How to Avoid Infesting Your House with Bed Bugs From a Hotel

The night before you check out, remove every item from your suitcase. Bed bugs are effective hitchhikers.

They can survive for years without food and if they hitched in your luggage, they can start an infestation in your home.

Check your wooden items for bed bugs. Bed bugs like wooden items, cloth and paper. These are the materials in which they create their habitat.

Spray on a water based insect killer around your suitcase. Shake off your clothes for any signs of bed bugs. Wipe your bath tub dry and put your items and clothes in there. Bed bugs won't stay on tub crevices since a tub is made of ceramic or marbles and it usually gets wet.

Wash your used clothing before you leave for home. Once your bedroom has been infested with bed bugs, it will spread fast to neighboring rooms. Getting rid of bed bugs is a very tough job. You may even need to throw away your bed and sofa to wipe your house clean from any trace of bed bugs.

Detecting the bed bug odor at hotels

How does bed bug odor smell? Hotels with heavy bed bug infestation has an offensive, sweet-like, musty odor that bed bug releases. This odor usually comes from under the mattresses and/or headboard.

If your hotel has a wooden chair or a sofa with crevices, if they have a problem with bed bugs, the smell will emanate from them as well. However, the bed bug odor is not easily detectable at hotels with minimal or light infestation.