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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Move rooms and have their laundry team hot wash and dry everything before you get on that plane. Have them seal clean laundry in plastic bags.

2. Order this and have it 1 day Prime delivered to your house. I have this thing, it works. There are multiple sizes, get one that fits your stroller or largest suitcase.  Ask Disney to reimburse: ZappBug Heater https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F6EV306/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GFhjDbCPN653H

3. When checking bags, tell the airline. They will seal your luggage in plastic. This is to prevent spread of bed bugs to other airline passengers’ luggage. Please be thoughtful of other people.

4. Do not bring ANY luggage in the house. Setup BugZapp in the garage or patio, you’ll heat treat all your bags and belongings. No shoes into the house, you’ll heat zap those too. All belongings from the trip should be placed in plastic garbage bags outside as soon as you get home. You want to prevent any hitchhiking bug from escaping.

5. The clothing you wear on the plane? Strip down as soon as you get in the house. Hot wash then into the dryer. You and DH should physically check each other to ensure there are no bugs in your hair.

6. Heat zap everything. It will probably take a full day to do all your luggage, shoes, bags, etc. Give the machine the proper time to warm up every item to 120 degrees for at least 20 minutes.

You’ll be fine, OP. You are so lucky that you caught it now. If you are diligent and follow the steps, you’ll survive this.

In terms of compensation, I think Disney should refund you the full cost of your stay. They probably won’t give you anything for your flight. You may be able to make a travel insurance claim with your credit card company- read the fine print carefully.

Good luck.  [/quote]

OP here.  Thank you so much!  I’ll do all of these things.  I’m so disgusted and upset at this whole situation.   [/quote]

This happened to us last year at a Disney hotel and above is what we did and it prevented the bugs from getting into our house. The important thing is to not bring anything into the house until it is bagged tightly into trash bags. And the zappbug heater comes quickly from amazon so you should order and have it waiting for you when you arrive home. We use it now after every hotel stay because the experience freaked us out.

We also had a service (based in Baltimore) come to our house with a dog to inspect after we did the above and the dog didn’t find any bedbugs. We saved all the lint from our dryer vent in a ziploc and the  man with the dog service inspected and found a dead juvenile bedbug so I’m glad we followed the same advice as above!

Disney compensated us 1/2 our hotel charge (which included our food charges and ticket charges), reimbursed us for the zappbug and dog inspection (so save receipts) and $1000 (if I remember correctly) for “pain and suffering.”
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