{"id":739,"date":"2017-07-09T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T06:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/09\/for-sheets-sake-multiple-hotels-do-not-change-bedsheets-for-new-guests\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T14:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T06:10:59","slug":"for-sheets-sake-multiple-hotels-do-not-change-bedsheets-for-new-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/for-sheets-sake-multiple-hotels-do-not-change-bedsheets-for-new-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"For Sheets&#8217; Sake! Multiple Hotels Do Not Change Bedsheets For New Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An inspection by a nongovernment appraisal agency found that many a time five-star hotels in Beijing, including Hilton and Intercontinental, fail to change the bedding and toiletries of used rooms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An inspection by a non government appraisal agency found that many a time five-star hotels in Beijing, including Hilton and Intercontinental, fail to change the bedding and toiletries of used rooms.<\/p>\n<h5> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1.gif\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fk3wekLpUvNIthPOkXVJ73qGEvNx?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"448.5\" width=\"598\" title=\"\"><\/h5>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/for-sheets-sake-multiple-hotels-do-not-change-bedsheets-for-new-guests\/#Photo_Fox\" title=\"Photo:Fox\">Photo:Fox<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/for-sheets-sake-multiple-hotels-do-not-change-bedsheets-for-new-guests\/#Photo_Ifengcom\" title=\"Photo:Ifeng.com\">Photo:Ifeng.com<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/for-sheets-sake-multiple-hotels-do-not-change-bedsheets-for-new-guests\/#Photo_Ifengcom-2\" title=\"Photo:Ifeng.com\">Photo:Ifeng.com<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/for-sheets-sake-multiple-hotels-do-not-change-bedsheets-for-new-guests\/#Photo_Inside_Edition\" title=\"Photo:Inside Edition\">Photo:Inside Edition<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/for-sheets-sake-multiple-hotels-do-not-change-bedsheets-for-new-guests\/#Photo_Ifengcom-3\" title=\"Photo:Ifeng.com\">Photo:Ifeng.com<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Fox\"><\/span>Photo:Fox<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>On Sept. 4, Lanmei Test, a self-proclaimed independent team, released video from its investigation of the Intercontinental, the Hilton, the Shangri-La, JW Marriott, and W Hotels. The investigation found unchanged bed linens at three of the hotels, and dirty toilets at all five.<\/p>\n<p>The team checked in to the same rooms at each of the five hotels on two consecutive days. On the first day, they used invisible stamps to mark the bed linen, toilets, bathtubs, and tumblers. They returned on the second day and found that the marks were still there. And&nbsp;these employees even found a used condom under a bed in JM Marriott.<\/p>\n<p>The video has drawn wide attention and gone viral on Chinese social media.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2.jpeg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fv0rGle_HTNkdc1aAGZS09jI-hgX?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"400\" width=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Ifengcom\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"33.jpeg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fl9L1qtU5nItsUPZEyjw-oXyLiet?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"400\" width=\"640\" title=\"\">Photo:Ifeng.com<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Staff at the Shangri-La Hotel and Hilton Hotel have responded, saying that an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Beijing government has launched its own probe of 691 different express hotels, discovering 46 that failed to meet hygiene standards. Thirty-five of them were fined&nbsp;&nbsp;69,000 yuan ($10,760) each because of poor hygiene conditions in their rooms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there are 200 guests in the hotel but the hotel only has 50 bed sheets changed, it is obviously unreasonable,&#8221; said Beijing Public Health Inspector Gao Xudong.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4.jpeg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fk221Rc8c5Z6R3mcT0sSt_qWaNFd?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"1038\" width=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Ifengcom-2\"><\/span>Photo:Ifeng.com<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Last year, American Inside Edition&#8217;s investigation found that some hotels did not change bed sheets between guests in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5.jpeg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FuF3_hGG1z4YLWJ48f-c8EJtgM04?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"340\" width=\"610\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Inside_Edition\"><\/span>Photo:Inside Edition<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Unchanged bed sheets, bed covers and pillow cases are no doubt a bummer to hotel guests. But even if they are ostensibly cleaned, there is still a risk that caustic soda\uff0dmostly used as a strong chemical base in the manufacture of pulp and paper, textiles, drinking water, soaps and detergents, and as a drain cleaner\uff0dhas been used by some budget hotels as a cheaper &#8220;detergent&#8221; to clean the used bedding.<\/p>\n<p>If luxury hotel rooms are not immune to compromised hygiene conditions, there would be fairly limited options left for travelers who want a clean bed and a tidy bathroom. Changing bedding is arguably the least every hotel should do to serve guests and stay in the business. Dirty bedding, on the other hand, could deal a major blow to customers&#8217; confidence in the overall management of hotels, five-star or not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6.jpeg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fo4KvD3TvuyYXrcvXRucfIVwLz3P?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"400\" width=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7.jpeg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FqNZQ3S-oQK7xzeINGg7eW7Ac5z4?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"357\" width=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Ifengcom-3\"><\/span>Photo:Ifeng.com<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Urging customers to keep a sharp eye on the hotel rooms they book is too much to ask. Without designed detective equipment, one is not likely to notice unchanged bedding and not properly cleaned toilet seats. The supervisory gray area merits extra vigilance by the health and family planning authorities at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>That established hotel operators have been accused of putting profit before proper service came as a shock to many, adding to the fact that even streamlined hotel managements have loopholes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/v.qq.com\/x\/page\/u05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please Click Here<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GIC QR.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"543.2937181663837\" width=\"500\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inspection by a nongovernment appraisal agency found that many a time five-star hotels in Beijing, including Hilton and Intercontinental, fail to change the bedding and toiletries of used rooms. &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}