Though cheap travel options such as cheap airplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, and cheap vacation packages make travel affordable for many, travelers need to be proactive when they arrive in their hotel rooms to ensure their health and safety.
Smarter Travel recommends taking the following steps immediately upon arriving in your hotel room:
Carefully check your mattress, sheets, mattress pad, bed frame, and headboard for bedbugs by looking for small brown stains. Bedbugs are difficult to see because they hide during the days and disappear quickly when disturbed. However, they leave behind brown bloodstains.
Sanitize your room. Rooms that look clean may not necessarily be sanitary. Hotel cleaners tend to scrub down bathrooms, but often do not wipe down common areas for germs, such as remote controls, light switches, and doorknobs. Wipe these items before you touch them with an antibacterial wipe to remain healthy.
Prior to relaxing in your hotel room check potential hiding spots to ensure that you are really alone: under the bed, in the closet, and in the shower.
Check to make certain that your rooms temperature controls work. You do not want to wait until the middle of the night to find out that your climate control does not work only to find that there is no maintenance staff on call and no vacant room you can move to.
Remove the comforter on your bed. Comforters do not tend to be washed when new guests arrive and sometimes are only changed as infrequently as four times per year.
Either unplug or reset the alarm clock in your room so that you are not woken up in the middle of the night and startled by an unexpected noise. Unfamiliar clocks are sometimes difficult to figure out. Usually it is preferable just to use your smartphone as an alarm clock.
Place the Do Not Disturb sign on the outside of your door to ensure that housekeeping or a turndown service does not enter your room unexpectedly. Remember to retrieve this sign whenever you leave your room and want it to be cleaned.
Study the hotels fire escape map so that you know how to get out of the hotel in case of emergency. Make certain you know the most convenient way out from your room.
www.cheapfares.com