Don't Drink from Hotel Glasses
The next time you stay in a hotel, you'll think twice about
drinking out of the glasses and coffee cups if you watch the
four-and-a-half-minute video at
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a7f_1194813218
It's an I-team investigation from a TV station, presumably in
Atlanta, Georgia. The team took hidden cameras into guest rooms
at three major hotels--Embassy Suites, Holiday Inn and Sheraton
Suites. In all three instances, housekeepers never used soap and
water to clean dirty drinking glasses and coffee cups.
The Holiday Inn simply rinsed the glasses under running water in
a dirty sink and left them to dry.
At the Embassy Suites, a housekeeper put a used glass inside the
dirty sink, sprayed a blue liquid on it, and then dried it with a
cloth. She held it up to the light to make sure it looked squeaky
clean.
At the Sheraton Suites, a housekeeper also used spray from a
bottle to clean a glass, then picked up the guest's used
washcloth from the sink, smelled it, and wiped the glass with
the washcloth. As for the rubber gloves on her hands, well,
you'll have to watch the video to learn where those gloves had
been just before they touched the drinking glasses.
I don't know when this report was first aired. But what's so
remarkable about it is that in all three cases, when asked to
comment, the hotel management never fessed up to any wrongdoing,
even though they were caught on camera and admonished by the
local health officials. A spokesperson from the Sheraton refused
to comment, saying "It's too controversial an issue."
I never drink from hotel glasses unless they are plastic wrapped disposable glasses.