Bed bugs in FL hotels!?

[BWVDenise]

Yuck! The news just reported that the calls for exterminaters in Florida for bed bugs has increase 1000% since 1999! EEEEWW!

 

[PamOKW]

I saw this yesterday, too. It is not just Florida hotels but ALL hotels around the country that have an increase in bed bug problems. I agree it is disgusting. They attribute it to the increase in foreign travel where the bugs hitch a ride in the luggage etc., etc. Even some of the finest hotels have the problem. They can't exterminate the furniture and bedding without that causing a worse problem. The reports claim the bites do not spread disease. Once again...YUCK!

 

[NJmouse]

I saw that news report also on Action News. I started to itch all over. I have never had this problem at any Disney Hotel and I hope I never will!

 

[RoseNJ]

They have a close up picture of a bed bug on the Orlando Sentinal's website along with the article about the increase of bedbugs in hotels. They did say they will leave little stains on the sheets(yuck and double yuck). Hey, I'm leaving first thing tomorrow for a week at BWV. You know what they say.."Sleep tight...."inkbounc

 

[skorpie]

Don't want to upset everyone, but we were in WDW at OKW July 10-13. My DH came home the next day with a very nasty rash on his leg. He didn't think anything of it until 2 days later- it looked dark purple,circular, and the size of a CD on his shin. Finally he went to the hospital. The doctors couldn't agree on what it was. It certainly looked like tick bite to me! They finally decided that it was a staph (SP?) infection. It probably got worse by using the pools! UGH! I say, check the bed before you get in at night!

 

[PamOKW]

This bed thing is creepy but there are bugs other places in Florida, too. A few years back my dad brushed away a bug that was floating on top of the OKW pool. A little while later his finger swelled up and he was in more pain than he let on for several days. He never touched another Florida bug again.

 

[Chuck S]

This photo of a bedbug was on the University of Kentucky website.

Here in Texas, Kissing Bugs are more common. They are about an inch long, black, with red markings. They bite painlessly at night and leave a mark about the size of a nickel that looks like a large tick bite. They'll get infected and sore for about 4 days, and will fade completely in about 3 months.

 

[BWVDenise]

Thank you so much, Chuck-- as if I wasn't already grossed out enough!!

I always check the sheets closely before diving in at a hotel-- no matter where it is!

 

[DVCajun]

Oh gross, I knew I should have skipped this post!!! Aaurgh! I'm going to go change my sheets.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Adding Raid to my packing list.

 

[Regina]

OH YUCK!!!!

Note to self: Do not open threads that have bug in their title.

 

[jctwizzer]

It must have been a r e a l l y slow news day for whoever published that article......sounds like a real non-event and nothing to get excited over. I have been travelling to Florida, and other locations, for over 50 years and have never, ever encountered a bed bug, or other creature....and I've stayed in some fairly basic accomoodations. Try not to believe every thing you read in the paper or, especially, see on the tube.......they have to fill space somehow.

 

[JackDiznee]

This bedbug story made the Drudge Report a couple of days ago.
It appears travelers from overseas are getting the blame.