Hotels Aren't Living Up To Their Coronavirus Promises

[pstokely]

https://onemileatatime.com/hotels-coronavirus/

"Over the past few weeks we’ve seen hotels reveal all kinds of enhanced cleaning protocols for keeping guests safe. But they’re very much failing at the basics. Over the past three nights I’ve stayed at the:

SpringHill Suites in Springdale, Utah
Hyatt Place in Page, Arizona
Hoodoo Hilton Curio Collection in Moab, Utah
All three brands require employees to wear masks. Yet somehow at all three properties I saw employees not wearing masks. How are we supposed to trust that any other aspect of the enhanced cleaning protocols are being followed through on when employees can’t even wear masks?"

[secondwind]

1. I stayed at the Hyatt Place in Miami for 10 days. Until was able to continue my journey

to the Caribbean. I have been here just 3-4 days.

This hotel did not enforce the wearing of masks. I was constantly being ambushed by folks wanting to get into the elevator without wearing a mask. “I’m just going down to breakfast”. “We’re going to the pool”, etc. It was awful. I never saw anyone wiping down the elevator buttons etc. I used my knuckles to get about.

I stayed in my room most of the time, except to walk my dog.

[Sherman A1]

2. Hardly a surprise

The employees at the local Home Depot and Target are often without masks. The policies are simply window dressing.

[jmg257]

3. Probably why it's a good idea not to travel around the

Country in the middle of a pandemic.

Planes driving hotels restaurants.



Stay. Home. Stop the spread.

Half the country posting spikes and these idiots are driving around - pointing out OTHER people don't follow guidelines??

Selfishly ridiculous.

[agingdem]

5. I flew from Atlanta to El Paso yesterday on Delta

everyone wearing masks...we were handed hand sanitizers when we entered the plane...bathroom was cleaned down...I felt safer on the Delta flight than I did in the Atlanta airport

[jmg257]

6. Glad to hear! The Orlando airport is supposedly a mess, with a lot of positive cases.

I sat on my porch and drank coffee etc., read and watched the birds and critters. No masks in sight!

[JCMach1]

10. Will not fly again... Doing a check on my elderly parents

I don't buy the planes are safe koolaid.

1hr line for my reserved car with only about 1/3 of people wearing masks. Employees with no masks. Uggghh...

Don't even get me started

[BusyBeingBest]

12. Easier said than done--my kid is

starting a new job today in a new city and has to stay in a hotel for a couple weeks until the apartment he's going to rent is vacant.

[jmg257]

13. Work is understandable. Gotta do what u need to.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. You cant companies dont mean what they say . It's all facade . They wont do it cause it's them money

And for them it's profits over people ...

[Amishman]

9. In this case its more a matter of low wage employees being unmotivated

From what is described, corporate put the needed policies in place but they are not being followed by the customer facing employees.

The people not wearing masks are probably overworked and underpaid, and just can't bring themselves to care about something that makes there already unpleasant job more difficult and uncomfortable.

[Tipperary]

7. Whoever wrote this article has sure been traveling a lot.

He is violating CDC recommendations himself.

[samnsara]

8. The Pineapple Hotels in Seattle are doing a great job...

...I had to stay in one during hubbys surgery and i think I was the only guest. I had a suite, cooked my food in the room since all their food services were closed..only ventured downstairs to get my promised daily cookie. I put the garbage out the door and let them know when I needed it picked up. On day 3 a masked house keeper knocked and left me new towels. Other than the fact that I was stuck inside a hotel room for 4 days I felt very safe.

I left a 50$ tip...they did a great job.

[tinrobot]

11. It's more the local culture than the corporation

Here in California, the state mandates masks, but the police don't enforce. In conservative areas, there are few people wearing masks. Is that governor's fault? That's up for debate.

Same thing for corporations - they may require masks, but the local manager may not enforce it. If corporate doesn't know, then how can they remedy it?

You might want to let people know - complain to corporate, leave bad reviews for the hotel on Tripadvisor/Expedia/etc. Hotel chains do monitor these feeds. So do customers.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. In Kentucky, we have to be the COVID-19 police.

We have mandatory safety requirements for all businesses but there's no means for state officials to monitor compliance. In other words, Kentucky has no existing monitoring mechanisms in place to handle pandemics and our Republican legislature would never budget for that system. Heaven forbid we ever raise taxes.

So, when our citizens see a non-compliant business, we have to go on-line and report it and hopefully the state Department of Health will investigate. Theoretically, they can close down non-compliant businesses.

I would guess many other states have similar orders in place.

It's like the Wild West of disease control....... ........

[lark]

15. Yep, you nailed my concerns about traveling.

How can we trust any place to actually do the things they say? Restaurants are supposed to be at no more than 50% capacity, but they are filling up every seat they can, regardless. I've seen this at 2 restaurants that bragged about their safety precautions when I called in advance.

If I can't trust them to follow safety procedures when it's totally obvious, how can I trust hotels or Air2BNB's when I don't know them and have no way of verifying for myself that they actually do the deep cleaning before I get there and do they use masks all the time or just for the pictures? At home, I can just not go in or walk out, but that's harder when you are out of town, tired and this place has your reservation and it's too late for anyplace else.

Air travel, don't even get me started. Saw some puff pieces about how traveling on a plane isn't unsafe, but it never mentions the reality of crowded airports, restaurants & lines to board a plane and get off a plane, going through Immigration control, etc.