Originally Posted by
Tizzette
Consider this. Bedbugs are hiders that you usually don't find unless you are looking in seams of the mattress. Because you found them out on the pillow soon after getting the room, I think it must have been a pretty heavy infestation. If so, you wouldn't have been the first to encounter and report the bedbugs.
Points taken. My travel companion and I were in that town for one night and we'll never know what was what in regards to the degree of infestation in that room that night.
Originally Posted by
SanDiego1K
What are they doing to ensure that none travel home with you? I'd be very concerned.
We spent 2 hours in the room immediately after check-in, went out for a ~4 hour drive, spent another 2 hours in the room, found the bugs, changed rooms, then went out for dinner. Remarkably, we are each long time FT members with ~45 countries under each of our belts, and we were caught unawares and were not prepared with information on how to deal with the situation, ie we were googling as we went.
My friend planned to ask the front desk at check-out for plastic garbage bags to contain our carry-ons, but in the morning, we were so preoccupied with booking our $29 JetBlue Leap Day tickets (priorities!), we forgot, dashed to top off the rental car's gas tank and to the airport.
Anyway, a week+ has passed at this point, and the call of civic duty is fading. But I will call the hotel for an update as I told them I would.
So for (hopefully not) future information, what should the hotel have done to ensure we did not transport bugs?