Posted on 04/27/2017 3:50:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-WE DON’T mean to ruin your next holiday but there could be something lurking in your hotel room.
Apparently vermin love staying in hotels too. That’s right, we’re talking mice scurrying down the halls, roaches snacking at the continental breakfast and ants climbing on the kitchenette.
According to a study conducted by Amerisleep, which looked at 8,000 reports from inspectors from over 3,400 hotels, motels and inns in Florida in 2015 and 2016, more than one in ten (12 per cent) of hotels, motels, and inns have had a vermin problem, the New York Post reports.
Vermin violations make up seven per cent of all of the health and safety violations that inspectors found at these properties.
Insects like ants and roaches are common complaints but rodent issues also occur.
Sometimes inspectors didn’t actually see the creatures but did see things like chewed food and packaging or droppings from a creature.
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Florida is Grand Central Station for every insect on Earth. I still remember a 2 inch long roach falling into my tomato soup in Miami as a third grader.
I really hate to think about what was happening in the bed I’m about to use.
In florida, I’ve had hotels infested by iguanas and ibis.
That’s nuthin’— roaches six inches long in Houston, Texas. You can HEAR them in the next apartment over!
Palmetto bug. Palmetto bug. ;-)
Last year I had a flea problem. Nothing I could buy would kill them. I ended up giving the cats large and frequent dosses of systemic flea medicine and dusting every bit of the house with a powder that breaks open their shell. It took a very long time to get rid of them. I miss the days when you could spritz some spray around and be done with them. (I actually soaked a couple with insect “poison”. They swam free and hopped away.)
The extra protein was probably good for you.
This is fear-mongering bullroar. Every couple of years, there’s some new “study” about how horrible hotels are. To listen to them, if you’ve ever stayed in a Holiday Inn, you’re dying of typhus, VD, and the trots.
That`s why I always travel with an anteater, a woodpecker and a couple of cats.
What do the stats look like when the DNC isn’t in town ?
Staying in a hotel in Baltimore one night and about 2 a.m. I had to go pee. Turned on the light and tons of cockroach’s scurried!! Immediately shook out everything in my suitcase, zipped it, and left the light one.
Ended up with a no charge night at the hotel but would have rather have one that was roach free.
The ants, roaches, and rodents are bad enough, but the accursed bedbugs get into your suitcases and clothes, and hitch a ride home with you.
Always carry something called silica gel or diatomaceous earth with you, and sprinkle it around your suitcase, and maybe along the bedposts. Both these substances are composed of very finely divided particles, and they clog up the breathing pores of the bedbugs, ants and roaches, leaving them to die of asphyxiation. And pretty quickly, too. It just makes the mice sneeze, but the lice and fleas on then die right away.
“I still remember a 2 inch long roach falling into my tomato soup in Miami as a third grader.”
that was no “cockroach”, that was a “Palmetto Bug” :)
Yeah, and then there’s the bed bugs too.
“I still remember a 2 inch long roach falling into my tomato soup in Miami as a third grader.” And they fly! We lived in Houston for three years when I was in grade school. I think 2 inches is an understatement.
Ah, the beauty of one world, where all cultural hygiene is equal.
Big deal.
They are cute little guys.
But hey, Nick, you are famous for hating Trump.
Mice like Trump.
Ah, the beauty of one world, where all cultural hygiene is equal.
Diatomaceous earth is literally the skeletons of diatoms (algae). Very neat stuff.
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