Detecting Bed Bugs in Hotel Rooms: The Traveler's Guide

Alana Korol

August 1, 2019

The last thing on a person’s mind while they are traveling is that when they get to their destination, they need to check their surroundings – particularly the bed they’ll be sleeping in – for bed bugs.

What We Know About Bed Bugs

Bed bugs are expert hitchhikers. Female bed bugs can lay upwards of 500 eggs in her entire lifetime! All it takes is for one female to find her way onto an unsuspecting victim for her to be able to make a new home and create an entirely new infestation.

How to Detect Bed Bugs in Your Hotel Room

Here are a few tips to help you avoid being attacked by or accidentally picking up bed bugs:

Do NOT put your bags/luggage on the bed or floor:

Store them in the bathtub or shower while you check for bed bugs.

Normally, when you first walk into a hotel room after a long day of travel, all you want to do is drop your bags and flop on the bed and begin to unwind. By setting your bags aside first, you’re already taking an important first step in avoiding accidentally bringing one of these nasty bugs home.

Check the Bed

Using a black light be sure to carefully examine the bed. You’ll want to inspect the headboard and nightstands, even peeking into the drawers. Check-in and around any pillows, blankets and sheets, mattress padding, and finally in the tight crevices of the lining of the mattress.

Check the furniture

Be sure to also give a good look over on any chairs and couches that are in your room. Bed bugs will inhabit any piece of furniture that gives them an opportunity to feed (or hitchhike) from an unsuspecting victim.

What to Do If You Found Bed Bugs

Immediately alert the hotel staff and request a new room at the opposite wing of the hotel, also checking that room to make sure it is bedbug-free.

Even if you do not spot bed bugs, you can still travel with peace of mind by packing travel protection such as travel spray and luggage encasements to help keep your luggage safe from these invaders and making sure that you don’t bring such an unwanted souvenir home.

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