And we thought bed bugs were sooo 2006.

An innovative company in New York City called Advanced K9 Detectives LLC now has a certified group of canines for hotel hire.

According to the company's website, their four-legged detectives can search the average guest room for bedbugs in seconds, er, minutes flat. Two minutes, to be exact. That means the shaggy sleuths can help a mid-size 500-room property entirely eradicate any or all bedbug infestation in about a week. So what are America's hotels waiting for?]]> mytwocents 2008-03-06T11:24:37-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/31/73756/6219 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/DogonaBed.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Let's say it loud and clear first of all: we don't think that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Jurys+Boston+Hotel/local/900"><b>Jurys Boston Hotel</b></a> has bed bugs. And they don't either, but they're using something special to make sure that it remains that way and they never have a case of ex-guests feeling itchy and bad-mouthing them to the world.</p><p>It's not a high-tech solution at all, but a cute one instead: Jurys Boston has a kind of a contract with a bed bug sniffer dog. Every three months, the dog takes a walk through all 225 rooms at the hotel and barks if he finds the vaguest scent of a bed bug or its eggs.</p><p>Late last year the sniffer dog barked in two amandak 2008-01-31T11:15:02-05:00 42.349183 -71.072462 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/21/121449/316 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/newyorker_bedbugs.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>A Fordham University senior is suing the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+New+Yorker+Hotel/local/823"><b>New Yorker Hotel</b></a> after the room she was placed in as substitute dorm room she claims was infested with bed bugs.<blockquote><p>Michelle Hopkins filed a suit yesterday after the insects allegedly feasted on her in the Manhattan hotel that doubled as her dorm.<p><p> "I can't sleep anymore, I haven't slept in forever," Hopkins said, breaking into tears in her lawyer's office. "I'm petrified." <p> A student housing crunch at Fordham led Hopkins to find a room through Educational Housing Services, which leases four floors of rooms from the New Yorker Hotel at Eighth Ave. and 34th St</blockquote></p><p>Colleges often use nearby hotels as a way to supply rooms to students but we juliana 2007-09-21T12:35:15-05:00 40.752712 -73.993630 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/14/23219/6391 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/icon_small_hell.gif" align="right">It's still going through the process, but an Arkansas woman is suing <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Stone+Inns+Motel/local/362"><b>Stone Inns</b></a> hotel over a <a href="http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/03/09/news/030907bzbedbugs.txt">bed bugs incident</a>. The grounds for her complaint aren't pretty: she claims that during her stay in the Siloam Springs motel while undergoing cancer treatment, </p><blockquote><p>She was infested by hundreds of bed bugs during a stay there and now suffers recurring nightmares of bugs feeding off her body.</blockquote></p><p>The motel owner reckons the health department inspected Stone Inn's twice and the bed bugs must've come from somewhere else. The jury's out ... but the guest's trying for compensation for medical bills, pain, and embarrassment and humiliation. <br><br> <b>Related Stories:</b><br>&#183; <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g31924-d545421-Reviews-Stone_Inns-Siloam_Springs_Arkansas-m10559.html">Stone Inns reviews</a> [TripAdvisor]<br>&#183; <a href="http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/03/09/news/030907bzbedbugs.txt">Woman Sues Motel for Bed amandak 2007-03-14T13:09:58-05:00 36.175101 -94.551815 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/3/1575/39471 Severe Bug Bites from Thistle Charing Cross London, they put me through hell and I paid full price for it.]]> vanmember 2007-03-03T15:07:05-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/