big test...could use some support!

[kitbuddy]

I am traveling for a statewide conference today. What I didn't realize is that we are literally staying at a hotel in the middle of a kiddie water park! There are kids running around everywhere! I'm not the best around kids (in addition to being emet and germaphobic, I'm just not that patient around kiddos!) so my nerves are being tested here! PLUS they gave me the wrong room key so I walked into a room with someone else's stuff lying everywhere.

When I finally got to my correct room, I lysoled the desk, nightstand, doors and sink. I washed my hands REALLY well and I'm trying to relax now.

Can anyone share any positive stories- maybe a trip you took to a very "family friendly" area and were okay? I feel like it's inevitable that I'll catch SOMETHING. Hopefully the chlorine in the swimming pools kills everything.

[mhartse]

I went to a HUGE conference with my mother in law out of state. I went to support her and we had to spend a night in a hotel. I went online and read reviews... and they weren't that good, and I was very nervous to stay there. I ended up getting lysol spray and and a good hand soap and i sprayed the bed and pillows before i got in, I brought my own pillow. This place was a lot, like 1,000+ people. And being there for hours, everyone uses the bathroom, probably multiple times like I had to. Automatic flushing toilets and lots of them - I hate it, then at least the kinds of sink you lift the handle but at least it wasn't you had to touch over and over just to wash your hands. I also ate food in there with my hands. I THANKFULLY got away with out catching anything. And I even saw some questionable things. Just need to use your good hygiene habits and you will be okay!

[kitbuddy]

Thanks! I had another test- a big dinner event at the venue. I just ate really lightly from a veggie tray that no one had touched yet. And I ate with a fork, not my hands. Hopefully I'm okay.

[mdgirl1977]

you should be fine if you just wipe stuff and wash hands. kids get things that they are more susceptable to and usually are things that adults are less likely to get, like rotavirus. plus kids v for all sorts of things, so even if you see one or hear something, it may be a myriad of other things. its one night. you will be a-ok.

[anna81]

You will be fine, when we went on holiday my kids were touching stuff that I wouldn't normally like them to, I forced myself to refrain from anti bacing them every 2 mins and they were fine! There had even been someone v in the pool which wasn't cleaned (eew) they went in that (the other end and my husband took them without me knowing) and were fine. (It could only happen to me that someone had v'ed then the manky hotel didn't clean it, argh)!!

[AoD]

My brother went to Disney World for a week last summer, it's THE place that is swarmed by grimy and germy kids. He was fine. Didn't even catch a cold. And he's the type of person who drops a fork on the floor of the hospital and picks it up and eats with it anyway, so he wasn't particularly careful.

[AoD]

I went to a HUGE conference with my mother in law out of state. I went to support her and we had to spend a night in a hotel. I went online and read reviews... and they weren't that good, and I was very nervous to stay there. I ended up getting lysol spray and and a good hand soap and i sprayed the bed and pillows before i got in, I brought my own pillow. This place was a lot, like 1,000+ people. And being there for hours, everyone uses the bathroom, probably multiple times like I had to. Automatic flushing toilets and lots of them - I hate it, then at least the kinds of sink you lift the handle but at least it wasn't you had to touch over and over just to wash your hands. I also ate food in there with my hands. I THANKFULLY got away with out catching anything. And I even saw some questionable things. Just need to use your good hygiene habits and you will be okay!

Just to reassure you, hotel linen for bedsheets and pillow covers is pretty safe, so are the towels. The only thing that isn't cleaned with bleach or an equivalent sanitizer in the laundering process is the bed spread (they don't really wash that often...). So if you take off the big bed spread, the rest that is changed after every checkout is safe.