Shasta
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First off, I know this is one of those squirmy conversations that don't make you feel good afterwards. I am not trying to spread rumors about Disney. These are facts, you can decide.
My Brother owns a pest service buisness and today while we were speaking about day to day stuff, I mentioned that we were going to dinsey in Jan. He then shared a few interesting comments that he had heard recently.
At a National conference, he hear one of the guest speakers (an Entomologist) covering a few national items like movement of Killer Bees to Mississippi from Southern Louisiana in 2008, bla, bla, bla. Also he mentioned that in the last 6 months there had been a small epidemic of bed bugs in three area in the US. Washington, New York and Orlando. These locations specificaly because of the % of travelers from abroad.
He said that they (this is the grey part because I don't know if he was speaking about Dinsey or area hotels and condos) had began to take action by treating rooms in an interesting way. A third party service company would bring equipment into rooms, take some items out, seal them and heat the room to over 300F for a certain perdion of time in order to steralize it.
He mentioned a few things that I should do for my trip, First was to leave my clothes in the suit cases if possible and put suit cases near the vanity or closer to hard floor services. He also is going to supply me with a can of BedLam, a product that you can spray on the matress and outside of your luggage to kill any potential bugs. My brother described that you can't inspect a matress to see if they are infested because the bugs craw into tiny crevaces to hide at all times other than their active 2-4 a.m. period. Worse than the potential bites were the chance of packing them in your clothes and bringing them back to infest your home. Treatment for a home is very expensive and extensive for him. Cheaper but still extensive for the homeowners to treat thier homes themselves.
I have read a few posts recently on this forum regarding bedbugs that may tied in to these comments that the speaker made. Decide for yourself but do give it some though. It won't keep me from staying on property but it will make me take a few steps of precaution.
Sorry for the squirmy feeling I just gave you!
My Brother owns a pest service buisness and today while we were speaking about day to day stuff, I mentioned that we were going to dinsey in Jan. He then shared a few interesting comments that he had heard recently.
At a National conference, he hear one of the guest speakers (an Entomologist) covering a few national items like movement of Killer Bees to Mississippi from Southern Louisiana in 2008, bla, bla, bla. Also he mentioned that in the last 6 months there had been a small epidemic of bed bugs in three area in the US. Washington, New York and Orlando. These locations specificaly because of the % of travelers from abroad.
He said that they (this is the grey part because I don't know if he was speaking about Dinsey or area hotels and condos) had began to take action by treating rooms in an interesting way. A third party service company would bring equipment into rooms, take some items out, seal them and heat the room to over 300F for a certain perdion of time in order to steralize it.
He mentioned a few things that I should do for my trip, First was to leave my clothes in the suit cases if possible and put suit cases near the vanity or closer to hard floor services. He also is going to supply me with a can of BedLam, a product that you can spray on the matress and outside of your luggage to kill any potential bugs. My brother described that you can't inspect a matress to see if they are infested because the bugs craw into tiny crevaces to hide at all times other than their active 2-4 a.m. period. Worse than the potential bites were the chance of packing them in your clothes and bringing them back to infest your home. Treatment for a home is very expensive and extensive for him. Cheaper but still extensive for the homeowners to treat thier homes themselves.
I have read a few posts recently on this forum regarding bedbugs that may tied in to these comments that the speaker made. Decide for yourself but do give it some though. It won't keep me from staying on property but it will make me take a few steps of precaution.
Sorry for the squirmy feeling I just gave you!
The kids won't sleep like that and think I am nuts but just thinking about it disgusts me.
Thank you very much I will watch this thread to see if your brother knows how/where we can purchase.
Wish me luck!!!
