For the travelers and the party on business, traveling fast hotel has become a necessary choice, with clean beds and bathrooms, all of which give people a sense of home. But do you dare to use the hotel towel?
Recently, pear video photographers checked into the Spring City Plaza of Jinan all season hotel, and found that the cleaners suspected to use room towels for cleaning. In order to obtain evidence, a camera is placed in the guest room where the cleaner cleans the toilet and face with a washcloth.
The front desk of the next full season hotel said: the guest room towel is only for the use of guests, not one-off, cleaning must use a special towel to clean the guest room.
Towel bath towel = dishcloth, wipe toilet and tea cup
For hotel guests, towels and bath towels are face and body wipes, but for hotel cleaning staff, they may be toilet and floor wipes. Hotel room service staff in line with the principle of energy saving and nearby, often directly use towels to clean the bathroom floor and toilet. Of course, if the towel is too small, change it into a bigger bath towel. There will always be one for you.
Cleaning toilet and floor with bath towel in a hotel in Chengdu
After finishing the glorious task of cleaning the toilet and floor, some towels will be neatly folded and put back to their original positions, and continue to be used by the guests.
The hotel cleaner folded the used towels and put them back on the shelf
Others will continue to use their residual energy in the guest room to clean cups, tables and other places where they can be used.
Rujia greenhaotai is exposed to use toilet towel to wipe cups (source: Guangxi satellite TV)
Of course, the cleaning staff in line with the principle of "customer is God", in doing this, they secretly carry the guests, not to be found, so that everyone can enjoy a wonderful journey. The so-called invisible heart is pure, mostly so.
Washing bed sheets with sodium hydroxide
After several times of repeated cycles of guest body cleaning, toilet floor cleaning and guest body cleaning, these towel sheets can't escape the fate of being washed. Some hotels advocate "thrift, do it yourself" and put it on the ground directly after cleaning.
Some hotels don't want to do it by themselves, so they contract this part of business and let the third party clean it. Without any supervision, the sanitary quality of these third-party washing plants is usually not ideal.
There are piles of garbage not far away from the washing plant
In addition to hotel linen (towels, bath towels, bed sheets, quilt sheets, pillowcases, etc. used in hotel rooms, are collectively referred to as "linen" in the hotel industry), these laundry plants often also contract the linen business of hospitals. In line with the principle of equal treatment and efficiency first, no matter the bedspread with blood or the towel in the hotel, the laundry will wash it all in one pot.
Media exposure: laundry with blood sheets and hotel sheets
In order to fight against stubborn stains, the washing plant also specially equipped with a large number of caustic soda, oxalic acid, etc. to increase washing efforts. At the same time, in order to make the bed linen towels clean and fresh and fragrant, the staff will add a large amount of essence in the washing process to produce the effect of 'bright and clean as new'.
The media revealed that the pH value of the washed towel exceeded the standard after washing the white bed sheet with the detergent mixed with sodium hydroxide
Of course, if the bedspread towel itself is very clean, it will save the trouble of washing. The laundry factory will iron the clean cloth and return it to the hotel after packing.
Lao Zhang, who has been engaged in hotel linen washing for many years, said that every time he went out to stay in the hotel, he would definitely bring a full set of towel bath towels or even bed sheets. Whether the bedspread towel in the hotel is clean or not, the ordinary people can't distinguish whether they look at it with a magnifying glass or smell it with their nose. Only the insiders can see the felicity.
So when you stay in a hotel, you should not bother to check your health. You are not an expert, and you can't figure it out. Take a set of toiletries and bed sheet and quilt cover, which is the right way.
If you use too many hotel towels, you may get a strange disease
In 2012, a survey report on the safety of public textiles in Urban Express Hotels said that 60% of the bed sheets, bath towels and towels in express hotels were not up to the standard. And these unqualified linen products are likely to let the guests get sick.
In 2015, Ms. Liu, who works in Beijing, went to Nanjing on a business trip and stayed in a fast chain hotel. Two days later, Ms. Liu felt itchy and was diagnosed with urticaria. Miss Liu suspected that it was related to the unclean bath towel in the hotel.
In 2015, a man stayed in a hotel in Qingdao, Shandong Province, and his cornea fell off after using the hotel towel. According to doctors, this may be related to the residue of cleaning towel.
What's more surprising is a 2012 report that Mr. Li's family of six from Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, went to Shanghai for a tour. After returning home, all the family suffered from the venereal disease of condyloma acuminatum. None of them survived, including his 3-year-old son. Doctors say it is likely to be related to the use of towels to wipe private parts in hotels. Later, some experts argued that the probability of sexually transmitted diseases in hotel towels was lower than that of winning 5 million lottery tickets.
The problem of hotel towels and bed sheets is not a new topic. In recent years, it has been repeatedly exposed by the media, but it has been banned repeatedly. Towel or bath towel washing is not up to standard and has various uses, which has become a potential rule in the current hotel industry. The laws and regulations are not perfect and the supervision is absent, which leads to the hotel health problems. What we civilians can do is to add a few more towels to our luggage for fear of suffering.