However, contrary to popular belief, a room can be infested without any evidence. The guest leaves and the hotel now has bedbugs. They move into the room that guest stayed in. A guest arrives, and brings them with them.

Lets consider a hotel that we know to be 100% free of bed begs. So this is how it goes down for a hotel, why they generally can't prevent you from having a bad experience with them, and how they deal with it:

Many people don't have reactions to their bites at all and some people could live in infested conditions and never know it if they didn't see them-which they may not. They travel on people, within their clothing, and luggage. They aren't attracted to dirty, rotten food filled places.

You could stay in the biggest dump, or a 5 star hotel and the only difference in your likely hood of encountering them is the significant cost of dealing with them. Outside of some fun messing with your mind, here are the facts of the situation:īed bugs are like mosquitoes, they feast on people and animals. So do we ban people from NY from staying in our hotel? Due to the population density and how often people from there travel, they may in fact infect the entire world in the next 50 years(not completely scientific fact, but likely). However, the odds of you picking them up on the NY subway, or in a NY mall, are higher than ever experiencing them in a hotel. The hotel you stay in has at some point had them, and will at some point have them again.

So lets get to the reality of this for those guests that read this subreddit, those employees who haven't had to deal with this yet, and those with fascinating, horrifying stories.īed bugs. No, but really, the pause of silence after someone asks this, is so awkwardly quiet as I consider whether I should explain everything I'm about to say or just say 'no.' I mean, if we knew we had that issue and were like, 'yeah whatever, we don't care'(which would never happen), do you think, when asking that question I would say, 'Yes, yes we do, but I'll make sure that in the room we give you, we fed them someone yesterday, so you don't have to worry.' If you have a vampire fetish I have a special room for you. Yes, in fact, this is a feature that we offer.

The aventura hotel bed bugs