Bedbug Registry: A Holiday Must

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There’s a lot to take into account before heading off for the holiday season. Now you can add one more thing to the list of concerns during the busiest travel time of the year: bedbugs.

The little bloodsucking monsters have been making quite the comeback, in the last couple of years, so it’s not really a huge surprise that the phrase “Bedbug Registry” is beginning to trend on search engines, as travelers make plans for Thanksgiving and beyond.

The Bedbug Registery was founded in 2006 by writer Maciej Cegłowski, after a traumatic bedbug experience. Since then, it has grown to collect nearly 20,000 reports in 12,000 locations. The site is largely focused on hotels, but does also include other communal spots like cruise ships.

Enter a hotel name and address, and the site will let you know whether you’ve got an infestation report to worry about. You can also check out an interactive map of infestations, which, at first glance, is more than a little troubling–particularly for those of us in New York City.

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