Bedbugs at Hilton hotel
 

Hi gurus,

I stayed at one of the hilton hotel with my family and there were bed bugs that bit my daughter who is 3yrs old and and wife .

I found the bugs and handed over to the housekeeper supervisor .

Now my daughter is in trauma and does not want to sleep alone by herself :(.

Can someone advice as what what can be the compensation for bed bugs bites .

I am a diamond at hilton.

Any pointers if i can file a lawsuit against the hotel

Thanks in advance

Bedbugs sadly are more common than ever.
 

If you are looking for lawsuit advice I'm not sure FT is the likely place. If your family is suffering form bedbug bites you first need to contact the GM at the hotel and the Diamond Desk . From there you can decide whether you want to retain an attorney.

They're coming back.

I assume there's a reason why you didn't post the hotel name... but I'm extremely curious. :D

I hope that Hilton will give you some free nights but I wouldn't think a lawsuit was in order unless they knew there were bedbugs before your stay, and still gave you that room. I certainly don't want Hilton to bomb the mattresses with pesticides between guests. :( It would be nice if the GM of the hotel would assure you that they have consulted a pest control service, and they will train their housekeeping staff to check for bedbugs when changing linens.

A quick Google search indicates that bedbug bites are painless, but result in itchy/painful bumps later, similar to a mosquito bite. Since there is no immediate association with pain, I wonder if your child's reaction is more a reflection of your own (understandable) horror/disgust than her personal trauma. :confused:

Maybe you can buy this toy for her, and she can kill all the bedbugs before she goes to bed at night. Or get her one of these - it's hard to be afraid of something cute and furry!

Decent parenting should help her get over it.

Of course you can file a lawsuit - and you should. Pointer #1: Find a lawyer. Lawsuits should be filed any time you are made unhappy, because unhappiness is not fair. Now go get your millions.

Be sure to log your stay here as well. Sue the webmaster if the site makes you unhappy.

+1. I have a hunch that the parents may have made a big deal out of it instead of downplaying the situation. Don't get me wrong, bedbugs are not acceptable in any hotel but suing the hotel seems to be a bit overkill.

As squeaker suggested, talk to the GM about this and you might possibly come up with an appropriate compensation.

Bobette

Definitely sue! Sounds like there's a lot of pain and suffering going on and, as we all know, if things like this happen, a lawsuit is the only way to proceed. It's certainly more effective than trying to move on and forget about the incident.
On a similar note, my TV at the HI stopped working the other night in the middle of Whale Wars. I'm thinking of suing also. It's KILLING me not to know how the episode ended.

I am truly sorry for you experience.

Bedbugs are a SERIOUS problem for the entire hotel industry; as well as for the traveling public.
Please contact the Hilton corporate offices at once. Thank you.

I am looking forward to when the suit is granted class action status, and some shyster lawyer starts advertising the fact on one of the cable news networks, trying to sign up clients. ;)

More immediately important than the lawsuit is not bringing them home with you - vishesh123, when you return home, you need to place all of your clothes directly in the dryer for at least 20 minutes on high heat (washing first is fine). Anything you cannot put in the dryer needs to go in a plastic ziploc bag (they make some very, very large ones that will fit clothes, books, etc.), then ideally in the freezer for 3 months (or at rt for 18 months, the amount of time they can live without food). Your suitcases need to be vacuumed with a high-powered canister vacuum cleaner, then the vacuum bag sealed up in a plastic bag and disposed of immediately.

In fact, getting some of those ziploc bags now for your clothes inside your suitcases would be a good idea assuming you are flying home to avoid spreading them to other pax.

Lots of information online about these protocols. Huge pain, but infinitely better than having an infestation in your home.

dstan, thank you so much for taking your time to post on this subject.:-:

People at the headquarters of large national corporations are often not the first to know about what is actually going on "out in the field". Any traveler who finds bedbugs in a room should not simply rely on housekeeping, or even the innkeeper. Please report any incidents of bedbugs to the hotel's corporate offices. Thank You.

OP, have you had any success with your previous questions about gaining compensation from BA and Hilton?

I can not agree more!

These are the most important things you need to deal with once you find beg bugs in the hotel you just stayed. Bed bugs are extremely hard to get rid of.

Precaution is needed when traveling. Have a Steri-feb ready to spray all your luggage before leaving the hotel. Take care of all clothes including un-used ones right after returning home.

People react very differently to their bites. i am allergic to their bites causing me great pains while wife has no reaction (not even visual signs of bites) at all.

Might I ask how she knows she has gotten bitten if she doesn't feel the bites and there is no visual sign of a bite?

I've cut slices of deli meet that were so thin you couldn't even see them.