35 People Who Work in Hotels Are Sharing Little-Known Facts, Hacks, and Red Flags of the Industry

Hotels put those plastic liners in ice buckets for a reason. People get up to some pretty wild stuff in hotel rooms, and the hotel staff has seen it all. The ice bucket in your room could have been used for anything other than ice, and there’s no promise that it’s been thoroughly sanitized. 

In desperation, the ice bucket in your room may or may not have been used as a puke bucket. You read that right. The inside of any ice bucket might have traces of someone else’s puke germs. If this list is teaching us anything, it’s to never trust the cleanliness of any hotel surface, ever, not even in the fanciest hotels.