Brooklyn: 718-517-2227 Manhattan: 212-737-8212 Toll Free: 1-800-745-5022
In any economy, good or bad, no business owner wants to lose customers or have their business or brand's reputation tarnished. Bed bugs can infest a hotel room with each passing guest, leaving the next guest at risk of being bitten by this professional hitchhiker. With hotel bed bug report websites such as Raveable.com and bedbugregistry.com that make it extremely easy to report a hotel's bed bug infestation, a hotel's reputation can be destroyed in a heartbeat. The best way to treat a bed bug infestation is to proactively avoid it. Hotel bed bug infestations can prove to be costly both directly and indirectly. Some of the direct costs that can be incurred from a hotel bed bug infestation are: cost of extermination (which can cost thousands of dollars), lawsuits as well as replacement costs for new mattresses and furniture. Indirectly, lost revenue due to negative publicity can be devastating. Word of mouth news can become viral through social media avenues. In addition to the websites mentioned above, negative publicity can be generated from other mass media outlets including online and printed news articles, along with Facebook, Twitter and other industry related blogs.
Despite the efforts of hotel owners in the United States, bedbugs continued to plague our nation's hotels; so much so in fact, that the number of hotel bed bug reports and the number of individual hotels that have bedbugs is astonishing! Comparing January 1st - September 1st of 2010 and 2011, hotel bedbug reports for 2011 eclipsed the 2010 totals by over 660%! In addition, in that same time period, the number of individual hotels with bedbug infestations has risen 250%! This professional hitchhiker is showing the nation its staying power and its ability to reproduce at alarming rates. Below are the cities with the greatest number of hotel bedbug reports in 2011 through September 1st 2011:
Rank |
City |
% Increase 2010-2011 |
1 |
Las Vegas |
330% |
2 |
New York City |
135% |
3 |
San Francisco |
209% |
4 |
Orlando |
317% |
5 |
Atlantic City |
282% |
6 |
Chicago |
207% |
7 |
Los Angeles |
329% |
8 |
Washington D.C. |
192% |
9 |
Columbus |
667% |
10 |
Anaheim |
340% |
Courtesy of Raveable.com and the report can be viewed: here.
If a hotel does not address a bedbug infestation immediately, the infestation can spread throughout the hotel via guests and staff. Considering exterminators are challenged by eradicating bed bugs in one bedroom apartments, imagine a full fledged infestation that is running rampant throughout your hotel. Quarantining rooms is extremely ineffective because bed bugs can travel through pipes and cracks as they seek a new host. Additionally, the pests can live for up to one year without a blood feeding. Prevention and Extermination become your only options as a hotel owner or manager.
With extermination being the drastically more expensive of the two options, prevention is key. A full-fledged extermination of an average sized hotel can cost thousands of dollars, and that is just for the cost of extermination. Bed bug extermination can become quite expensive. Even when a thorough extermination is conducted (including the use of bed bug dog services), there is a good chance some bed bugs and their eggs remain, leading to multiple exterminations before a large scale bed bug infestation is eradicated.
This becomes problematic for hotels, their owners and managers especially due to the constant flow of patrons and staff who can reintroduce an infestation at any time! Despite having the ability to estimate what extermination will cost for any given establishment, the total financial loss incurred by bed bugs can be catastrophic for any business. Take into account loss of business during extermination, negative publicity for having a bed bug infestation, tarnished reputation and potential lawsuits that could occur.
Any hotel owner factoring in the negative impact of a bed bug infestation can see that prevention is clearly an easier and less cost intensive option as opposed to extermination. Bed bug prevention requires a few key elements:
Applying these practices in your hotel will greatly increase your chances of avoiding a massive bed bug infestation that will only eat away at your money and peace of mind.
The best way to treat a bed bug infestation is to proactively avoid it. Bed Bug 911’s cleaning and bed bug products help your hotel prevent bed bugs, by incorporating the products into your routine pest control program. Our products:
These products have been specifically designed and engineered for your housekeeping staff to use each time a room is turned over. They are stain and scent free and may be applied by as often as necessary without a pest control license. Incorporating these products is vital in order to dmonstrate that your hotel is doing everything in its power to prevent bedbug infestations. If Bed Bug 911 Exterminator is used regularly to avoid the direct and indirect costs of even one infestation, it will justify the expense!
