The secrets that women who often check into hotels tell you

Although a hotel is your home when you are traveling, no matter how luxurious it is, it is not as clean, private, and safe as your own home. What should you pay attention to when staying in a hotel? Today, the Public Health Network will give you some gossip about the unknown secrets in hotel rooms.

1Please look at the cat's eye

The first step when entering the room is to check the peephole on the door. If it is damaged or tampered with, be sure to change rooms. The view through the cat's eye should be clear and unobstructed. A tampered peephole may contain a peephole camera (a reverse lens that allows one to see inside from the outside).

For safety reasons, it is recommended to stuff a small piece of paper into the cat's eye and remove it only when needed. Also, if someone knocks on the door but you don't see anyone through the peephole, don't open the door, call the front desk instead.

Sister Xigua encountered this when she was on a business trip at a hotel in Xichang, but the victim was a reporter from other media who lived next door. When he came back from his midnight snack, his things were stolen.

2. Stay away from the kettle

For Sister Xigua, the dirtiest place is not the legendary bathtub in the hotel, but the electric kettle. A kettle is basically standard in every room. It looks clean, but who knows what the previous guests did with it. Think vomit, cigarette butts, even…

Sister Xigua once shared a room with a certain auntie reporter. The auntie took off her shoes and wiped them directly with the hotel bed sheets - so don't overestimate the quality of Chinese people. If you want to drink water, you can buy two bottles. It’s worry-free and safe. Transform your own portable tea set!

3. No glass

It is best not to use the glass water cup next to the bathroom sink, especially not to use it to drink water. Because the waiters only wipe it with a rag and rinse it with tap water, and there is rarely a high-temperature disinfection procedure. This is a story I heard from Xiguajie. I don’t know if it’s true, but there was once a male guest who used a glass cup to make weak tea and did SPA for his penis.

Of course, if you bring your own disinfectant or disinfectant wipes and are mentally comfortable with it, you can disinfect it yourself. hehe.

4. Beware of Bugs

The conditions in some hotels are not so good, especially in places like Ganzi and Aba where the conditions are more difficult. Some hotel rooms have bugs. When you enter the room, it is best to check the wardrobe and other wooden furniture first, as these are the places bugs love the most.

In fact, bedding, sheets, quilts, pillows, and quilt covers are the most suitable growth environment for mites. Be sure to remove the mites before use! For mite removal methods, please refer to the article "Why do we need to remove mites in daily life" by Zhuanbian Yijun.

5. TV remote control

The dirtiest item in the room may surprise you. If there is one item that all travelers will pick up and use, it is the dirtiest item in the room. In any good hotel, the dirtiest item is the TV remote control. Countless people have used the remote, but employees rarely clean it.

6Bedside light switch

Likewise, another thing most travelers use without giving it a second thought is the bedside light switch. Before touching either, it’s best to give it a quick clean with an antibacterial wipe or spray.

7. Don’t believe “disinfected”

Cups, slippers, especially plastic slippers, bathroom mats, toilets and bathtubs may also be lazy about disinfection. I generally don't use hotels below four stars.

Spray disinfectant!

8. Paper-separated toilet seat

Always put a piece of paper under it before using.

9. Use the bathtub with caution

Scratch the bathtub wall with your fingernails. If it is disinfected, a smooth protective film will be formed with a "squeaking" sound. Of course, if you can use a shower, try to shower steadily.

To check whether the sheets have been changed, you can pull out the corners to see if there is any hair; clean, washed towels will have square fold marks.

11Reservation options 6, 8

Rooms ending in 6 and 8 are more likely to be large rooms. Because hotel rooms in a row are usually even numbers, rooms 8, 16, and 18 are likely to be the last ones. If it's room 6, it's probably the room next to the elevator corridor.

When many hotels divide the rooms, the front rooms will be relatively compact, but the last room will be much more spacious. However, it is inevitable to encounter those space-saving ones, and finally I made up my mind to divide the remaining space into two rooms.

This is what my senior told me. It is for reference only. Because the environments of each hotel are different, this rule may not be applicable.

12. Take the "Seven Small Items" with you

“Eight small items” (toothbrush, toothpaste, slippers, comb, shampoo, shower gel, shower cap, portable disinfectant, wet wipes).

Hygiene has always been a concern for me. For a three-star hotel or one that meets three-star standards, the cost of each set of these seven items is about ten yuan. The price difference of hotel chains on the market, from express hotels to global chains, may range from 5 yuan to 50 yuan.

This quality control is very problematic. Xigua has encountered the situation of using dishwashing liquid as shampoo, so it is better to prepare it yourself to be safe!