to all of you wondering if the santa fe had bed bugs...well it did... i had the nightmnare of bringing them back with me! that was in dec last year and were still batteling the problem..in fact the rentokill guy is here spraying as i speak, i rang the council for a free treatment 3 times he came and it did nothing, now £300 later rentokill seem to be working! apart from that the santa fe was great we enjoyed it all i can say is check your mattress on yr return was everything on a 60 degreee wash before anything enters the rest of your house because i wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy, weve had to live out of bin bags in another room and throw all our fuirnature away!! as i say i cant nock the hotel on the whole just be careful!!
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Bedbugs?? Not sure what you mean, as all mattresses have bed bugs if you look under a microscope, even if you vacuum them regularly. You can buy special anti-bedbug mattresses, but they are expensive, and I%26#39;m not sure how they work.Bedbugs cannot be seen by the naked eye, so you don%26#39;t know they are there.Not sure what your bedbugs are.Have you told the hotel?
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No your thinking of dust mites, bed bugs are the ones that bite you they can be seen with the naked eye and are extremely difficlut to eradicate! there awful, if you google bed bugs you will see what they are!, i have emailed disney and to be honest i should if done it a while ago.I was just sat here getting myself mad about it so thought theres no point me just thinking it i need to tell them!
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Figgy -
What you%26#39;re talking about are dustmites - bedbugs are larger, biting insects that are very difficult to eradicate.
I once worked in a hotel where the bbs took up residence. The room was stripped down to the concrete and everything, wallpaper, drapes, carpet, bed frame, mattress and box spring, all other furnishings bedding, art work, television, telephones, medicine cabinet, waste baskets, shower curtain, etc. Everything was packaged up in plastic and incinerated. The room was sprayed every day for more than a week and then steam washed. It was left vacant for a month and sprayed once a week, then steam washed again, and finally refitted. The biggest problem is that we no longer use DDT, and nothing else is as effective.
Pinkie - what room were you in? Bedbugs are often confined to a single room in a hotel.
A friend who%26#39;s a flight attendant carries plastic trash bags to protect her luggage so she doesn%26#39;t take any home. She also unpacks her bag in the bathtub and hangs her clothing from the shower curtain rail in the bathroom. None of her belongings ever is placed in the closet or the chest of drawers. Everything simply remains in the bathroom unless enclosed in a trashbag.
If you have the misfortune to come across an infestation, bite the bullet and dispose of everything that you took into that room without taking your luggage into your house, or even your car. If it were mine, it wouldn%26#39;t even get to the airport to come home. I%26#39;d take all my luggage and belongings into the hotel%26#39;s General Manager%26#39;s office to be sure he was aware of the infestation, and let him arrange for the incineration of my things. He could make those arrangements while he was crediting my Amex account for all the hotel%26#39;s charges and ensuring that I had an enormous credit for future stays in the chain%26#39;s properties.
The only way to keep the bugs out of your bed is to to resist putting your suitcases on it to unpack them and to put a thick band of Vaseline (petroleum jelly) around the legs of the bed frame in case the bugs have gotten onto your bedroom floor. Many people advise to place the legs in bowls of water, in addition to the Vaseline.
Bedbugs have nothing to do with cleanliness. They now are being found in places all over the world because everyone from everywhere is travelling to everywhere else and the bugs hitch hike.
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I cant remember what room i was in, soemthing to do wirth a bird rings a bell, that block, they were all animals werent they, yeah i take a big plastic bag with me now there%26#39;s no way i%26#39;d ever want to go through this again! we didnt find out we had them until march and we went in dec, we had a couple of bites but didnt put 2 and 2 together never thought in a million years we%26#39;d have bed bugs! it was only when i got my 1 yr old in bed with us and woke in the night to find one crawling on her! it was terrible!
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They most definitely CAN be seen by the naked eye, so can their excrement (as others have stated here). I check every hotel/gite I go to BEFORE I ever settle in.
There are many, many websites out there to help you identify the bugs and the types of bite marks they make.
Here are a couple. The first one mentions some of the preventive care tactics 1BC mentioned (such as vaseline).
ehow.com/how_5027434_protect-yourself-bed-bu…
…mac.com/rjulius/…Bed_Bugs.html
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How horrid! I must be thinking of dust mites then, except we call them bedbugs! Didn%26#39;t realise two different types, and that you can see bedbugs. Fortunately, I%26#39;ve never seen them, but this is good info.
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Where do you live? I looked at the bedbug sites, and watched some videos on utube, and they all seem to be American. I live in the UK. Maybe it%26#39;s a bigger problem in the USA as it says they like a warm climate.
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Figgy, I%26#39;m afraid you are out to lunch on the %26#39;must be American%26#39;.
- The OP had the problem in France, not the US.
- The OP is obviously somewhere in the UK as the price for exterminator fees is given in £.
- Even in climates as cold as here in Canada there are bedbug problems
- since the bugs live on humans and in buildings the climate of the country is unlikely to be a major factor.
Do some more research... they are a world wide problem. You should know
how to check for them when you check into a hotel or you%26#39;ll end up with the same problem as PinkiPie31!
Rob
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Figgy,
Re must be an American problem:
Here%26#39;s a quote from Wikipedia:
%26quot;Bedbugs were originally brought to the United States by early colonists from Europe%26quot;
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And, at least one of the links I posted DID discuss the problem being in the USA, Canada AND Europe.
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