Are you people for real?! I've actually been living in a hotel for the past 11 years and wonder of wonders, I'm alive to tell about it. Even bigger wonder....I've been sick only once in all that time! And yup, the housekeepers clean in here, even clean my kitchen with their "one rag". What is gross is this thread, you all!! Yikes and double yikes.

Oh, come on, just wash it and run on "empty", I mean just run hot water through it and poor it. After that it's safe to make coffee.

And remember to wash the ice buckets and glasses they leave there.

Why don't we all bring our own inflatable beds and camp in the middle of the hotel rooms?

How many of you sanitize the toilet and the shower walls? Just think of who was taking the shower before you and what DNA samples you can find there?

Will the next MONK be based on this post?

Hey, I'm just sharing what the flight attendants do.... I lay on the bedspread and eat dinner while watching the news.... No pride here....

Message to Olive Oyl who claims to have lived in hotels for 11 years and never gets sick.... It could be that your body has been exposed to so many pathogens from dirty rooms that your immune system has built up armies of antibodies that would stave off any infection.
An immunocompromised person such as an HIV or chemotherapy patient would not be so lucky in a filthy room. Feces on the remote control and the phone? GROSS

Olive lives in a Hyatt because her husband is the GM. She's not making that up.
Her point is also well taken that your exposure topathogens in ahotel is not really different than your exposure in other places beyond your home. You touch door handles at restaurants right before you put your fingers in your mouth. You shake hands with people. You touch money which has been who knows where.
All of these activities expose you to potentially harmful bacteria/viruses.
But most people aren't affected most of the time.
The example of immunocompromised patients is irrelevant. They're susceptible to everything in their environment whether home or away.

I think if I were staying in rooms where I often saw signs of body fluid stains, I'd consider upgrading my lodging. If you've gotta worry about crap on the remote, or the phone, it's time to spend some of that filthy lucre and upgrade to a 2-star or better....

I agree. Her point is well taken, albeit rudely expressed.

All of you, calm calm, calm down. I just SIMPLY asked a question about how the bed spreads are treated and some of you are acting like I am a neurotic. I was just wondering, I didn't want to be pounced on. I will think twice before asking a question next time. I appreciate HELPFUL the feedback.... not the SILLY answers :)

I realize nothing I most likely won't get sick or anything from touching or sleeping on bedspreads in hotels... it's strictly a mental thing. I know they are dirty and it bothers me. So I choose to remove them when I enter the room... no big deal.

Two weekends ago we stayed at the Hyatt in Chicago. A four star hotel. In the middle of the blanket was body fluid with a pubic hair in the middle of the stain. The head board had streaks of body fluid. Housekeeping came to clean and even agreed it was gross. The manager sent up two bottles of wine. I'm just saying, hotels beds have a lot of sexual activity and I don't want to sleep in the middle of it. I always check.

....so if you don't see anything visible then there's nothing there?

I agree with previous posters about not sitting on the bedspread. In addition I have also heard that the TV remote control and telephone are often not clean either. There have been tests done on various items in hotel rooms. It's not uncommoon for a bedspread to have bodily fluids (semen, etc.) and the phoine and TV remote control to test positve for E. coli. from people not washing their hands after using the restroom. I know this is gross, but these are important things that we should be aware of.

One of the best ads going today is the Dial soap ad, "you're not as clean as you think". Cute little golden retriever lapping out of the toilet bowl upstairs...why do they love it so, even with clean water bowls (and even our cat does this) then hears the front door open and down the stairs he runs, tail wagging, so happy to see his mistress coming in. And she's sooo happy to see him too, crouching in the hall and presenting her face to him to receive his sweet wet (toilet bowl) kisses all over her face. "You've not as clean as you think!" And think where his feet go, and our cat's feet go, then they hop up on the couch, curl up on our laps, hop up on the bed, "shake"! You just can't obsess about this stuff, and taking a bedspread off with ones feet surely sounds as if there might be a problem.

LOL OO. My kids watch the dog and cats lick thmeselves "because they can" and swear they'll never allow the pet to give them kisses but when it comes down to it, they must forget 'cause there they are getting all the licks!!!!

If you think about it too much the germ thing can get you freaked out. Pushing the grocery cart, holding any hand rail down a staircase, and for the spritual, how about the pew at church. Listen carefully to the number of sneezes you hear during service!! Germs are all over!

Suzie...how could I forget about the licking! LOL It's a wonder our pets live either! Straight e coli.

Now it's been a long time since I've taken Communion, I must confess, but when I did last, all the minister did between parishoners was take a little silk cloth and swipe at the lip of the chalice, and used the same cloth wipe after wipe, person after person. Has that changed? (Episcopal Church)

The chalices at communion are immaculately clean(ed).

Sweet! another topic! Chalice's! :-) OO is right, they are just wiped after each person. And some even have mustaches that dip into the wine. My husband says the alcohol kills the germs....ummmmmm maybe I usually elect to take the single glass which is also offered in the Lutheran Church.

This is it! Thank you thank you thank you CD! You have the solution!!! Just spray alcohol over that dreaded beadspread! Unless of course you want to clean yourself from inside out then just drink it. Cheers :)

Dang! I thought I must have a really good immune system since I rarely get sick. Now, I find out it is really the cocktails!

My husband and i always think about those "germs" that Suzie listed therefore we try not to touch this or that. We are not pet people. If you sit and watch a dog and what it licks and then they lick humans......very gross.