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I always check hotel mattresses for bedbugs, and it finally paid off in Zurich
27.10.2023 - 17:24 / insider.com
I've never had bedbugs, and I plan to keep it that way.
That's why I always take 15 minutes to inspect my hotel rooms for signs of the blood-sucking critters when I check in. I've been doing it for years, and I believe it recently saved me from a bedbug exposure.
Before this, my inspections had never given me a reason to suspect bedbugs. But two weeks ago, when I lifted up the sheets and saw rust-colored spots speckling my hotel mattress, I was so glad I'd been diligent all these years.
I thought of all the times I've resisted the urge to immediately flop onto the hotel bed, or asked the friend I was traveling with to check the mattress with me. Just a few nights before, in another hotel room, I had watched news reports about a skin-crawling bedbug outbreak in Paris.
It's been two weeks, and there's no indication that I brought any tiny, nefarious hitchhikers home with me. I remain bedbug-free!
Here's what I did to protect myself and my luggage.
That day, I had taken a train from the Swiss Alps to Zurich, where I was flying out the next morning to return home. I had booked a room in an affordable boutique hotel that was just 15 minutes from the airport.
When I got to my assigned room and opened the door, I was dismayed that it was fully carpeted inside.
I don't allow my luggage to touch the carpet, bed, curtains, or upholstered chairs in a hotel room. Any of that fabric could harbor bedbugs.
So, I carried my suitcase across the small room, hoisting it high above the bed as I passed by to get to the wood desk, where I placed all of my bags.
Then I pulled up the corners of the sheets to look directly at the mattress, which sported some kind of old brown-and-cream colored print. It was obviously stained from age.
When I shined my phone flashlight along the seams, though, I noticed a lot of tiny rust-colored spots, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
The closer I looked, the more spots I saw, even going past the seams and up onto the main spread of the mattress. I checked another corner and saw the same thing.
I hid in the tiled bathroom to search the internet for confirmation. Indeed, those spots are exactly what the US Environmental Protection Agency says to look for. The reddish stains can be caused by bedbug droppings and be signs of bedbugs being crushed.
So I aggressively washed my hands, gathered my things, and went downstairs as quickly as possible.
I was in such a rush to get out of the room that I didn't even stop to take photos of the evidence. I was probably in and out within 15 or 20 minutes.
Unfortunately, my suitcase did touch the hallway carpet because I rolled it up and down the hall.
I told the woman at the front desk that I'd spotted signs of bedbugs, and she went
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