All Set for a Hotel Stay? Know Top Health and Safety Tips to follow

From deep cleaning and hospital-grade sanitisation to ensuring practice to enforce social distancing norms, though most of the hotels across the world are doing everything they can to keep you safe from COVID-19 / Coronavirus, your safety is in your hands and do not let any assumption compromise your safety. Along with taking all the precautionary measures and following all the safety protocols, you must also download the use the Indian Government’s widely used Aarogya Setu app which will help you monitor your safety status from COVID-19 or Coronavirus and keep a check on your health and safety.

As COVID-19 / Coronavirus spreads due to contact with a person or a thing that an infected person might have touched or used, and sanitiser being the best option to quickly eliminate the virus while on the move. So, in order to ensure your health and safety, it becomes extremely important to frequently sanitise your hands, if possible, sanitise everything you may touch which might have been previously touched by someone else and follow all the personal hygiene tips you know about.

You can also use sanitiser wipes on the door handles, drawers, knobs, remote controls, cutlery, table tops, switches and everything else which you may touch. Visit our Shop platform to buy this and other personal hygiene products.

According to hospitality experts and hotel representatives, you can visually identify and tell if your room’s been disinfected or not. Check all the surfaces - table tops, window shades, floors and bathroom vents. If you see dust or get a musty smell, it’s bad news. You must insist on a room change. A sanitised room will have zero dust - especially near the air conditioner, and on bathroom fittings. Dust is bad because it aggravates a respiratory disorder and that’s bad for your health and safety.

Again, buffet rooms involve multiple touchpoints. People (mostly hotel staff) touch your plates, they serve the food you eat and then you have to eat at a table, where you may be seated right next to someone already infected. Many hotels have already stopped buffets, because packaged meals ensure a very high degree of personal health and safety.

Elevators involve buttons and doors, which create multiple touchpoints. Touchpoints are objects that people touch or handle the most. Since the infection spreads via contact, touchpoints have to be avoided at all costs to ensure your health and safety. Additionally, staircases are good for health, which is over and above the fact that they’re great for personal hygiene.

In order to ensure that you do not inhale any COVID-19 or Coronavirus particles while breathing, you must always wear a mask everytime you step out or someone steps in. You must also make sure that the mask that you wear is an N-95 mask made of a three-layered material according to the guidelines by the health and safety department.

Many hotels offer themed activities like gourmet dinners, dances, wine tasting tours and so on. We suggest opting for something outdoorsy like nature walks or elephant treks. Not only do they allow for social distancing, but being close to Nature will recharge you.

It’s best to avoid the bar for now, and order room service instead. Ensure that your drinking paraphernalia ( bottles, glasses and the rest) is clean and sanitised before you begin. Some hotels also offer shrink-wrapped glasses and trays, they’re very good for personal health and safety. Now, here’s the most important thing, stay in your room after drinking. As that’s the best way to avoid contracting the COVID-19 / Coronavirus.

This is especially important if you’re travelling with seniors, who have a much higher risk of developing serious complications because of a Covid-19 infection. Carrying your own spoons and forks also ensures personal hygiene because you’re in control -- you can clean them as often as you like. Also, we suggest disposable styrofoam cups and plates -- since they’re single-use only, no need to sanitise them after every meal.

In these times, working in the hospitality industry is a tough ask. Along with tackling guest demands, hotel staff also has to ensure 100% safety of the hotel staff, the guests and the visitors. Many hotels have periodic temperature checks and regular sanitisation drives. It’s best that we allow them to do their job. They’re working hard keeping in mind everyone’s health and safety.

The world has changed. Hotel owners have had to pull out all stops to ensure they meet global health and hygiene standards. The biggest names in the business have tied up with top healthcare firms to develop technologies specific to the hospitality industry. And, thanks to the overall effort, things are looking up. Hotels are safer now, but only as long as you do your part. To know more visit Hotels Policies

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