Does your hotel have bedbugs?

[straitman]

A topic that we would probably all like to ignore :!:

Does your hotel have bedbugs? Check this registry

By Kitty Bean Yancey, USA TODAY

A photo provided by Virginia Tech Department of Entomology shows a female adult bedbug.
By Tim McCoy, AP

I have been following increasing reports of bedbug infestations, and though I am not a germophobe in general, I now routinely peel back the bottom sheet at hotels and check the mattress and wall behind beds for stains that could indicate a bug problem. To be fair, I have never found nor seen a bedbug.

But reading USA TODAY Hotel Check-In author Barbara De Lollis' report on singer Lauren Hildebrant saying she left a $500-a-night hotel room in Manhattan with itchy, painful bites put me on high alert. A loved one is staying at a Los Angeles airport hotel Labor Day, and I know airport lodgings are supposedly at higher risk for bug infestations because they host travelers from all over the world, staying only a night, with so much traffic making it more likely that bugs could slip in via suitcases.


So I checked out bedbugregistry.com, a free database that contains more than 20,000 reports from travelers who say they encountered bedbugs, and where in the USA and Canada. I did find one report from 2009 at the L.A. hotel, but no recent mentions of any problem at TripAdvisor.com (which is another good source for news of infestations).

 

[Travel Guru]

By all accounts from watching CNN etc whilst in Las Vegas a couple of weeks back apparently Manhattan has been hit especially hard by a recent bed bug outbreak which is hitting hotels right across the board from 1-5* establishments (which is great news since I'm heading there in a few weeks!)

I also have never had a problem either.

TG

 

[NYCguy]

Bedbugs at the Four Seasons New York!:shock:!:shock:!:shock:!:shock:!:shock:!

Looks like you might have to sleep in an wetsuit, TG.

 

[Travel Guru]

Bedbugs at the Four Seasons New York!:shock:!:shock:!:shock:!:shock:!

Looks like you might have to sleep in an wetsuit, TG.

HAHA! Why, is your apartment busy that week NYCguy? :mrgreen::mrgreen:

TG

 

[JohnK]

I can't say that I have ever experienced bedbug bites.

 

[NYCguy]

HAHA! Why, is your apartment busy that week NYCguy? :mrgreen::mrgreen:

TG

My parents are actually vacationing in it at the moment, but you're more than welcome to move in with them if you like. I will warn you, though, they are insanely irritating after about 2 hours. :evil: You'd be better-off taking your chances with the bedbugs at the Four Seasons.