Hotel bedspread question.......

[totalia]

Tubs are washed every day and clean shower curtains are hung, the whole bathroom is washed every day (except for the walls, though the lightswitches are cleaned as are the doorknobs). This I do know because I've looked at their worksheets every day. People don't hesitate to complain if something isn't done when they come in their room.

Geez, you guys must have bad laws for keeping hotel rooms clean if your this worried about the germs.

 

[Dakota_Lynn]

I always bring my own pillow and blanket when I go on a trip, but it has little to do with fear of germs. The problem is, as a person who is serverely allergic to dogs and cats, I have a very hard time finding hotels that don't allow pets. I'm always worried that people had their pets on the beds and vacation is the last place I want to end up asthmatic and on prednisone! So the bedspreads come off and my blanket goes on. That doesn't always solve the problem, but it helps not sleeping immediately next to animal fur. It seems extreme to bring bedding from home, I know, but it's the only way to handle the problem, since the hotel people lie like rugs about how clean their rooms are. I always ask when checking in (assumuing they allow pets) if they change the comforters after a pet visits. They ALWAYS say they do, but after reading this thread, I'm in even more doubt than ever before.

I wish hotels would have animal rooms and non-animal rooms much like there are smoking and non-smoking rooms. That would save their allergic visitors a great deal of hassle. One in ten people have my problem, yet it is nearly impossible to find hotels that don't allow pets.

 

[1stNoel]

Don't trust the star rating, some hotels don't change their sheets every day. Even in very nice hotels I have found numerous obvious stains and used band-aids in the sheets and on the bedspread. The grossest story happened to a friend that slid into bed at a famous 5 star hotel in NYC and in the sheets was a used condom. AHHHHH! It depends on how dirty I feel the room is, but I'm not above spilling something on the bedding (nothing that stains and making sure not to get the mattress wet) then I apologetically call housekeeping to get a completely new bedding set. Unfortunately, many hotels will give you a hard time when you request new bedding, unless they are soiled. Me bad, but me clean.

 

[aimee11621]

Thanks for the idea we will be doing the same thing from now on . Whenever we check in. Thanks 1stNoel!!!!!

 

[Princess Dot]

Another one here with her phobias passed on from her mom! She always made sure we never had the spread or blanket touching us when we slept at hotels (which I could never understand at the time) and we never unpacked into the drawers.

Now I have my DH converted to the "don't sleep with the bedspread!" club too! But he always likes to unpack into the drawers so now I too wipe them down beforehand. Not so much for actual "germs" but you do find hair in the drawers from the past guests sometimes so I just like to make sure. I also wipe the remote. But we do walk barefoot in the room and we sit on the spreads etc.

Last week we stayed at Myrtle Beach in the beautiful new Marriot there. We went to hear the timeshare presentation and left our kids with their teenage cousins in our two adjoining rooms. WELL the two year olds started eating chocolate doughnuts and when I got back to the room there were these brown hand stains on the sheets on the spreads on the curtains...Aye yiyi!! I got most of it off myself with a cold wet washcloth but all I could think of is what would people think if they came in and saw all these questionable brown marks on the sheets and spreads! I had to laugh when I saw this thread and thought of what had happened to us. Very innocent stains that could look so ewwww...!

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

As soon as I Step into the room, I remove the bedspreads. Too many times I have watched 20/20!!! I bring my own pillow and my own blanket and I never take baths at hotels. Yuck!!!!

 

[leahannpen]

Well if you weren't grossed out before reading this thread, you will be now! LOL!!

I admit, I'm kind of freaky too about this thing, but not quite as bad a some. I always wear something on my feet and I too take the comforter down....I also have wipped down the remote. After some Dateline or whatever, the remote grosses me out majorly!

I always check the bed sheets for bugs...I am a spider freak, so I make sure there aren't any...I'm just weird that way. Well, I checked my bed in Phoenix at the Radisson, and found a ton of dried blood on the bed sheets. You know they didn't put them ON that way, so it's obvious they didn't change the sheets prior to our arrival. After that, I am very cautious! Blech!

 

[dsnylvr]

I guess I like to be naive about this stuff. Never worried about it before and dont plan on worrying about it now. My wife was a maid for several years at a Best Western and the only thing she is compulsive about is leaving a tip for the maid....LOL.

 

[CajunDixie]

I never gave it a second thought until we traveled with our dog. The way he went crazy smelling all over the beds gave me the creeps.

We've had that too. I always toss the bedspreads off to the side. Kids asked me once why I brought our dog's bed with us since I always toss the bedspread on the floor. Simply told them I knew she was clean and didn't want her on nasty bedspreads that even I wouldn't sit on. And before we ever enter a room with our luggage we go in to spray Lysol everywhere, turn on the air and check it out.

Last time we stayed at ASM 2 of the glasses on the shelf had red lipstick on the them.

Tubs are washed every day and clean shower curtains are hung, the whole bathroom is washed every day (except for the walls, though the lightswitches are cleaned as are the doorknobs). This I do know because I've looked at their worksheets every day. People don't hesitate to complain if something isn't done when they come in their room.

Geez, you guys must have bad laws for keeping hotel rooms clean if your this worried about the germs.

I've never seen housekeeping change a shower curtain. As far as the worksheet......anyone can place a check mark on the sheet, doesn't mean they actually followed through and did the whole list.