hat everything was fine (of course they are not going to tell me the truth!).

So I did all the research my brain can soak on how to search for these things, as to where they hide/sleep, the time they come out to feed, and the residue they leave (feces, etc etc) to prepare myself for the worst. A friend of mine has his own pest control business so I picked his brain as well.

Upon arrival, I left all our luggage in the trunk of the car, sent my wife and kids to go eat in the mall area while I inspected the room with latex gloves, a can of "Kill on contact" Raid (for the Roaches or Palmetto Bugs I read about as well), and a spray bottle full of Alcohol (for the bedbugs). Based on my research on what to inspect, and what to do; it took me two and a half to three hours checking the whole room. The only thing I found was old feces residue on the lining of one of the mattresses (one of three in the room), and in some of the dressers (not much though). You can tell the mattress was steamed, and disinfected/treated. The residue in the dresser drawers was old as well. I DID NOT SEE ANY BED BUGS ANYWHERE!

I did not use the drawers (I never use them anyways), so we hung up all our clothing in the closets, and put our luggage high up on top of the closet racks.

They had the head boards bolted on the wall with huge Phillips Head Screws (thank God I have tools in my trunk) so I removed the screws and checked the head boards (the most common place they hide). No residue or bugs in the head boards. I checked every hour as my kids slept (bed bugs come out between 3 and 5am), NO BUGS, NO BITES.

Other than the OLD residue on that one mattress, and in the two drawers, the room was clean. I expressed my concern to management, and stated that those dresser drawers should have been discarded along with the mattress. To express their gratitude and thanks they gave us Nick Cash to spend, and they offered us another room. I did not take the room cause I was not about to spend another 2hrs searching another room, and my kids were WAY TOO EXCITED FOR ME TO CANCEL. I had peace of mind knowing there were no bugs because if there were any, I would have definitely found them! Although searching the room the way I did, drained a ton of energy out of me, it was worth it because it gave me peace of mind, and tranquility.

I was worried about the box springs cause I could not see underneath them due to them being covered (which means they were not old or broken), but upon my research on what signs to look for on a box spring, 95 percent chances are they were clean.

As far as Roaches (I read reports on that too), I DID NOT SEE ANY ROACHES! And if I would have seen one, it would have not bothered me much because they are common here in FL! There called Palmetto Bugs here (they don't like the term Roach, lol), and FL has a TON OF THEM. They are almost everywhere. If you are paranoid, just cover the drains, and spray the bottom of your door, and the perimeter of your room, and bathroom, and you won't get any. If you do, they will be dead upon contact! I'm sure the people who have seen them was just a case of bad luck anyways.

Most importantly my children were SO HAPPY, and they HAD A BLAST! My wife loved the place, it was not crowded, and we were treated with respect by all the workers. Security is an A++++++. We are definitely going back.

Sorry for the long comment, but I hope this helps! We had a blast of a time!

Ray

day I arrived. (room 918). Happy to report I didn't see any bedbugs or any traces of them from the past. I felt confident that the room was clean. This is what I thought of the place. The room was pretty clean kind of small, but I expected that. The sheets looked very clean. The carpet was a little above average. The bathroom was clean, but they didn't give us wash cloths two days in a row?? My kids loved the water slides! The staff was great! There were live shows by the pool. Food- The restaurant prices were ridiculous, but there was a reasonably priced hamburger joint and Subway sandwich spot in the same area. The room smelled a little funny, but over all grade would be an 8 of 10. In the end...I plan to go back!!! Thx Nickelodeon for a great vacation for my family!!!

tations so bad that when the children were bitten, it looked something out a movie crime scene. The sheets were covered with blood spots since the child rolled over onto the bedbugs as they were feeding. Very disturbing to this day.

