Don't Ever Drink From Hotel Glasses

http://www.bestviral.com/video/6629/dont_ever_drink_from_hotel_glasses

This video has received over 2.5 million views on bestviral.com from 165 countries around the globe since it was put up on 11/23/2007. Most people have been shocked by the video because it hits close to home for just about anyone who has ever stayed at a hotel in the past.

Please view the follow up video where the same news team investigates the conditions at 4-star hotels like the Ritz and Renaissance. The results are equally, if not more shocking.

Wow.

That just... ewww... I'm taking dish soap and a scrubber with me next time.

The sad thing is, that after watching video like that, plus some other from restaurant kitchens, meat factories, you're almost ready to move to the farmland, and start making your own food.

I hear ya... you should see the way a lot of food is prepared here in Thailand. Being a Westerner, my body still hasn't adapted to the bacteria present in some of the foods here. I've had food poisoning more times than I can remember, and have been hospitalized from it 6 times in the 11 years I've lived in Thailand.

Really? My God!!!

http://www.bestviral.com/video/6629/dont_ever_drink_from_hotel_glasses

This video has received over 2.5 million views on bestviral.com from 165 countries around the globe since it was put up on 11/23/2007. Most people have been shocked by the video because it hits close to home for just about anyone who has ever stayed at a hotel in the past.

Please view the follow up video where the same news team investigates the conditions at 4-star hotels like the Ritz and Renaissance. The results are equally, if not more shocking.

Ok that is sooo gross!!! I am kind of a germ freak. NOT crazy germ freak, BUT I can't stand to see people do that.

When staying in a hotel.... I ALWAYS bring in my drink glass from McD or BK and use that for a few days, and every time I go out I bring another one back and keep it clean until the next day...ect. I hardly ever drink out of room glass cups or glasses. And I strip the bed and use my own linen and towels (did you know you can possibly get herpes, crabs, lice, and fungus form someone else's towel?!!!) 

OH yeah, and I hang my do not disturb sign on my door so they will not clean during the day. And then I go down in the evening (if I need to) and exchange MY own towels!! I have even offered to go to the laundry room myself and pick up my towels (if I forgot mine). They think I am being nice...I Am really being CAREFUL!!!

Also, when I was in the hospital, (I was really sick and the cleaning lady thought I was asleep, she cleaned my counter and MY bed railing with the exact same cloth she had just cleaned the bathroom with. AND THIS was in a hospital.

After she left I jumped out of bed and asked the nurse for a bottle of alcohol, she brought me one, asking why I needed it... I told her to clean my nasty room!!! I used my own bath cloth soaked in alcohol and cleaned my room while I had a fever!

Some people are soo NASTY!

And I strip the bed and use my own linen

Can you make my bed tonight?

And I strip the bed and use my own linen

Can you make my bed tonight?

Oh, you are soo bad! :-)


( But, BAD is sometimes sexy! HEE HEE 

This is EXACTLY what I meant

This is EXACTLY what I meant

LOL

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Sanitaire Safe Travels Disinfectant Spray.

http://www.travelwares.com/product_p/id15.htm

Also, when I was in the hospital, (I was really sick and the cleaning lady thought I was asleep, she cleaned my counter and MY bed railing with the exact same cloth she had just cleaned the bathroom with. AND THIS was in a hospital.

There are some hospitals here that would make even the strong of heart shudder in terror. But those are the cheap/free hospitals and I never go to them.

Compared to US standards, any hospital or is cheap here, but most are pretty nice and up to Western standards.

Sliced open left ankle: stitched, then cleaned and redressed daily. $20.
Dengue Fever: Two week hospital stay. About $400.
Broke right foot: Including everything (cast, x-rays, etc.) $125

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quaxo and NonTechyMom, you must remember how much cleaner they keep
hospital bathrooms.There was probably no need in using another cleaning
cloth..............

You've never seen my hospital bathroom after I've had food poisoning though 

Actually, most Thai hospitals, like I said, are really nice. They're incredibly clean, quiet, and comfortable. The Thai nurses have fantastic bedside manner and are really good at what they do.

However, Thai food preparation is a different story. This is what has put me in the hospital so many times here.

A typical Thai market:


Fried chicken heads, anyone?

