15 tips for avoiding hotel bedbugs

Bed Bug Central is a great website for info on bed bugs. You can also find them on YouTube

thirty five years as an engineer for a hotel, only eight years ago bedbugs made thier appearance in my area. I read all the self fix solutions and 99% are wrong. There are no shortcuts and you can carry them home from any hotel anywhere. The best treatment I have seen was removing all linen and washing by themselves in hot water 121 degrees or higher. They used a product called Bedlam and sprayed all baseboards, behind the headboard, all seams around bedsprings and removing the cheesecloth and spraying into the boxspring, in the drawers and behind and inside furniture.edges of carpet.. repeat after 3 days. put mattress in bedbug cover and pray

steaming does not rid you of bedbug problems. bedbugs bet into carpet seams, behind baseboards, behind headboards. in drawers. When I had to go into a bedbug infested room for my job I brought a second set of clothes to change into when I finished because they can get into seams of clothes. I washed my slothes in hot water at the hotel

I worked at many hotels and bedbugs were a constant problem. If you bring them home with you it can cost megabucks and possibly many treatments to get rid of them. plus the insectacide contamination of your home. India and Pakistani hotels are not the only problem. airline crews and business travelers pick up the bedbugs in thier luggage and spread them to other hotels. The fastest place to check for the bugs is in the wall hung headboard. or around the upper corners of the box spring

If your hotel has bed bugs and you know it than CLEAN IT OUT!!!

Sleep in the car, don't travel, pack a sleeping bag, the park bench, learn to sleep standing up. These stupid comments are about as helpful as Yahoo Shine's 15 tips..PS. and do tip the maid..

just finished a 5 day road trip from south florida to canada...first thing i do in any night stop is quickly strip back the sheets/mattress cover..i check around and behind head boards and also lift mattress edge to look for detritus. so far so good, tho on arriving home i did leave our over night bags in the garage(only 6 degrees that night) till the next morning and then promptly washed everything

My opnion towards bedbugs are to cover the mattress and pillows with a plastic sheets with no air inside all the time.Then cover it with cloth therafter. The reasons is the quality of those including sofa is no longer a good quality anymore coz it made in China mostly and it depends on who sit or sleep on it. Same for blankets as well coz its not washed regulary. Besides, many Pakistan & India don't sleep with mattress but still their beds are unclean and filled up with bed bugs mostly and its true.

Heat treatment for a home is expensive, but effective and then you don't have to worry about pesticides.

Aren 't they hard to see because of their size?

I work in a hotel that has bed bugs there in about 10 rooms and guess what they rent these rooms out every nite dont rely on the hotel motel to be dealing with this situation as its very costly and many hotel owners are cheap and really dont care about anything but money by the way this is a huge nat chain

why don't the health department get to work and start checking out hotels ?? Isn't that their job ?? We taxpayersare are paying for their services............what are they doing ?? coffe and donuts ??

why dont the hotel maids look for them, get ride of them. shoud be part of the cleaning job to look and spray with 90% alcohol get rid of the buggers ohhhh so sick\

Tea party conspiracy?

Wow alot of misconceptions here. I am a licensed pest technician, I really want to clear up a few things, smells do not prevent them from infesting your suitcases, backpacks...ect. Cloves, mothballs dont work period. Also there are alot of treatments, please be aware heat treatments are not 100%, if you get them use a chemical such as Phantom, as well as a IGR. Washing and drying your clothes will kill them and you need to wash and dry and bag your clothes for 2 weeks after you are treated. But please be aware they can live without food for 52 weeks, and live in wall voids, not just beds. you CANNOT treat them yourself, over the counter products are knockdowns which have 3 minute risidules. Please call a pest control company if you get them.

best way to avoid bed bugs. STAY HOME!!!!!

The most obvious and effective way to avoid bed bugs is to avoid staying
in hotels, you dummy. Any fool can see this fact you failed to mention.

I think the bed bugs must get there from the guest, they are the ones who bring them it. maybe the people and thier luggage should be inspected before they rent them a room. LOL.

Tip for avoiding hotel bedbugs...

...stay home!!!

It's too darn hot to do anything else.

stop staying in the ghetto