A woman who claims she was left covered in bedbug bites staying at a Premier Inn has won £312 in compensation.
Vicky Hills developed “incredibly itchy” welts after her stay.
She initially thought they were from mosquitoes, but a GP told her they were bedbug bites and gave her antibiotics.
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After contacting the hotel, the £78 she paid for her room was refunded within 10 days.
But £312 compensation she got for her medication and new bedding for her home took nearly two months to be paid. Vicky, of Dunstable, Beds, noticed the bites on her legs after staying at the hotel in Hastings, East Sussex, on August 10.
She said: “They were incredibly itchy, incredibly painful. I had two lines up the front of my leg. Then I started getting them on my shoulder and arms.”
A Premier Inn spokeswoman apologised and said: "We have rigorous processes in place to both react to and prevent issues on the rare occasion they do arise.
"As soon as our team were aware of this complaint, the room was put on lockdown and independent experts immediately called in to resolve the issue using a specialist treatment, with no further cases reported."
It comes after an expert said sneaky bedbugs are lurking in our wardrobes during the day before launching night-time attacks under the duvet.
Professor Mary Cameron, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "Although they’re called bedbugs, they come into the bed to bite you when it’s dark, but then they scurry away into cracks and crevices within the bedroom.
"So you wouldn’t find them so much in the bed, you’d probably find them inside bedside cabinets, in cracks and crevices, or behind the headboard or in wardrobes, because they like to be in dark places during the day.
"So, after you’ve got up, it’s unlikely that you’ll see them in your bed unless you’ve got a really bad infestation, and you’ll be aware of it then because you’ll have lots of bites."
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