2 Reasons I Prefer Hotel Rooms With 2 Beds

Just carry sanitary wipes for the remote, the phone, the light switches, etc. if you want to be reasonable without going off the deep end about cutting chances of picking up a bug. You still can't account for whether the housekeeper who made your bed has a cold and contaminated your pillow case or towels, eg. It's recommended to use the same on all the common places at your airplane seat: the seatbelt buckle, the air adjuster, the armrests and tray table. I'm embarrassed to do that unless it's just my husband and me, but they say that stuff is why you get sick on trips, as opposed to the air on the plane---the latter is a myth according to what I've read. Meanwhile, your cell phone is filthy and bears the remnants of everything you've touched all day, so if you wash your hands and then pick it up you might as well not have washed your hands. My brother, a doctor, says all of this can be made moot if you just avoid touching your eyes and your nose unless you've just washed your hands without touching anything else. That's at least how cold viruses enter. I've gotten way fewer could since I started heeding that advice. For rhinoviruses you can even share food utensils. They did an exhaustive study of this decades ago. Anyway, my fears are greater about bedbugs, though I still don't inspect mattresses. Even thought we've never gotten bedbugs, I'm curious about the Packtite but I'd probably be too lazy to use it. As for preferred bed types and personal habits, I seriously doubt any of you give a flying whatever about my preferences!

My other post got deleted. Really sorry if I stepped to far out of line.

Germ-wise, I'm more worried about the TV remote control (hint: I've installed hotel Spank-o-vision systems... I know what (and how much) you people watch..and pause...and rewind..............and I use my Samsung phone as a TV remote because of it!) and the water glasses provided by the hotel. Bed-wise, as a single traveler, I prefer a single bed. State-side, Residence Inn is my #1 choice. I like having a fridge, the ability to cook a full meal, a good desk, and separate working/sleeping areas. Free breakfast and free reliable internet to boot. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate a full-service hotel and all that goes with it. BUT when I'm traveling for work, I want something which feels like home.

Gotta say...you cant be that big a germaphobe if you willingly live in hotels, spend most of your life in planes, surrounded by hundreds of people, in seats that have been sat on, coughed on, breathed on, by countless people that day. All before arriving in a bed that no matter if the sheets are clean or not, has been slept on by hundreds (or thousands) of people, doing all manner of things.

At "69" comments and counting, I sort of feel guilty for wrecking the number...ha ha ha - I will let the cat out of the bag - Reserving a double increases your chances of upgrade. The hotel would be more apt to give you one level higher, if it means that they could sell a room which could accomodate 4 people, instead of just one. This doesn't always work. But it does work maybe 30% of the time (my experience). So I play the odds. The other reason that I do it - is because if one bed sucks, then the other is usually OK.