Do you wash blankets/quilts between guests?

[Anonymous]

If the outgoing guest uses any scented product that I can detect when I smell the bedding, I wash everything. Ditto if the incoming guest has known allergies. Otherwise I just wash sheets and pillowcases, sometimes pillows and mattress pad if I have time. Top-of-bed items not unless absolutely necessary for one of the reasons above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eww. Yes obviously

Hotels don't you know that right?

+1 I was shocked to find this out from my MIL who was a housekeeper at a fancy hotel. Personally, I wash everything after a guest visits.

[Anonymous]

News flash! Well unless you’re staying in a hotel with white duvet covers, they are not getting washed regularly…. Neither is the upholstered chair or throw pillows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Hahahahahahahahhaaa!

[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 am a PP who does clean everything between guests - and no, I don't expect the same at other people's houses. I think staying in hotels and in other people's houses, just like eating in restaurants, requires a lot of not thinking about things too much.

My days as someone’s houseguest are long over but the few times I stay at a family vacation home, I’ll put clean sheets on the bed myself or I’m told in advance the sheets are clean.

I have a teen houseguest visiting tomorrow for a few days and yes, he will have clean sheets and a clean bedroom.

[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)

Not true. Motel 6 maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the outgoing guest uses any scented product that I can detect when I smell the bedding, I wash everything. Ditto if the incoming guest has known allergies. Otherwise I just wash sheets and pillowcases, sometimes pillows and mattress pad if I have time. Top-of-bed items not unless absolutely necessary for one of the reasons above.

Damn. Pillows and mattress pads always get washed when sheets get washed. I have extras to switch out so I'm not waiting for items that take a long time to dry. This is all gross to me.

[Anonymous]

My guest room has two sets of blankets, quilts, mattress pads, etc. so I can do a quick change between guests. And also because my dog has a radar for an uncovered mattress so you have to remake the bed quickly.

If I tell a guest to just leave the blanket or quilt, it’s only because I don’t have room in the laundry room for anything but what’s in the washer. Everything does get washed after every guest and if it’s been a while between guests, I re-wash and re-make the bed. I hate a stale or dusty-smelling guest bed.

The richest woman I know who also fancied herself a fabulous host is the parent of one of my former friends. Their main vacation house was immaculate but she always put me and any unmarried friends up in a guest house with mouse droppings along the baseboards and linens that smelled of mothballs. I’ll never give my guests a night like that. I’m not friends with the daughter anymore.

[Anonymous]

100% YES!! How is this even a question??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

DP - my brother's family brings their pillows as a comfort thing and it grosses me out a little having their pillows on my beds. They are not very clean and they are super frugal so their pillows are probably very old. When we go to their house we bring all our own bedding and air mattresses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

DP - my brother's family brings their pillows as a comfort thing and it grosses me out a little having their pillows on my beds. They are not very clean and they are super frugal so their pillows are probably very old. When we go to their house we bring all our own bedding and air mattresses.

Assuming you wash the sheets after the visit..what is your concern?

[Anonymous]

The neuroses evident in this thread say so much about DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Ummm Yes.

[Anonymous]

I wash sheets, pillow cases, pillow protectors, and blankets every time. I wash mattress pads and bedspread depending on who and how long they stayed (also, who I am expecting next, if I know).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:News flash! Well unless you’re staying in a hotel with white duvet covers, they are not getting washed regularly…. Neither is the upholstered chair or throw pillows.

I'm not putting my unclothed body on the chair or throw pillows, nor is my face oil / drool on those. Beds get all of that, yes on blankets too.

I don't believe that no hotels wash covers (some dont, not all), and there is a trend toward duvets in hotels. At home I have duvets or light quilts that can launder and I expect the same on guest beds.