Do you use hotel room coffee makers?

[Anonymous]

Yes, I use them

[Anonymous]

All the time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
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.

This is my approach. I run it once to clean it out and then run it a second time for hot water for tea. I'm more worried about cheap plastics leaching into the hot water than I am about bacteria or mold.

[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.

Exactly. These people must never consume drinks with ice from restaurant ice makers, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Same. I touch public handrails and crosswalk buttons and don’t wash my hands immediately when I get home.

[Anonymous]

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

Ditto!

[Anonymous]

No, but not because I'm a germaphobe. In the love language that DH and I speak, his bringing me Starbucks in bed is a message of deep passion and devotion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Exactly. These people must never consume drinks with ice from restaurant ice makers, either.

I actually don't

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course I use them. Because coffee.

+1
Because coffee without the need to get dressed or talk to other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+2 the quality of the free coffee in the lobby is better than the horror show that you can make in the room

I will say this last trip I got Trader Joe's concentrated coffee and it was really good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course I use them. Because coffee.

+1
Because coffee without the need to get dressed or talk to other people.

I hit the lobby coffee in sweats without having to talk to anyone

[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.

Can we be friends? I love you.

(I’m also with the biochemist about the boiling part. Might feel a bit more concern about salad bars and sneezing, but the coffee will at most taste bad or have solvent in it. Bacteria and viruses want no part of the boiling and the cups and pods are plastic wrapped. Come on.

[Anonymous]

Yup. Never occurred to me not to. Haven’t got cooties yet

[Anonymous]

Sure? Except sometimes they are broken. Never occurred to me to worry about it.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Because no pants is how i take my coffee. I will go to the lobby Starbucks after room coffee though.