Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com on the 'ickiest' things to know about your hotel room

It's no secret that hotel rooms can be gross - but how can you get around the worst of it?

Other people will likely be getting their germs all over the TV remote, the cushions, the ice bucket and concerns have been raised over how safe toothbrushes are in the bathroom.

For more advice about how to get around the worst of the icks, Megan Singleton's made a list of her findings. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks, edb Travel with Windy Woo Tours Where
the World is Yours for now.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Joining me now is Meghan Singleton, blogger at large dot com.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I love the way you've brought this up, this topic
cap on a long weekend with there's lots of people
probably away in rented accommodation hotels motels, giving us all
something to think about.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Airbnb's Yes, I know it's ike so I'm talking about
ecky things that you might find in hotel rooms. I
wrote it as a bit of fun, but honestly I do.
I'm a bit of a germophobe, I've realized, and I
pretty much do all of these things when I get
into my hotel room.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, talking, do you want to go? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (00:50):
You want to go there? In the last so well, Actually,
one time, many years ago, I actually brought myself one
of those blue light torches because I thought, oh, that'll
make a hilarious blog post. I'll shine it around and
see what's going on in the hotel room. And then
I realized, oh my gosh, I don't want to know,
because you've got to use it at nighttime, and at
that point I'll be in my jarmi's and I don't
want to know.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
So I've actually never put the batteries in.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
So you use it at all?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
No, No, give it to me.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'll use it.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'll give it a trifle. Oh will you.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Terrifying? Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
So one of the things you've got to make sure
of is the remote controls are probably one of the
germiest things you'll find in a hotel room. They seldom
get wiped, and people have been eating their chips and
their ketch up fingers and it's just a little bacterial
breeding ground, those remotes. Some people even put them in
a shower cap and use them to turn.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
The teley channels. Toothbrush. I always do this.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
I put my toothbrush in the bathroom in the cup
that's provided until a friend told me recently that her
son makes sure he zips his away in the toilet
bag because he reckons the housekeeping.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Probably use the toothbrush, especially if you have left.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
A tidy room towards round the basin, so that I
can't unsee that. Now, so I'll be zipping my toilet
my toothbrush away ice buckets.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
The first thing.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Make sure you've got a plastic liner in your ice bucket,
because if someone's feeling unwell, what are they gonna graw?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I know, lucky, Okay. What about beds and linen?

Speaker 4 (02:17):
So yeah, so I love one of those double sheeted
beds because you know that the douve cover double sheeted
that is getting washed between guests every time. But if
it's got a throw rug or a bed spread or
decorative pillows, I have them onto the floor because you
know that they don't get washed I mean never probably
or maybe six monthsly.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
And you know if it's a bedspread or one of those.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Little foot rugs, people have sat on them with the
bear bottoms, I just know it.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Drinking glasses and.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Coffee cups, make sure you wash those out first because
they're likely just to have got a quick wipe around
between the last guest and you. And just a practical one.
If there's an iron and an ironing board, check the iron.
It's likely headwater sitting in it for months. And you
know sometimes when you use an iron and that MOULDI
water can come out, could stay in your clothes.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's just an obvious one. But that's just that's just
a lift the tone a little bit, and I probably
wouldn't think of that.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I probably wouldn't think of that. Oh God, a.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Nice thing to do for housekeeping.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Obviously, leaving a tip would be lovely, even a dollar
a day, a little note to say thanks so much
for tidy my room. They genuinely love that when you
leave stripping the bed They find that would be super
helpful because sometimes I think, oh this, you know, they've
got about fifteen minutes to turn a room around. What
can I do to help strip the beds off and
put your tails in the bathtub?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
They love you.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Thank you so much, Megan it is. You can read
that blog blogger at lunch dot com.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
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