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I am currently staying at this hotel, and will luckily be checking out tomorrow morning. Yesterday evening, upon entering my room, I noticed a bug on my bed. I simply removed it from my bed and went to sleep, unaware that it was in fact a bed bug. Today, I have already found three (3) bugs. Two were sitting on my bed, and one on my lampshade. After reading other similar reviews of this hotel, I'm really quite afraid. This bed bug infestation seems to be common throughout all the rooms of this hotel. It seems that bed bugs will follow you home, and will cost thousands to remove.

I am in Toronto studying engineering at the University of Toronto and am staying at this hotel because I arrived before the move in day to take care of errands and to orient myself with the city.

I'm not the type of person that complains about small things (cheap rooms, bad service, ugly furniture - haha), but when it comes to blood sucking insect infestations, I cannot help but be upset.

Other aspects of my stay:

The Bistro on Two offers a good breakfast, and the hotel is located in the heart of downtown. Check in is relatively quick, as the hotel has many desks to check customers in with. It is a renovated hotel and looks pretty good on the inside.

I definitely will not sleep tonight (but I probably wasn't going to anyway- first day of my university life coming up!)

If you've read this review and are looking for a good night's sleep, you won't find it at this hotel (anymore).

This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC.

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Beware: Bed Bugs! - Review of Sheraton Centre Toronto ...

A while back I was at a meeting about bedbugs at the Davenport Perth Community Centre; the usual information was offered to, and the usual complaints were gathered from, some 40 people in the neighbourhood.

I arrived early and bumped into two guys smoking on the sidewalk. Had they come for the meeting? No, they were just chatting. But they both had, um, personal knowledge of the little bloodsuckers. The problem is not going away.

Heres one reason why:

After the meeting ended, a woman who lives in community housing on Pelham Ave. said she wanted to show me something. She led me to her building, a few blocks away.

In the back was a closed-off area where tenants can dump furniture: the old, the broken, the infested. But the closed-off area was not closed off; anyone had access. Yes, there was a gate with a latch and a lock, but the gate was wide open, and there was furniture available for the taking.

Thats not right.

Back to the meeting: there had been a young man there with maps updates on the bedbug maps this paper published a while back.

We made arrangements to talk more.

Noah Adams is a social worker, studying for his post-graduate degree. He moved here recently from Vancouver, a place not unknown to bedbugs.

There, he worked in the downtown east side. He said, I used to cut hair at a drop-in centre. I met one guy who had bedbugs in his hair; he also had some mental health issues. I cut his hair outside, and put it in a plastic bag.

Thats a key point, and I dont mean about the hair in the bag. I mean some people with mental health issues may not be able to evaluate the problems associated with an infestation.

So?

So where there are infestations, it is axiomatic that there ought to be outreach; where there is no outreach there is I do not hesitate to say this negligence.

Anyway, Noah has mapped the calls made to Public Health, based on postal codes.

The old Star maps show that in 2009, there were 1,563 reports of bedbugs. The next year, there were 2,018 reports.

Noahs updates indicate that there were 1,764 calls in 2011, and 1,375 calls in 2012. He said, Parkdale is the hottest area in the city.

Yikes again.

I live in Parkdale.

The numbers indicate a rise, and then a fall; the fall coincides with the results of a $5 million provincial bed-bug fund; Torontos share of that fund was $1.2 million.

The money may disappear.

Noah said, with some concern, If it was working, why would you stop in the middle of the fight?

Good point.

No, excellent point.

His main concern, apart from the need for vigilance and continued funding? We need integrated pest management. You educate the people, you help them prepare, you treat the unit right away, you treat around the infestation, and you use the proper product; sometimes you use heat.

Heat kills bugs and eggs.

And, as you know, spray does not kill eggs, and so spraying must be repeated when the eggs hatch two weeks later. But there is little use in spraying unless you treat the adjacent units, because bedbugs are neither stupid nor immobile; they scatter when you try to kill them.

