bed bugs are no longer just found in the shantey towns of cities. They have been found all over Manhattan (bed bugs uptown shattered) My in-laws got bed bugs while staying in a 1000 sq ft suite in top casino in Vegas.
i'm scratching now

It's pandemic! All over the country especially worse in hot climates

Yes, the registries are available but by the time the hotel is registered the exterminator has been and gone. The good news is that they are very visible to the naked eye. When you get to your room the first thing you should do is pull up the corner of the sheets and however many layers of bed coverings there are and look closely at the bare mattress in the seems. They are slightly red in color. You can pull a picture up on line of them actually on a mattress to see their size etc.
I've luckily never come across them but I ALWAYS look because they are a bitch to get rid of if u carry them home. Even worse then hotels are movie theaters. :-/
Sorry, not so sexy story

Bed bugs have weird sex lives!

All bed bugs mate by traumatic insemination.[3][23] Female bed bugs possess a reproductive tract that functions during oviposition, but the male doesn't use this tract for sperm insemination.[3] Instead, the male pierces the female's abdomen with his hypodermic genitalia and ejaculates into the body cavity. In all bed bug species except Primicimex cavernis, sperm are injected into the mesospermalege,[3] a component of the spermalege,[3] a secondary genital structure that reduces the wounding and immunological costs of traumatic insemination.[24][25][26] Injected sperm travel via the haemolymph (blood) to sperm storage structures called seminal conceptacles, with fertilisation eventually taking place at the ovaries.[25]

Male bed bugs sometimes attempt to mate with other males and pierce the latter in the abdomen.[27] This behaviour occurs because sexual attraction in bed bugs is based primarily on size, and males will mount any freshly fed partner regardless of sex.[28]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug

movie theatres.  


Had a friend who apparently got them from his suitcase coming into contact with bedbugs on a plane or hotel -- he never was able to find out. I am itching just thinking about this.

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Doesn't matter from the slums to the most upscale hotels suites once you have one you have 1000's.

They are everywhere!

They cant crawl on metal. If a hotel has a metal luggage stand use it..


I had a friend come home with them staying near Boston for work...

Grossed out

Now I am totally grossed out.  It really makes you want to avoid hotels, theaters, etc. and become a hermit.  DDT come back!!!  Maybe those who are against DDT should be forced to spend a month in a bedbug infested apartment.