Do you use hotel room coffee makers?

[Anonymous]

No, but I don't drink coffee. I'm a water girl (and no, I don't use the hotel-provided water glasses).

[Anonymous]

I'm a microbiologist. The water is boiled or comes close to boiling point in those coffee makers. That kills off most bacteria and mold. If the concern is bleach or toxic agents in the rinsing process the hotel uses, rinse it out again and check that it's empty before pouring clean water in it. You can also rinse out the mugs.

[Anonymous]

Never actually had one work…

[Anonymous]

I first run a cup of water through the system first.

[Anonymous]

No, but it wouldn’t gross me out at all if it looked and smelled clean. I just assume the provided coffee is not very good and I never remember to bring my own or the milk and sugar I take with my coffee. I don’t find going down to the breakfast area to get a cup very burdensome.

[Anonymous]

Because obviously the people cleaning the coffee dispensers in the breakfast area are MUCH more conscientious than the people cleaning the coffee makers in the rooms.

[Anonymous]

I use them if they are keurig style and I don't get grossed out by them. I usually drink the decaf when I check in late at night. The hotel you get in the lobby coffee bar probably has the same germs as does the restaurant you get your lunch from, etc.

[Anonymous]

I do and don’t understand the problem. The water is boiled, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because obviously the people cleaning the coffee dispensers in the breakfast area are MUCH more conscientious than the people cleaning the coffee makers in the rooms.

Shhh... this is a safe place for all the insane germaphobes...

[Anonymous]

Those Nespresso machines tho...so good.

[Anonymous]

I do. Haven’t gotten sick yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, but it wouldn’t gross me out at all if it looked and smelled clean. I just assume the provided coffee is not very good and I never remember to bring my own or the milk and sugar I take with my coffee. I don’t find going down to the breakfast area to get a cup very burdensome.

+1. I’m not at all skeeved, just more of a quality snob.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are so precious. I sometimes imagine the DCUM plane crash landing on a deserted island, and the vast majority of you dying in the first 24 hours because you refuse to pee outdoors.

- Another frequent hotel guest who always makes coffee in the room and somehow has survived.

+1 I always use it and I sit on public toilet seats too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are so precious. I sometimes imagine the DCUM plane crash landing on a deserted island, and the vast majority of you dying in the first 24 hours because you refuse to pee outdoors.

- Another frequent hotel guest who always makes coffee in the room and somehow has survived.

Pee outdoors? They don’t even like to *go* outdoors because of the terrible “outside” smell. I think it’s a bit like the princess and the pea; only DCUM noses are rarefied enough to smell the dreaded “outside” smell.

[Anonymous]

Of course I use them. Because coffee.