Bed bugs are vampiric pests no one wants. However, although bed bugs aren’t something hotels want, your hotel may have them. If a hotel has bed bugs in one room will all rooms have them?
- It is possible to find bed bugs in even the nicest hotels. Rooms can become infested with them
- It’s common for a bed bug infestation to travel from room to room as the rooms are cleaned
- Just because bed bugs are in one room doesn’t guarantee they are in other rooms in the same hotel
How likely is it that if one room in a hotel is infested with bed bugs, all the rooms are infested? Let’s look in detail below.
If A Hotel Has Bed Bugs In One Room, Will All Rooms Have Them?
Yes! It is very possible and more than likely that bugs have spread to another room. How far they spread is determined by how long they have been there, how big the infestation is, and what actions have been taken by the cleaning and pest control staff.Â
How far they spread is determined by how long they have been there and how big the infestation is, and what actions have been taken by the cleaning and pest control staff.
When you talk to the staff, ask to be shifted as far from the infestation as possible. Next door, below or above, there is a possibility that the room will also be infested.
Before you agree to stay in the new room, insist on inspecting it. Be polite and insistent.
It’s ok to ask for a refund and choose another hotel. They should grant your request, especially if you have photographic or video evidence of bed bugs.
Checking a Hotel Room for Bed Bugs
Checking over everything before you stay in a hotel will ensure you don’t have bed bugs eating you at night. You will also avoid taking them home with you and starting the cycle all over again.
Checking over everything before you stay in a hotel will ensure you don’t have bed bugs eating you at night.
Here are some common places the bugs like to lurk:
1. Bed Frame and Mattress
 Bed bugs are most commonly found in mattresses but any infestation doesn’t just stop at the mattress. Bed bugs can be somewhat harder to find than you might think. They lurk in bed frame joints and along slats.
The first thing you should do is inspect the bed and mattress with a flashlight.Â
Next, inspect the headboard, paying particular attention to detail and designs. Then along the mattress seams as well as inside the zipper.
Finally, lift the mattress and check under there for any signs of bugs.
2. Pillows and Sofas
There are types of bed bugs that prefer furniture and are happy to stray from the bedding. These are usually found in soft seats, not in beds.
Any decorative pillow or sofa cushion should be thoroughly examined along the zippers, inside the slipcover, and along the seams.
3. Floorboards and Closets
The bed bug does not need a soft, cozy space to survive. Eventually, boiling your clothes to kill them may be the only way to get rid of them if they are hiding in your closet.
Examine the wall-to-floor joints, cracks, and crevices.Â
Bed bugs love to hide in these corners.
Next, examine the seals on the doors and drawers of the closets, along with corners and joints. Basically, bed bugs are found wherever spider webs are commonly found.
Basically, bed bugs are found wherever spider webs are commonly found.
4. Bedside Tables
Check the drawer seals and corners of the nightstand, just as you would with the rest of the furniture. In addition, you should check the inside of the lampshades and the corners where they touch the nightstand.
Finally, any type of bedside decor should be considered, be it a picture frame, a clock, or anything else.
5. Luggage and Stands
Grab that notepad off the desk at your hotel if you want a cheap souvenir. Bed bugs don’t make good souvenirs! Instead, see how the webbing wraps around the frame of the luggage stand, particularly at the corners.
Always keep your luggage off the bed itself just to be safe. There’s a good chance you’ll take them home if you put luggage on a bedbug-infested bed.
Bed bugs don’t make good souvenirs!
Bed Bugs in Hotels Facts
- In their adult form, bed bugs resemble apple seeds
- Smaller bed bugs can fit through thread holes in sheets and are even more difficult to detect.
- In a lifetime, these pests can produce 500 offspring.
- They hide in cracks in wooden furniture, mattress seams, and other tiny crevices during the day and emerge at night to feed.
- Itchy, red splotches can result from bed bug bites.Â
- In most places, hotels cannot legally rent out rooms known to be infested with bed bugs
- Hotels can be extremely costly to treat bed bugs and lose revenue due to bed bug infestations.
- Moving furniture or suitcases can transport bugs from hotels to homes.
Conclusion
Always check rooms for any signs of bed bugs before settling in. This will ensure no belongings are infested with bugs that you can take home with you.
It’s eerie to think that hotel rooms have bed bugs, but it is pretty common. So checking everything first will ensure you are not sharing a bed with the dreaded bed bug.
No one wants the company of a bed bug infestation!
