.because we drove home to our house in bend Oregon to find us getting strange bites.....my initial thought oh no...bed bugs....I guess a bug can live up to a year off of one feeding and can continue to lay eggs everyday!!!! My husband and I are both covered in bites....and our 3 story house is now infested!! I called the manager frances and he was very nice, and said he would reimburse the 88$ but now I've got to clean and vaccume and get an exterminator in our house....going to see if they will pay for that...but man...I wish I would of looked it up on my phone before staying there.....its a near 88 deg here and im sure they are on every floor......I know that sf is an old city and sf is to blame...but man what a pain.....I will post again later to see what else the hotel will do for such an inconvenience! !!!

research this and came across this website and felt I had to port this.

I am about to go get some antibiotic cream as well now and will Complain to the front desk - but I doubt it will do any good.

often you've been bitten in the past and how allergic you are. Since I'm not prone to allergies, I'm thinking I either carried bugs back with me (though I haven't shown any symptoms before now, and I carefully laundered everything when I got back), or I was bitten there and am only now showing signs of the bites.

I've done a thorough inspection of my bedroom, and if I brought back any bugs with me, this hotel is going to know about it. They claimed that they called in an exterminator, but considering the multiple posts here, I'm not so sure that's the case.

but now some are carriers of MRSA! Powell hotel has had problems over and over. Their hotel rooms are run down, mold in walls and not very clean. It is quite obvious that vacuuming is not well done as we found food and old sock in corner. Also edges of carpet is layered with dust...great environment for bed bugs. DO NOT STAY IN THIS HOTEL!

he front desk, even though he did admit, under pressure, that they DO IN FACT have a bedbug problem in their hotel. Then he directed me to call the Manager, Francis, for details. I called Francis about 5 times over the course of three days. Never answered his phone. Never called me back. You'd think someone who is paying them an outrageous $500+ for one room for one night would get the courtesy of a 5 minute phone call to assuage any bedbug fears. Too much to ask, apparently. Needless to say, I cancelled my reservation this morning and will be taking my bridal party business to another hotel down the street, one without any bedbugregistry.com entries and with a friendly and responsive hotel management team.

and checked under the sheets. I didn’t see any bugs on the mattress or sheets so I thought maybe we would be spared. I was wrong though!! We slept there for 2 nights without any problems (no one had any noticeable bites or itching). However, on the 3rd morning, I noticed a bug crawling on the bed next to my friend who had slept in the other room. We weren’t sure if it was a bed bug so we covered it with the cup from the bathroom and called the front desk. The maintenance guy who came to our room confirmed it was a bed bug. I knew if there was 1, there would likely be more & I knew I couldn’t stay there any longer. While packing up my things, I noticed another one crawling on the bed I had slept on. I grabbed a tissue and when I squished it, it “exploded” like I read about! It left a stain on the sheets (gross!). The hotel was going to move us to a different room down the hall, but we all decided to leave & stay elsewhere. They did refund the $$, but that’s only a small consolation knowing that there’s a chance we all carried these nasty bugs home in our suitcases & other bags!! From the research I’ve done I have learned that bed bugs are like cockroaches- they are pretty resilient and hard to get rid of! I have been home for a week and still don’t feel 100% certain that I didn’t bring anything back with me. My suitcase is still sitting out on the back porch and will stay out there until I disinfect it with the bed bug spray I bought. I won’t stay anywhere else without consulting this registry and doing a thorough room check upon arrival. I would definitely think twice before staying at this hotel since they still have bed bug issues! It’s not worth the risk of potentially carrying these bugs back with you to your house!

it - blood - that's when I knew it must be a bedbug. I started looking around the room and found four more crawling up the walls.
We contacted the manager and housekeeping was sent to our room; she said she was surprised, they don't have a bedbug problem (reading the reports on this site, it sounds like they know they have an infestation). We were reimbursed our room and valet charges, and left praying that we hadn't brought any with us. I wish we had checked this website before booking this hotel as it's definitely not worth the stress of dealing with bringing these bugs home.

sanitize setting, and lysol'ed absolutely everything. However, since I am still finding bites, I have likely brought bedbugs home with me. This has ruined my holiday, and is becoming a huge expense. I have been incessantly washing, vacuuming, and dry-cleaning, and am about to call an exterminator.

When I called the hotel, the room director explained that the city of San Francisco is to blame. I have lived in the Bay Area my whole life and have never experienced such disaster. Also, he said our room was only "lightly infested". This means that the hotel knew our room had a bedbug problem, and allowed us to sleep there regardless. We were reimbursed for the room, but expense is nothing compared to the bills I am about to incur. Do not stay at this hotel.

back to the UK, the rash was covering my entire body including my face. Uncertain of what was happening to my body, I was in a great deal of distress fearing the worst.The rash was so itchy and so unsightly that I was obliged to cancel all my clinics and research work. I saw a dermatologist who immediately and without any hesitation diagnosed bed bugs. I also have a report from the dermatologist as well as several dated photographs documenting my condition.
I believe that this is absolutely unacceptable and shocking!! Bed bug bites are known to be a source of transmission of Hepatitis B and Chagas disease which are both potentially fatal conditions. There have also been reports of death by anaphylactic shock in the unlucky few. However, what is even more appalling is that I have paid good money ($180/night) only to suffer this very horrific outcome which has caused me great distress and affected my productivity at the conference in San Francisco as well as affecting my work, my patients and my income. It has also essentially ruined what has been a very expensive and potentially rewarding trip to San Francisco.There is also a risk that the bed bugs may have been transported to my home in my suitcase with a hazard to all at home and a great deal of expense and hassle to eradicate.
I have reported this to the manager Mr Eric Williams who to date has not come back to me despite several reminders via email and post.

heard that many other hotels in the Bay Area have been dealing with this issue, and up until now, had considered ourselves fortunate that we had not been affected. Now, however, I can assure you that we take this seriously and will undertake a complete investigation to ensure that this is isolated and remedied."

red bugs crawling all over the pillows/sheets/headboards and even the walls! We took pictures and carried one of the bugs with us downstairs to show the manager. They moved us to a room on the 5th floor (room 524). Unfortunately, within 15 minutes the bugs showed up there too!! The whole hotel must be infested. It was about 1 am at this point and the three of us didn't think we should move out in the middle of the night. We slept on the floor (I "slept" in the closet). The next morning we moved to a new hotel. Luckily, management apologized and did not charge us for the room. I'm hoping they will also pay my 300 dollar dry cleaning bill. Don't stay here...bed bugs are really, really difficult to get rid of without months of drastic measures.