According to the advice of the hotel staff, after checking in, you should use a kettle/electric  kettle to boil  water and then pour it into the hotel toilet.

If you are sure that you will not use the kettle at all, you can skip it; but if you are likely to use it to boil drinking water or make tea, it is best to follow it to ensure health safety.

We are often advised that when checking in to a hotel, we need to carefully check if there are any recording devices or hidden cameras, check if the bedding, slippers, and towels are clean or not, check if the room phone, TV, and wifi network are usable or not, which is completely normal.

But why do we have to boil water and pour it into the toilet?

The reason given is that the kettle (electric kettle) is an item present in most hotel rooms, from budget to high-end rooms to serve the guests’ need for boiling water. However, no one can be sure what the previous guests used it for and whether the hotel staff cleaned it carefully when they checked out.

Not all hotels guarantee 100% hygiene standards. In many cheap hotels, the staff only cleans the room perfunctorily, not really caring about the safety of guests when using the furniture in the room.

Meanwhile, many guests use electric kettles to cook noodles, cook soup, boil seafood, and even use them to hold trash… The media has also published many stories of hotel staff dismayed to discover dirty socks, underwear, and even vomit of guests in the kettle.

Even if used for the right purpose, a kettle that has been used for a long time and passed through many people’s hands will accumulate a lot of dirt, causing bacteria to grow. Therefore, when checking in, you should rinse the kettle, boil water to sterilize it, and then pour it into the toilet or drain in the corner of the bathroom. This helps to clean the room, and conveniently helps to kill bacteria in these places.