I was a little afraid to open this thread, lol - I wasn't sure what exactly you were aiming at. I thought I might never sleep in a hotel bed again!

But seriously, I do the same as you. As a matter of fact, when I last stayed in Boston, there was a little card on the dresser in the hotel room stating that unless you specifically asked for the sheets to be changed, they would not do it. Their reason was to save water and energy used in laundering. They may have included towels in that too - like maybe changing towels every other day instead of every day.

They also noted that when the hotel was recently remodeled that low-flow toilets and water-saving shower heads were installed.

I was pleased to see the hotel taking these steps.

:)
Dee

I recently stayed in a large national chain, and they also proclaimed their green-ness. You just had to hang the towels if you wanted to reuse, or leave them on the floor if you wanted them changed. No matter what I did with the towels, they were changed. I hung them and even positioned the card over the rod, they were still changed. Requests to the front desk did no good.

I was not impressed with their "green" campaign.

I've had the same experience with hotels changing towels when I didn't want them to. On a recent one-night stay, I took a late afternoon bath, went out to dinner, and came back to find the towels changed!

I frankly don't believe that they don't change the sheets when you ask them not to - I think I'll try marking the sheets next time as an experiment.

I was doing some on-line towel shopping the other evening, and I came across this. Interesting!

Here is a link that might be useful: report on reusing towels

Great article, diggerdee. Thanks for posting it.

I always reuse the hotel towels if they are still good. But people, PLEASE toss the used ones on the floor before you check out. I have had the experience of checking into a room and findng dirty towels folded and hanging on the rods. One time a huge green booger on a folded hand towel, another time a big dried blob of white toothpaste on one, another time a bath towel smeared with make-up. The maids work fast when turning over a room and don't have time to inspect every towel on the towel bars closely, so this can happen. So before you leave the room pull your used towels and toss on the floor. It only takes three seconds to do this.

I was under the impression that almost all hotels have gone green. Every hotel that i have stayed in states that they do not change sheets unless you request it. Also, i put my used towels in the tub and not on the floors. The first green hotel that i stayed at requested that and i thought it was a courteous act for the maids.

Hmmm I have a different take on reusing towels. We live in the south with 70-90% humidity all year long. If we hang up our towels to dry, generally they don't dry and end up turning sour instead. So, we don't reuse them.

Sheets are a different story. They don't have to dry between uses.