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A hotel worker has taken online to reveal the main things she would "never" use or touch in a hotel room, and viewers are grossed out.
The worker, known online as @queenevangeline25, gained over 700,000 views with her advice to hotel guests, warning them of the apparent uncleanliness seen in some hotels. The video can be seen here.
Evangeline, whose entire account is dedicated to her experiences in the hospitality industry, warned that she would never use the remote control without wiping it down first with her own Clorox wipe. "Your cleaning and my cleaning are different cleaning," she explained.
Next target of dirt was the glasses left for guests to drink from in the room. "I'm not talking about the styrofoam glasses or the paper cups, I'm talking about glasses that are sitting there for your use. I would never use them without washing them first," she said.
Evangeline's second warning is one backed up by science too. In 2009, ABC News investigated hotels and revealed that 75 percent of glasses had simply been wiped down with a towel or sponge and rinsed instead of properly sanitized.
It didn't end there either, as Evangeline ranked the bedspreads as another object to immediately avoid. "I would never sit on the bedspread. I would never make myself comfortable on the bedspread, sit on the bedspread, that thing comes off the first minute I walk into the hotel," she warned.
"Those things are not washed often," she said in the viral video.
In 2016, an Inside Edition investigation found that three out of nine hotels tested secretly did not change sheets. Similarly, a 2014 Today Show investigation found that many housekeepers placed the pillows on the chair next to the bed while they changed the sheets, before fluffing them up and reusing them on the bed.
Evangeline reasoned that most upper-scale hotels will use white bed sheets that are folded and generally washed. "But if it's not that, and it's an actual bedspread, those things get cleaned like maybe once a year, don't sit on those," she warned.
In a second video, hotel worker Evangeline also claimed that she would never go barefoot in a hotel room and would always wear flip flops inside of the shower.
Cleanliness aside, her other recommendations include adding all guests' names to the reservations, in case any find themselves locked out. Hotels will only hand out spare keys to guests with names on the reservation, she said.
Newsweek has contacted Evangeline for comment.
