HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Germs

A Germ-Free Remote Control Coming Soon to Your Hotel Room

juliana — 2011-06-21T10:43:18-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/showercapremotecontrol.jpg" class="top"> Is it Christmas? It sure feels like it with yesterday's news that the Satellite TV company DirecTV is working on a germ-free remote control just for hotels. Oh yeah, and they will also be supplying hotels with more than 100 HD channels. <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/directv-release-germ-free-remote-203328">The Hollywood Reporter</a> reports: <blockquote>DirecTV has already offered TV service to hotels, but the clear branding, the germ-free remote, the expanded HD offer and programming and interactive programming guide are new. The new service puts a small receiver into hotel guest rooms rather than putting - as has been the case so far - a range of receivers into the hotel utility room with each tuned to a specific channel. That used to limit

The Germ-Zapper for Hotel Rooms

jennm — 2008-06-25T11:17:24-05:00

Here at HotelChatter, we are not only hotel geeks but germ freaks as well. And it's especially hard for us not to let our germ-phobia get the best of us at hotels.

We often have to resist the urge to immediately pull back the bed covers to inspect the sheets, check the minibar glasses for lipstick and peek behind the shower curtain for any unsightly stains, all for fear of what we might find.

What you don't know can't hurt you, right?

Of course, we could just pick up Germ Guardian's UV-C Light Wand--the ultimate germ-o-phobe's indulgence--and never have to worry about such things again.

Hotel Germs Crisis: It's Not Just the Bedspreads Anymore

Courtney — 2006-10-02T14:59:40-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hotel_colds.jpg">Cold season is around the corner and thanks to a new study done by Lysol and a team of doctors, we got more places to fear aside from airplanes and offices. Yup, hotels are harboring cold germs too.Obviously, this is bad news for hotel guests. Although we already knew that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/5/26/10387/0707/Title/Dirty_Laundry">bedspreads are probably contaminated</a> with semen and blood, now we learn that desk pen might get us sick. If a guest checks into a hotel with a cold, chances are their cold germs are going to linger around on everything they touch from pens to the remote controls to lamp switches. <blockquote>Hotel guests leave behind more than just socks and old paperbacks: A study found viruses on

Dirty Laundry

markj — 2005-05-26T10:43:06-05:00

<![CDATA[ Kick 'em when their up, kick 'em when their down. T&L's Andrea Bennett brings us a little good news bad news story on the current state of hotel bedding. The good news: Hotel bedding is getting washed more often The bad news: Not everywhere White duvets are replacing those hideous stain hiding busy floral pattern bedspreads at many hotels worldwide, however, going white doesn't necessarily mean you are getting a "pure" bedspread at check-in. Starwood says their duvet covers are "carefully inspected every day and changed if necessary." While Wyndham seems to have adopted a Jet Blue-esque policy,   "deep cleaning [only] once per quarter." If you don't want the question of your bedspread cleanliness to be a hotel