Bring your own glasses when you travel
Bring your own glasses when you travel
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Bring your own glasses when you travel
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Post #1 - December 15th, 2007, 7:21 pmThis is a couple of weeks old, but still disturbing. An Atlanta TV news team put hidden cameras into hotels to see how they cleaned glassware in the rooms.
Dirty Hotel Secrets video
While I have qualms about the ethics of hidden cameras, what they found is gross.
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Post #2 - December 16th, 2007, 1:32 amHoly crap...though I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Does anyone seriously think that staff takes dirty glasses to the kitchen to have them cleaned?"Don't you ever underestimate the power of a female." Bootsy Collins
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Post #3 - December 16th, 2007, 9:09 amHi,
Years ago Dave Savini scared us with DNA on the hotel blankets. Now we have the dirty glasses dried with a dirty towel from the prior guest that was my ick factor.
The budget motels with their disposable cups does not seem so cheap feeling anymore.
Regards,Last edited by Cathy2 on December 16th, 2007, 9:28 am, edited 1 time in total.Cathy2
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Post #4 - December 17th, 2007, 2:03 pmCathy2 wrote:The budget motels with their disposable cups does not seem so cheap feeling anymore.
That was my reaction, too.
Having spent enough time in hotels to see what the maids carry on their carts, I didn't think that they dragged the glassware to and from the kitchen for dishwasher cleaning. I did expect that they'd wash them in the sink with hot water and soap -- not the quick rinse and spritz with mystery cleaner shown in the videos, let alone drying with used bathroom towels!
The eerie thing is that from mid-priced to luxury hotel, they all do it more or less the same way, which makes the denials from the hotel chains interesting. Somebody must be training maids on how to clean this way.
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Post #5 - December 17th, 2007, 2:08 pmDavid Hammond wrote:Holy crap...though I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Does anyone seriously think that staff takes dirty glasses to the kitchen to have them cleaned?
Not me!
However, I'm more appalled at how seldom hotel blankets and/or bedspeads are cleaned. I'm even more appalled at how seldom airplanes are cleaned. Hokey-ing the carpet and picking up random garbage in between flights is not cleaning the plane, IMHO.
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Post #6 - December 19th, 2007, 11:35 amThe first time I saw this video, I gagged. Not that I spend that much time in hotels, and I don't know if I've ever even used a glass in one -- I have a tendency to wash off the top of a can and drink from the can. I can tell you that in the future, I'll bring my own water bottle and not use a cup at all.
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- Frank Zappa
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