Washing duvet covers between every guest?

[cabinhost]

@JamJerrupSunset

My guilty secret: if people book late and are getting a discount for late booking then I don’t bother changing the sheets and pillowcases either.

Oh boy do I hope you are just being sarcastic and kidding

[Kerensa_Baker]

British people always iron our sheets! I am horrified when I stay somewhere and they have rumpled, creased sheets. Especially if they smell strongly of some kind of spray. They just don’t look clean to me

[jaquo]

@JamJerrupSunset

I wouldn’t be asking an English person for tips on personal hygiene, if you know what I mean.

No, I don’t. Would you kindly explain?

[Kerensa_Baker]

@JamJerrupSunset

I picked up using duvets in the UK where I used a top sheet. I wouldn’t be asking an English person for tips on personal hygiene, if you know what I mean.

So, you don’t wash your linen after guests leave but you are making disparaging remarks about British hygiene… OK then. Also that is so disgusting I can’t even.

[jaquo]

@cabinhost

Oh boy do I hope you are just being sarcastic and kidding

Whether jesting or not, he/she ought to realise that this is a public forum and can be read by anyone. Journalists for example. Now wouldn’t that make a great story?

[konacoconutz]

@jaquo

I live in South Florida with no AC and have always used a duvet year round

I’m in Hawaii with no ac and also use a duvet year round. And always down.

[Barthelemy]

Down is simply the best

[Magwitch]

Yeah, I’d like to see an explanation too. Although I can’t imagine that it would be satisfactory. I have a robust sense of humour but that comment isn’t funny, just rude.

[KKC]

Hmm, he’s Australian. It must be a joke

[Magwitch]

LOL! That’s the best dig at the Australian sense of humour ever! At least I’m taking it that way

[Magwitch]

Maybe there should be a designated thread where we can all rip the piss out of each other’s national characteristics and the rule is no offense is allowed to be taken!

[Jepjep]

@J_Wang

show up with the most gawdawful cologne that takes days to finally fade away.

Just had a guest who had the worst cologne ever. I’m having a migraine, because this awful smell doesn’t fade. I’ve washed all the linens, but the smell is still everywhere. I need some fresh air!

[J_Wang]

@Jepjep

but the smell is still everywhere.

You made me laugh because I am the same way with the cologne and lotion. Sometimes it hangs in the air for days, and it’s the creepiest smell since it’s been formulated in a laboratory to survive. What I do is take my vinegar solution and spray and wipe all the door knobs, chair arms and wherever else you’d imagine them to touch.

Presently I’ve got a very young guy here for a week. Personal trainer. He knows my preference for no scents in the house, but he still uses the most potent smelling “moisturizer” with a list of ingredients that you can’t understand. Thankfully he puts it on just before he’s showered and goes out the door.

[Jepjep]

@J_Wang

and it’s the creepiest smell since it’s been formulated in a laboratory to survive

Now I’m laughing (the word creepiest just describes it so well) and I’m most definitely taking this vinegar tip to use! Thank you for that. I’ve got to find my spray bottle at once:)!

[konacoconutz]

As a substitute teacher who often takes high school classes, I am often awash in the smell of Axe. All the teen boys think it gets girls interested. Or they are just using too much of it. It’s invading the middle schools too!

[Cazz]

I have an eight bedroom B&B and I wash the fitted sheet, pillowcases and duvet cover after every guest. We tried using a top sheet but most guests remove them. I would hate to sleep in unwashed bedding and I wouldn’t make my guests do so. Anything else is, frankly, unacceptable. These are paying guests, not friends or family, but I wouldn’t expect friends or family to sleep in dirty bedlinen either.

[Chris]

@Stephanie_Borns

A duvet is a comforter

And that is the problem of the whole discussion.

A duvet is NOT a comforter.
Good chance that most Americans never seen a real duvet.

[Malagachica]

OK, I’m going to set out the rules here:

If you are in the UK, other EU countries, Switzerland, Australia, South Africa etc (aka Notopsheet Nations) then you MUST wash the duvet cover after every guest. Even if you are very lazy and they were only there for one night (OK I confess to having done it. Once)

If you are in the US or any other Topsheet Nation then you are not obligated to wash the duvet/comforter/eiderdown/doony/whatever after every guest AS LONG AS the guest has not removed said top sheet. If the guest has done this, you are temporarily designated a Notopsheet Nation and must abide by the relevant rule.

Faheem, I don’t know where that leaves India …

[anon67190644]

Or the variation that I have been seeing here in my TopSheet location. The top sheet is never pulled down so it is obvious that they didn’t put their bodies between the bottom and top sheet, in which case the duvet cover and the bottom sheet gets washed.

It is already hard enough to get a response to “what do you want in your room for breakfast,” “how will you be arriving, by plane or car,” and “what time will you be arriving” that I hate to even consider asking “do you sleep with a top sheet.” Heck, based on this thread, some travelers wouldn’t even know what a top sheet was!

[SuiteRetreat]

Great summary!

THIS is why I use a quilt that fits into the washing machine It’s a no brainer and easy as sin. I can’t imagine having to wash and re-stuff a duvet cover after every guest. It’s like trying to wrestle an octopus! I’d have to check myself into a clinic for anger management.