Aquaman95 said:
Not a chance, particularly at a hotel. You'd be lucky if the maintenance man knows what alkalinity is. I don't mean to be pessimistic, or derogatory but it's the truth. Hotel and apartment pools are generally the worst maintained of all commercial pools and it's because of the high operator turnover and lack of training.
Amen to that! I do maintenance part time at a Resort condo during the summer season and I checked the pool logs (2 pools, 2 hot tubs, and a kids splash zone) and questioned one of the CPOs why all the FC readings (done with a Taylor K-2005) were 3.6. (the comparator block does not have that kind of precision) He took the comparator and showed me the color block that had the 3 for the chlorine scale and 6 for the bromine scale! He thought that meant 3.6! Needless to say I went to the site manager and ended up doing a training on how to test water! At least they got some calcium in their pools after that and some CYA, which solved the problem of the peristaltic pumps not being able to maintain the FC during the peak of the Florida sun! They also picked up new reagents for the K-2006 they had and started using that after my little class!
At least they did know how to deal with the fecal accidents that occurred on a regular basis because of all the leaking swim diapers! (those things should NOT be allowed, IMHO!)