Off topic: More hotel sanitization issues

[Jaypee]

Sorry to kill the music and holiday vibe here, but I just saw this video that bears a look by everyone who stays in hotels. I looked up the urban / internet hoax sites and it didn't appear, so if it's legit, it's disgusting.

Happy Holidays, my friends!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a7f_1194813218

[Belle]

Sorry to kill the music and holiday vibe here, but I just saw this video that bears a look by everyone who stays in hotels. I looked up the urban / internet hoax sites and it didn't appear, so if it's legit, it's disgusting.

Happy Holidays, my friends!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a7f_1194813218


This was covered by our local news before Thanksgiving so I took some plastic cups and bottled water. Then when the housekeeping carts came around I asked about the lack of glasses on the carts..the silence was amazing. Makes those wrapped glasses from the lower end hotels look great for sure!

[swag]

I hear that Sheraton, which is relatively high end, is in the process of switching to wrapped disposables chain-wide, in response to these stories.

[Azeater]

While you ponder the issue of glasses which may or may not have been washed properly consider the blankets and bedspreads on the bed you are sleeping in. Seldom do hotels wash blankets and bedspreads on the regular basis that the sheets and pillowcases are laundered. This is particularly true of the bedspreads. Something to think about when you pull the covers up around your neck and get cozy is what might have occured on the top of a tucked in bed in the room you are renting. Particularly true of rooms with two doubles or queens. I feel a little more comfortable in hotels that double sheet their beds. Merry christmas to all and to all a Goodnight.

[Jaypee]

Oh definitely, Az. Those damn bedspreads and blankets. Years ago, someone told me to never sit nekkid on a hotel blanket or bedspread. Now I even worry about the sheets. This year I prolly spent close to 75 nights in hotels, and took great care to avoid direct contact the bedspreads and comforters, yet drank out of the glasses and mugs without a care.

Interesting comment from Belle and Swag about the migration back to plastic wrapped cups, even at higher-end properties. Hey, if I'm at a place long enough to stock it with adult bevvies, plastic will work just fine.

OK, shall I attempt to shovel out the mailbox...or whip up a winter dink in 15 minutes when the noon hour strikes: Hot decaf coffee, Kahlua, Grand Marnier, bourbon, whipped cream, sprinkled with nutmeg and cinnamon. The latter wins.

My best to all of you this season.

[swag]

A lot of the mid-upper range places (sheraton, marriott) have gone away from bedspreads over the past several years too, replacing them with layers of thinner washable bedding.

[funkkjunkie]

Ever since I had a totally bad experience, I also check the edges of the sheets and mattress for little black dots-signs of bedbugs.

[mightyradgumbo]

I stay quite a few nights a year in hotles as well and knew very well about the bed spreads but the glass thing was an eye opener....Thanks Japes, I will either bring cups with me or ask that they provide me some.

[Blitzzzzz]

While we're on the topic, a police offer friend told me that you should never return those magnetic keys to the hotel. Apparently, they contain all sorts of personal information including credit card number from your transaction and not just the key code for the lock. Since then, I always take them and destroy them rather than let the hotel toss them into a drawer to be re-used. No telling who can get their hands on them before they get "erased.":cool:

[swag]

No, the key card thing is a false urban myth.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp

[jolie]

Consider the same when you are drinking a cold beverage at any bar. As much as I prefer glass --- always Plastic!

[festfreak]

As a former waiter and bartender, I can vouch for the fact that those pint glasses and other drink glasses DO NOT get clean in the dishwashers. There's always lipstick and other schmeg still on or in some of the glasses when they come out of that thing. I always use a straw when ordering sodas that come in a glass. For some reason, though, I still talk myself into drinking beer from pint glasses, even though I know there's not enough alcohol to kill the nasties in those things. Helps to be drunk, I guess. The old saying is 100% true...you really don't want to see the kitchen in your favorite restaurant. If you did, you'd prolly never go there again. Anyone watch the tv show Kitchen Nightmares?

