Bed Bug Travel Tips

"Bed bug travel tips are designed to help you avoid picking up a bedbug from a hotel room, cruise ship or even public transportation.  Be sure to check for bed bugs when entering any hotel room and if you suspect the presence of these insects, call the hotel manager who can help you inspect the room.  Bed bugs are found in every country, so guard your luggage and yourself os that you do not bring them home with you."  

Many travelers worry that they are going to either sleep in a hotel or cruise ship room that is infested wtih bed bugs.  Bed bugs have even been reported in public transportation, with reported incidents in Australia and Europe.  Hotels probably are the most likely place you will find bed bugs, just based on the number of hotels around the world.  Reports on cruise ships are infrequent, but possible.

 Here are our bed bug travel tips to help avoid sleeping in a room that has been infested and how to avoid accidently bringing them home.  Traveling without bedbugs doesn't have to be hard.

Signs of Bed Bug Infestation

When inspecting a hotel room or other area when traveling, you can look for the following signs of bed bugs:

• Fecal remains (brown spots) or blood spots on sheets or the mattress itself.  Look along the seams in particular.  Look at the bed frame, night stands and other areas near the bed.  Note that carpet beatles are often mistaken for bed bugs (see image below).
• Bed bug shells  which look like brownish black specks.
• An oder that is a rasberry sweet smell.

Bed Bug Travel Tips

Here are our travel tips for how to avoid bed bugs. To reduce your chances of bringing hom bed bugs when you travel, consider these bed bug travel tips.:

• When traveling, only bring clothes that can be washed when you get home. Select clothes which can be laundered in hot water and withstand 20 to 30 minutes in the dryer.
• Consider using luggage that doesn't have outside seams, such as hard sided luggage.  Bed bugs will try and hide in crevices on the luggage and like to lay eggs on rough surfaces.
• If you purchase items, place them in sealable plastic bags.
• Don't place your luggage inside the hotel room until you inspect the room for bed bugs.
• When entering the room place luggage on racks and away from the floor and if possible at least 10 feet away from the bed.  Most bedbugs will be near the bed.
• Keep clothes in the luggage, not hotel room drawers.  
• Zip or close luggage after it is opened so that nothing can crawl inside.
• If hanging clothes, consider hanging it on the shower rack or in the bathroom, the place where bed bugs are last likely to hide.
• Consider packing Bed Bug Interceptors.  They are small bowels that are placed under each bed let.  The bed bugs climb up the bowel and get trapped inside on their way to you.  If the bowel is empty, then you probably do not have a bed bug problem.  They are available online from All Stop.
  
  
  
  Picture of Climbup Bed Bug Interceptor For Travel
  

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