Comments on: How to Sanitize a Hotel Room

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:34:55 +0000

Another way to deal with hotel rooms is to carry along an aqueous ozone system. I constantly get headaches from the chemicals used to clean hotel rooms. All I have to do is charge up 1 x 20oz spray bottle with my coffee maker sized machine, and poof! instant sanitizer. Then I spray everything from the counter-tops to behind the drapes to take care of odors, bacteria, and chemical residue. I guess it helps that I sell these systems to hotels for chemical free sanitation of rooms, but what the heck…

By: Sheesh!

Sheesh! — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:44:00 +0000

Calm down people! Articles like this encourage undue fear of germs. It may be shocking to some of you, but hotel rooms are not as sterile as operating rooms. Yes, you should look for things that are obviously not clean and complain about them… but much more than that is going overboard. If you had this attitude about everything in life, you wouldn’t be able to leave the house. No shopping for groceries, no going out to eat, don’t touch A SINGLE DOORKNOB, etc. A healthy human body can handle germs (it does so all the time, in fact) without much problem. It’s even beneficial to be exposed to germs on a regular basis, and there are even classic cases where you want to get an active infection sooner rather than later — for instance, a child that gets chicken pox will hopefully prevent getting the much more serious shingles later in life. Anyway, calm down and just live your life without freaking out about every little thing. Wash your hands after you use the bathroom and make sure you cook your food thoroughly, but chill out and just enjoy the air-conditioned hotel you’re staying at while on vacation.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 28 May 2011 21:09:44 +0000

I witnessed a maid in a major 4 star hotel, clean the drinking glasses squeaky clean and highly shined. The problem was that she used a filthy grayed rag that she used for the bathroom counter top and the surfaces in the bedroom. The same rag she used in how many rooms before mine.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:01:51 +0000

My husband and I carry a small can of Lysol disinfectant with us and spray EVERYTHING our hands will touch.