1.“I worked in numerous luxury 5-star properties worldwide. You will be surprised if you know the food quality in buffets. I’ve seen yellow food coloring added and labeled as ’saffron sauce’, pan-fried sea bass? It’s pan-fried white fish that comes in generic bags labeled ’white fish’. People change the expiration date on stuff so that the food cost doesn’t increase.” Bigfatpie / Reddit
2.Never sleep directly on a pillow in a hotel. Always bring your pillowcase and cover it. We can’t tell guests this, but the hotel pillows are rarely washed.
The pillowcases get changed, sure, but the pillows themselves? They’re only cleaned if there’s an obvious stain or odor. Most of the time, they just get reused over and over again. I’ve seen pillows in rooms that have been there for months, maybe even years, without being properly cleaned.
3.“I worked the night shift at a hotel and had to prepare breakfast. I will never eat scrambled eggs at a hotel again unless I see the cook breaking the eggs.
How much food can be bought en masse and prepared in under 5 minutes is disgusting. Ready-to-cook egg mix. Just pour it into a pan and heat the ooze up… 5 minutes later: scrambled ’eggs’. Doesn’t taste good at all.” Dire87 / Reddit
4.It doesn’t matter how expensive your room is, please don’t use the hotel hair dryer because it can be “pretty germy,” according to a microbiologist. While hotel rooms are often cleaned with hygiene in mind, there are still areas that don’t get the same level of attention. For instance, restrooms are usually sanitized regularly, but items like hair dryers tend to be overlooked in the cleaning process.
5.“If you ever need to cancel a hotel reservation, but it’s already past the cancelation deadline, just call and move your reservation up a few days. Wait five minutes. Call back, now well within the cancelation window, and cancel your stay for free.” King_Whistle / Reddit
6.“Those tiny free bottles of shampoo you find in your hotel room? Please don’t use them. We’re not allowed to tell guests this, but those bottles are often refilled with expired products.
Instead of replacing them, housekeeping collects the bottles, refills them from large bulk containers, and reseals them. The problem? Those bulk containers have been sitting in storage for months, often past their expiration date.”
7.”Spread a towel out on the counter before putting your stuff on it, because I know some of my coworkers would go from floor to shower to toilet to sink with the same rag. I know people who would do twelve rooms or more with two rags: bathroom and no bathroom. Nobody cared, the goal was to remove all traces of the last guest and make it smell nice.” v1508 / Reddit
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