How to check for bedbugs in your hotel room – and what to do if you spot one

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As the threat of a serious bedbug invasion takes hold of Paris, footage of the infested Parisian metro and infested Airbnb properties is more than enough to make skin crawl.

For those fleeing fashion week, there’s a chance hitchhiking bedbugs may have already made themselves at home on clothing and luggage ready for a rent-free life in mattresses and skirting boards.