Hotel rooms are hotbeds for bacteria (video)

Travellers are often aware of the dangers present in notoriously bacteria-ridden environments, such as airports and public transport.

But a small study conducted by TravelMath.comhotel found that rooms don't appear to be hygienic either.

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A team was sent to swab nine different accommodations to determine how many germs were lurking and where they could be found.

Sample analysis revealed that the rooms tested were housing more bacteria than a plane or school overall.

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Particularly troublesome concentrations include bathroom vanities and remote controls: each came up with an average reading of colony forming units per square inch in excess of 1.2 million.

Based on TravelMath's findings, staying in a fancy hotel won't make such issues go away. In some cases the hotbeds of bacteria habitation in five-star accommodations were just as rife with germs if not more so than those in three and four star establishments.

On an up note most of the problems can be remedied with a simple swipe of an anti-bacterial wipe.

It was also recently revealed that the dirtiest place on a plane might not be quite where you expect.

Forget those tiny toilets: foldaway tray tables are the most germ-ridden places on an aircraft.

A study revealed that e.coli can survive on these surfaces for up to 96 hours and unsurprisingly plane toilets and soft furnishing like pillow and blankets ranked highly too.