Silverware with fresh fruit in hotel room
 

Suppose you cut some fruit and leave the used knife/fork on the plate. Would you expect housekeeping during turndown to

1) Take them away and get you 'new' ones (from in-room dining, I suppose)
or
2) Wash them in the bathroom and put them back on the table
??

Take and replace the silverware, but I would suspect Housekeeping would clean them in the sink. I just recently walked into my room and a Housekeeping employee cleaned glasses in the sink.

Unacceptable imo. Glasses and silverware should be sterilized.

I read Heads in Beds during my last vacation and the author writes about how housekeeping uses furniture polish on the well-used cleaning rags to clean the glasses. Apparently furniture polish removes the spots, streaks and any lipstick residue quite well.

Personally, I would like to see the used utensils replaced from the kitchen, not washed in the bathroom sink. No rational reason why.

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Obscure2k
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I saw a hidden camera report on a news magazine show (Dateline, 20/20 or similar). It showed how housekeeping REALLY cleans your room. The hotels ranged from family-type properties to top of the line, 5-star hotels; the best of the best. In every case, it was shocking. Not once was a glass actually replaced or rarely even washed. Just wiped clean with the same rag they had used to dust the furniture and, seriously, clean the toilet. They pop a paper cover on it and that's it. It changed my whole way of thinking whenever I go to grab a glass in a hotel now.

You don't do that at home so why would you expect a hotel to do it?

I doubt any hotel, regardless of the price range, would do anything other than wipe it with a rag and put it back.

Do you know how hot the water gets in your average dishwasher? I would much prefer that to wiping it with a rag just used to clean the toilet. (and yes, I did see that tv show where that actually happened)

If you knew what hotels did with items you think are "clean" you would bring your own dishes and silverware with you, let alone coffee cup and the like.

This. ^

I'd wash the silverware myself in the bathroom. Tap water is sufficient to clean fruit pulp and sugars without need for dish soap etc.

I never allow housekeeping into the room uninvited while I'm paying for it. The idea of strangers wandering about my stuff creeps me out, just like it would if it happened at home.

I'm perfectly capable of turning down my own bed at night, turning it back up in the morning, and hanging my towel on the rack to dry after showering. I also don't require daily service to shape towels into cute little animal shapes, fold triangles on the end the toilet paper, or "fluff" the top piece of tissue in the box, and reposition all of the placards and advertisements annoyingly about the room.

I would likely stop staying in hotels.

I do.

I've just looked it up and it's half to two thirds of what you'd get in an autoclave or similar sterilisation device. Nothing like the pressure either.


Of course, but the poster I quoted said "Glasses and silverware should be sterilized" and that's what I was replying to.

... but, a commercial dishwashing machine will clean and sterilize utensils and glasses to the standards dictated by public health officials. I think that's what we're talking about here - not treating them as if they were surgical instruments.