Chinese hotel under fire for cleaning teacups, toilets with bath towels

Cleaning toilets and teacups with bath towels proved costly for a Chinese hotel as it was forced to apologise to its customers for its wrongdoing. “We apologise to our dear customers and will rectify our management,” Zhou Jia, general manager of Beijing Mehood Hotel, located at East 3rd Ring Road was quoted as saying by China Daily.[caption id=“attachment_1052575” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Wrong use of the bath towel. AFP[/caption] A journalist from Beijing News, who worked under cover since 5 August, found that maids at the hotel use bath towels to clean toilets and teacups. “Home Inns Group, which has more than 1,800 hotels in 250 cities across China, was also involved in similar scandals in 2012, when its Qingdao branch was reported using filthy cleaning tools and providing unsterilized cups."— China Daily reported . The hotel may be fined.