Comments on: Horrific Incompetence on Airbnb’s Part After Bed Bugs

By: Ethel Cook-Wilson

Ethel Cook-Wilson — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 01:51:08 +0000

Maybe your outlook would be different if you had this experience. I rented HEIDI’S GRANNY COTTAGE in Daytona on August 7 and inadvertently carried bedbugs to my car and home. Thousands of dollars later in lost goods and payments for treatments and products, my home is still not pest free. As a matter of fact, I’ve been out of my home and without the use of my car since September 8. I hope it is true the bugs don’t live beyond four months without a host. Sooo maybe I can return home in January, 2018. Of course, AIRBNB has done nothing to help, and the host became defensive and continues to rent the place. I may not see it, but I do believe justice will prevail in the end.

By: Mm

Mm — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 10:10:38 +0000

Bed bugs are an annoyance. A big freaking annoyance. Time consuming and costly. It’s not however a TRAGEDY. Get a grip.

A monumental tragedy is more like being on vacation in Phuket on December 26, 2004. It’s not bed bugs!

It is actually extremely likely they were carried into that person’s home by a traveller anyway.
Bed bugs occur everywhere, from the most rundown places right through to 5 star.

The only difference being those places can shut down the room, the floor or the wing and move you elsewhere. Just like they have the ability to do if a sewerage pipe bursts, the drain clogs or the air conditioning stops working, or the other 99% things people come to this forum to whinge about. Just stay at a hotel next time!