Got a tick at a pet friendly marriott
 

I’m staying at a pet friendly Marriott, I woke up this morning and had a tick dug in to my side. I took a shower before bed last night so I know it wasn’t there last night. There were barking dogs all night long and I have one last night at this hotel. I’m not really sure how I should deal with this. I tried to pull the tick out but only got half of it out. The other half is still in my body right now. The hotel charges a 150 fee to have your pet; they call it a cleaning fee. Obviously they don’t clean any different as I would assume that the person before me had a dog. Now I have to get this other half of this tick out of my body and I might get Lyme disease from this. Im not really sure what I should do, any input would be appreciated.
Thanks

What kind of advice are you looking for?

Medically - if you are worried about it go see a doctor
Hotel - Tell them if you think there is something they can do about it in the future
Compensation - :rolleyes:

If I needed medical help I would have posted in a medical forum and not a hotel forum. :)
Do I deserve compensation? What about staying there another night? Should I ask to switch rooms?

Fair enough your statement about lyme desease confused me I guesss.


This is what I was thinking it was about hence the :rolleyes:. Take a glance at all the hotel/airline forums and you'll see many people thinking they deserve compensation for all kinds of things. Personally I'm a SH!T happens kind of guy so my answer is no you don't deserve any compensation for a tick.



Your call. I wouldn't worry much about it and just finish out my stay.

You realize you could pick up a tick just by walking through a wooded area right? :rolleyes: So no, I do not believe you deserve compensation any more than you would from the City if you picked one up jogging through Central Park, unless you expect the hotel to fumigate the hotel after every person with a pet stays there.

How do you know you were in a pet room?
 

Mrs. RatherBeOnATrain and I were adopted by a dog a year ago. Since then, we've traveled a few times with him. The Residence Inns (and Staybridge Suites) that we've stayed at all had specific pet rooms, which were the rooms located closed to the exterior door closest to the designated pet walk area. These pet rooms were noticably more worn than the typical RI rooms I encounter on work trips (when doggie stays home).

Unless you were traveling with a pet and/or in a room with noticably worn and/or stained carpets, I would think that you were most likely not in a pet room.

Exactly. Anyone can pick up a tick walking outside. It doesn't even have to be in a wooded area.It can come from grass or shrubs. Look on-line somewhere and you can find a picture of the type tick that is responsible for Lyme disease.

Compensation for a tick? It wouldn't even occur to me.

Bobette

I understand
 

I see why you are ticked off!

I must have picked it up from the water by Boston since I'm staying on the water... I wasn't outside yesterday other than to walk in the hotel and to get in the taxi... The tick was NOT there when I went to bed.

With that said I am writting this listening to to dogs bark right next to me after the front desk said they would take of it twice...

Dog ticks don't carry Lyme Disease.

IMO -- Ticks happen. You shouldn't have messed up pulling it half out. Perhaps the person in the taxi before you had a dog? No way to prove where you picked it up.

There is a small chance for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Look it up. (And, next time look up how to get a tick out of properly.) Watch yourself for 2-14 days after the tick appeared. If you develop fever, chills, nausea or a few other symptoms, go get on some antibiotics to avoid death.

I would advise you stay in pet-free hotels in the future. That is what I do. I am allergic. Pretty easy to figure out which ones allow pets and which ones don't.

Curious -- what exactly do you want the hotel to do about a person's barking dog? Would you call a hotel about a little crying baby and expect them to quiet the baby?

Have you asked to move to a different room? I wouldn't want to be in a room with ticks and next to barking dogs.

Take of it twice?


Well dogs barking AND a tick? I'd say you are due compensation for sure then :rolleyes::p


I need to keep a list of threads started, "fire alarm", "loud neighbors" and now "tick" and "barking dog"....those are just the recent ones in the Marriott forums.

I would make my experience known to management but beyond that not seek out compensation. Just MHO and sorry to hear about your experience.

I often see "what should I get for compensation" threads and unlike several here, I find many of them legit (at least as a legitimate question to ask)

but this one is way out there.

Answer: no you don't deserve any compensation, especially if you don't experience any medical difficulties/expenses resulting from the tick.

I wonder if it was just a Gate-Lice ??:D

The singular is "gate-louse."

And I'm looking at one right now. Slouching there on the red carpet, 15 minutes before boarding. Relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like status.