Sliced open left ankle: stitched, then cleaned and redressed daily. $20.
Dengue Fever: Two week hospital stay. About $400.
Broke right foot: Including everything (cast, x-rays, etc.) $125

WOW!!!

Fried chicken heads, anyone?

They eat chicken feet too.

This is EXACTLY what I meant

A sexy computer specialist! What more does a women need?

Also, when I was in the hospital, (I was really sick and the cleaning lady thought I was asleep, she cleaned my counter and MY bed railing with the exact same cloth she had just cleaned the bathroom with. AND THIS was in a hospital.

There are some hospitals here that would make even the strong of heart shudder in terror. But those are the cheap/free hospitals and I never go to them.

Compared to US standards, any hospital or is cheap here, but most are pretty nice and up to Western standards.

Sliced open left ankle: stitched, then cleaned and redressed daily. $20.
Dengue Fever: Two week hospital stay. About $400.
Broke right foot: Including everything (cast, x-rays, etc.) $125

OH MY GOSH!!! Remind me to be careful around you!!! WOW!

BUT great prices!

quaxo and NonTechyMom, you must remember how much cleaner they keep
hospital bathrooms.There was probably no need in using another cleaning
cloth..............

You must be a hospital Lawyer!      lol

You've never seen my hospital bathroom after I've had food poisoning though 

Actually, most Thai hospitals, like I said, are really nice. They're incredibly clean, quiet, and comfortable. The Thai nurses have fantastic bedside manner and are really good at what they do.

However, Thai food preparation is a different story. This is what has put me in the hospital so many times here.

A typical Thai market:


Fried chicken heads, anyone?

HEY!!!

Where did you get a photo of my kitchen from???   

YUMMY!!!  KFC-H

Kentucky Fried Chicken Heads!!

Oh yeah, they eat things a lot worse than fried chicken heads. How about stuffed pig intestine? Fried bugs? Even the boiled poop hole of some animals?

I forgot to mention I threw out my back in August. $20 for the initial doctor visit, then $10 per physical therapy treatment (once a week for 8 weeks).

There's a nice medical tourism trade here. I know several people who are here for that. One guy I know is here getting treated for cancer because he can't afford to pay for it in the US.

.... Most people have been shocked by the video because it hits close to home for just about anyone who has ever stayed at a hotel in the past.
...

Ever seen these?

http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Extension/DiagnosticLab/IDLFS/BedBugs/images/Bedbugs-029.jpg


I have.   By the hundreds.
NOT pleasant.

I cannot bring myself to ever get into a hotel bed without first stripping it and upending the mattress, and having a good look for myself.
I'll remake the bed - I don't mind.

It is the first thing I do.  I don't even like to bring my bags into the room before I do it.

Bedbugs issue is shown in  another video from within the link, I posted.

Bedbugs issue is shown in  another video from within the link, I posted.

I'd forgotten to look.   Just did.

They are right -  check the bed.    But for me,  I don't just have a look.   I mean it... I upend it.

Sad part is, there is nothing a hotel can do about preventing them.   They are carried in by guests, then multiply.   Nobody knows they are there until it is too late.
The only way for the hotel to prevent them, would be to prevent anyone from bringing them in - in other words,  to stop accepting guests.


I hope neither you nor anyone here ever gains any experience with them.

Yeah, I've had a run in with bed bugs before. I rented an apartment here... ohhh it's been a few years back now. Anyway, it already had the furniture in it, including the bed. After a few days of sleeping there, I developed little pink spots all over my skin. Couldn't figure out what it was until a friend at my office mentioned that it looked like it might be bed bugs. Had the matress checked and sure enough that's what it was. Apartment came in and took care of it, changed the mattress. Never had spots after that.

Hi Broni,  watched that video about hotel glasses...pretty gross.  I'm a Chef in real life & always bring bottled drinks whenever I stay at a hotel.  Always check the room for other peoples hair too!  Yuk!

Once had a room that when you flushed the toilet the bathroom sink would slowly fill up??
Changed that one pretty quik.

I am never traveling again.... And if I do, I am bringing my tent!

I would rather deal with the spiders and snakes, than deal with bed bugs, strange germs, and LET's NOT FORGET LICE!