The GOOD news is: ALL comforters are changed each week!!
The BAD news is: ...they just change them with dirty comforters from the next room.
denisem

- LMAO !!!

 

[moosebug]

OMG Bed BUGS????????
Won't ask...

 

[DisneyFreaks]

Oh my!! This is getting worse. I've come across some real dive motels on the way down and back but never a Disney hotel. I know S&D aren't actually Disney but I was under the impression they still had to measure up to Disney standards. So sorry you had to endure such horror Tense. We checked into a Holiday Inn on the way home one year that had mice fecal on the sheets when we pulled the blankets back. Needless to say I told my DH I would sleep in the car before I would stay one more minute there. You could not possibly imagine how filthy that room was.

 

[ceecee]

Just had to call a relative who manages a 4 star hotel.....he laughed. Okay so they don't wash them every time, how often? When they need it. Why? Too expensive to replace comforters. Blankets that are used get washed and the sheets (sheets every night, blankets every guest) The blankets are stored in a dresser drawer. We usually fold back the comforters to sleep, but we do sit on them, I guess we need to rethink that...never gave it much thought. I do however, really check on the sheets.

 

[colleen costello]

Just adding my 2 cents... I live in Indiana and I seem to recall that the news station that first "scooped" the hotel-horrors story was up in Indianapolis. It was gross. I am NOT germ-phobic, but the report was horrible. They had a special light and the main stains I recall them finding were -- WARNING -- DON"T CONTINUE HERE IF YOU DON"T REALLY WANNA KNOW -- blood and semen. Ugh. Then they had a doctor on, talking about all that you can catch (or not) from sitting in those stains! (He discussed HIV, Hepatitis, all the big scaries). I might not have been TOO upset, but I have small children. They roll on the beds and lay on them and color, and for a long time, the first thing I did when entering a hotel room was pull up those comforters and shove them away in the closet! I think it is perfectly OK to call housekeeping upon arrival and say "We have allergies. Please bring up 2 clean comforters." Who deserves to sit in the aforementioned fluids?

I have read recently that hotels nationwide are having problems with bedbugs. Florida and southern states were cited as standouts because of the warm climate. So many bugs are becoming immune to so many pesticides. In Florida they call the big, brown crawlies "Palmetto Bugs." Here in Indiana they are just ROACHES!

Can you all bear any more info? Funny thing I read in the newspaper a few years back -- I swear this is true. Some ex-CM's were suing Disney. Evidently they were employed as characters, and Disney issued complete costumes, right down to the underwear. The suit alleged that the costumes and underwear were not appropriately laundered and CM's were contracting pubic lice! They claimed that Disney insisted on them wearing the underwear and it was a real health hazard. One gentleman was quoted as saying that the underwear were often smelly and no one wanted to wear them! The lice cases were the last straw and a few of the CM's got an attorney. To this day my husband and I giggle over this report... when we see Mickey coming, we'll whisper "Don't get too close, he might have crabs..." AND I DON'T MEAN SEBASTIAN...

 

[Kaycee]

Pollyanna,

Beings: Actually probably best written as being's. A contraction of "being as". A commonly used term in some parts of the country. Similar in meaning to "since" or "because".

Okay, I'm a grammar nerd. Go ahead and laugh.

Kaycee

 

[Blondie]

the thought of what MIGHT have been done on those spreads

Not might, but DID!

Face it people, it's a hotel with beds! What do you think is going on?????????

Unless nuns just checked out of your room, the chances of someone staying in your room, and doing what married couples (or not married) do naturally....well you get my point!

As far as catching Hepatitis or HIV from a stain, the virus that actually causes the disease only lives for so long.

 

[wdisneelvr]

Lysol just came out with a new disinfectic spray for fabrics and things like couches/chair etc....that should help ease some worries a bit.

 

[A1A1]

So sorry to break it to the poster who said they change the sheets each night at GF--------------They don't!!!! I stayed there a week, and like another poster, I "marked" both the sheets and the pillow cases. No change.......................This last trip, I brought both bug/lice spray and Lysol. I felt a lot better, even if I didn't really kill anything.

 

[gepetto]

Originally posted by Blondie


Not might, but DID!

Face it people, it's a hotel with beds! What do you think is going on?????????

Unless nuns just checked out of your room, the chances of someone staying in your room, and doing what married couples (or not married) do naturally....well you get my point!

You mean people have sex in hotel rooms?

 

[WeLoveDisney]

Kaycee,
No one is laughing at you. Pollyanna spelled "sentence" incorrectly in her post questioning the grammar. Now, that's funny.......

Originally posted by Kaycee
Pollyanna,

Beings: Actually probably best written as being's. A contraction of "being as". A commonly used term in some parts of the country. Similar in meaning to "since" or "because".

Okay, I'm a grammar nerd. Go ahead and laugh.

Kaycee

 

[Poohbear123]

You mean people have SEX at WDW??

 

[moosebug]

Question:
what spray can i use to kill bed bugs? That would kill a vacation...

 

[DisneyFreaks]

Colleen, I have to admit your post has freaked me out completely. I'm not a germ-phobic either but I'm starting to think maybe I should be. LoL
And Blondie, that was funny but yet so true. I'm beginning to think "romance" should be left off the vacation to do lists.
Thank you so much wdisneelvr for the info on that new lysol for fabrics. I will surely be on the look out for some. I learn so much from you guys. I cannot thank you all enough.
Also, as the original poster of the term "beings"...... Ooops, I realize that I should have put an apostrophe in the word. { Hope I spelled that right. teeheehee}

 

[Blondie]

Steam cleaning of infested mattresses is effective in killing bed bugs living in seams and buttons. Cracks harboring bed bugs can be treated with residual sprays. A flushing agent containing a pyrethrin can be used around cracks and crevices to locate bed bugs and force them into the open for easier treatment.

Take the bed apart. Spray the bed frames, slats and springs with enough spray to thoroughly wet them. Pay particular attention to the tufts and seams of the mattress. Spray the woodwork and all walls in the bedroom at least 2 feet above the floor. Brush, vacuum, and steam clean mattress and pillows, then put on clean sheets and pillow cases.

Spray again if there are any new signs of bed bugs. After 2 weeks, spray the bed, furniture, and walls again.

Personally, I'd rather relocate to another room or hotel than go to all that bother.