Flight attendant’s hotel hack to ensure your room is properly cleaned

A flight attendant, who spends much of their job staying in hotels, has revealed a gross hack on how to make sure your room is properly cleaned.

A flight attendant has revealed how to tell if your hotel room has really been cleaned - and it starts with the bed.

If they look creased, there is a good chance that your room may have been skipped over, The Sun reports.

The anonymous flight attendant, who has worked as a member of the cabin crew for 19 years, explained that if they don't have sharp creases it means they haven't been recently folded.

“Don't sleep on hotel sheets that don't have creases from being folded,” they told Business Insider.

“Someone slept on them already."

Checking your hotel sheets for creases can be a clue about cleanliness. Picture: iStock

A cleaner named Dan, employed by a motel in the Californian town of Mariposa, near Yosemite National Park, confirmed this fact.

Dan told The Sun he had not changed the sheets of some beds, depending on how busy his day was.

“I could have 20 beds to change in a day – it’s back-breaking work,” he said.

“So, if I see a bed that’s been used but it’s not been messed completely, I’ll just pull the sheets really tight and hope no one notices. It’s worked for me so far.”

Harrison Jacobs, a traveller who once spent 300 nights at hotels and Airbnbs in one year, also revealed another hack to The Sun to test how clean a hotel is.

By checking the inside of the hotel’s kettle, Mr Jacobs said it was easy to figure out how clean your room was.

“When I get to a new hotel room, I pop open the top to the appliance. If I see mould or rust, which happens often, I ask for a new room or shorten my stay to one night and move on to a different place,” he said.

“Because coffeemakers and electric kettles constantly have water or moisture in them, they can be a haven for bacteria, rust, and mould.

“As such a small item and a tedious one to clean, I've found that coffeemakers and electric kettles are frequently overlooked by less diligent hotels.”

There are a number of tricks to see how clean a hotel is. Picture: iStock

The Sun previously revealed some of the most disgusting places in hotel rooms.

The remote control is another hotspot for bacteria as it's handled by lots of people.

And if you want a hotel room to be really clean, you should ask for extra towels, and wash all the glasses and cutlery before you use it.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and has been republished here with permission.