Comments on: How to Sanitize a Hotel Room

By: robert

robert — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:34:58 +0000

All of this over-the-top fear-mongering is creating paranoia and chemical toxicity overkill. Makers of pesticides, solvents and disinfectants thrive on our ridiculous fear of bugs and germs. Don’t get me wrong, cleanliness and sterilization are a constant we must adhere to. However, is anyone stopping to think about the toxic assault of all of these chemicals and pesticides? In our fears of bedbugs, cockroaches and microbes we are poisoning ourselves. These chemicals are bad news, and are layered and persistent. We breathe the off-gassing and the dust of these chemicals in our hotel rooms for the 10 or more hours a day we spend in them. If you travel a lot you are wreaking havoc on your central nervous system, immune system, and liver. How many of us have maids come to our homes every day, brandishing an arsenal of chemicals to appease our pandered fear of bugs. Some sanity please! Chemical toxins are bad for us too.

By: S.Y.R.

S.Y.R. — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:14:41 +0000

As a 31-year airline pilot, I spent all those years in motel rooms and never had a problem, but all these tips are excellent! I just couldn’t carry all this cleaning stuff with me as large portion of my time was staying in motel/hotel rooms. “SHEESH” has a good prospective/out-look on this: Just enjoy your time, and you’ll be fine!

……………………………Capt. SYR……………………………

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.