Hotel Room or Vacation Home Disinfecting! - Disney World / Disney Cruise Travel

Disinfect your hotel room, cabin or vacation home!

Created on Sunday, 17 April 2011 11:20 | Written by Michael |

Disinfect your hotel room, cabin or vacation home!

Don't forget the discount code "explore" for 10% off!

Don't feel like reading this, well, two simple things to point out.
1. Lysol kills %99.9 which sounds impressive but it is not effective against the Norwalk virus A.K.A the "the stomach bug" and Lysol works on non-porous surfaces only. Therefore, spraying Lysol on your carpet or any fabric type surface is futile.
2. Most, hand Sanitizers do not work on viruses at all and they strip away protective oils from your hands. Read on for more...

I admit it, I'm a germophobe! I hate the thought of what the maids have left behind in their hurry to turn rooms over. Was the family before us "infected" with anything? Did they have some illness and was this room or vacation home a war front on bacteria and germs just hours before I arrived? Yes, it smells nice but yuck, this is not my home and I don't know what's been going here. I'm not trying to scare anyone but this is something that has always bothered me and after a recent outbreak of stomach bug here at my own home it got me thinking that there has got to be some sort of whole house or at least room fogger that will essentially kill the germs instead of me trying to wipe down all the surfaces or flood the entire area with Lysol. Well, after many hours of research and looking at some rather expensive products ranging from $300 to over $900 which included entire protective suits and lengthy warnings I found one product that really seemed to be exactly what I was looking for and in the instant I realized this could be a very valuable thing to everyone reading this site. I'll skip the long yada yada and just give you the skinny.

SafeSpace® offers a product that is a Disinfectant Room Fogger and best of all it is affordable. Two 6 oz cans will cost you roughly $15 including shipping! Each can will fog a room approximately 21 feet x 21 feet with a ceiling of about 10 foot. Killing most everything that can make us sick. This is not to be confused with a "Bug Bomb" which is target at bugs. This product uses hospital grade disinfectant to kill viruses, bacteria, molds etc. When purchasing, use discount code "explore" for 10% off your order! So, I have Lysol you say, well, read that label... While 99.99% may sound impressive to people thinking back to test scores in school, in the world of germ eradication, this is barely better than washing with mere soap and water (99.9%), leaving thousands of microbes alive to reproduce and repopulate their environment. In short, a surface that has been “cleaned” to 99.99% is not truly clean, is not at all sterile

BTW, did you know that those hand sanitizers you carry around to keep yourself from getting sick... well, they don't work on most viruses, more specially they don't work on stomach viruses! This is what you should be using, a hand sanitizer that works on most common stomach and flu viruses. (They also sell products for surfaces and laundry!) Alcohol-based sanitizers do not offer enough protection for against Norovirus and other germs (only 99.99%). To kill 99.99999% of all, use DepHyze Hand Sanitizer. DepHyze Foaming Hand Sanitizer’s active ingredient is benzalkonium chloride, an alcohol-free antimicrobial compound that has been widely used in hospitals for more than 60 years in surface cleaners, sterilizing agents, and leave-on FDA Monograph, anti-bacterial skin treatments. For detailed information on this hand foam click here but you can not buy from this link. To purchase this hand sanitizing foamclick here.

Hotel Room / Vacation Home disinfecting fogger

Couple things you are probably asking yourself right now as I am so I will mention them but check out their website for more details.

1. How do you treat a room?Turn off the AC or Heating then simply place the can in the middle of the room on top of some newspaper, a couple of paper plates or something to basically act as barrier between it and the structure under it. Push the trigger all the way down and exit the room.

2. How long does it take?Approximately 2 hours, then 30 minutes to air out the room.

3. Can it go in my luggage? Yes, and no, the TSA keeps changing regulations but essentially this is no different than a can of hairspray. Check with the airline before hand or better yet have it shipped directly to your resort and heck, while you are at it, ask them to use it in your room before you get there! Wouldn't that be nice!

4. Harmful to pets or children?Yes, in direct contact but most everything under sink is the same!

5. Why use it?Go back to the top and start reading again. Yes I'm being funny but this is something that really bothered me and if it bothers you, then this will at least give you some relief to your worrying about the room being sanitized. I don't know about you but that piece of tissue paper that usually says something like "cleaned by ____" across the toilet seat means little to me. The people that clean rooms and homes for a living are not usually paid based on quality of work and lets face it, most of them could care less about how clean they actually get things and if it looks nice then that's good enough not to mention the fact that most cleaning is essentially just smearing germs around.

Buy it online here.(use discount code "explore" for 10% off!)

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The room fogger FAQ here will answer the rest of your questions.