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RE: Travel horror stories: Getting eaten alive by bedbugs and having the staff blame you for it
That's just horrible... and what nasty treatment she got!
And the sad truth is that bedbugs aren't limited to hostels and lower end accommodations.
I've seen them in pretty decent mid-range hotels, and not in developing countries, either.
I think many people aren't even aware of bedbugs, if they get just a few bites and are not allergic... which I vaguely remember reading is about 75% of us.
my sincere apologies for not getting back to this sooner. It was buried underneath the usual spam comments that all of us get on everything.
Bedbugs are everywhere, this is true. I recall several stores and even gyms that have been shut down because of bedbugs and the fact of the matter is they are everywhere and very difficult to eliminate. I know from my own experience in talking to hostel owners that the only thing that actually works is heat treatment in that they get the entire area to a heat level that will actually "cook" the bugs wherever they are hiding. Chemicals and what not, don't have much of an effect and are quite likely to negatively affect the customers or in one story I heard about in Asia, kill the customers as well.
I'm not allergic, most people aren't. but for the people that are, they are going to have a bad time because they just swell up like crazy.