Hot Sheets!

Linen reuse programs in hotels: are they helping the earth or just passing the burden onto the guests? Those little cards appeal to a sense of environmental guilt and ask guests to conserve by keeping hotels and sheets a second or third day, but Jill Hunter Pellettieri suggests that hotels view these programs in terms of reduced energy and water costs alone. The nerve! It’s not surprising the businesses would act business-y, but it galls nonetheless.

I expect fresh sheets every day, especially at a higher-end stay. (At some pensions, you might not get them even if you want them). A bed with fresh sheets every day is a luxury, and, well, that’s something that’s nice to have at a luxury hotel.

As for the hotels getting greener, weatherproofing the windows or using recycled materials is a lot better for the environment than a tsk-tsk note asking to leave the sheets for days on end. Go down that road, and a Ryanair-operated chain of hotels where you have to bring your own sheets could be close behind.

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