Originally Posted by chitownjeff (Post 18998430)

I wouldn't mind see a sticky here where people can list hotel and rooms where they have seen them.

12 years traveling and haven't had an issue yet, but I'd like to know if I'm going to a hotel where they have had an issue before so I know to look out.

Originally Posted by Allvest (Post 19011334)

Yes, but do they? Do they have the management and staff who care? Do they follow SOP?

Let me pose the question to Sharon and others which thousands of nights: have you EVER been in 5* hotel suite which had bedbugs?

Originally Posted by Kate_Canuck (Post 19013278)

I must admit, the bedbug risk freaks me out a bit and my current practice is to check for bedbug reports before staying at any hotel. If I find a report, I don't stay there. It has been surprisingly difficult to find a moderate-high end Marriott, Hilton or Starwood property in SFO without reported incidents.

I realize that many hotels have had isolated problems. I also realize that the fact that hotel has never had a report doesn't guarantee that it's bedbug-free today. Eventually, I'm going to have to stay at a hotel that has had a reported incident (or more than one) and it's likely, given how often I travel, that I'm going to end up "encountering" the little critters. (And if that happens, I plan to throw everything out except the clothes on my back - and then strip down and walk naked into my house.)

But until every hotel I'd want to stay at has a bedbug report, I'm still planning to choose the ones that are incident-free.