Don't Drink the Water? Don't Use the Hotel's Glasses!

Like big bars of designer soaps rather than wrapped mini-bars of Dial or Ivory, I have always thought that real glass drinking glasses rather than plastic-wrapped plastic glasses were a sign of hotel quality. I am now on the verge of changing my mind. A health site called mercola.com offers a post called "Beware About Drinking Out of Your Hotel Room Glasses." Take a look, and if you have a strong stomach, click to play the video too. Not to put too fine a spin on the situation, but the little white paper caps that housekeepers place on "clean" drinking glasses seem to add insult to injury.

Please know that I am not a clean freak, I don't squeeze hand sanitizer on my paws every few minutes, I believe in "eat a peck of dirt in a lifetime" and I'm generally not a squeamish traveler, which is probably a reason that I don't get sick very often -- and I've never gotten sick while traveling. However, and this is a big however, vulnerable people certainly can get sick -- and the rest of us might simply feel sick when we think of how some hotels don't adhere to the basic standards of cleanliness and hygiene that I'm sure are required in most jurisdictions. The hotels that were visited in this video were not fleabag, no-tell motels but name chains. Cobb County is the area around Marietta, GA. Health inspectors are all over restaurants, but I wonder how often they check on hotels.