Bedbugs in Paris.
 

Helo

So I slept in 2 hotels in Paris this week and I got seriously bitten. Of course I don't know when, where, since I only realized it when I scratched myself upon returning home.

I could of course have written awful reviews on TA, or threatened the hotels to do so and ask for a refund. But. I just sent a mail to both hotels saying that I got bitten, probably at their place and that these things happen.

So I'm saying the same here : I sleep every week in Paris and I get bitten once every 5 years.
Was this week, that's all... Probability is thus 0,5%.

So, burn the city down?

This is serious. You're not safe in Paris anymore, even in your bed. First, the terrorisms, then, the bugs. Traveling to France is not advised at the moment. (Plus, the French are known to be grumpy.) My mother are very worried about the situation. Back at home, she could always at least wash the bed sheet for me to make sure no bugs. She often told me to leave Paris and come back to live in her basement.

You don't know "when or where" so what is your point? Bored?

OMG, those Paris hotels.

Paris. Not even once.

You don't know "when or where" so what is your point? 'Bored?'

I know where and when I slept but not where or when I got bitten - but to understand that you must have half a brain.

Very positive point : both hotels reacted quickly and thanked me effusevely, saying they take badbugs very seriously.

Now these bugs are said to come from Mexico.

They are bad hombres!

<i>both hotels reacted quickly and thanked me effusevely, saying they take badbugs very seriously</i>

Seriously enough to say "Je suis désolé!" or serious enough to refund some of your hard spent Euros?


<i>Now these bugs are said to come from Mexico.</i>

Trump will fix that.

None of these.

'Merci beaucoup nous allons inspecter la chambre mintutieusement. Nous prenons ces choses très à coeur, merci encore de nous avoir prévenus !'

I made sure to say in my mail that this was no complain. I'm european I don't claim for htings that may happen.

Paris hotels take these things seriously. Bugs can come - probably with a drug dealer.

<i>I'm european I don't claim for htings that may happen. </i>

Have you learned nothing from us?

That's great trip report Woinparis! Perhaps add some recommendations for restaurants with terrible food ;-)

WoinParis wrote: "Bugs can come - probably with a drug dealer."

Make that "possibly". They might also possibly come with an accountant or a nun.

Now consider this: if you were bitten in the first hotel, you might have brought some bugs with you to the second one. And, wherever you were bitten, you might have brought bugs home with you.

That's my question too. Did you throw everything in the wash when you got home, I hope? Without emptying your suitcase on your bed, for instance?

Don't even worry about home. The hotel bugs might have been spread all around on the train already. Poor other passengers. The mass, always a victim.

'Did you throw everything in the wash when you got home, I hope?'

Now that is why the cats are looking cross and scratch themselves to death.

All of this because of nuns... there was indeed a group of nun from Australia. With one guy : the Bishop of Melbourne.
He must have spotted me and decided to infect a Fodorite !

I can't imagine any hotel offering money to someone who wrote after a stay and told them that. If anything would be offered, it would have to be by complaining on-site during the event with proof. Why would anyone expect a hotel just to give money to someone in that case.

WoinParis doesn't even know if he got it from a hotel nor which one. If he did, perhaps he spread them to the other.

But I think it was good to notify the hotel to check just in case, and they can inspect, just what did happen.

You should have stayed in an illegal apartment. That never would have happened.

'You should have stayed in an illegal apartment. That never would have happened.'

Ther are a lot of great answers on this thread... this one is fantastic too !
Love it !

It is well known that bedbugs never stay in illegal apartments because they are afraid of being deported if caught.

<'Did you throw everything in the wash when you got home, I hope?'>
Hahahahahaha! He's European, of course he didn't.

Our friends in Paris used to take the overnight regularly to the Pyrenees, using a couchette compartment that held more than two passengers. On one of those trips, a third passenger arrived and said "I hope that there are no bed bugs this time"; which explained to our friends why they had been itchy. They wrote to the SNCF which acknowledged the issue and explained the problem: The homeless sneak into the rail yards at night to sleep in the couchettes.

And then there's this:

http://loyaltylobby.com/2016/07/20/a...nd-passengers/

Bedbugs are on the rise everywhere, not just Paris. A quick Google will get you a lot of info that might surprise some responding here with flippant answers.

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid...ng+worldwide&*

This has been a recurrent problem forever: Hence the famous "Bedbug Letter". Here is an account that appeared in Playboy Magazine in 1955, but refers to a much earlier incident:

"A wealthy gentleman was badly bitten by bugs while riding on a certain railway line. Arriving at his destination, he wrote the company an indignant letter and received a prompt reply. It was, said the letter, the first complaint the company had ever had of this nature. Inquiry had failed to reveal any explanation for this unprecedented occurrence. Nevertheless, a number of new precautions were being taken to make absolutely certain such an unfortunate incident never happened again. The letter was signed by a high official of the railway.

The gentleman was well satisfied with this reply and was returning it to the envelope when a slip of paper fell out onto the floor. The hastily scribbled note on it read: “Send this guy the bug letter.”

I hope if the bedbugs were Australian they were aware of the Schengen 90 day rule.

Don't worry Americans Belgian has it's nut case - Guy Verhofstadt.

Belinda you beat me to it! My response exactly.....