Is this a bed bug?!

[DrAdmin]

🙀 please tell me not?!

I’m on holiday in the arse end of Bavaria

Thanks for the overnight support mumsnetters

I’ll be having one tonight vanellope

Particularly since I got an acute urine infection on my second day here and I don’t even want to contemplate the connection between the two!

Gonna have to burn the suitcase and contents when we get home - needed a new suitcase anyway...

Does anyone know if I need to delice the family or similar (like you do with head lice/worms etc but for bed bugs)?

Sorry, no advice on delousing the family but what an eye opener this thread is! I didn't realise what an insidious pest they were. I'm so going to be checking hotel rooms from now on.....

Absolutely Greasy, and no suitcases on the bed apparently!

We never had to as a family de bedbug, they travel in bags and etc not people.

Bed bug/carpet beetle x

Hi DrAdmin

Hope you're alright. Glad you're moving to a different hotel. What a nightmare.

Hope you get it sorted

How do you make sure you don’t transfer the problem to the next hotel?!

OP, I hope you get it sorted. You aren't by any chance in Oberstdorf? I will be there in Oberstdorf and do not wish to encounter those bedbugs.
On the plus side: ticks in Bavaria often carry FSME so at least you don't have to worry about that (but do watch out when you're walking in a forest).

How do you make sure you don’t transfer the problem to the next hotel?!

I was wondering that too ..

that is grim OP hope you get money back.

Whenever I stay in a hotel/holiday cottage etc, the very first thing I do is pull up the bottom sheet and check the seam of the mattress. Have never found anything yet, but have read enough on here to make me paranoid!

I also religiously put my bag on the suitcase stand.

Good idea tin star - I spent the morn in a laundrette washing and tumble drying what I didn’t though out. We’ve replaced out battered wheelie suitcase with shiny new backpacks so I sincerely hope the next hotel doesn’t transfer a bed bug problem to us user147

What is the hotel doing to help? As a bare minimum they should refund your money.

Yes that is a bed bug.
They can flatten themselves and hibernate for years in eg wooden bed joints.
Once you have them, they are very hard to get rid of.
they can flatten themselves behind wallpaper for example.

I would boil wash bedding, throw away mattresses and pillows, treat bed joints and and any edges or gaps in the room (eg between floorboards) with a Permethrin spray.

And then do it again...and again..

(source - lived in an infested house in London)

oh I see you are on holiday - good. You have done the right thing by throwing away your luggage and boil washing your clothes. Do not put the new luggage in the room.

Oh my god that is like a literal nightmare. I can't even deal with ants coming in under the back door.
Well handled OP.

How do you make sure you don’t transfer the problem to the next hotel?!

You just don't know I'm afraid.

De-worming and de-liceing shouldn't be a concern, the main thing is don't let any luggage or stuff you packed enter your bedrooms!

The other things I've picked up (bom-bom, sorry) since a family member contracted them (from a posh-ish hotel in the US) is that my next suitcase will be a hardcase, and that I will always now keep my bags in the (empty!) hotel bathtub or shower floor.

Having had the little bastards last year at home post holiday I Completely sympathise! At least you have found out already!
We found out to the tune of about £5000. 🤬

With regards to not being bitten, you probably are but just not noticing them.
I only noticed bites the day after we found them.
No 'bites' in the holiday they came from although my eczema became very bad on holiday unusually.

Have a new hotel booked for tomorrow night

glad to hear it, have a wonderful rest of your holiday

Bloody hell op. Hope the next hotel is ok and you don’t see the little bastards again

I was shocked to read that people inadvertently bring them onto planes, so go onto innocent passengers and thus home with them I`m itching now.

Omg, you poor thing. It would reduce me to tears. Have you spoken to the owners yet?

I'm all itchy now 😮

Owners are refunding in full and very very apologetic - they think it’s the last season for their business

Still marred the holiday though