Wondering how to avoid bedbugs when traveling and while staying in hotels?
Learn specific steps for checking a hotel room for bed bugs. This FAQ on searching a hotel room (from New York State Integrated Pest Management’s bed bug FAQs) is brief and excellent. NYSIPM also provides a printable Travel Card on this topic (click for a PDF) which you can carry with you. This CBC Marketplace report on bed bugs is long (15 minutes or so) but is a must-see for learning about bed bugs in general and learning how to search a hotel room for bed bugs. And you have to know what bed bugs and their signs look like. You can look at our photos of bed bugs page and signs of bed bugs here, and at photos of fecal stains on a hotel headboard and hotel mattress here. Keep your luggage on the luggage rack (not bed or floor); first carefully check to see the luggage rack is free of pests (look at it from top to bottom, and under the straps). Check the mattress, headboard, frame and pictures (as much as possible), following these instructions. For more helpful tips, click to download t
