So you have no choice. Life must go on and you will be staying in a hotel. You check the bedbug registry, but once you arrive at the hotel, you have to make sure you don’t have blood-sucking roommates. So where should you check for bedbugs when entering a hotel room?
Bedbugs hiding in a picture frame
This video provides a good idea of where they hide, what their stains on mattresses look like – and provides some appropriately sinister music to boot:
Enjoy.
UPDATE: Here is “Vigilant” from the Bedbugger Forum’s precautions they have decided to take when staying at hotels:
I will be staying in a hotel for a week, and here are the precautions I’m planning to take….what do you think?
* I will be putting my 1 piece of luggage (1 duffel bag) into a zipped BugZip bag upon arrival at the hotel, and will keep everything inside until I need to take something out. The BugZip bag will be in the bathroom.
* I will have 1 set of disposable clothing that I plan to wear whenever I’m in the hotel room (disposable slippers, disposable long-sleeved shirt, disposable pajamas, disposable socks, disposable underwear) – and I’ll be sleeping in those as well. Everything will be disposed of when I check out of the hotel (and my BugZip bag, too).
* When I first arrive in the room, after changing into my hotel room outfit, I will carefully check for all the usual signs of bedbugs.
* Before I leave the hotel room to go anywhere (such as going out to eat), I plan to thoroughly shower with soap and a bathtowel that I’m bringing from home….and then after drying myself from the shower, immediately change into clothing that I’ll leave the hotel room with.
* When I come back to the hotel room, I plan to immediately place my outdoors clothing into my duffel bag that’s encased in the BugZip bag, and then change into the disposable outfit I’ve designated for the hotel room.
* Repeat the above steps anytime I leave the hotel room or come back
* Am I correct to assume that since I will be putting all my outdoors clothing directly into my BugZip bag upon returning to the hotel room, those clothes should be fine/non-infested? (Since my duffel bag is protected by the BugZip bag, I don’t see a need in putting my outdoors clothing in sealed zip-lock type bags since they’re not infested).
* If I do happen to get bitten, will taking a soapy shower wash off all the eggs, etc? Afterwards, can I change into my regular outdoors clothing and those clothes will still be uncontaminated?
* Finally, on the day I check-out from the hotel room, I will leave behind my disposable outfit that I’ve been wearing inside the hotel room….and will also leave behind the BugZip bag for disposal.
* Am I correct to assume that since my duffel bag (holding my outdoors clothing during my trip) has been protected the whole time by the BugZip bag, and I’ve already disposed of all clothing that I wore inside the hotel room, I won’t need to specifically wash/dry all my in hot temperature? (I’ll still wash my clothing from the trip for hygiene reasons, but I shouldn’t be wary of bedbugs, right?).
Extreme? Justified?
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