even worse is that the few who wore utility gloves probably used those same gloves to clean the toilet.

thank you for this report on dirty glasses

That is so sick! I will always request disposable cups everytime I go!

OMG! This is one of the most terrible things I have ever seen. I wonder how many people will attempt a lawsuit.

LOL ! that’s funny, so funny! but sad at the same time. When every single so bourgeois-ass will EWwwwxpress their disgust, nobody will even think about what’ll happen to these maids. They’ll get fired! Why! Com’on it’s obvious…

Do you really think that they MAGICALLY ALL FORGOT to take the soap bottle, or ALL VOLUNTARY OMIT to put the dishes in a dish-rack for the dishwasher downstairs ? or simply they forgot to wash’em properly? …

The supervisor will yell at them if they dare take the time to do that !

For your information… there is NO SOAP FOR DISHES in the maids stockroom.

How many rags .. are they allowed ( allowed is the right term here ) to use?

few… very few for god know how much filth in how many rooms. No waste permitted…

Neat?

If it seems neat then it is. AMERICA IS A SHOW ! keep it running and you make money. Keep it running even faster and you’ll make MORE money.

The actors are asked for beyond human strength performance?

They gotta act for how long we don’t care that’s why they’re paid.

So what if they’re paid way less than the minimum wage ?

Hey if they don’t like it there’s plenty of other “illegals” who are ready to take their JOB. Just Over Broke that’s how they like their personnel, so they keep they mouth shut… Too busy fighting to survive so they feel lucky to have this JOB.

I’ve seen it!

Could u imagine that a maid in a “Embassy Suite” share the same salary than another from a low class Motel? Probably that the one in the low class motel have a better situation, because in this world, these women are asked to clean an astronomous number of rooms in a record time detemined by the supervisor. Moreover, it’s a flat rate system .. do more than, let say…, 20 rooms in 5 hours

to get paid.

n-y-way .. don’t wanna talk too much but … people are still doing slavery on behalf of the entrepreneurship !….

Think about it! .. greedy entrepreneurs

now my huntch is confirmed, I wondered about the glass glasses in hotel rooms. Something else to think about that happened to us is…We stayed at a Bestwestern in North Boston 11/23/07 and had white tissues in the box. After we had pulled 3 of them out the tissues were peach color; the manufacturer packaged color of tissues that should be in the box. So, obviously they had folded 3 white ones and put them in the box on top of the clean ones. Now, I am rearly sick, but I ended up with a cold 7 days after staying there. We did use the glasses too. Yuck! Thanks for keeping us safe with you checking on hotel practices.

I have often wondered about the cleanliness of drinking glasses, cups and coffee pots in hotel and motel rooms. Being a skeptic at heart, I have in recent times begun washing them before using. After seeing this, there is good reason for my skepticism. Good gawd, flesh-eating bacteria!

For years friends have laughed at me because I wash EVERYTHING in EVERY ROOM with Clorox bleach towels and alcohol sanitizers.

The bed spreads you lay on, although your sheets MAY be clean the bed spreads are washed MAYBE once a month.

I throw them in the corner and inspected the sheets, pillow cases, wash the remote, door knobs, TV knobs, the works,…. and I mean I miss nothing!

Who’s laughing now?? LOL!!!!

Make that, reusable nalgene water bottle!

Sue them for what? Besides being ignornat, which isn’t their fault, what could you POSSIBLY sue them for…the world is lawsuit happy and it’s as sickening as dirty glasses in a hotel room.

The less expensive rooms use disposable plastic cups that are wrapped. Go cheap.

#21 BWL is correct in some respects — it all boils down to $$ (not illegal aliens you ignorant bafoon — you think ‘Americans’ are ready to work as hard as newcomers to your country?).

Instead of putting the onus on others for your safety & health, just take your own re-usable cups/glasses with you (basically, take responsibility for yourselves). And geezuz people, stop thinking a lawsuit is going to change the world for better.

Theres no excuse, no matter how much someone gets paid, they should have common sense and decent respect to others to not be so nasty and filthy. I could not find it in myself or anyone I know that would be so trashy nasty to do that. That is bull about towels, because they don’t know how many towels the room used. You can always get more. It is the person or persons who have done this is “Nasty Stupid Ignorant People”. The blame goes on the people doing it.

Isn’t it a sick mess out there?

From information passed to me, I will not use the pillows and when I take my own I always wash down the head board as the bed bugs and other crawly thing like to nest there.

It is best to ask for extra clean sheets and if I am to stay an extended time, my bed linens are all new…..I demand it

or I don’t stay. Using blankets and bedspreads a second time is not allowed!

Anyway, we use a motor home now!

Oh, this makes me want to VOMIT! I agree with #26. Nasty, nasty people.

