This is a big deal, with symptoms including fever, shortness of breath, and muscle aches. According to the hotel, those at particular risk – over 50; smokers; chronic lung disease; weakened immune system – should not:
- Shower on property “even a cool shower – since it could create water droplets in the air.” Such guests can take a bath, but “minimize your time in the bathroom while the tub is filling.”
- Fill the sink too quickly “to avoid splashing and producing water droplets in the air” while brushing teeth or washing hands.
- Drink the water if you have swallowing difficulties
Renaissance Newark Airport On My Last Stay
View From Renaissance Newark Airport
The hotel’s message was shared by a guest with an upcoming stay. Somehow the property is still taking bookings! Even though 50 year olds shouldn’t shower in their rooms! There was a Hilton in Hawaii where Legionnaire’s recurred. There were a couple of cases at The Orleans in Las Vegas and at Caesar’s Palace. Also watch out for those hotel hot tubs. Early in the pandemic one man lived alone at the W Hotel in Barcelona, self-isolating there while maintaining the property. He lived by himself on the 24th floor of the hotel, cooked his meals alone in the huge hotel kitchen. He washed his socks in housekeeping’s gigantic industrial washer. And every five days he’d open all 1,400 pipe taps inside the hotel, and run them for five minutes, to avoid stale stagnant water pools that can spread Legionnaire’s.
I’d like to think that a hotel which has reason to believe they may be exposing guests to a harmful bacteria would close down until they were confident they had eradicated it. I guess not? I called the hotel and was told that they expected testing and eradication to take 6 to 8 weeks.