Bed Bugs in Hotel Rooms Are On the Rise. – Cond Nast Traveler

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Good rule of thumb? Put your luggage in the bathtub when you check in.

After a day of travel, many of us, upon arrival to a hotel room, will deposit our luggage on a luggage rack and flop onto the bed. And while this may be the most convenientand comfortableseries of events, it's also the riskiest. The reason? These locales are prime real estate for bed bugs.

Small insects that feed on human and animal blood, bed bugs lay hundreds of eggs that are hard to spoteach is no larger than a speck of dust. The statistics are somewhat terrifying: According to a recent survey, hotels and motels are the third most popular popular place pest professionals encounter bed bugs. Once inside a hotel, bed bugs are easily able to spread from room to room through a number of means including pipes, wall sockets, vacuum cleaners, on clothing, and luggage. Given that adult bed bugs can survive several months without eating, they are often incredibly hard to control.

In recent months, bed bugs have been on the rise across the country. A 2015 Bugs Without Borders study found that bed bug treatments are significantly higher nationwide than 15 years ago , and New York City hotels alone saw a 44 percent increase for January of this year compared to 2015even at five-star hotels.

To minimize your risk of contact with bed bugs at a hotel, experts say you should first place your luggage in the bathtuba slippery surface that is difficult for the bugs to cling onto. Continue inspecting your room by examining the bed: check its mattress, piping, and headboard, and pull up the comforters and look for small black dots that resemble ground pepper . See anything suspicious? Speak up, and contact hotel staff immediately.

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