Travel reporter gets bed bugs after hundreds of hotel stays
After traveling to 71 countries and staying in hundreds of hotels, NY1 journalist Valerie D’Elia encountered bed bugs in a hotel. Luckily, she did not appear to take them home with her. Here she tells...
View ArticleBed bug hotel claim in Isle of Wight; study/travel abroad and bed bugs
BED BUG CLAIM EARNS GUEST £630 (Isle of Wight, UK) “A DISGRUNTLED guest who claimed his experience at a Sandown hotel ruined his break has won £630 in compensation. Keith Clack, from Brighton, took...
View ArticleBed bugs where you do expect to find them: Boston Globe on hotels hiring bed...
The Boston Globe has a new article about bed bugs, mainly focusing on how ten or so hotels in Boston are employing a bed bug dog to do regular walkthroughs. In the 3 1/2 years it’s been open, Jurys...
View ArticleMaclean’s on bed bugs
Canadian news weekly Maclean’s has a story on bed bugs dated January 3, 2008 by John Intini. The article conveys the scope of the problem and the speed at which it seems to be spreading: To get a full...
View ArticleBed bugs from Saskatoon to Salt Lake City
Today, bed bug news from Saskatoon and Salt Lake City. First, an entire apartment building is being treated for bed bugs in the Fairhaven area of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan after “a couple isolated...
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Unlucky in Vegas
Originally uploaded by crazy cat collector This photo by crazy cat collector has the caption: Some of the bed bug bites I got while staying at the Las Vegas Hilton.
View ArticleHotel Bed Bugs Don’t Warrant Punitive Damages, Judge Decides (Milford Plaza...
Daniel Wise of the New York Law Journal reports that In a ruling of first impression, a Manhattan judge has scratched a request for punitive damages in a bedbug case. But the judge, Acting Supreme...
View ArticleWhat is a bed bug infestation? One bed bug? Twenty bed bugs? 200 bed bugs?!?
This bed bug story from KHON2 (Fox) in Honolulu interested me. First, it’s a cautionary tale about how easily bed bugs spread: this woman says she spent one hour at an event held in a hotel lounge and...
View ArticleWould you like a treadmill in your room, sir?
Some Westin hotels are now offering guests the WestinWORKOUT: a treadmill, spinning cycle, dumbbells, or other exercise equipment left in their room for use during their stay in the hotel room. This is...
View ArticleBed bugs shut down a Manhattan, Kansas motel
The Manhattan, KS Mercury reports today that The Econo Lodge on Tuttle Creek Boulevard was closed last week by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, due to several rooms having “bed bugs.”...
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