Do you wash blankets/quilts between guests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mixture of responses here is so interesting, so let’s ask it another way — if you are staying at someone’s house, do you expect that the blankets/comforter/quilt have been cleaned since the last visitor?

I always assume not. Just like they don't wash the furniture after any guest had been seated there. Nor do they sanitize everything that previous guests have touched.

I assume there are clean towels and clean sheets and that's it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We wash all that comes in contact with skin. This usually does not include blankets.

How are you sure blankets are not coming into contact with skin? My husband often tangles himself in the top sheet and ends up with the blanket directly on top of him….

Not to mention…. bodily fluids can definitely penetrate multiple layers.

Eww. Remind me to bring my own blankets next time I stay anywhere.

[Anonymous]

I wash all bedding after a visitor. Yes, I would expect all bedding to be washed when I am a guest.

[Anonymous]

I use duvets for this purpose. I would wash blankets. I don’t use quilts because they can’t be washed easily. This is also why I stay in hotels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eww. Yes obviously

Hotels don't you know that right?

[Anonymous]

Always. What kind of person does not? One raised by dirty parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eww. Yes obviously

Hotels don't you know that right?

And that is why I never stay at them. We are fortunate to have a few staffed houses in our favourite cities around the world.

[Anonymous]

Out guest bed has cotton sheets, a cotton blanket, a quilted coverlet thing and a duvet with a down insert.

I always wash the sheets, blanket and duvet cover. The coverlet gets washed if I have time between guests, but if the turnover is quick it might not. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We wash all that comes in contact with skin. This usually does not include blankets.

How are you sure blankets are not coming into contact with skin? My husband often tangles himself in the top sheet and ends up with the blanket directly on top of him….

Not to mention…. bodily fluids can definitely penetrate multiple layers.

Eww. Remind me to bring my own blankets next time I stay anywhere.

After you have guests over, do you steam clean carpets or rugs? Steam clean upholstered furniture? Launder bed pillows? Disinfect light switches and stair railings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sheets, duvet cover yes.

Blankets no. I air out by draping over chairs.

No body oils came in contact with the blanket.


Hotels don’t wash actual bedspreads or blankets between guests (just sheets that sandwich a duvet)

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We wash all that comes in contact with skin. This usually does not include blankets.

How are you sure blankets are not coming into contact with skin? My husband often tangles himself in the top sheet and ends up with the blanket directly on top of him….

Not to mention…. bodily fluids can definitely penetrate multiple layers.

Eww. Remind me to bring my own blankets next time I stay anywhere.

After you have guests over, do you steam clean carpets or rugs? Steam clean upholstered furniture? Launder bed pillows? Disinfect light switches and stair railings?

I am not sleeping on your carpet or upholstered furniture and my guest pillows are in zipped protectors that get washed. The point is the bed is the place you’re spending most time when you’re staying somewhere. It should be clean

[Anonymous]

If you concerned about a wrist & foot touch a blanket ….i can only imagine how pillows would gross you out. All that drool, snot, hair & facial oils bypassing the pillow case & pillow protector.

Also - most of world doesn’t have mega machines like on US. Wool blankets not laundered between guests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you concerned about a wrist & foot touch a blanket ….i can only imagine how pillows would gross you out. All that drool, snot, hair & facial oils bypassing the pillow case & pillow protector.

Also - most of world doesn’t have mega machines like on US. Wool blankets not laundered between guests.

I bring my own pillows when I travel for the most part. I don’t sleep well on most other pillows let alone the grossness

[Anonymous]

Yes, absolutely. I even wash throw rugs - in case they walked barefoot or spilled something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The mixture of responses here is so interesting, so let’s ask it another way — if you are staying at someone’s house, do you expect that the blankets/comforter/quilt have been cleaned since the last visitor?

I always assume not. Just like they don't wash the furniture after any guest had been seated there. Nor do they sanitize everything that previous guests have touched.

I assume there are clean towels and clean sheets and that's it.

+1. Seriously, how do PPs who expect everything to be laundered exist in the outside world?