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Keeping Your Sheets Dirty to Save the Earth

Where: 350 Calle Principal [map], Monterey, CA, United States, 93940

A fight has broken out over hotels saving water by not changing the sheets unless a guest requests new sheets.

Felix Salmon responded to another blogger's gripe that if paying $200 plus a night at the Marriott in Monterey, Calif. then clean sheets should be automatic.

Instead the environmentally-conscious hotel asks that you place a card on the bed when you want new sheets, otherwise they will not be changed.

Felix says:

Obviously, if sheets are dirty, they should be cleaned. If a guest requests new sheets, he should get them. And new guests get new sheets, always. But I see no reason for a hotel guest to expect a level of wastefulness and environmental unfriendliness which would be outright shocking to most Europeans.

Essentially saying, suck it up dude.

The comments below Felix's quote are also chock-ful of people's water-saving opinions and experiences at hotels.

Image via Technicolorcavalry/Flickr

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