I only use hotel room glasses to drink fine untaxed VA Corn liquor full strength. Straight no ice, no nothing. After a couple of tall slugs anything that sruvivies in these glasses isnt going to killed by anything known to man. And after a couple tall slugs I dont care! After a a couple tall slugs even Hillary Clinton's legs look good to me.

When Hillary is looking good to you it is definitely time to stop drinking!

My father in law used to say you've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die, meaning, I guess, don't worry about how clean the glasses were. You'll survive. I liked Dennis Miller's line about Hillary Clinton: She's been cheated on more often than a blind woman playing Scrabble with Gypsies.

The last phrase in Tom's post may not be PC, but it sure is funny.

Why not just run some hot water in the sink and use the little soap to wash out each glass yourself? I sterilize the ice bucket first, before I fill it with ice from the dispenser (which also fails the bacteria meters for cleanliness). I usually ask the maid for extra plastic bags to line the ice bucket. I use individual Purell wipers on the TV remote and doorknobs and faucets when I first enter any hotel room as well. I've seen earlier shows where they tested all the doorknobs, remotes, toilet handles, lamp switches..and they all had sperm on them..as well as bad bacteria. People treat hotel rooms as if they were in a pigsty.

Business trips (three weeks out of each month) or pleasure...I never trusted the cleanliness of hotels long before these reports were made public. I stayed mostly at Marriott properies and even on the Concierge level...I washed all of the cups and glasses with soap and water,rinsed, filled with clean water and placed in the microwave until water boiled. Same washing of the coffee maker but then filled with clear water and turned it on...I would let it go through the cycle at least twice before I used it. I always carry a disinfectant with me and clean the phone,remote,microwave, light switches, clock, tables, and air conditioner. I do all of this upon arrival...and clean the glasses, cups and coffee maker each evening when I return to my room for fear she wiped everything with a towel she wiped down the bathroom. I cover the chair that I use with clean towels...the housekeeper usually lets them stay on my chair until I check out. I never use the hotel pillows. I observed the housekeeper changing the bed linens...she placed the pillows with clean pillow covers on the floor while she worked with the sheets. I put my pillow in the closet on the top shelf each morning before I leave for the day. I don't want her putting my pillow on the floor. The hotels should be paying me for cleaning up after their staff...it's a shame to have to pay those rates and not feel comfortable in a room without cleaning it first!

I travel for business 2-3 weeks a month and in addition to following the cleaning that Joeyanne describes, I carry my own travel coffee cup so I don't have to use the hotel provided glasses for anything but after I brush my teeth. The extra sheets that are usually in the closet go on the chairs or sofa. In addition, I don't allow the maids into my room for the duration of my stay. I tell the desk when I check in that I don't want any maid service and also post the privacy card on my door. I don't want maid service for three reasons: 1) they possibly dirty what I've just cleaned; 2) things like paperback books have gone missing; and 3) once I returned to my room early only to find the maids cart in front of my door which was wide open and the maid was no where to be found.

My husband travels for business a lot and he was told by a hotel employee not to use the in room coffee pots. Housekeeping has seen them being used to wash out undies and pantyhose. What's next?

I stayed at The Kahala Resort in Oahu in March. The first evening there, I put a 'dot' of light pink nail polish on the bottom of a glass in the bathroom. I made sure that the glass was in a different position each day and contained some kind of liquid.The same glass remained in the room for the entire 4 day stay. On check out when I brought this to the attention of the person at the front desk,she called housekeeping and was told "We use a liquid sanitizer on the glasses". I was mortified and wanted to know what 'liquid sanitizer' had been used. Needless to say I was not given an answer.
I was under the impression that all multi use glasses should be sanitized with either being run through a dishwasher or scrubbed in a three compartment sink. Neither of these were in the room !! I would like to know if the same regulations apply to 5 star Hotels in Hawaii as on the mainland or are they exempt because of their name ?