One of the world’s most popular tourist destinations is currently playing host to some unwanted visitors.
Nine hotels along the famous Las Vegas strip have been found to be infested with bed bugs, according to records obtained from the Southern Nevada Health District by KLAS.
A guest reported finding the insects at the Venetian on July 29, followed by MGM Grand on August 14 according to a different guest’s complaint.
Those two hotels join Circus Circus, Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, Palazzo, Tropicana, MGM Grand, and Sahara as hotels known to be battling bed bugs since the beginning of 2022.
“The hotel has the ultimate responsibility, period, because nobody is going to be bringing bedbugs in purposely,” Brian Virag, a bed bug attorney based in Southern California, told KLAS. “You really need to be checking between the baseboard and the mattress because bed bugs don’t like a whole lot of commotion.”
“You do have rights in a hotel to have a safe, habitable space to sleep,” he added.
Hotels who handle their bed bug problems once learning of them do not face a fine, but they could have to pay if complaints go unaddressed and pest control doesn’t take place.