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We posted about the rather unsavory epidemic of pestilence occurring around the globe with bedbugs. Seems the wee little vermin are infesting even some of the nicer hotels  around, and some folks are getting fed up with it. One woman, reports ...

The bedbugs are back baby! MSNBC and Budget Travel have this word of warning for travelers: examine your sheets. Activity of the blood sucking fiends is apparently up some 500 percent over the last three years. The little critters don't ...

We don't really have a bedbug fetish here at Gadling, but we've had something to say about these blood sucking critters on occasion. Here's just one more that will make you think twice about sitting down on those fairly harmless looking wooden ...

To avoid an infested hotel bed, the next time you visit New York, you might just want to ask if your hotel room has been inspected for bed bugs by... dogs??? Last year the city's Department of Housing, Preservation and Development received nearly ...

"There's a problem with bedbugs in hotels," my mom said while we were driving somewhere in her car yesterday. "Oh, really?" I thought back to my own bedbug experience when I was living in a village in West Africa. "Yes, even the best hotels," she ...

I really am tired of these stories. I suppose there is a good reason for them. I mean, should we know that there are bedbugs galore in our hotel rooms? Not to mention all manner of other unsavory fluids and disgusting stuff that might be lurking in ...

Before this whole big trip I never stayed in so many hotels back-to-back and now I can only imagine now what the life of a real rock star must be like. The only difference is they're probably staying ONLY at 4 or 5 star digs while I happily bounce ...

The other day, a friend sent me an email asking for tips for his first backpacking trip. "So I am starting to plan a trip this Summer to backpack in Europe," he wrote. "But I have not decided where or when." Being the good friend that I am, I ...