Poll: Hotel Drinking Glasses

I worked at a very well known hotel casino in NJ. Believe me this is true about the drinking glasses and coffee pots. We were told to spray bleach in the cups and coffee pots because we never had clean glasses. Needless to say I quit. Could not work at a place like that.

I had a similar experience at a property owned and operated by a major US-based hotel in Vancouver. I set up my own little sting when I realized they had not replaced my coffee cup after my first use (it was noticeably chipped). Each of the four subsequent days I was a guest of the hotel I would dirty the cup and leave it on the nightstand. On one occasion I even left the cup with a shoepolish rag submerged in dirty water. At the end of each day I would come back to the room and see the same cup wiped down and put back in place with the coffee service. The hotel assured me that they have procedures in place to prevent this but I now have confirmation that this was likely not an isolated event.

The video shown does not provide objective proof that glasses are unsanitary. It seeks to illustrate that hotel housekeeping staff cleans glasses different from the way people do so in their own kitchens. Footage of individuals labelled "Health Expert" is not convincing, either. Expert in whose estimation? Advanced degrees? From which universities? Independent? Employed at testing lab? Local, county, state or federal health expert? Science or administration? If a video is offered as "proof," it should include enough factual material to support the initial hypothesis of "dirty glassware." I have lived in and traveled to four continents on business. Thousands of air and land miles; more hotels than I can count. Take a look at the housekeeper's cart in the hallway next time you're in a hotel. Chances are Very Good you will see a plastic dish rack, of the type used in commercial dish washers, holding clean drinking glasses and a dirty glass bin like those used in restaurants.