Rich Blood and Bed Bugs

The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park is one of the most expensive hotels in London. But even high end hotels can have the same family of bed bugs that a run down motel has in the back end of a city. At one of the most prestigious addresses in London, you can pay £464 per night and up to £934 per night for a suite overlooking Knightsbridge.

Sidney Bluming, a New York celebrity lawyer, and his wife, Cynthia, are suing the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. They stayed at the hotel last May and received amenities they didn't want. They left with ugly red marks on their skin left by hundreds of bites.

The hotel confirmed there was an isolated infestation in one guest room. However, bed bugs travel with you. They nest in your clothes and luggage and go home with you. So it may have been one guest room, but it spreads from there. The Blumings had to fumigate their New York apartment and throw away clothes, bedding and other personal items.

On a related note, Alison Trainer, an American opera singer, sued Hilton Hotels with claims that she was bitten by bedbugs at an Arizona location.

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