Gross reason you should always put on the free slippers in your hotel

A FORMER hotel worker has revealed the chilling reason you should avoid going barefoot in your hotel room.

WE EXPECT hotel rooms to be spotless, but the truth is they often aren’t.

Hotel expert Jacob Tomsky exclusively revealed to Sun Online Travel that the carpets are the filthiest part of the room.

As a result, you’ll never want to walk around barefoot on them again — so it’s all about wearing the free slippers you’re given.

Tomsky is the author of Heads In Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles and So-Called Hospitality, and worked in the hotel business for ten years.

“The dirtiest part of a hotel room are the carpets,” he revealed.

“Yes, they are vacuumed but they will almost never get a shampoo and a deep clean as there are constantly people staying in the rooms.

Hotel room carpets are vacuumed, but rarely shampooed.

“Carpets need properly cleaning more than they ever are.

“There’s a high chance of there being fragments of smashed glass from where people have broken glasses too.”

Tomsky recommended you also avoid the decorative pillows that are often arranged on the beds.

“These are never cleaned and are mostly chucked on the floor by guests — they are dirty,” he said.

He added people behaved like “children” when they were staying at a hotel.

“You can imagine the sort of filth that people leave behind — blood, drugs and sex,” he said.

“People have disgusting habits and cleaning them up is all part and parcel of working in a hotel.”

It’s best to stop your feet from walking around on the carpet.

Tomsky previously revealed you should be polite to hotel staff, in case they take their frustration out on you in filthy fashion.

“If you upset room service then they could spit in your food — the same as in any restaurant,” he said,

“It’s not just about being polite to room service though. Hotels are a hierarchy.

“Staff definitely talk about guests — you’d be naive to think otherwise. It’s one of our few pleasures!

“News will spread very quickly through the hotel about horrible guests.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.