What are the first things you do when you arrive at your new hotel room or Airbnb? Jump on the bed to test its firmness? Unpack your clothes? Check for bedbugs? You may want to add a quick cleaning to ...

Cristina Velasquez has cleaned up almost every imaginable mess during her 21 years as a hotel housekeeper, but the scene awaiting her when she opened the door to a room at the Hilton Garden Inn in ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Imagine walking into your hotel room and licking your television remote control. It sounds pretty disgusting and most likely will end in a trip to the doctor, right? The ...

Hotel rooms can be dirtier than you think but you'd guess that items that are used often, like pillows, would also be cleaned regularly. But are they?

An Assembly committee took up a bill that would repeal COVID-19 era cleaning standards for hotels, with opponents arguing hotels would no longer clean rooms daily and hotel representatives countering ...

We’ve all been there – standing in our hotel room wondering how much (and how often) to tip housekeeping. For many travelers, the unspoken rules around tipping the housekeeping staff at U.S. hotels ...

As the Omicron variant spreads rapidly across vaccinated and unvaccinated America, and a shocking number of Americans are still dying, many are wondering what the coming months will bring, how will ...