Posted in Travel Tips November 13, 2017 by

Here’s The One Thing You Should Avoid Touching In Your Hotel Room

As local travel experts, we know what travelers are looking for when it comes to finding the perfect accommodations for their next trip. To compile our lists, we scour the internet to find properties with excellent ratings and reviews, desirable amenities, nearby attractions, and that something special that makes a destination worthy of traveling for.

Sometimes, traveling can be a bit less than glamourous. That’s especially true when you factor in the pains of traveling with the uncertainties of your accommodations. Fortunately, there are a few tricks of the trade that will help maintain a peace of mind when you’re away from home. And it involves unwanted germs. Here’s a travel tip for avoiding them in your own hotel room:

While hotel rooms are always a clean and welcome space to arrive to when you travel, there's only but so much time devoted to sanitizing each one.
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Housekeeping staff, with such a tight schedule, generally devotes energy to changing linens, cleaning the bathrooms and vacuuming.
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That leaves one highly-used item forgotten: the remote control.
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According to a study performed by the University of Houston, remote controls were among the most highly contaminated items in the room. While this is certainly not the case for every hotel room, you're safest bet is to change the channel manually next time you check into your room.

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