Hotel Beds

It really makes you wonder doesn't it. I worked myself at a hotel. I have stayed at a few with my family like when we went on vactions when I was younger. I know the hotel that I worked for called The Moorings did a really good clean of each room to get the bathrooms,floor, and also the sheets changed. I didn't work there long. I was also working at Walmart and I had a arugment with the lady that was in charged so I quit working there and just stayed working at Walmart in the shoe department.

I usually sleep quite well in a guest house or hotel bed. I agree that standards vary considerably. I have seen clean facilities and I have dirty looking facilities. It is all to do with the cleaners efforts. When I was in Indonesia I stayed in a place. The room had twin beds and a stable like door. I sat down on on of the beds. There was a notice written in chalk on the wall. "Do not stay here. These beds have bed bugs and flees. Check out now."Oh my! I decided to go to reception and mention this. It was too late to find alternative accommodation. So I changed rooms. It had a double bed and a single bed. Tired I put all the plastic bags from my back pack on the floor. Getting into to not so clean looking bedding was horrible. That night I heard something run over my plastic bags. Rats? The next morning I asked other travelers for some help choosing a better palce to stay. I moved to stay at a friendly and clean guest house.

I am always worried about the beds..so much so that I usually sleep atop the bedspread.. Especially since many times when you pull the bedspread down..the bed looks like it was slept in and not changed..Yuck!

With the recent outbreak of bedbugs, I don't think I would feel very comfortable in another bed. I always take a can of Lysol spray to spray everything before using. It may not get the job done but it makes me feel better about using the facilities and the bed. But I will not use the pillows, I bring my own. I don't trust the maids to clean everything, after all they are doing hard work for little pay and are pushed to do more every day.

I think to be clean is no the kind of need or obligation for people. For example I am kinda untidy in my room and really don't care about this stuffs. Maybe it's our nature males :-) I think it is the result of my being arisen in a family full of girls. They were cleaning everything and doing everythig.I ever did actually do the same stuff and now don't want to.But I do tidy up sometimes when I fell like to. Hotels .I think all of them do the cleaning,at least their staff does.But it really depends on their quick controls over their staffs.

Good subject, personally i find it depends on what hotel your using. Many budget ones you have to "remind" room service theyre supposed to clean the rooms daily and if your not there its guaranteed to be a quick sweep through. Sheets vary from hotel to hotel.Worst sheets I had were in Florida at a well known chain. I was bitten by fleas from that room and no i wont be using them again.

We took a group of youth on a trip to the Temple one time. When we arrived at the motel. It was dirty. It had papercups and trash on the dresser and the table. I called the desk and they gave us another room but I still wondered just how clean the new room was. I have acturally considered making a sleeping bag from sheets to put on the motel beds to be sure it is clean. LOL

I just returned from a 10 day trip. I tossed and turned and woke up many times during the night. I slept terrible. This past trip, we stayed in a military facility which was very clean and new and nice. Then we went to Disney, where the carpets were damp from just being cleaned. Personally, I wonder how often the bedspreads are changed when you travel. I think it should be done between each guest..but I don't think that happens.

Yes I can sleep perfectly in an hotel bed. I just have to be tired and ready to sleep. Come to think of it when I'm tired and sleepy I am able to sleep anywhere LOL As for the cleanliness you mention I don't really think about it. I would like to think that things are done properly and with care and prefer to trust that it is so. But if they don't I prefer not to think about it, really.

i cannot sleep much if that is not my usual bed and especiall if it is a hotel bed. yes of course, i think about the sanitary condition of the hotel everytime. with the free towels, matress and other things given to me in the hotel i dont use it that much unless it is necessary. iheard most commoners here in our place just use the towel given to wipe their feet after they wash it. that's all they dont use it all over their body aside from there feet. so i dont really use the hotel towel much.

No way i cannot sleep comfortably on a hotel bed,haha.There always too hard.Ive worked at a hotel here and yes there are some who do too fast of a job because they have alot ahead of them to clean and do not take the time to thorouly it.We clean the flush,sink,faucets,window sills,windows,mirrors,counters,dust the head boards,inside the dresser drawers,lamp shades,vaccuum,set out clean towels,soap,glasses,toilet paper,new sheets,spraying the bed(s)down with discinfectent,so much more,haha.Whats really not funny is when you go into a bathroom and someone forgot to flush the flush after #2,YUCK!Its usually younger ones who want to get done fast and miss alot of stuff.I am not paid by the room,only by the hour,sometimes we can do 2-3 rooms in an hour or maybe 1 room,it depends how much stuff was left behind like takeouts and if things were moved and i had to do laundry also,washing the linens,towels and folding them a certain way to get that perfect crease on the sheets.Its not a job for the people who just want a quiet alone job,its very hard work doing this and running around,haha:):)Have a nice day,carpenter5:):)

My sisters work in the toursim industry in hotels across Canada, and based on what they have told me, the bare essentials are done to keep hotels clean which means, so they are not very clean at all! It makes me want to bring my own sleeping bag and camp out on the floor!

I travel alot. I inspect the hotel website carefully. I make sure they have room pictures and that they look new and a bit upscale. I hate sleeping in bad beds even worse being in a dirty hotel room. I will pay more just to stay in a place I feel comfortable. Then I go and look at the reviews I pay special attention to the comfy bed comments.

I generally find it difficult to sleep in a different bed. If the trip has included long distance travel, I'll usually be able to sleep the first night just out of exhaustion, but then on subsequent nights, I'm not able to sleep. Hotel's have a sort of unnatural feel to them. There's either too little or too much noise, and it just feels strange to sleep in a bed, knowing that countless other people have been in it before you.

nice discussion. :-) i have travelled a lot around our country and was able to stay in different hotels and pension houses of different grades. i have slept in so many beds. but what i notice is that i sleep late in hotels and wake up early, which is quite unsual for me. i dont know if it is the bed, or because the TV is in the room and i watch a lot of TV, which i dont usually do when i am at home and i am sort of "hungry" for shows. hehehe anyway, i think it is staying in a strange room that makes us queasy about sleeping in hotels...:-)

Hotel or friend's or even family - I never sleep good in a strange bed but will admit hotels are the worst of all. I spend the entire time wondering how well it was cleaned what 'critters' might have been left behind by previous guests and things like that.

For some years we, my wife and me, have travelled on holidays going to campings and sleeping in a tent, so hotel beds are not a problem for us. Just once, when we were in Sweden we had some troubles with the bed, which was a sort of narrow fouton (and it was a bed intended for two people), but it was a very luxury and fashonable hotel, where everything was 'a la page'. The problem was indeed with our one size (XXL) and not in the hotel's bed... good bye