Dani-Mani
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Post by Dani-Mani on Mar 10, 2015 10:26:56 GMT
Other than when I recently learned to swim, I don't swim either. Maybe that is a key difference. We always had a pool in the backyard growing up. I was swimming without flotation devices at 18 months and following my big sister into the deep end at 2 yo. I would guess growing up in Southern CA, I probably swam at least 100 days per year. I would guess that lifelong swimmers are, on the average, less worried about germs and filth in water. Maybe but I don't avoid swimming because of the germ factor. I just don't like it. I avoid baths solely due to the germ factor  |
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purplebee
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Post by purplebee on Mar 10, 2015 12:33:23 GMT
No, not a fan of public pools or spas, but did occasionally use a public pool when ds was little and wanted to swim.
Have zero qualms about taking a bath in my own large clean tub. I use soap and shampoo and rinse off when I get out. I also reuse my bath towel! Been doing this for a looooooong time now without any horrible infections as a result. I love my baths, especially in the winter, and have never felt anything but clean upon exiting from the tub....but to each his/her own. Do your own thing, baby!
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MerryMom
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Post by MerryMom on Mar 10, 2015 14:10:42 GMT
I wouldn't as people use the in room hot tub to "get busy" so no thanks Would you not use the bed either? Umm, because I am not sitting my body in a wet, warm swirling mass of their body fluids. Moisture + warmth = bacteria growth. |
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Post by momstime on Mar 10, 2015 15:59:47 GMT
As a pool owner, if you can smell the chlorine, your chlorine isn't working...time to shock. So there's that, for anyone who might have thought otherwise.
As for as inside the room....well, if you stay in a room where everyone, or most everyone, uses the jetted tub you will likely be fine. The jets will be clear of build-up, etc. If you stay in a room where 30 peas stayed ahead of you who didn't use the jetted tub, well...you are likely to get some bacterial goo (sorry to get all scientific on you) coming out of the jets.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Mar 10, 2015 17:41:22 GMT
"I don't use tubs at all. The idea of taking a bath anywhere gives me the heebie-jeebies. I can't fathom why sitting in your own filth is a good thing. Ick. Plus, I find sitting in a bath or hot tub to be really, really boring."
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Yes, we have this discussion EVERY time someone brings up whirlpool tubs in homes, etc. How much FILTH do you guys have on you? You do know there is a full tub of WATER, and it's not like sticking to you? IDK. I just think my life is way easier not overthinking every germ or virus I come in contact with. I find the more you are exposed to things, the less OCD you are about it.
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Post by padresfan619 on Mar 10, 2015 17:43:14 GMT
My husband and I booked a hotel room in Vegas for later this year with the intention of it having a jetted tub. We are throw caution to the wind types of people.
We suffered a horrendous stomach bug after being on a flight with a sick person. It really sucked at the time but I'm not going to let that experience stop me from ever getting on a plane again. I just carry sanitizing wipes in my carry on now.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Mar 10, 2015 17:53:51 GMT
I've used the in-room hot tubs.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Mar 10, 2015 17:55:10 GMT
Yeah, not a fan of swimming, either. I will do it to cool off or because it seems only fair to take my kids to the beach periodically, but it grosses me out. As for the "stewing in your own filth," I read that somewhere else years ago and it struck me as apt. Yes, the clothes you sit in and the sheets you sleep in also contain your "filth," but they don't invade every pore and crevice or cause said filth to travel all over and coat your entire body like water does. After a bath I feel like I need a shower. It's the opposite of relaxing for me. But I know I'm the weird one and that's OK - to each her own! (I hand flush - and wash - and would happily eat most of the things posted on "would you eat this" threads, if it makes me seem any less finicky. LOL) I completely agree with this. I don't like baths, it's not 'nice' or relaxing. It's wet (ha!), starts out hot then quickly gets cold, and just not for me. So no, I'd never use the tub or hottub at a hotel. A) I don't enjoy it and B) the ick of other people in there. ETA: I don't find swimming in pools or a body of water gross. I enjoy it about twice a summer. Our neighbors have a lovely pool that my family likes to hang out in but it's just not for me. I don't enjoy it at all. |
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Post by farmdpea on Mar 28, 2015 3:04:00 GMT
Absolutely not. I remember a Dateline or 20/20 episode years ago that explained that it was impossible to get the jets clean. News Article |
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Rainbow
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Post by Rainbow on Mar 28, 2015 3:06:31 GMT
I have this vague memory of some mold/fungi horror story...  |
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Post by gryroagain on Mar 28, 2015 3:15:12 GMT
We have 1 whirlpool tub room at the hotel I work at, and it used regularly and cleaned, but they don't run bleach through the jets. My MIL has a tub with jets that we can never use because she doesn't clean it, lol, so I know you are supposed to bleach the jets and they don't at my hotel. Probably no time, it's the lone suite ajd a very popular room. But, ewe. No thanks.
I am satisfied everything else is cleaned well, but since I know about jetted tubs because of MILs tub, I'd give a big NO to a hotel tub.
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StephDRebel
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Post by StephDRebel on Mar 28, 2015 5:30:10 GMT
A couple of years ago we were on a girls trip in Vegas and the room at Caesars had the BEST bathtub ever. My friend decided to leave the party we were at early to go upstairs and use the jetted tub. She filled it up, stepped in, laid back and closed her eyes after turning on the bubbles. She opened them a few minutes and the tub was FULL of orangey brown bubbles. She jumped out and ran to the shower imagining the funk that must've been stored in the pipes. I snuck in later and crawled into bed. I woke up first and when I walked into the bathroom it looked like there was vomit and bubbles in the tub still. I was HORRIFIED thinking she somehow got super drunk or sick and vomited in the bubble bath. I went to wake her up to see what the heck had happened in the room and make sure she was ok while gagging the whole time. She woke up and told me it was something crazy in the pipes and that she couldn't bring herself to go back in there to see what she had really bathed in. We were clueless, until she stood up and was WHITE from the neck down...turns out the bubbles bubbled her spray tan right off  We never spray tanned again! |
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Post by miominmio on Mar 28, 2015 7:50:56 GMT
I'm about as far from a germaphobe it is possible to be, but there is no way I'm using a hot tub anywhere.
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Post by miominmio on Mar 28, 2015 7:52:49 GMT
I did try taking a bath and reading one time. It was awkward and uncomfortable. Not a fan. Plus--sitting in my own filth. Ick. If you shower (or take baths) relatively regularly, you won't be "filthy". |
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Post by peasful1 on Mar 29, 2015 3:07:47 GMT
No to public access hot tubs and no to hotel room tubs in general.
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