h&D3
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2008
I've done this the past few times we have went. Lysol or Clorox wipes. The phone, TV remote, door handles, nightstand, counters. We've even started bringing plastic solo cups to use vs using the cups that they leave. (I witnessed housecleaning at a hotel (not a disney hotel) one time just putting the glasses in the sink and rinsing them out, or just wiping them with some disinfectant and putting them back on the trays with the little paper covers over the tops - EEEK!) So at least this way, I know what we are drinking out of.
I also check for bedbugs as soon as we arrive. Basically no family member is allowed to move into the room until I give it a once-over.
I also pack our clothes in zip lock bags for each day (its nice to just be able to grab a bag each day and know you have everything you need in one bag.) This way, no little buggies are going to hitch any rides on the clothes if there were any around.
Hand sanitizer bottles will be coming with each of us this time as well. I know I can't control what everyone touches, but I can use the sanitizer before I break into that Mickey Ice Cream on a sick!
Another rule is that our suitcases never get put on the beds at any hotel and once we get home, the suitcases stay in the garage and I unpack everything out there and it goes straight into the washing machine. Even if it wasn't worn. (We put the dirty clothes into black plastic trash bags and we select one or two suitcases for worn clothes.) Once our trip is over and emptied out, we put the suitcases in heavy, plastic bags and they stay in the garage. I figure over the Minnesota-bone-chilling winters, and our hot summers, no little creature can survive on them in those extremes.
~D
I also check for bedbugs as soon as we arrive. Basically no family member is allowed to move into the room until I give it a once-over.
I also pack our clothes in zip lock bags for each day (its nice to just be able to grab a bag each day and know you have everything you need in one bag.) This way, no little buggies are going to hitch any rides on the clothes if there were any around.
Hand sanitizer bottles will be coming with each of us this time as well. I know I can't control what everyone touches, but I can use the sanitizer before I break into that Mickey Ice Cream on a sick!
Another rule is that our suitcases never get put on the beds at any hotel and once we get home, the suitcases stay in the garage and I unpack everything out there and it goes straight into the washing machine. Even if it wasn't worn. (We put the dirty clothes into black plastic trash bags and we select one or two suitcases for worn clothes.) Once our trip is over and emptied out, we put the suitcases in heavy, plastic bags and they stay in the garage. I figure over the Minnesota-bone-chilling winters, and our hot summers, no little creature can survive on them in those extremes.
~D
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