Today, my sister and I checked into our cheap hotel in Brussels as part of our month-long Europe trip. At 11pm we awoke to the sound of a mouse chewing through a bag of food we'd bought. At 3am we awoke to bedbugs. We slept in the bathroom. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my sister and I got a room in the attic of an old hotel, while our parents got a room several floors down. We discovered the room was full of bugs. Our parents didn't believe us, so we brought them some as proof. They told us to get over it. We can't sleep. We've killed 50 and counting. FML
Today, my girlfriend and I moved back in after over a month of couch hopping and $2,000 of heat and chemical treatments for a chronic bedbug issue. I just found bedbugs on my legs. We've used all our favors and have nowhere to go. FML
Today, my sister and I were sick of living with each other, so we'd decided to go on separate holidays. I get to my hotel, then an hour later she rocks up to the very same hotel to check in. She'd booked her holiday using a magazine she'd stolen from my room, and ended up in the exact same place. FML
Today, I was cleaning my room when I found a nice surprise from my cat. While I was on vacation, she killed a mouse. By the time I found it, there were maggots crawling in my carpet. FML
Today, while working the graveyard shift at my hotel, it felt a little chilly, so I grabbed a blanket out of the box we usually store old blankets in. Twenty minutes later, the live-in maintenance man casually remarked that those blankets are all infected with bed-bugs. FML
Today, I woke up to something crawling on my leg. Thinking it might be a spider, I jumped out frantically to check. The good news: it's not a spider. The bad news: it's a bedbug. My apartment was just treated for them. FML
Today, I checked into a hotel for a work trip. When I walked in, the sheets and bath mat were stained, and there was soap-encrusted hair stuck in my folded towel. When I got back later in the day, all my stuff was gone because they apparently thought I'd checked out. FML
Today, after being moved to three different employer-provided apartments because they all had mold and electrical problems, I requested a bigger bed. The bed they delivered had bedbugs. FML
Today, at around 12 a.m. I went to bed, happy that I get to sleep in because I had nowhere be in the morning. Sadly that came to an end when I woke up around 7 a.m. to my mom coming home and screaming because she saw a mouse. FML
Today, I woke up to a mouse sitting on my pillow and chewing on my hair. FML
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lex1459 38
You get what you pay for! Hotels in Europe are definitely more expensive, but the cheap ones are always cheap for a very good reason.
DerrickJames 33
Mouse? Not bad. Bed bugs? The creatures of hell. Don't cheap out next time, OP. Bed bugs are hellacious.
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lex1459 38
You get what you pay for! Hotels in Europe are definitely more expensive, but the cheap ones are always cheap for a very good reason.
lex1459 38
I say this because I stayed in an array of cheap European hotels for a school trip. In one of them my friend bumped into the shower and it collapsed.
UnicornWaffles 23
OP should've stayed at a hostel. There's actually a ton of decent hostels for backpackers at a very cheap price, many are 10€ or less.
KayDee29 31
I agree with hostels, as well as Airbnb. It's an app and you can rent out people's houses or just a room or even just a shared space. My fiancé, and my two best friends and I backpacked Europe this past summer and all we used was Airbnb. It was soooooooo worth it and the prices were about the same as a decent hostel. I highly recommend it!!
9a_1z 12
I've stayed in a few cheap(ish) hotels (or single rooms in hostels) that have been pretty good. It's all about the research, for instance I'll chose a basic room that everyone says is clean over a slightly bigger one where people have rated the cleanliness lower.
jake_braves 25
That's crazy 5. I would've busted out laughing though. Poor friend of yours though.
Xion0014 20
Hostels are actually pretty weird. My boyfriend works at one and says almost everyone there who gets a room are incredibly stupid
ChopSuey444 20
#44, everyone *is* stupid. Not everyone "are" stupid.
theRonin 18
Oh christ, that definitely sucks. Hopefully you guys stay at a better hotel soon
ajo123 16
Don't be so cheap op. Lol
Feklfekl2222 32
You might be better off staying in a youth hostel? They're cheaper and pretty much always clean. I hope your clothes aren't infected with bedbugs
ClashParody 21
There really is no hope there. If you slept in an area with bedbugs, you have them. Honestly, I hope OP threw away all her clothes, because if those are brought back home, a home treatment for bedbugs is hella expensive.
DerrickJames 33
Mouse? Not bad. Bed bugs? The creatures of hell. Don't cheap out next time, OP. Bed bugs are hellacious.
Red_Curls1995 28
A mouse I could deal with. Bed bugs? No.
Kitten_love 22
Be very careful about the bedbugs. They can sometimes travel with you and spread. I had them once and it took weeks, many bites, and a lot of money to get read of them. OP, I highly suggest washing everything with you at a commercial laundry mat. They are the only places that get hot enough to kill the bugs. Wash on the hottest setting. Keep washed and unwashed clothes separate. Be careful that the clothes you're wearing don't transfer bugs to the clean clothes.
sturschaedel 27
Use those vacuum/compression clothes bags to store the washed clothes in. They are airtight and thus bug-tight. Get your backbags/suitcases professionally cleaned. Make sure you don't spread the problem by taking potentially bug infested stuff to the next place you stay at!
Milk_Emperor 8
Welcome to Brussels, should've gone to Ghent or Bruges instead.
feytensn 25
Or Leuven
Flurbian 4
Oft 't stad
trucker2 33
Home sweet home
rainbowsRlove 15
I bet you're itching to get out of there