Confirmed case of bedbugs. Should I ask for my points back?

[Wakey]

I'm not sure it's poor housekeeping. Bedbugs are an epidemic, and anyone can get them. I work in schools, in and out of 35 buildings. A bunch of them have bedbugs and the only soft goods are the carpets. People gather in places travel and just one person needs to have a bedbug travel with them to have a hotel or school or anywhere with fabric get bedbugs.

Yes, but are they picking up on them as they should be. If anyone should spot them, its housekeepers, who could then take the room out of circulation. They may be doing, but when they miss obvious things like dirty underwear, half-eaten popcorn bags etc, are they spotting the bedbugs enough?

 

[71 Truck]

I had read at one time pest control companies were using dogs to detect them. I wonder if Disney might use dogs to confirm a guest report or do they tear the room down to the basics looking for them.

 

[monica9]

is it crazy that I deep down wish our room had them so we can get a refund and some new clothes? lol, jk. Gross and hopefully it's taken care of for you. Are they as hard to get rid of than lice? I know my neice had lice for over a year because my sister just couldn't get rid of all of them!! What a pain

 

[quandrea]

is it crazy that I deep down wish our room had them so we can get a refund and some new clothes? lol, jk. Gross and hopefully it's taken care of for you. Are they as hard to get rid of than lice? I know my neice had lice for over a year because my sister just couldn't get rid of all of them!! What a pain

Way worse than lice. A bed bug can go eighteen months without a meal. Lice can go just 48 hours without feeding so they are easy to kill. Bedbugs are resistant to chemicals. Heat is the best way to kill them. I always put my clothes in a hot dryer for thirty minutes as I unpack after a trip. We had s bedbug scare once and the work involved was more than anything I have ever endured in my forty six years. It was truly horrible.

 

[gillep]

I had read at one time pest control companies were using dogs to detect them. I wonder if Disney might use dogs to confirm a guest report or do they tear the room down to the basics looking for them.

Disney has a few beagles that they use for bedbug detection. They are used to confirm cases from reports if the pest expert doesn't find evidence, and to clear a room once treated, but also as a preemptive measure they inspect some percentage of rooms randomly. We have seen them around a few times over the years, and it was explained to us when we had our incident.

One other thing that was interesting is that we moved from our Kidani room to CCV for the rest of our stay, and they inspected the CCV room with the dogs prior to us being allowed in to get a baseline. Then, even though we were staying on points, our room got a full cleaning each day, which I believe was partially to see if we had brought any with us. They also said the room would be screened with the dogs after we left, before anyone else was allowed in.

From my experience only, I would say that Disney takes bedbugs very seriously.

 

[Disneyfan754321]

Florida is the head state of Bugs in General then add in they have more guest in and out of there from every state and country.

 

[karen4546]

never had an issue with bedbugs. Just reading this is creeping me out. i do check the corners of the sheets/mattress but never thought to check picture frames !?

I love the refurbished rooms at AKL - just stayed in one in April. NO CARPET, raised bed, no "mosquito net" on the wall and clean white linens. No, not in your face "Disney" but there were several other touches that were lovely-baskets, framed art, etc.

I think removing carpet in the resorts is great.

Staying at BCV in September. First time as owners...own at AKV but made first booking at BCV for Food & Wine. It is a studio. I am going to have to check better.

btw - OP, i am sorry you had to go through that. Even though you "rented" points, you should have been refunded the cost of the room. Being bitten is awful. and having to buy clothes? I do not dry many of my clothes-underpants and socks. everything else is air dried. I pack ALOT of clothes on vacation because i can't care for them properly. So, if my clothes were to get infested i would definitely be SOL. Well, i guess they could dryclean them. but ewwwww just ewwwwww

 

[Best Aunt]

Being bitten is awful. and having to buy clothes? I do not dry many of my clothes-underpants and socks. everything else is air dried. I pack ALOT of clothes on vacation because i can't care for them properly. So, if my clothes were to get infested i would definitely be SOL. Well, i guess they could dryclean them. but ewwwww just ewwwwww

I was wondering about this. Let's say you have clothing which is 100% cotton and would shrink in the dryer. If they treat clothes with high heat to kill bed bugs, do the clothes shrink?

 

[bumbershoot]

You should definitely ask.

I once rented a one bedroom rather than a studio for a night because we were in transit from Disneyland to Universal Orlando, and I wanted to wash clothes. Washed clothes...the dryer didn't work. It was far too late by then to sit in the laundry room. So we had to extend our stay by a number of hours rather than leaving in the morning, to use the public facilities there. I let them know at the resort that the dryer wasn't working, and i also wrote in. I asked for the difference in points, since that was literally the only reason I'd used the extra points. It was done very quickly. I bet they could also see that I had reported the dryer, and it wasn't just something I made up.

 

[suebeelin]

Yes!!! Are you kidding? I would be so mad

 

[stuartsong]

You should definitely get your points back or least free stay for the number of nights of your last stay.

 

[DisneyRegulars]

I had read at one time pest control companies were using dogs to detect them. I wonder if Disney might use dogs to confirm a guest report or do they tear the room down to the basics looking for them.

I can confirm that Disney uses canines for bed bug sniffing. Source: I took a tour of one of their amazing laundry rooms and asked.

 

[FreeTime]

I will probably get flamed for this but I do not think your points should be refunded if you don’t have any evidence that you didn’t bring them in. Not discovering it until you got home would give me pause. Since they are offering to treat your home, that is more than enough.

I do inspections of affordable housing and we do check for bedbugs. They are very common. On days that I am in the field I get undressed in the garage. We do have spray that we apply to our clothes prior to an inspection but it is not effective. Our office gets a report of a bed bug being found at least once a month. Which to me is pretty low considering we have 40 people going in other people’s homes about 20 times a day, each. The dogs come in and sniff for more and we always have human scented traps around to try and catch ones that aren’t found. I say all of this to point out that although I work in a cautious environment and I am cautious, it doesn’t mean that I haven’t brought one in somewhere. In my line of work though they are so common place to us that it is no different than a mosquito or rat infestation. We know both of these are at WDW and should assume bed bugs are too. Hopefully a rat will never hitch its way home!

All of this being said, we do look for them as soon as we get in a room. Always put our luggage on a hardgood, wash clothing before we leave for home, unload them in the garage, place empty luggage in a garbage bag and leave in the hot garage for several weeks, then take to basement. Take the clothes and put in the dryer, then wash them again. Be sure to check all stuffies like you would check your dog for ticks and be sure to wash them also.

And after all of this work I usually say to myself, “why do I try so hard they are everywhere anyways?!”

 

[PatMcDuck]

Years ago, there was a bedbug problem at a few local AMC movie theaters.

I actually never think about them and don't check for them. Oppsie.