Totally Non-Fishing

[TJQ]

Umm... ill be bringing disposable glasses when I travel form now on.... uhhg... thats just disgusting, but when I think of it, I don't ever really recall seeing glasses on the cleaning ladies carts... maybe they only give fresh glasses to tippers... lol...

 

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player...ctid=1329232712

 

Sorry but I had to share this...

[John]

TJ, I travel a fair amount and was aware of this. I only use sealed disposable glasses. Drink out of the bottle...........also never use the supplied coffee makers.

[Terry]

oh yeah.....

 

and it goes way beyond that...but no one really wants to know

[TJQ]

Ya know... maybe its not every hotel that does it... but just knowing that some of them do it.. you have to pretty much expect it i guess..

[KyleM]

I drink right from the bottle aswell.

[Puckhead]

Try not to touch any comforter or bed spread either - those things don't get washed at all... I yank it off the bed and throw it in the corner as soon as I get in the room. Nasty...

[misfish]

Yep,it,s NF.

[LeXXington]

Somtimes, boys the less you know the better

Edited December 11, 2007 by LeXXington

[Cookslav]

I can say with certainty not all hotels are this way, but I can say this is actually the norm....very very common.

As some of you know I work in hotel Managment, and I can tell you its an issue well known to the industry.

 

The logistics of washing the cups is simple...Dish soap & Sanitizer.

Its catching your staff cutting corners that’s tough.

We enforce this at our hotel with spot checks, and a zero tolerance termination policy....you get caught your fired

But with 300+ rooms being cleaned a day you can't watch every one, every day so all you can do is hope they are doing their job, and keep checking.

 

The comforter is a sad truth in the industry....No one, and I can say with 100% certainty that NO MAJOR hotel cleans the comforter after every guest leaves.

Its sad but true...

 

To wash a comforter every day...the comforters would simply fall apart in a month.

And can you imagine the Laundry facility you would need to wash 300+ comforters in a day, not to mention the labor, energy, and chemical costs.

Its just not practical... allthough it is definatly an unpleasant thought.

FYI...

The Royal York, Delta Chelsea, King Eddy, Banff Springs, etc....do not wash their comforters each day

You can head south and stay at a Sunspree, Superclub, or a Weston resort, and not one of them will wash the comforter before you arrive.

In fact your chances of getting a washed Comforter are 10x better if you stay at a small 100 or less room hotel.

(easier to wash 100 then 300+)

 

Most comforters are changed once a month in a GOOD run hotel, While most rotate on 6 month cleaning blitz's....yuck

 

Anyway,

Just thought I'd share that

[TennesseeGuy]

I make an effort to avoid motels by spending nights away from home in my 10' x 10' tent from Cabela's. I tent camp going and coming from my fishing trips, and I'll be in a tent at Myakka River State Campground in Florida this March. Motel drinking glasses can be nasty, but also think about doornobs, floors, bedspreads, TV remote controls, phones, and on and on and on. Bedbugs in motels near international airports have been a problem as well.

 

Also, you may have guessed that I'm pretty tight with money.

[Cookslav]

Kinda makes the Bed & Breakfast concept a bit more appealing eh?

[pigeonfisher]

WOW, that is pretty gross. I haven't had a drink from a hotel cup for almost 5 hours.

[TJQ]

OMG... makes the prospector tent and outdoor outhouse look pretty hygienic to me!!

[Headhunter]

Well, if you think what you've seen is bad, try being a musician, on the road in small town Ontario and take a look at the "accomadations" provided to the band, by the hotel owners.

Coat hangers for light switches. Your actually never alone in the room, as the walls move on their own. Your cold in the room, $5.00 for an extra blanket.

The worst place I was "fortunate enough" to play was a hotel in Barrie. I can't recall the name, but it was downtown, very old building and absolutely infested with "la kucaracha" (sp) to the point where bands that had played there before us, had written in black magic marker; "go ahead, get in!" on the bath tub.

Not in the same class of "room" as we are discussing here, but after that life experience, I'm not surprised by very much anymore!

HH

[BENNY]

I'm Sorry I couldnt resist adding this ..... And this is in normal activites I cant imagine what happens in hotels that we dont know about.

 

 

S tatistics of our daily lives

 

During an hour's swimming at a municipal pool you will ingest 1/12

liter of urine. (That's about 2.5 ounces)

 

In an average day your hands will have come into indirect contact

with 15 penises (touching door handles, etc.)

 

An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic

hairs.

 

In a year you will have swallowed 14 insects - while you slept!

 

Annually you will shake hands with 2 women who have recently

masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

 

Annually you will shake hands with 26 men who have recently

masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

 

In a lifetime 22 workmen will have examined the contents of your

dirty linen basket.

 

At an average wedding reception you have a 1/100 chance of getting a

cold sore from one of the guests.

 

Daily you will breath in 1 liter of other peoples' anal gases.

 

HAVE A GREAT DAY...

 

...and wash your damn hands!

[Terry]

in this neck of the woods

 

a few of them numbers would be much higher..much much higher

 

but I think the piss in the pool would be much lower

at

1:161,344

 

you would have to swallow about 80 gallons of water to get that much pee in you

[irishfield]

On the female side or male side Terry?

[shane]

Wow. First the bed bugs story, and now this stuff. I'll be the guy sleeping in his neoprene waders and drinking out of a used Timmie's cup.

[pikehunter]

My wife can verify these findings. She worked at a Holiday Inn, you know the one, it's in between Oakville and Hamilton on the QEW. Same things happened there. As a matter of fact she was instructed to follow such unsanitary procedures. That was about 16 years ago though.

 

Rules:

Never drink from the hotel glass cups

Never walk barefoot on the carpet

Don't place bare skin next to the bedspread/comforter or the blanket that is on your bed

the top sheet from the night before becomes the bottom sheet the next night when room guests Leave and new ones come in

Never use the room's coffee pot

Always assume that the same cloth was used to clean the toilet as was used to clean the sink and counter top, just as likely that the toilet was cleaned with it first

The wrapped disposable plastic cups are safer to drink from

 

Remember that the cleaning people are on a very tight schedule, any corner that they can cut will be cut. Sometimes it is the workers fault and sometimes it's on management's insistence. She saw some really disgusting practices while working there and was told by supervisors to do it this way or that. She quit after several weeks, couldn't take it anymore.

 

I dislike staying in motels/hotels, I'd rather sleep on the ground in a tent in my own sleeping bag and on my own piece of foam padding.

[danc]

I wonder what cavemen did to avoid spreading germs. Nothing, I think. It worked back then and it works today.

[brandon]

this post really hits home.......i used to always sleep naked in hotel beds......all wrapped up in the sheets.....guess i'll have to change my ways

[FishFinder]

I wonder what cavemen did to avoid spreading germs. Nothing, I think. It worked back then and it works today.

 

Good point DanC, it worked out for them right?

[danc]

this post really hits home.......i used to always sleep naked in hotel beds......all wrapped up in the sheets.....guess i'll have to change my ways

 

 

If not for you, for the next guest Brandon.

[brandon]

lol those next guests should feel honoured

[lookinforwalleye]

Well that is an eye opener I can`t believe I was so nieve to think that I would get a clean room.

 

Obviously the hotels do this because they get away with it, if the goverment agencies that are put in place to protect us would actualy lay some serious fines it might change.

 

Opps I`am being nieve again!!!