A former hotel manager has revealed the disgusting reason why you should never use an ice bucket in your hotel room.
Posting to TikTok under the handle @melly_creations, where she has amassed over 76,000 followers, Melissa Hanks warned anyone booking a hotel room not to use an ice bucket under any circumstances.
She introduced the video by saying that she was giving the advice to viewers having previously worked as a hotel manager herself.
The vlogger was responding to a question from another user, which stated: ‘Now I’ve heard lots of stories about the things housekeepers find in ice buckets. Any stories?’
Melissa said: ‘Some of the things that I found in ice buckets were food, people using them as rubbish bins, they used it as an ashtray even though you are not allowed to smoke in hotel rooms’.
A former hotel manager has revealed the disgusting reason why you should never use an ice bucket in your hotel room
‘For some reason there was lingerie in one – and of course somebody using an ice bucket as a container to be sick in’.
‘When that happens, you should definitely throw away your ice bucket [to avoid the spread of germs]’.
Responding in the comments section, users wrote: ‘That’s why we should use the plastic bag to line the bucket’.
‘I found a sex toy in one once’.
‘It’s gotten weird though, those plastic bags smell so badly of plastic it causes a gag reflex.’
‘I found when travelling overseas ice machines seem to be a very North American hotel thing. Even a hot country like Australia has no ice machines.’
It follows further advice she had given to hotel guests, including a warning to check for bed bugs.
She explains: ‘Don’t put anything on the bed until you’ve checked it because if you do have anything, they can and they will get on your luggage and your clothes and then they get distributed back home with you which is not what you want.
‘Check the mattress, the pillows and behind the baseboard, especially if it has one of those fabric ones.
It follows further advice she had given to hotel guests, including a warning to check for bed bugs
‘If there’s a heavy infestation, once you pull back the comforter you’ll actually see them on the sheets especially if they’re a light color.’
Melissa reveals that the crevice around the piping on the mattress is where bedbugs ‘like to hang out, so pull this up and use your flashlight on your phone.’
She continues: ‘You can also flip the mattress up, check the other side. If there’s a box spring on the bed, also check that.’
If you are at a hotel and you do find bed bugs, Melissa advises asking to be relocated to ‘another room on the opposite end of the building’ and ‘just because there’s some in one room it does not mean that it’s going to be in all of them.’
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