i'm staying at the sheraton baltimore right now. First off, i'm not a clean freak (you should see my dressing room and closet!) but i expect some level of cleanliness.

I went down to the gym, smaller than my room, to use the elliptical. I got on the elliptical and realized that my handlebars were really sticky...like people not wiping off equipment. then i got off and looked at all the other treadmilly equipment. they were all covered in gross salty dried sweat stains...all over. I went to pull paper towels from the dispenser and then realized there was no bottle of cleaning stuff. yuck! I went to get a drink of water and the water dispenser base is all dirty and brown. yuck!

I asked the front desk when they clean the fitness room. they said that it is cleaned every morning at 6am. now i know maybe 9pm is late to work out, but if you're a 24 hr fitness center, maybe it needs one more cleaning? at least it needs some spray stuff so people can wipe down the equipment.

oh btw, they don't have weights lower than 15lbs, which i thought was odd.

so anyway, if you want to work out and it's not pitch black, you should just go running around the harbor and not use the gym.