Originally Posted by It'sHip2B^2

I always wash my clothes and bag (I made a special washable garment bag just for my bed bug obsessive fear) the moment I return home. Everything goes into the wash and a dry immediately afterward.

Bedbugs like small places, if your bag was in the room then there is a change that it had a bug or two in it. Personally, I'd ditch the bag in a location far from home. Your toiletries can be tossed. I'd put my toiletry bag in the freezer for a few weeks. Cold will eventually kill any hitchhikers (but heat does it much faster).

Here's my protocol:
1) Ditch bags and pay a coin laundry place near the hotel to wash all my clothes.
2) Buy tossable, washable (which I wash before my clean clothes go in it) duffle bag at Walmart/Target/whereever.
3) Toss my toiletries and get new.
4) Freeze any small stuff that I can't toss for 2 weeks.
5) Disassemble my cell/laptop/other non-tossable electronics to check for very, very small first/second stage bedbug. A hot hairdryer will encourage them to come out of hiding to look for more suitable hiding place. I believe that 140 degree is the kill 'em temp.
6) Anything that can be put in the dryer at a hot temp, will be there for a cycle.
7) Wash everything the minute I get home.

Good job on checking! Prevention is the best way.

How to check for bed bugs:
1) Don't bring your stuff into the room until it's thoroughly checked.
2) If (1) isn't possible put all your stuff in the tub, since bed bugs aren't likely to hang out there unless the infestation is really bad.
3) Lift up sheets and mattress cover to examine the mattress. Don't just look for bugs. They are small and they hid. You might not see them. Look instead for evidence, i.e. fecal matter. If you see little brownish or red-ish dots, you don't want that room!
4) Run a business card around the headboard, wall side of furnishings, pictures, mirrors, light fixtures, any small crevice that a bed bug might like to hide. You should check the card often. It should come out clean. No bugs or fecal matter evidence. With practice you'll learn what is paint transfer and what isn't.
5) Check other furnishing in the room as you would the bed.
6) Move furniture to examine the walls behind. You don't want to see bugs or brown-ish dots.
7) Check the sheets for bugs and/or fecal matter spots.
8) Use a hair dryer on the mattress. Heat will make the bugs active. They don't like heat. They will look for cooler places.
9) Lift the mattress to examine beneath it.
10) Use a pen light in dark places.

If you are really crazy like me, you will keep all your electronics zipped up in ziplock bags when they aren't in use in a well lit area under your hawk eye. A big enough ziplock bag can easily fit your laptop bag.