[Zbonnie]

The old saying is 100% true...you really don't want to see the kitchen in your favorite restaurant. If you did, you'd prolly never go there again. Anyone watch the tv show Kitchen Nightmares?OHMIGOD, did ya see the one with the rotten food, roaches, flies, years of accumulated grease, etc. in the kitchen and basement food storage room?!?!?!?!?

[saturn]

I am LMAO at this thread.

Is this the same group of people that walk the racetrack at Fest in open-toed shoes and use the porta-johns there?

[mwgirlonherown]

Saturn,
Aaugh! You know have me reliving last year after it ######.
I crossed the fest grounds in thigh deep waters adjacent to the portojohns to meet up with friends at the stables!

[mightyradgumbo]

I am LMAO at this thread.

Is this the same group of people that walk the racetrack at Fest in open-toed shoes and use the porta-johns there?

Thanks, Saturn for putting it in perspective. When you think about it that way...;) Like I always tell my overly health-concious staff..if you worried about all the things that COULD kill you in this world, you would prolly die of the stress.

[Staxsun]

I am LMAO at this thread.

Is this the same group of people that walk the racetrack at Fest in open-toed shoes and use the porta-johns there?

In the words of Adrian Monk, " Wipe...WIPE!!"

[rosetree]

In today's news....It's Hip to be Germ-Free....;)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22149430/

[ohio]

In the words of Adrian Monk, " Wipe...WIPE!!"

http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/26/96/0000002696_20060919192820.jpg

[ozzie]

Part of me thinks get over it, it's the whole eat snails and dirt as a kid phenomenon... harden up your system to cope with the evils of public places.

The other part of me thinks.... eeeeuwwwwww!

[sophisticated sissy]

And on a similar note: If you're ever in a restaurant and the person serving you drops your entree, a big steak or prime rib, for example, on the floor just as it is being served to you and says," Oh, my! Let me get you anther one! "

That's your cue to say," Oh, thank you. But will you please leave this one here on the table while you're doing that?":)

[Staxsun]

And on a similar note: If you're ever in a restaurant and the person serving you drops your entree, a big steak or prime rib, for example, on the floor just as it is being served to you and says," Oh, my! Let me get you anther one! "

That's your cue to say," Oh, thank you. But will you please leave this one here on the table while you're doing that?":)

Sounds good, but if they're in the right mood they may get you another one and do some far worse things to it before you get it. Remember kids, ignorance is bliss.

[Blitzzzzz]

So a fellow goes into the restaurant and while enjoying his soup he drops his spoon. The waiter comes right over and takes a spoon out of his shirt pocket and gives it to the man. Impressed, the man asks the waiter how it happens that he had a spoon in his pocket. The waiter explains that an efficency expert hired by the restaurant had discovered that the spoon was the most often dropped item of cutlery so all the waiters carried a spoon around just in case. The man then notices a string hanging from the waiters fly and asks about it. The waiter explains that the same expert determined that a great deal of time could be saved in the restroom if the waiters tied a string to their business. The man thought about that for a minute and then asked the waiter, "but how do you get your business back in you pants?" The waiter smiled and said, "Personally, I use the spoon.":cool:

[Belle]

So a fellow goes into the restaurant and while enjoying his soup he drops his spoon. The waiter comes right over and takes a spoon out of his shirt pocket and gives it to the man. Impressed, the man asks the waiter how it happens that he had a spoon in his pocket. The waiter explains that an efficency expert hired by the restaurant had discovered that the spoon was the most often dropped item of cutlery so all the waiters carried a spoon around just in case. The man then notices a string hanging from the waiters fly and asks about it. The waiter explains that the same expert determined that a great deal of time could be saved in the restroom if the waiters tied a string to their business. The man thought about that for a minute and then asked the waiter, "but how do you get your business back in you pants?" The waiter smiled and said, "Personally, I use the spoon.":cool:

Very good for sure

I like being stupid, heck you never know what goes on in my kitchen either.