Bed Bug 911 Exterminator is best utilized, by having your knowledgeable housekeeping staff: spray down the bedding, box spring, pillows, all linens and any other common areas that bed bugs nest. Doing this will ensure that any bed bugs, bed bug nymphs (which are microscopic and nearly undetectable) introduced by the room’s previous occupant will be eliminated on contact. In addition, Bed Bug 911 Exterminator will cost you less than $1 per room / per month! –
Incorporating these products in to your hotel’s routine bedbug prevention and pest prevention routine will effectively reduce the amount of bed bug infestations in your establishment, if not eliminate them totally.
Even if your hotel holds prevention in the highest regard, the reality is that every new guest that walks through your doors is a potential bed bug infestation in the making. The next best way to treat a bed bug infestation, after proactive prevention, is early detection. Bed bugs reproduce at extremely alarming rates; a pregnant female bed bug can lay between one and three eggs daily and over 500 during their lifetime. Because of their rapid rate of reproduction, a bed bug infestation can get out of hand very quickly. Bed bug nymphs will grow into adulthood within a month and a half, the earliest being about one month. If a bed bug infestation goes untreated for even a short period of time, the results will be devastating. Early detection will ensure that any devastating potential bed bug infestations are avoided; the earlier they are found, the easier they are to eradicate. There are however, a couple of measures that can be taken to make sure that an infestation is detected early in your hotel:
Although hotels are normally responsible for bedbug incidents, if you’re one of the victims as a guest, the grief and effort necessary to eliminate bed bugs from your life make it worthwhile for you to take some preventative measures, to ensure that you can avoid bed bugs in a hotel establishment. Below are a few tips for travelers looking to avoid bedbugs in hotels:
By taking the precautionary measures listed above, travelers both foreign and domestic should be able to avoid getting bed bugs in hotels. However, if you take the precautionary measures above and are still not able to avoid getting bedbugs in hotels, don’t fret! There are several actions you can take in order to avoid bringing bed bugs back home.
Regardless of whether or not you took preventative measures for avoiding bedbugs in hotels, if you are staying at a hotel and you end up with bed bugs in your room, there is always an excellent chance of bringing them home with you; bedbugs are not known as “professional hitchhikers” for no reason. However, there are several actions that you could take that would drastically reduce the chances of bringing bed bugs home from hotels:
Bed Bug 911 Exterminator is a revolutionary product, created by New York’s top bedbug cleaning and Extermination Company to eradicate the toughest of bedbug infestations. Each time a room is turned over, and after linens are removed, your housekeeping staff sprays a light mist of Bed Bug 911 Exterminator on the: mattress, box springs, bed skirts, headboards and furniture. The product kills all pests it contacts; both visible and invisible to the naked eye.
Hotel owners interested in purchasing Bed Bug 911 Exterminator Products, contact us directly via: phone, e-mail, facebook or twitter.
Hotel guests are also encouraged to purchase our travel size exterminator which can be used in the same capacity as the housekeeping staff as a preventative measure to ensure that any bedbugs, nymphs and eggs left by the previous guest are killed on contact. Guests interested in purchasing Bed Bug 911 Exterminator Products may do so by visiting US BedBugs today!
Hotel bedbug extermination can be tricky depending on the size of the hotel and the severity of the infestation. Bed Bug 911 provides a variety of extermination services in order to help hotel owners battle their bed bug infestations. Some of the major services offered are:
Because every bedbug infestation is unique in its own way, we will asses the situation and develop a custom tailored bed bug solution for any extermination project we handle in the New York Metro area. If you are looking for bed bug extermination in NYC, please contact us directly via: phone, e-mail, facebook or twitter.
Bedbug911 was established as a separate company when it became obvious to Nicole Levine, that her company, Home Clean Home (HCH), was being overwhelmed with job orders for bed bugs treatment. Residential and commercial clients, using HCH for their cleaning and maintenance needs were experiencing a bed bug infestation that was spreading throughout New York in proportions not seen since the 50’s. Read more 
