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.

I think the OP is due compensation. Not for the tick, but for the barking dogs. (Assuming the barking dogs are staying with a guest at the hotel) I am sure the OP did not pick the particular hotel because it was pet friendly. Expecting a guest to endure barking dogs, especially with how thin the walls are at some hotels, is unreasonable IMHO. Most pet friendly hotels inform guests that if their dogs barking can not be controlled, they will be warned once and asked to leave on a second occurence. My only question to the OP, did you notify the front desk of the barking dogs the first night and every night it occurred thereafter? If so, I would have a serious chat with the GM about the problem and their inability to correct.


Regards,

RIP...

I have never had a tick in my life, neither has anyone in my family. Are they really something you can just pick up in an ordinary urban environment? I would be pretty freaked out by this too.

I'm not an expert, so I looked it up on the web, as you recommended. It appears to me from this site (and others I saw) that, in fact, ticks that attack dogs do cause Lyme disease. The disease cannot be passed from an infected dog to a human, but a tick can make its way into a home (or a hotel room) attached to a dog. http://dogs.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/...com/index.html

In my opinion, hotels which invite pets bear a responsibility to assure their other guests, without pets, that they will minimize pet-related issues, such as noise, odor, disease, etc. I assume that the extra cleaning fees are charged because the property takes extra-care and effort in cleaning, and not as a profit-center.

And what compensation do you suggest?

This board seems to be compensation happy. Where do we draw the line on this crap?

As always, the OP is free to asp for compensation but I don't think he is due anything from the hotel for the tick or the barking (or the fire alarm, or the doors being shut too loudly, or the neighbors TV or or or)

Slippery slope is you ask me. If there are ticks in the area, how would one prove that it was due to lack of cleaning?

Noise....I think there was a post recently about shutting of doors too loudly....does that = compensation too?

Odor....if the rooms smells either get a new room or find a new hotel. If you bunk up in the hotel that stinks I can't see wanting compensation for it after the fact

disease....I'm not sure what to say about that.

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The tick could have just as easily been brought in by a person, someone's baggage, or from the OP's baggage after the plane ride. Ticks are very common in some parts of the US and very rare in others. If an area has ticks, dogs are only one transport vehicle for them.
Compensation is not even remotely called for in this case, IMHO. I personally would rather "brave" a chance at a tick than expose myself to the chemicals required for a fumigation.

I did not ask for compensation...

However I had to complain twice last night about the dogs in rooms near me barking, they were even clawing away at the doors pealing the paint, paint chips were coming from under the door to the hall way. It was way out of control. This morning when I woke up I did get one nights free parking... doesn’t help me, only hurts me as I don’t pay for parking my company does and now I am out the points on the parking.

I highly doubt the OP got the tick walking through Boston. We live in the woods and only rarely get ticks. I wouldn't be too happy if I got a tick in a hotel bed either...

I must be grumpy today as this thread is just pushing my buttons. Each of us have our own priorities but I dislike the above attitude.

Would you be just the same if they gave you a free night?

Dogs barking would annoy me. But when I walked down the hall and heard clawing and saw paint chips, my annoyance would turn to concern for an obviously terrified animal.

There are 26 hotels in the BOS market that allow pets. There are 2 hotels that allow pets AND charge for parking. Of the 2 hotels, 1 has a outside, contracted parking service, so (technically) you would not earn points on that charge, BUT if you did, the charge is $23 per day. Since it is a property which only earns 5 points per dollar, you are out 115 points. At the other property, also earning only 5 points, the charge is $32 per day, so you are are out 156 points. What a loss -:eek:

Get a grip.

If you are concerned about your life, get yourself to a doctor, get the remainder of the tick out, and learn the symptoms of whatever disease you might get.

If you are concerned about compensation, decide what is fair on your own, get yourself down to the front desk, and ask for it.

If you are concerned about noise, check out.

And annerj...must be grumpy today as this thread is just pushing my buttons. Each of us have our own priorities but I dislike the above attitude. Would you be just the same if they gave you a free night?

+1 on the grumpy and I am guessing Yes. :rolleyes:

Would I be the same? I'm not sure I understand what you are asking?

I spend my companies money as if it were my own. "losing" out on points to save the company money is a good trade off in my book. In fact the hotel I'm at weekly just went to their summer rate (139/night) which is fine but I talked to the GM and got them to give me 89/night going forward. So I'm "losing" points/night + plat bonus X 3-4 nights week for the rest of th summer. I'm VERY pleased to be saving my employeer/customer $.

annerj -???????

I am not asking any question. I copied your post and added my comments:

+1 Grumpy - complete agreement with you. I too must be grumpy as the thread seems above and beyond to me.

Would you be just the same is they gave you a free night? this was your question to the OP. My answer to your questions was , YES, I think they would.

