When you stay at any hotel, be it a luxury resort or a roadside motel, you may have noticed that the sheets, pillow cases, and bath towels are almost always white.
The experience of drying off with a fluffy white bath towel and slipping between soft, clean, perfectly white sheets to fall asleep is something many people associate with staying in a hotel. You may be wondering, why would a hotel always use white sheets and towels? What are the reasons behind this?
There are actually several reasons why many hotels, guest houses, and bed and breakfasts use white bath towels, sheets, and other linens. Here are some of the main advantages of going all white:
White sheets are interchangeable
In the hotel, all the sheets can be washed together and it does not matter which bed they are put back on. If a towel or sheet becomes damaged or worn, it can be easily replaced with another without changing the feel of the room. This could not be done if each room had different colored sheets.
They are easier to wash.
Hotel sheets and towels are washed very frequently, which is good because you don’t want to sleep on the last guest’s dirty sheets. White sheets are very easy to clean because the hotel can simply bleach them at a very high temperature. No need to worry about colors running or fading or damaging elegant fabrics. With the hot water and bleach treatment, all bath towels, sheets and pillow cases will be as good as new.
White sheets go with everything.
The decoration of hotel rooms is usually sober and elegant, designed to satisfy all tastes and create a calm and relaxing atmosphere. One of the reasons hotels use white sheets and towels is that they are a neutral color that will match everything else in the room. Then the hotel can use accent pillows or a pretty knitted blanket over the bed for a pop of color. The decoration of the room can be changed depending on the style, but white will always be timeless and will never go out of style.
White sheets always look clean
When guests walk into a hotel, they want the room to look as clean and pristine as possible. With a dark colored sheet, stains and dirt are harder to see, so guests may not feel that the hotel is very clean. With a perfectly spotless bright white sheet, they can be sure that the hotel is as clean as possible because the white fabric shows every little stain and speck of dirt. This gives guests a feeling of confidence that the hotel has nothing to hide and that proper hygiene procedures are being followed.
These are just a few of the reasons why bright white sheets are used in so many hotels around the world.
