Posted on 06/15/2025 3:43:09 AM PDT by Libloather
Bedbug infestations at two locations in Las Vegas have sparked legal action after four travelers reported severe "injuries."
Three lawsuits were filed in April against two resorts on the Las Vegas strip for incidents that occurred in the summer of 2024.
Treasure Island guest Teresa Bruce noticed bites on her body during her June 21 stay, according to the official complaint. She decided to switch rooms but wound up with more bites.
The guest was "harmed and offended" by the bites, according to the complaint, and "suffered injuries."
Bruce alleged that the hotel confirmed both rooms had bedbugs after sending in a risk management team.
At the Luxor Hotel on June 8, Stephen and Courtney Gully noticed bites on their bodies that were "swelling and becoming aggravated, appearing red, swollen and becoming increasingly itchy," according to their complaint.
Courtney Gully’s reaction was so severe, the complaint indicated, that her throat "felt like" it was closing, and she was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
The Gullys were "forced to purge essentially all of their personal belongings" due to the "severity of the infestation," according to the complaint.
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I’d go the other route - put the items in large black garbage bags, in a black car, and park it in the Texas summer sun. Works for head lice, probably will work for bed bugs.
Pro traveler tip - never put your luggage or clothing on the floor or bed in a hotel room. The bed bugs might be in the carpeting.
IN the olden days a dose of DDT sprinkled on the bed cured the bug problem. I used to spray myself down with DDT bug killer to kill mosquitos in 1969 SE Asia . No health problems.
I REMEMBER WHEN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN TULSA OK HAD TO CLOSE DUE TO BED BUGS BROUGHT IN BY BUMS AND VAGRANTS.
That was after the vagrancy laws were done away with.
Be careful where you point that UV light!
It will freak you out...
Just remember all that “debris” was there before you knew it was.
First of all, Luxor is old. And cheap. And cheap means management cuts corners because they can’t afford various things.
Major chains have regulations they have to follow, which included frequent insecticide.
Delta dust is a new insecticide that seems to kill bedbugs. I think the high heat treatment ($$$) has become obsolete.
That happened to me after being in Reno. Got strange bites on me & had no idea where they were coming from until the middle of one night I turned the light on and there it was...one of many. I had to call a bedbug expert to get rid of them.
“I’m sure Rosa the Illegal changed them. 🤔”
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How can you be sure?
11 years ago used heat. Made them come back 2 x and spray
My daughter and her husband somehow brought home bedbugs, most likely in their luggage - it got into the furniture and exterminators said they are very very difficult to eradicated. They had their home fumigated twice using two different methods - nothing worked.
Finally, they broke apart the furniture in the affected areas and burned it all - that is what stopped the infestation.
bathtub? maybe that’s safe. I’m not kidding! we stay at hotels rarely but still worry about the bugs.
we had people come over and share their flea infestation. Just ugh.
What happens in Vegas.....well ya know the rest
Our last trip was in 2016. Two weeks on the road in the fall. Oklahoma to Idaho. Stayed at “nice” and apparently well managed places. Decent trip. The only dodgy one was in Amarillo on I-40. Not any more though and likely never again.
TI & Luxor: You get what you pay for...
A frequent traveler suggested when you first go into a hotel room, put your luggage in the bathtub and don’t take out into your sure the room isn’t infested.
I have a friend who lives in Vegas and he say when the rains come, the storm drains flush out beds, couches etc. Lot of the homeless live underground to escape the heat.
In the mental health section of the hospital I worked at we had to do heat treatments on one specific floor repeatedly for over a year.
It turned out that one of the NURSES was bringing the little parasites in.
Philapina, iykyk.
We had a similar situation somewhere I worked. It was one particular staff going around infecting the clients.
Yes and I decided not to add something.
That is our taxi cab driver was a long time resident of Vegas. She said what you SEE is only about HALF the homeless there. She said the same thing that a majority of them live in these big sewer systems and old tunnels etc in Vegas.
Here is where it gets really gross. They crap …well everywhere but a lot in those tunnels. The air is literally desert dry and the crap dries fast but when they get a few weeks of rain it flushes out and RE-HYDRATES . what she said were large sections of Vegas get the distinct aroma of human feces.
What a dystopian nation we have been spiraling into.
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