Noah then told me something that is forehead-slappingly obvious. In Vancouver, there is a lot of single-room occupancy housing. The province brought them up to code; in some buildings, they have a heat room, where people can bring their things for treatment.

A heat room?

He said, You could do it in old buildings here if you insulated properly, and did the electrical.

TCHC, are you listening?

He also thinks as I do - that landlords ought to be required to inform tenants about bedbug issues, as is required in New York City. Chicago and San Francisco are considering similar legislation.

I wish we would do so here.

Joe Fiorito appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Email: jfiorito@thestar.ca

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Dear Ottawan_10

Thank you so much for your feedback. Our sincere apologies for the inconveniences caused during your last stay with us. Providing comfortable, clean and well-maintained accommodation, as well as outstanding customer service is absolutely critical for us.

As a policy, all reports of bed bug activity are treated with the utmost importance. We have contacted Orkin, our pest control provider, who after an inspection, informed us that there were no traces of bed bugs in the room you stayed in or any other infestation in our hotel.

We take all comments received very seriously, and review them with our staff to ensure that any issues are resolved. If you would like to discuss your experience in more detail, please send an email to catarina.ferreira@hyatt.com.

Warmly, Customer Service

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What is a Bed Bugs? What do they look like?

An adult Bed Bug is about quarter of an inch in length, oval in shape (some are more elongated than others), with 6 legs, quite flat in height and reddish-brown in varying degrees of color.

A bed Bugs head is broadly attached to its wingless body. A Bed Bugs color ranges between shades of red and brown depending upon the timing and amount of its blood meal. The size, in terms of fatness or height, depends upon the size of the last feeding. A hungry Bed Bug looks almost paper thin while a fully fed Bed Bug would appear to have gained some height.

Size: You can see the adults the largest one approach to be nearly inches in length.

Behavior: Bed bugs crawl scurrying into dark, tight spaces to hide they move as fast as an ant. They cant jump or fly and you will never find them burrowing into your skin. If the insect you have found came out on its own accord at night when the lights were out, near the bed or a couch, it was probably a bed bug looking for a meal.

Bed bugs are not social insects like ants, so they dont need a colony. But while they group together in good hiding spots, loners could be hiding elsewhere.

A picture is worth a thousand words so click and enlarge this image to see Red-Brown Bed Bugs, Black feces and white eggs. Notice difference in sizes as they are at varying life stages.

Now you can imagine a small and transparent looking baby Bed Bug being born from among hundreds of these white long eggs that have been cemented onto the surfaces. This is a very high level of infestation that was not treated in time.

Temperature: Bed Bugs prefer warmer temperature like most other bugs. Adults Bed Bugs, nymphs and eggs can survive sustained hot and cold temperatures, as they will adjust in time.

Baby Bed Bugs are called Nymphs. These will grow to become adults in about 5 weeks. They are ready to feed on your blood soon after birth. The more they feed the better their chances of becoming adults and laying more eggs.

You see their black feces ! It is dark color fluid in the beginning. If excreted onto a fabric, it would sometimes burst out into the fibers and would get absorbed and would leave a dark mark. If it is left onto a non-absorbent surface, with time, it will loose moisture and become solid An extruding dot like mark. If smudged hard, it will leave a black streak. Skin sheds: Like many other insects, Bed Bugs go through five stages of growing up called molting.

They do not change their appearance (like butterfly does) when they complete each one of the 5 stages to adulthood.

They only loose their skin when they grow a new one. Hence, finding skin sheds is also a sign of having bed bugs.

Egg laying: The female Bed Bug can lay 5-7 eggs in one week.

Bed Bugs feed when people are sleeping or dozing off in couch and usually when it is dark. Bed Bugs would remain in cracks and crevices of the bed when they are not feeling hungry enough to venture out of these safe quarters.

Adults Bed Bugs, nymphs and eggs can survive sustained hot and cold temperatures, as they will adjust in time.

Bed Bugs can be brought into the cleanest of homes. But the clutter and mess near a bed and around a bedroom would make it harder from all of them to be found at the same time.

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