As a Dermatologist, I can guarantee you that the glasses are not the worst risk you assume as a motel/hotel guest. THAT most egregious risk is the CARPET upon which you walk. I have treated virutally hundreds of cases of plantar warts, fungi, herpes and other infectious diseases on the feet of hotel “bare-footers” in 31 years.

One guy liked to exercise in his athletic supporter in the morning, did some situps in a hotel room on the bare carpet, and came in a few days later with an enormous patch of herpes simplex infection on his buttock. He had never had this condition before a trip on which these exercises were done.

Wart virus lives in the carpets at hotels for many months, and virtually every square centimeter of carpet contains some infectious organism in the drippings dropped by the renters before you arrived.

Advice:

1. NEVER go barefoot in hotel rooms or anywhere other than your very own home.

2. Stand on a “clean” towel when showering in the tub or shower stall.

3. “Flip-flops” may help control contagion.

4. Do NOT touch walls of shower stalls and/or even the bathroom with your bare skin. These surfaces are virtually NEVER cleaned.

5. Since even some PLASTICware is re-bagged (amazing, isn’t it?), make sure that all the plastic cups you use are in SEALED bags. Better yet, pack a cup in your suitcase whenever you travel.

6. Do NOT use any exercise machines which touch your bare skin without sterilizing the surfaces with a Clorox Cloth or something else anti-viral/anti-bacterial first.

7. Use the aforementioned “stand on a clean towel” technique for gym locker rooms and showers. Assume every person who has ever used a facility or a piece of equipment has some contagiious bacterial or viral condition.

More later. . . JPB

to Garvin (post #3)…..Haaaa!!!!!!!!

By the way, people, don’t think this sort of thing is limited to hotels. The whole world is gross in general lol. If you have a weak stomach you should never take a close look at what sometimes goes on in restaurants or hotels. Sad but true.

I would have to say that the wages reflect the quality of work. Why are the cleaners ALL from another country? Answer…crap wages that locals won’t even work for. This is the result.

This is entirely gross- I am gonna tell everyone I know about this and then some. If hotels think this is alright they got another thing coming. Embassy Suites will hear from my lawyer.

makes me feel like an idiot thinking a fun night out includes a stay at a hotel. I’m risking getting seriously sick! wonder what the room service prep video would look like! sickening.

I use to work as a maid in a well known motel in Ind. and we were allowed enough linens,towles,cleaning supply’s for the rooms we were assigned for the shift and a limited time to clean them the sheet,pillow cases,bedspread were not changed if not needed so the change of the items may occure once a week MAYBE. I’ll always take my towles,glass wear,bed linens when I stay at a motel or hotel since I know how they are cleaned. and its not the workers fault its the management GET IN AND OUT WE DO NOT PAY OVER TIME FOR ANY EMPLOYEE!!!!!!!!!!

Third world cheap labour only knows third world hygiene standards and that is why the problem exists.

I own a fast food restaurant, and believe me we have such strict standards that I can at least speak for my own that we follow them to the tee. We are so concerned about food borne illnesses that you wouldn’t even follow these standards in your own kitchen or home.

As far as a lot of money and pushing staff to perform quickly so that they do not follow the standards is something I believe society has pushed on the service industry. Everyone wants top of the line for bottom price and this forces businesses to be constantly checking how costly labor is to the dollar coming in ratio.

I can tell you that I being a franchisee and manager of my restaurant I spend approximately 60-70 hours a week alone in my store WORKING on the line or wherever needed, PLUS whatever on paperwork in addition at home. I schedule extra people so that not everyone is feeling the almighty pressure to perform so quickly that we forget to serve perfect food and offer great customer service. My store is not as profitable as others that run it like you have to, to make the big bucks.

Why am I not as profitable? It is because I pay 1.5 times more rent than anyone else that own the same franchise I do. I make up for whatever I can by ME being in there and slugging away. I never treat my staff like they are not appreciated for doing a good job, nor do I expect my staff to do anything that I don’t already do.

People expect the best, at the least, and want it fast. That is what has happened, everyone is just too busy anymore.

I would have like to have seen glasses on their cart to replace the dirty glasses in the rooms. The glasses should have to be transported to the kitchen dishwashing area. This is a no brainer to me.

Remember TRUST NO ONE! I spray everything when I enter the hotel. I only use the ones with NO kitchens and eat out. I am always nice to waiters and waitresses, I tip very well. I do send back silverware or dirty dishes. I use a straw and never let my mouth touch the glasses.

We don’t want to go there about the BEDS, remotes, sheets, etc. GOD only knows where anyones hands have been.

Use only individually wrapped plastic cups, for sure!

Germs are good for you.They develop your antibodies. Stop whining so much.

Hotels don’t wash these glasses in a dishwasher. Have you ever seen glasses on a Maid cart?