They may allow COVID-19-positive guests
Let’s say the hotel is thoroughly cleaning the rooms, sanitizing the surfaces and regularly changing the linens. But there’s something that they can’t sanitize: their guests, who might be lurking behind closed doors. We’re not only talking about people who don’t notify the hotel management that they have COVID-19 or those who don’t know that they are positive. We are talking about COVID-19-positive guests who are allowed to stay in certain hotels.
According to the Santa Clara County Public Health Emergency Operations Center, hotels and other types of accommodation facilities in California are allowed to provide rooms for guests infected with the novel coronavirus, conditioned that they don’t leave an isolation area of at least 5 percent of the hotel’s total available rooms. In the case of smaller hotels, at least one room must be prepared for possible COVID-19 guests. The room(s) should be adjacent to one another and, wherever possible, the isolation area should have direct entrances and exits to the outdoors. Those suspected to have COVID-19 should stay in their designated rooms, but you never know when they might feel like wondering the hotel hallways.
They may still not sanitize the glasses thoroughly
These unprecedented times require unprecedented measures. This means places frequented by a lot of people, like restaurants and hotels, need to be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected now more than ever, with the coronavirus lingering from several hours to two or three days on certain surfaces.
Unfortunately, when it comes to hotels, there are no clearly defined cleanliness standards, despite the global pandemic. This means it’s up to hotels to keep things, like glasses, clean. Things are even easier when it comes to making glasses look clean: rinse them with water and wipe them with a dishtowel. It’s not the way to sanitize a glass but it’s the way most hotel employees clean these items, especially if they have little time to clean the rooms between guests.
As a matter of fact, a 2009 undercover investigation carried out by ABC News revealed that 75 percent of the sampled hotel glasses had just been wiped down and rinsed out. More than that, further scrutiny revealed that the cleaning personnel used dirty cloths and unsuitable sprays.
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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.