Check for cleanness of the room for me
 

Check how clean the room is

Are you people for real? :eek: Here are some statistics for you to chew on:

• A cubic meter of air can contain as many as 25,000 particles of mold.
• 100,000 skin cells per minute flake off when you are motionless.
• Move your arm, and that becoms 500,000.
• The average mattress has over 6 million tiny insects known as dust mites.
• A milliliter of saliva can contain over 40 million bacteria.
• A teaspoon of dirt (easily found on the sole of your shoes) contains around 1,000,000,000 bacteria.

Don't hyperventilate now, you'll only get more bugs into your system :p

I'm with you on this one. I don't see the rationale in being overly concerned about germs in a hotel room when the entire world is full of germs. Your place of work, the airport, the car you ride in, the escalators, elevator, the airplane, the place you eat at, and so on are full of germs. Unless you plan on living in a bubble all your life, it's going to be hard to avoid germs. That's why I say, I rely on my good old immune system.

I can't think of anyone I know who has ever gotten sick from a hotel room. The danger in getting sick is from contact with other people not hotel rooms, in my humble opinion.

I inspect the bathroom to see if the toilet has one of those paper strips over it that they sometimes put on after cleaning. If it does I'll pull out my ceremonial scissors and have a quick grand opening celebration- A short speech, a quick clip of the paper strip with the scissors, and then a "I now declare this toilet open for business!" Then perhaps a quick reception with room service canapés afterwards.

:D

Couldn't agree more. Our bug paranoia, with overuse of disinfectants and antibiotics, is helping breed a class of Uber-bugs. Wash your hands, not your environment, because you can't clean it all.

Not just that, but by providing a too clean environment for our families we're also creating a generation of children with low resistance to the average germ.

I agree with you in principle here, but I make an exception for traveling. Hotel rooms are very different from our home environment - exposure to lots and lots of people, many of them stressed out and more susceptible to every passing bug, and many of them doing unhygienic things they would never dream of doing in their own home.

I'm far (very far) from being a clean freak, and don't do the disinfectant thing in my own home, but I do it regularly in hotels. To my mind, the high number of unknown people who've passed through (and been naked there) means a higher likelihood of picking up something that might make me sick or just plain uncomfortable.

30 seconds with a disinfecting wipe and it's a non-issue.

I head straight for the window or balcony and pull open the curtains to see the view! For me, an awesome view makes the other annoyances I may find later (burned out light bulb, a stray hair in the tub) much less important.

On the other hand, my DH immediately plops down on the bed and switches on the TV. If the TV isn't in good working order, the view better make up for it or else... :rolleyes:

If the kids are with us, I make sure to plug in the nightlight I bring along so I don't have to search for it at bedtime.

As for the comforter, we too remove it from the bed, and at night place it against the bottom of the door when necessary to diminish noise/light problems.

1. Check out the room to see if it's clean.
2. Check the view.
3. Jump on the bed and lay down.
4. Read the hotel guide.
5. Lick the remote. ;) :p (Just Kidding)

Check room to make sure everything (plumbing, electrical, mechanical) works. Then unpack, and hang up clothes.

btw, though never had problem w/ noise from adjacent rooms, that phoning the next room is a clever idea! Now if there's only a solution to blocking noise from the hallway . . .

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If the kids are with us, I make sure to plug in the nightlight I bring along so I don't have to search for it at bedtime.

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As a fairly new parent who has taken the first couple of trips with my daughter, I've lost 2 of 3 nightlights this way. I always forget to unplug it when packing up the next morning.


Back to the OT, I too remove the bedspread first thing

Right, because in daylight you don't notice it! I've lost a few along the way for the same reason. I always hope that the next customer thinks what a thoughtful amenity the hotel has provided!

I mentioned it in Reply #58"
I was trying to be discrete, but maybe I was a bit too discrete. :)

The other thing I do is get a drinking glass and empty my pockets of all the little sh--, uh, stuff, that accumulates -- change, lip balm, pens, etc. I always pick a similar place, like a table or corner of the desk, to put the glass and other pertinent stuff, including the card key, car keys, cell phone, etc. That way everything is in one place when I leave the room.

Regarding the germ issues -- I agree that I do not go overboard, realizing that (1) cleaning works more on your mind than truly 'sterilizing' the object, and (2) it is probably still way cleaner then my house :p . That said there are some germs I will try to avoid, like the dreaded 'fecal coliforms', which can cause unnecessary infection.

LOL :D

Check underneath the mattress (ever since a news article about a dead prostitute hidden between the mattresses in Vegas), I do this at EVERY hotel I stay at...
Make sure everything is working, check out the view, run the thermostat down to about 70 degrees (decent hotels go down this far, some crappy ones rarely go past this point), check out the bathroom and make sure there isnt any hair...