Tuesday, October 25

Philadelphia Marathon: New Hotel Due to Bedbugs

I booked the Club Quarters in Philly to stay at during the marathon in November.  We have stayed at the CQ near Wall Street in New York and liked it very much.  However, my boss told me about this Web site called Bedbugs Registry that tells you about reports of the varmits at hotels across the country. 

So, I looked up Club Quarters and found two reports:
Day after I came home, itchy red welts appeared all over my body. I have never encountered this before but inspection and comparison to other's indicated that these are bedbug bites. September 7-8 2011. I have stayed here before but will not again. Horrible.

April 26th and 27th. I came back to my room on the second day and was locked out. It turns out that they had found bedbugs in my room. They moved me, and said they had all of my clothes and bags checked. Several days later I broke out in welts, presumably from the bites received several days previously.


If I know Shane (and I do), he would kill me if I knowingly stayed at a place with bedbugs.  He has sent me articles about people burning down their houses to get rid of them.  He might be one of them.  I knew I had to rebook.  Now we're staying at the Embassy Suites in Center City Philly.  It was a tad more expensive, but it is much closer to the race start and finish, and they don't have reports of bedbugs.  Can't wait!

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