Whenever you arrive in a hotel room, you feel instantly relaxed - clean, pristine sheets, towels so white they give you laundry-envy and all the little touches that make you feel treated like the robes, the miniature shampoos and the two glasses they put next to the sink.
But, what’s really going on with those glasses? Apparently, new studies have revealed a few home truths about them that suggest we should be paying them a little more attention…
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An investigation carried out by ABC News has recently come to our attention. It studied the daily routines of 15 hotels and found that 11 of them didn’t actually wash the glasses and replace them with news ones. Instead, they simply rinsed the ones already in the room.
This obviously leaves new guests exposed to the germs and bacteria left on the glass by the previous guests and, seeing as the glasses are often left in the bathroom… well, you can probably put the rest together yourself.
So how can we tell if hotel room glasses are actually clean? Well, the ones that come wrapped in plastic are most likely to be fresh and you can always ask the staff to replace them if you feel sceptical.
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Obviously this is not the case in every hotel and we’re sure most are on top of their cleanliness, but in a world where the internet likes to enlighten us on all things gross, this is the latest thing to hit the germisphere.
Anyway, you’ll probably still be admiring those gleaming white towels too much to notice.
By the way, here’s the secret behind how hotels get their whites so white, to put your mind to rest.
