11/26/2011 Stockton Marriott Serves Up Bedbugs For Thanksgiving

We hope you are enjoying this Thanksgiving weekend and haven’t encountered any unwanted guests.  As we comb through weekend bedbug news, we came across one posting of a family staying at the Marriott Courtyard in Stockton California.

After finding evidence of bedbugs at the neighboring Marriott Courtyard, we were moved over to this hotel. Hopeful, we went in to do our usual flashlight inspection of beds, furniture, etc. Even though this one didn’t have as many, we still found the bedbug “skins” that had been shed behind the bed on the carpet baseboard and box springs/bedskirt. Thinking maybe this was only evidence of a previous problem that had been eradicated and that it simply never gets cleaned behind there, we were about to give in. However, for good measure, I wanted to see a second room to be sure. I scooped up samples with a piece of paper, one of which appeared to be an actual dead bug, to take to the desk. All of a sudden, the “dead” bug began to move! We immediately went to the front desk and gave them the live bug and dead skins and departed to look for something outside the Marriott chain. We ended up at the Hilton, which passed our inspection.
This is the first time we’ve ever found anything. The lesson we learned is that you have to pull the bed out even if it isn’t on a roller frame. The pressed wood box is a pain to move, but if the hotels would do the same thing and clean back there after a known bedbug problem, maybe we would still be at the first hotel.

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