Comments on: Hotel Drinking Glasses: Not as Clean as You Might Think

By: John Martinez

John Martinez — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:38:41 +0000

I will be checking the housekeepers cart my next stay and asking at the check in desk.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:43:22 +0000

There was a piece in WorldChanging the other day about the conditions in which hotel workers work...I suspect the quality of the cleaning may have something to do with this. From that piece: "In a typical hotel, according to Hotel Workers Rising, housekeepers must clean at least 15 rooms per day. And although the amount of time it takes to clean each room has increased as hotels have introduced new room amenities—such as heavier luxury mattresses, triple-sheeted linens, large, harder-to-clean mirrors, and exercise equipment--the number of rooms each worker is expected to clean has remained the same." Running dishes to the dishwasher may have become an outmoded practice as a result of this. My question, thus, is whether unionized hotels have similar problems with "fake" sanitizing.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:34:00 +0000

I traveled a lot last year… excuse me, I need to drink some bleach now.

By: Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:31:48 +0000

heh “fired for unrelated reasons”… can you say bitter ex-employee?

suggested post title: “Two Girls, One Cup: Hotel Glasses Not as Clean as You Might Think”