Quote Originally Posted by mhartse View Post
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.