BED BUGS BEWARE!!!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 10/14/10
I stayed at the Hilton on Sunday, October 10th, 2010. All night long I tossed and turned in my bed. When I woke up on Monday morning I had developed an allergic reaction on my arm and I had the tell-tale triangle bite marks on my hand.
I proceeded to try to call the front desk and report the problem. The day before my sister had gotten the same rashes and bites, and while she had notified the hotel no one came to check up on her.
When I told the person at the front desk that I had bites on me and that I had developed a rash he was immediately very rude to me. I asked him what this could be and if it was possible that it was bed bugs. He immediately got very defensive and said that no they weren't bed bug bites, and then proceeded to call me a liar and said that I had got them before I came to the hotel. At that point I got angry and called him incompetent so he hung up on me. He was supposedly the front desk supervisor by the name of Chris.
I called the front desk back and demanded to speak to the manager. They gave me to the front-desk manager and again she was very rude to me. She didn't care about my concerns and was condescending and antagonizing. She then notified me that because Monday was a Canadian Holiday I would have to wait till Tuesday to speak with the head housekeeper.
The next day came and the head housekeeper called me. Her name was Julie Antonio. Again, she was extremely rude to me. She told me that they had a specialist come in and the hotel did not have bed bugs. In truth, she was not concerned with what had happened to me while I was at the hotel, rather she kept pressing me that they did not have bed bugs. I then insisted on what could have caused this and she said it could have just been an allergic reaction to the feather pillows. I have feather pillows at home so that does not suffice for me. She then proceeded to tell me quite rudely that if I was having problems I need to go to the doctor. I said I wanted to talk to the manager of the hotel, but since he was out I would only be able to speak to him tomorrow, which was Wednesday.
The manager didn't actually come back until Thursday and while he wasn't as rude to me as the others he basically said we don't know why that happened but there is nothing we can do for you.
I have never been treated so badly in my entire life. Honestly, they seemed so defensive at the idea that they may have bed bugs. They were extremely rude to me and the entire time tried to push the problem onto me as if I were the problem and not them. I have pictures of what happened, and I'm am going to post them wherever I can.
Besides, the possiblity of bed bugs being at this hotel I should say it is also not very clean. My sister rented another room and the duvet had dried body fluid stains under the cover. The showers had stains on them as well. Upon first glance I thought that the hotel was well-run but when looking closer it is a different story. I strongly caution everyone to beware of the hotel, because if you mention bed bugs they become extremely defensive and rude.
I almost had the feeling that they didn't want to be branded as a hotel with bed bugs, which is why they were so hell bent on denying what had happened.