Do you clean your cabin upon arrival ?

Never had to clean my room but my wife is hotel cleaner and sees more than i do she see dirt i dont

Steph - I've read your post 3 times and understood it 3 different ways.

The question I had answered is what do "I" do, not what do I preach for others to do.

As far as the cabin, or hotel room, or hospital, do what you are comfortable doing.

As far as living in a sterile bubble, I will stand by what I said earlier.

Has nothing to do with being on a cruise or new to cruising.

Maybe I’ll take everyone’s advice and stop wiping things down at work, too. I mean, “housekeeping cleans everything”, anyway.

(I’m a nurse)

We always Clorox wipe the room down when we get to the room. Other than that we never pass up the anti bacterial gel. Beside that we have never had any issues. Knock on wood

As a Flight Attendant that travels around the world, I come into contact with a LOT of dirty rooms, remotes, bathrooms, planes, trains, cars, etc.

When a few of the 'behind the scene' shows about hotel cleanliness aired on tv, I too started carrying handy wipes or plastic baggies for remotes to clean, wrap, or wash. Oddly enough, I found I became sicker when I did this as my immune system was able to fight off the ugly germs.

Once I stopped being so OCD, my tolerance level went back to where it originally was, and I feel that I have built up quite a lot. Even when picking up garbage on International Long-haul flights, I won't put gloves on as 1) I think it looks hideous, and 2) it helps build up my tolerance level from any germs or viruses that are out there.

Does it work? I truly don't know, but what I can say is I rarely get sick. When I do, it's because the weather drastically changed and my body is like, WTF just happened! LOL

I had a Doctor on board on time who yelled at me for not wearing gloves while picking up garbage, however, once I told him how often I get sick, he quieted down and struck up a conversation regarding my thought process about my own personal feelings about building up my own germ tolerance.

I will say though, I don't condone people who do go the extra mile of watching out and doing some extra cleaning for their own personal health.

And home school

thats why we had nursery school. To build our immune systems and get us used to being separated from our mothers for short periods of time. Kindergarten too.

That is also what decimated the Native American population prior to the pilgrims arriving -- the European explorers introduced their European bugs.

I do remember seeing an article somewhere that stated that people need to be exposed to the bugs in order to build an immunity. Due to growing up in a different time, I have been exposed to a lot of bugs and have survived with a stronger immunity. People from the last couple of generations have stayed inside their bubble since birth. It may be true that they have never been sick, but they are the ones that will be seriously hurting from a simple virus should they get exposed.

Nope, if the cabin is so dirty I notice, then that is going to be our last booking with said line.

Sort of reminds me of Kennecott Copper Corporation. They got their start right after the turn of the last century, took their name off of a nearby glacier and river. They built a mill site at the base of a tram system that led up to a ridge that had their five copper mines along it, the richest in world, perhaps the richest to this day.

At the mill they developed a pretty good sized town, which they named after their corporation. The town had the latest state of the art everything. I.e. the first hospital in Alaska to have X-ray equipment. The access to the town was via a railroad, a railroad which they started, owned and named. Just before the train got into town, most everybody was made to stay in "quarantine" quarters for a short period of time. Very little in the way of "bugs" made it into the town.

Many years later, a local resort sponsored "Kids of Kennecott" days at the beginning of the summer tourist season, during which they paid the way for these old timers to come back for reunions.

Lot of us locals were invited to attend a gathering on the final day during which the "kids" told stories of yesteryear. One aspect of growing up in Kennecott that they all detested was the quarantine program. As, after the mine closed and most relocated elsewhere, they came down with diseases that others their age rarely got. Like mumps at age 50.

You were just ahead of your time.