[bluGill]

They are choosing a 5 star hotel. The mattress is probably only a couple times before they sell it to a 4 star hotel that uses it for a month before it is resold to a 3 star hotel... Eventually it ends up in a 0 star hotel for a couple years (which is why all the beds are lumpy in 0 star hotels - they are well used before they end up there)

I know the above happens with sheets. It isn't a stretch to believe it happens with other things as well.

[lotsofpulp]

Absolutely not true. There is no Marriott/Hyatt/IHG/Hilton hotel that would bother with used mattresses. Mattresses alone are only $250 to $500 a piece, and the labor and logistics to transport mattresses is huge. They are sold with 10 year warranties from Tempur Sealy and Simmons. There is no way any half decent hotel risks getting bed bugs or any other issues from another hotel to save a few thousand dollars.

The idea of using a mattress a couple times and then moving it to another hotel is laughable, much less for a "month". They easily last 5 years, if not longer, and it's a huge capital expense when they need to be replaced as it's usually done all at once since it disrupts operations quite a bit.