They’re reusing the sheets
This was quite a common practice before the coronavirus pandemic. According to Philip Biton, the cofounder of NDOband, if the sheets didn’t have any visible stains, they were not constantly cleaned between visits. As gross as it may sound, three out of nine hotels secretly tested during a 2016 investigation conducted by Inside Edition, didn’t change sheets. Fast forward four years later, and a similar investigation by Inside Edition revealed that at least three hotels in New York City, namely the Hyatt Place in Times Square, the Hampton Inn Times Square Central, and Trump International, didn’t change the linens or clean regularly between guests, despite the strict hygiene measures that hotels should be taking amid COVID-19 pandemic.
Imagine all the bodily fluids, hair, skin and other bacteria from practical strangers that could be lurking in that hotel room. To make sure you don’t develop some serious health issues, ask the hotel to change the sheets after you’ve checked in, even if they say they’ve already changed them. Here are another 12 Things You Should Consider Before Booking a Hotel.
They’re allowing sick employees to come to work
There’s a great deal at stake when it comes to COVID-19, but for some hotels, money is more important than the health of their employees, and ultimately, their guests. Here’s one example: When a Holiday Inn LAX employee notified her manager that she had a headache and body aches, she was allowed to take a day off work to get tested for COVID-19. So far so good. The only problem was that she was asked to continue working until she received her results, which, by the way, were positive.
How was that possible, you ask? Well, according to Jon Jarosh, a spokesman for Destination Door County in Wisconsin, businesses are having a hard time finding and keeping their employees due to the current travel restrictions. They can’t afford to lose an employee, not to mention the money that employees would still be entitled to receive.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, see also 10 Things Coronavirus Changed From Rude to Normal.
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I worked at a hotel that, when they ran out of auto-dispensing laundry chemicals had us use the little guest boxes. Problem is, they didn’t ensure everyone that did the laundry knew about it. A lot of laundry was done without and detergent or bleach. I for one, got extremely ill and almost died.