If the Pig Flu didn't scare ya.......here come the bedbugs!

by dinah 20 Replies latest jw friends

  • dinah
    dinah

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090515/sc_mcclatchy/3234191_1

    I think Americans are so jaded, we don't get scared anymore.

  • BabaYaga
    BabaYaga
  • Dagney
    Dagney

    Gulp.

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    I've been hearing about this one for a while. There are whole forums related to it. I will travel to exotic places if ever given the chance, so not gonna worry about it.

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    I have no fear of bedbugs. I'm more concerned with wet stains and hair. Yup, I bring my own bedding to hotels. Standard practice at most is to only change bedding after 2 to 3 stays.

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    Dohhhhhhhhhhh!! I don't believe it!

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    Do some research beks.

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    Some interesting information:

    http://www.razorcake.org/site/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=49

    How Often Do Hotels Change Their Sheets?
    Quality You Can Taste

    By Harvey Wallbanger
    Friday, June 01 @ 00:00:00 CDT

    NEW ORLEANS (5-21-01) -- I know someone who worked as a maid in a hotel, and she confirmed what I all ready knew, but didn't want to think about: hotels never clean the bedspreads or quilts. Jim Romenesko's Obscure Reading Room http://www.obscurestore.com linked to a Des Moines Register http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/14731110.html story that quoted a criminologist who found 106 stains on a Holiday Inn bedspread-38 of the stains were semen.

    A stay at a Holiday Inn can be pretty expensive. I was curious, though, about the really high-end hotels. What do they do with their bedspreads? I placed a call to the New Orleans Ritz Carlton. The Ritz Carlton just finished a 200 million dollar restoration of an old department store on Canal Street. The new building holds three Ritz branded hotels. I spoke with the housekeeping manager.

    "We can change your bedspread every day, if you like," she said.

    But what is the standard bedspread policy?

    "Until they get dirty...usually once a week," she said.

    Hilton Hotels was a little more confused by my question. I explained that there was a story about a bedspread with 38 semen stains, and I was concerned about the spread of disease through bedspreads. "Mostly every day," Hilton said. They said it like they wanted to believe it.

    One more call to the New Orleans W hotel, an incredibly crazy-hip hotel with a meditation garden and a bar partly owned by Cindy Crawford. Rooms are stocked with Aveda bath products. There is furniture you can't sit in, techno music, dark lit bathrooms.

    How often do you change your bedspreads?

    "We don't change them, we wash them," was W's reply. A turn of subject worthy of a zen garden.

    Then you wash them how often?

    "Every week or so."

    -Harvey Wallbanger

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    Doe, I don't need to know anything gross about hotels or restaurants. What I don't know, probably won't kill me.

  • John Doe
    John Doe
    What I don't know, probably won't kill me.

    But might get you pregnant.

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