Originally Posted by
spinnaker
That is why all hotels/ motels / B&Bs etc should have tile or wood floors. I just don't understand why American hotels insist on using carpet. You simply can't keep it clean and sanitary. In the better places at least they try, can't imagine what must be in the carpet of some of the places where I stay.
+1
That was one of my two main complaints about the American hotels we stayed in. It just seems to me it would be so much easier to go with hard surface flooring ... and it would smell so much better.
My second complaint was the bedding. The places where we've stayed in Europe, here in Australia, and certain parts of Asia used white (or light-coloured) doonas (duvets). They were always fresh and clean. Compared with the American insistence on using horrible "woolly" blankets that collect hair and smells, and horrible, uncomfortable patterned bedspreads that also collect hair and smells.