I travel quiet a bit but never had the I pay for it so I can do whatever tude

[theking]

..gotta be considerate of others even if I paid for the service especially those that are getting paid minimum wages..My wife and I as well my kid now would never do this...

You Would Stop Doing, According to Staff
It's not only hard on staff, but the environment, too.

There’s nothing quite like walking into a hotel room outfitted with crisp linens and fluffy white towels, folded just so. A luxe travel experience like this may appear effortless to a guest, but creating that picture-perfect image takes a lot of behind-the-scenes work from housekeeping staff—and they say travelers often do one thing that makes their jobs harder.

The next time you’re wiping your makeup off, skip the hotel’s white bath towels.

“Using the standard white towels to wipe off mascara and foundation often permanently stains the linen, meaning perfectly good fabric has to be thrown away,” says Alvaro Alcantara, housekeeping manager at The Alexander in Indianapolis, Indiana. Laura Perez, part of the housekeeping team at Hotel Contessa in San Antonio, Texas, agrees, adding other culprits like self-tanner to the list.

You may be wondering—why can’t the team just bleach the towels? It boils down to chemistry. Oil-based makeup products, such as mascara, foundation, and even self-tanner, cling to fabric fibers. Standard hotel laundering systems run on industrial schedules optimized for volume and speed, and they often can’t fully lift these deep stains. When pretreatment doesn’t work, a towel that comes back from the wash still stained typically gets pulled from rotation entirely rather than run through again.

While hotels do have protocols for tough stains—like presoaking in oxygen bleach, hot-water washes, and heavy-duty detergents—these treatments take time and machine capacity. Properties can’t always spare the extra effort for one stained washcloth. Andrea Luna, senior manager of housekeeping at Vail Resorts, sees a similar problem at ski resort properties.

“We lose a lot of terry because people use them to wipe down boots and equipment,” she says. “Dirt, wax, and grease from gear don’t come out in the wash—so those towels often have to be thrown away.” Certain substances, once set into white terry cloth, are simply impossible to extract, no matter how good the hotel’s laundry equipment is.