ited to introduce Nick to our new family additions this year and it was a trip longgg overdue. WELL, lets see where do i start, we booked/paid for our hotel room, DROVE from Maryland, family pack of 7. Crowded when we checked in, to be expected. We were reserved for a room on the 6th floor overlooking the waterpark, in which we wanted a ground or closer to because of the slow elevators and back n forth with the babies and all. We asked to have our room changed and was told they didn't have anything until the next morning on ground level and it would be an additional $150 to change to a stinking sponge bob room! Ok, we paid that, no big deal. The next morning, we had a ground level room in front of the pool area, wasn't ready until after 2pm, but whatever.....so we had our luggage/belongings moved to the new room. I believe the next morning i noticed blood stains on the bed. I looked and my 8 month old had dryed blood on his ears, so i brushed it off as if he had scratched his ear or something. Then the next day i noticed stains again. I thought the damn housekeeping didnt' change the sheets or something, soooo the next night, mind you this is probably two days later, my 8 month old son started crying. i asked my husband to turn on the lights so i could calm him down, and this is at 3am! He turns on the light, I turn around and asked him what was that? he says i just killed a bug, then he says, and there's another...I quickly get up with infant in arms and said there goes another, OMG BEDBUGS!!! He grabs my other infant (twins, boy & girl) and we get our other children outta bed. I quickly call the front desk and explained, bedbugs. They sent someone from engineering. He came about 20 mins later...asked me where they were and I showed him to our bedroom. He could see them crawling on my pillow. And it wasn't just one, I mean, from the babies to the mamas and the poppas!!! Hella grouse!!! there was even one big one crawling on my 14 yr old!!! We were told they would move us to another room. we could only bring what we would wear on tomorrow and leave everything in our room to be treated and such. So we moved to another room....this is about 4am now. I had to wash ALL of our hair to make sure we wasn't carrying none in there, shake out all of our clothes, shoes, underclothes etc..!! Everywhere I looked i thought i was seeing bugs and sometimes I was, just not bedbugs, I guess! But by then I was truly paranoid!! My kids were paranoid, it was a mess! The next morning the daytime manager came to our room and explained that they would treat our room and items, including our babies car seats, etc, have our clothes cleaned and return the one night fee for that night, and a breakfast at the buffet, NOT EVEN A CHARACTER BREAKFAST...WTH?? By the time everything was "cleaned", it was 8pm. I was truly ready to go the hell home! So we packed up, leaving the twin bassinette, our luggage and stuffed animals won at the parks there! wasn't taking any chances, heard bedbugs can live/hide in the wheels of your luggage and such, and as many as I saw I wouldn't have been surprised!! Once receiving our items and clothes, we then noticed that my daughters jewelery box was missing, with her new class ring inside and other jewelery. they wouldn't let us back in the room to look for anything, claiming there were chemicals in the room and sent someone to look for it, but couldn't find it, so that means it was STOLEN! HA! yep that's it time to check out! When we said we wanted to check out, the night time manager first said that they normally wouldn't give back that refund, but spoke to another manager and we were reimbursed two nights!! HA! NOT DONE YET!!..... soooo on our drive home my husband notice a HUGH cockroach on the dash of the car as he was driving. After him trying to kill it with a tissue and quickly smashed it with my shoe!!!!! My husband thought it had been living in the car for a minute because it knew where to hide from one end of the dash to the other, until i got to'em! I told him that it was from the new room because I saw one dead in the bathroom that looked just like it!! ew,ew, eww!!!! AND YES THERE'S MORE.....After the long swerving drive back to Maryland, because we were so tired with no rest, refusing to stop/stay at another hotel...we were finally home. I had a few bites on my arm when we left the hotel, a few days after that I started seeing bites up and down both of my arms and could not stop itching. Had to go to the emergency room twice because the creams were not working! My arms were like a bedbug buffet!!!!!! And my arms are marked with bites!! I've even found bites on my infant baby girl!! Needless to say, I am not done with the Nickelodeon Hotel and this situation, but knew that it was my duty to inform future visitors!!! Like I said, I have always praised this hotel, but even before all of this happened, my 16 yr old was complaining that the hotel looked/seemed ran down. And we have been there since the beginning but I definitely have to say that this was our LAST VISIT! My advise to you, if you choose to stay here, check your beds, sheets, mattresses, bathrooms, floors and all immediately when you get to your room!!!!!
We were in 3 rooms within 5 days and ALL OF THEM WERE INFESTED WITH SOMETHING!! THIS WAS A WASTE OF MY TIME AND DEFINITELY MY MONEY!!

here is an easy remedy, if only the hotel would treat the water to avoid this problem. I could not sleep the last night. It was dirty and unkempt. I have stayed in many hotels and this is my first negative report.

ive experience at the resort.

r building. As soon as I got off the plane in my state, I went to my doctor who confirmed they were bed bug bites. I had a shot of Benadryl and am taking oral pills. They certainly have a problem they do not want to address. For the money you pay, it's not worth the creepiness.

use they weren't sorry ot apologetic! At elevenatnight we found a beautiful timeshare to accommodate us. Three days later we mmet a family who got lice and bed bugs in april and they were just as rude! Nickelodeon is infested!stay away!

dvisor.

I returned to the front desk where a rude young lady told me I would have to wait until housekeeping could verify what I said. They denied seeing bugs, even after I pointed out crawling insects! They said it looked like ants!! I cancelled my reservation and set off down the road to find a cleaner hotel. The good thing was half a dozen other families heard me speaking to the front desk and decided to check their rooms as well. Maybe more people will be aware of the problem with bugs!