Hotel stays: 10 things you should really know about hotels

By Michael Gebicki
Updated December 1 2016 - 6:30pm, first published 12:57pm
It costs around $30 to dry clean a doona. Photo: iStock
It costs around $30 to dry clean a doona. Photo: iStock

This is a topic made for nervous nellies. Stay away from the coffee maker in your room because who knows what's gone in apart from H2O. Truly? Bedspreads, blankets and doonas are rarely cleaned. Big reveal? It costs around $30 to dry clean a doona, want that added to your hotel bill? Hotel light switches and TV remotes are flagged as germ factories, worse than a toilet seat in a third-world slum the advice mongers will tell you, almost as bad as airline tray tables but really, are you advising that I swab every touchable surface with an antibacterial wipe? Germophobes – you can stay home in your bio-hazard suit, the rest of us have a life.

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