Never Use Hotel Room Glasses

1. Never Use Hotel Room Glasses How to avoid getting sick

2. Several travelers have brought their concerns about the cleanliness of glasses in hotel rooms to the Hyatt Gold Passport forum, wondering if Hyatt Corporation has a policy similar to Starwood Hotels and Resorts. “All glassware — including glass coffee carafes and cups — are to be washed in a dishwasher and, once cleaned, never again touched by ungloved hands with the understanding that the gloves being used will have never been used previously for any other purpose”, according to one of the official company representatives of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. Do you suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder — or do you have just cause to be concerned? Is there any validity to the trepidation about using glassware at hotel properties? This report ran on the local news on WAGA-TV Fox 5 when reporter Dana Fowle — then of the investigative team — appeared live to present for the first time a now-legendary undercover hidden-camera exposé on the cleanliness of glassware in hotel rooms. Based on this, I would answer an emphatic ‘YES!”. The original report at an Internet web site called snotr: CLICK TO PLAY

3. As you may have noted in the report, one hotel property as a result replaced the glasses in its hotel rooms with plastic cups which were individually wrapped. Should you be concerned about their cleanliness as well? • If the plastic cups are manufactured similarly to how the plastic cups used by flight attendants of Delta Air Lines aboard aircraft are manufactured, the first human hands to touch each of those sterilized plastic cups are the flight attendants once they rip open the protective plastic wrapper containing the plastic cups — and the machinery used to create those plastic cups are clean, as well as the facility itself in which the machinery is located. • Similarly, it would therefore stand to reason that you are the first person to touch a plastic cup in a hotel room once you remove it from its protective plastic wrapper. • Why do fancier hotels insist on using glassware instead of plastic cups in hotel rooms? Is it because the customers insist on it? Would it not be easier, less expensive and more sanitary to use disposable plastic cups which could be recycled? Surely there must be a way to improve the appearance of plastic cups in higher-end hotel properties. • So what is a person to do? • If you are at a hotel where the rooms are supplied with plastic cups which are individually wrapped, take one or two of those cups and store it into your bag to carry around for future use. If you find yourself in a hotel room containing glassware whose cleanliness is questionable, use the plastic cup instead.