What To Do If You Find Bed Bugs In Your Hotel Bed?

Finding Bed bugs is regularly experienced by travelers especially those visiting countries like Thailand or Vietnam. Bed bug bites are not as dangerous as mosquito bites which can carry various diseases. Having bed bugs in your bed is obviously a nightmare. Not only ruin your night’s sleep but the bites cause skin irritation and even infection.

If you discover that your bed in your accommodation has bed bugs, then you should report it immediately as the bites will irritate your skin for a couple of days. The best way to prevent the situation is to inspect the accommodation before paying for it and checking the online review. prevention is better than a cure.

In this post, we will go through what to do if you find bed bugs in your hotel bed. Let’s get started!

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Signs Of Bed Bugs

Bed bugs are commonly present in low-cost hotels especially those in older buildings. If you are a budget traveler you are more likely going to encounter this problem. As budget or cheap hotels are cheap for a reason, and when booking a room always check for bed bugs.

You might not find any when you arrive at the hotel but you might discover them the following day. After getting into the hotel room, start checking if there are some rusty dark marks on the walls, sheets, and other places as well.

These marks can be a sign of bed bugs. As bed bugs are tiny, we may not be able to spot them directly.

Furthermore, with their small size, they can just hide everywhere in the room. Although we don’t see the actual bed bugs, there are signs that these tiny, annoying bugs are there in your hotel room.

The common sign is the bites on our body and these are usually very itchy. In addition, there is usually blood on the sheets.

Before booking your hotel room, do your research first by reading the reviews. This will give a good intention if bed bugs have been a problem for previous guests.

What To Do Next?

Of course, you will have to complain to the hotel if there are bed bugs in your bed. You will have to provide the evidence as they will try to argue it. If you see any bugs, try to trap them and put them in a plastic bag.

Take pictures of them, too. But, if we don’t see any, just take pictures of the bites on our bodies. Show the pictures and the caught bed bugs to the hotel staff so they know what has happened.

You have the right to ask for your money back. If you can show the evidence, usually the hotel will not argue.

Generally, guests will be offered another room. This depends on you. We can give it a try or we can also try to look for another hotel.

It is recommended to choose the first option especially if it is not possible to move into a new place for whatever reason.

If we still find bed bugs in the new room, we can complain again and consider looking for another place to stay. If bed bugs are found in more than one room, it seems that all the rooms in the hotel have the same problem.

After Moving Into Another Hotel

For your information, bed bugs can travel with us. That is why whether we are going to return home or move into a new hotel, don’t directly take our suitcase into your home.

Instead, leave it outside, take the clothes, and get them washed thoroughly. It is also important to have the suitcase and shoes cleaned. After that, go straight to the shower.

USEFUL TRAVEL RESOURCES

Book Accommodation

Booking.com has a large range of properties from hotels, hostels, guesthouses, and resorts where you will find the best deals. Airbnb and Hostelworld also have a good range of places to stay at good prices.

Booking Flight

Skyscanner is a flight search comparison website that searches millions of flights all at once. Ultimately it is the best flight comparison website online at the moment.

Booking Transportation & Things To Do

Rome2rio and 12Go are useful to plan how to get anywhere by searching train, bus, car, and ferry routes. Especially useful in countries like Vietnam or Thailand. While Klook is great for exploring things to do in each place.

Travel Insurance

Travel insurance is cheap and more than likely you will never need to use it but you will have peace of mind if something does happen, you are covered in case of an emergency. World Nomads have great customer service and competitive prices.

Check out our resource page for the best companies to use when you travel.

Wrapping Up

Finally, if you discover that your bed in your accommodation has bed bugs, then you should report it immediately as the bites will irritate your skin for a couple of days. The best way to prevent the situation is to inspect the accommodation before paying for it and checking the online review. prevention is better than a cure.

And that’s it for now! I’d love to know if this guide on what to do if you find bed bugs in your hotel bed has helped you. Let me know if you have any questions and let me know if there is more to add.