How can you decontaminate a mattress in a motel or hotel for bed bugs, scabies etc?

Question

What legal action or recourse do you have if you stay at a motel and the managers know the mattresses are infested with bedbugs,etc and you are severely bitten?

Answer 1

I'm not a lawyer and I don't know the exact legal recourse (I do think you might have to prove the managers had prior knowledge), but I know you can file complaints.  I would file one with the board of health in that state and locality (talk to everybody you can), and I would also file with the Better Business Bureau.  You won't necessarily receive any restitution ($) for your pain and trouble, but it will hopefully force the hotel to clean up their act.  At least it will bring them negative publicity.  Also, please do an online review so that people like myself see these comments when they do a google search and don't book a room at this nasty place!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Green G

there have been a few lawsuits based on landlords not treating bedbugs when they know there is a problem and unless the tenant can prove that they did not bring the bugs with them then I think they have all lost.

As for hotel chains, I think it would depend on how deep the pockets were of the chain and the effect of negative publicty on them

I will tell you that when our family travels, we check the beds for bugs and even if we do not see any, we spray them down quite well with a product called BedBug Termnator from Kleen-Fee which we buy online from them.

This is a chemical free product so we know we are doing no harm to the mattress or the environment when we do this and the product kills bugs on contact.

Even if we did not need to spray, it gives us a little more peace of mind.  We also spray down our luggage on the way out as well and when we get home.  An ounce of prevention...

Good luck.

Answer 4

I think that proving the owner "knew" about it would be near impossible and that is exactly what you would have to do in order to win.  Even then, i don't think that the owner would be liable, if that were the case there wouldn't be many hotels in the US for very long.  

I would bet a thousand Baht that you can't do anything.