Mirror, mirror on hotel wall: Who's the sloppiest of them all?

(CNN) -- Who leaves a neater hotel room: men or women?

Answer: the same person who leaves the toilet seat up at home.

Men are neater travelers than women when they stop to spend the night someplace, according to a recent study of 600 United States travelers commissioned by Fodor's Travel Publications.

Pollsters asked men and women -- married and single -- if they picked up their clothes, hung towls, made the bed or did nothing before leaving a hotel room.

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After crunching all the responses, researchers came up with two conclusions: Single women are the messiest travelers, and married men are the neatest.

Twenty-three percent of the single women polled said they did nothing to a hotel room, leaving the maid to pick up their clothes, make the bed, pick up towels and straighten everything else.

Married men, by comparison, were paragons of cleanliness and order, with 68 percent saying they would put away their clothes before leaving the room for the day.

Single men weren't far behind. Pollsters said that 61 percent reported putting away their clothes, followed by 52 percent of married women.

Hanging towels? Single men topped this category, with 12 percent responding affirmatively.

Married women comprised the largest group who said that they would make the bed before leaving -- 23 percent.

In comparing different types of travelers, the survey found that 19 percent of leisure travelers -- roughly one of five -- relied on maid service. One business traveler out of four, or 25 percent, depended on maids, surveyors learned.

But business travelers are better at putting away their clothes before leaving the room. According to the results, 62 percent of business travelers tidy up their clothes. And leisure travelers? Slightly more than half, or 54 percent, put away their clothes.

Or, put another way: A rumpled 46 percent of leisure travelers don't bother to pick up their T-shirts, jeans and fanny packs.

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