To be furious with hotel and also really paranoid? BEDBUGS!!!

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I was away with work for two nights last week and stayed in a new chain hotel recommended by a colleague.

On Saturday I noticed some small itchy bites on my elbows/forearms. Didn’t think much of it til I mentioned them to a friend who does a lot of backpacking, and she’s said they’re bed bug bites

So annoyed! I put everything in the wash when I got home but my bag’s been on the sofa and my bed, coat’s been on the coat rack etc...

Do I need to boil and freeze everything I own?

Should I inform my team (new colleagues who I barely know)?

Should I call the hotel to complain?

I feel paranoid. And itchy.

MiL had bedbugs, the kids used to come back full of bites

They never brought the bugs back with them via clothes/bags.

No need to panic, IMO

Also dealing with bedbugs at the moment, although my housemate unknowingly bought back from somewhere. So far just in his bedroom, he only found a few after getting bites for around a week.

Get your mattress vacuumed and seal it in a bed bug proof zip up cover to stop them nesting in there. Wash your bedding and soft furnishings at 60°. Any clothes or soft furnishings you can be 100% certain are bedbug free and can't be washed (cushions, wool coats, big rugs) can be sealed in vacuum seal bags for the meantime.

Line your door ways and round your bed with sticky fly strips to catch them and stop them spreading. Everything gets washed at 60°, tumble dry too where possible. Vacuum daily, empty dust straight outside into sealed bag and dispose of in outside bin. Make sure to give the container and filter a good rinse out with hot water to kill the buggers. Phone pest control and rinse and repeat until they give you the all clear.
Unlike PPs I decided to get the spray, and use it liberally on my rug and in my room to dissuade them setting up shop with me too, obviously if you don't know where they are/not then not a great idea. For the meantime I'm keeping as much of my stuff out of communal areas so that bed bugs don't transfer between clean drying sheets and ones we know to have bugs in etc.

I know they're not dangerous or happen to clean and dirty people alike, but it's really making me feel unclean. I don't want to spread them to anybody by accident if a rogue bug gets on my clothing. Hope you get them sorted soon OP!