Maligning your integrity to your corporation or your customers? Not my intent at all; sorry that you took it that way.

I see the animal as untrained and undisciplined rather than terrified, but in any case the "poor baby" that can't handle being left alone in a motel room should not be along for the trip. But try telling that to the owner. The perception gulf between pet lovers and pet-indifferent might be bigger than that between smokers and non-smokers!!

So, so true as this former smoker well knows. ^

I am 50/50 on the tick for compensation, and 100% on compensation for the barking. Even though the hotel is pet friendly, the primary reason the hotel is there is for human sleeping, not as a kennel! Every hotel I have ever stayed in which was pet friendly informed pet owners that if the pet intruded upon the quiet enjoyment of the other guests that either the pet or the pet owner would have to leave. When one dog starts barking, all the other dogs, in all the other rooms will start barking too. If a pet owner cannot control his dog, the pet owner and the pet should be asked to leave, for the quiet enjoyment of the other hotel guests, PERIOD! Yes, the OP is entitled to compensation, in the way of points, for having his quiet disturbed. As I said, I could go either way on the tick, so I will not comment on it either way.

So I get it, my employer gets compensation for my discomfort!? If I fell and broke my arm because of something the hotel did should my employer be compensatied or me? With some of the logic posted here my employer should be.

I did not say that your employer should be compensated. I would ask for points to be deposited to my MR account. As far as the tick goes, you are a grown man, if you want to pursue a remedy with the hotel manager, no one here is doing anything to stop you, but just giving you the answers and advice to the questions you asked.

I respectfully think you're missing the point -- I know exactly what she means, and it doesn't belie an attitude of not wanting to save your client money.

She wants compensation for her discomfort. What good does it do her to ask for compensation, but have it granted in a way that doesn't benefit her?

OP, respectfully, calmly ask for bonus bucks or MR points as compensation. They really don't owe you anything but may give you something as a CR gesture. Esp. since they gave you free parking... tell them to charge for the parking and give you a gift card or BB instead. Tell them what you think is fair. They will either say yes or no, and I would suggest if they say no, to take it gracefully.

You did not complain about the parking being removed; you complained about not receiving the points because the parking was removed. Would you be OK if the hotel removed the parking charge, but still gave you the 100 or so points? Those were points you should have had - so returning them to you is not compensation at all!

Your posts are all over the place. You talk about getting 1/2 the tick out, Lyme disease, and not knowing what to do. Then it appears cleaning of the room is an issue; and finally, continually barking dogs are the problem. Personally, it sounds like the hotel and stay from h*ll - as any one of those would be enough for me.

If I was concerned about 1/2 a tick and possible Lyme Disease I would not be posting on FT, I would be reading about tick removal and Lyme Disease symptoms. If I was as convinced as you that I got the tick in the room in which I was staying, I would be packing, not posting on FT. Same for an unclean room and continually barking dogs. My employer would not be paying for the room and some additional points would find their way into my account.

THEN I would post on FT. ;)

She got a tick staying at a Marriott branded hotel. When a pet stays in a room, no bug should be alive afterwards, considering the cleaning fee pet owners pay. They should remove all bedding, spray the room with bug spray, and use flea & tick carpet/upholstery powder on every surface. If they don't do this properly, they are at fault here. Again, they charge a non-trivial pet/cleaning fee per night, presumably for the expense and effort of measures like these.

She has a beef. Even if you don't think so, let's not be too hard on her. She's upset and wants to complain, get something off her chest. Let's not micro-analyze the complaint.

Are you even reading my posts?

I stated quite clearly that I would not pay for the room, would ask for points, AND that any one of the 3 situations would be enough for me, much less all 3. I said that it sounded as if it was the "stay from h*ll.

How does that equate to me "not thinking she has a beef?" :confused:

Please don't be too hard on me either ;)

First - Go to the ER to get the half tick removed, and the bite site treated.
Second - Come back with the ER discharge notice to the MGR of the hotel to complain about the whole situation, and inform the MGR that you will be billing the hotel for any amounts not covered by insurance, and have proper compensation applied, as far as points or parking or whatever.
Third - Post on FT

Now THAT is good advice.

To do it any other way is just frankly crazy talk. If there was half a tick left in my body, I would be VERY CONCERNED, and frankly, the last thing on my mind would be what to ask for compensation. After seeing a doctor, my point of view would change considerably, from concern to being peeved, and what to do about it.

After reading all of the postings, yes, if the hotel charges a $150 fee, then the hotel is taking responsibility, and yes, the hotel would bear the responsibility for delivering a spotless room. The menagerie of barking dogs is just as much of a problem, and compensation is due for that issue as well. One bark, no big deal, constant barking, big problem, and a sign that management is not doing their job.