Bed bugs! We had moved out of our house, a few days before closing. My wife and I were quite happy…read moreto find a place in Buffalo Grove after the stress of selling our house, packing and moving. We only had 1 day until our closing. And ... yes, we found bed bugs, and they feasted on me by biting me on my forearms, upper arms, hands, behind my year, lower legs, see pics!
At first, we thought these could just be regular insect bites, it is muggy outside with and the mosquitos in the Midwest can be bad in July. However, it didn't take us long until we found the real culprits for my bite-riddled arms, head, hands and legs (see pics). We brought it to the attendant of the hotel manager, he didn't want to believe us, but when we showed him the culprits hiding under the mattress and in the bedding he folded. The manager told us to abandon the room, we took our (most likely) not infested essentials (toothbrush, toothpaste) and went to a temporary other hotel room while our original room was fumigated. PJ's and some other clothing went directly to garbage, no attempt to rescue. The superstore Woodman's next door was helpful - 24/7- to get what we needed during the time our property was exterminated, fumigated, disinfected. It is quite difficult to maintain a professional life and having to deal with a bed bug situation.
In addition, the door keys frequently didn't work as they locked us out several times. Although we had 2 rooms and that might have generated some door card confusion (1 with bed bugs, 2nd room it seems without bed bugs). We decided to toss a lot of our clothing and the luggage as it was near the bed. Needless to say, we left the place once our belongings were fumigated, we didn't want to take any risk of taking our clothes and other stuff prior to fumigation to the car and to a real hotel.
I would love to say that these were the only issues we encountered... However, that is not the case!
Bathroom: in the 2nd (not infested) room we used for a few days the bathtub didn't drain, it took a long time for the water to flow out of the soaking tub.
Phone: in the 2nd (not infested) room the phone didn't work, we used our cells to call the front desk.
Kitchen area: I didn't dare to touch the electric stove top, and once I opened the microwave, I took a pic and never looked at it again. It is fair to say we didn't use the culinary kitchen space.
Smoking! Smokers huddle up in front of the main entrance and turn the area at the entrance into a 2nd hand smoke inhalation spa. It is just disgusting to sniff the entrance from across the parking lot, you follow the smell and will find it, blind-folded! Now there is some good news, if you need the nicotine and don't wan to pay the tobacco tax, just stand outside the hotel entrance, it's free!!
The hotel staff is ok, but, ... bed bugs!! And for a few dollars more we could have gone right away to a Hilton or Hyatt. It is absolutely horrible, and I was at risk of secondary infections. There is a chance that the bites get infected on top of the original bite wounds.
Stand as of August 6th: the hotel didn't want to compensate us entirely. The initial payment is not reimbursed. The 2nd payment was credited back to us, but the dog fees are still outstanding. We are in contact with the claims person from the insurance to get compensated, but it will be long way to a check.