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<\/p>\nA woman who claims she was left covered in bedbug bites staying at a Premier Inn has won \u00a3312 in compensation.<\/p>\n
Vicky Hills developed \u201cincredibly itchy\u201d welts after her stay.<\/p>\n
She initially thought they were from mosquitoes, but a GP told her they were bedbug bites and gave her antibiotics.<\/p>\n
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After contacting the hotel, the \u00a378 she paid for her room was refunded within 10 days.<\/p>\n
But \u00a3312 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.<\/p>\n
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She said: \u201cThey 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
"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."<\/p>\n
It comes after an expert said sneaky bedbugs are lurking in our wardrobes during the day before launching night-time attacks under the duvet.<\/p>\n
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Professor Mary Cameron, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "Although they\u2019re called bedbugs, they come into the bed to bite you when it\u2019s dark, but then they scurry away into cracks and crevices within the bedroom.<\/p>\n
"So you wouldn\u2019t find them so much in the bed, you\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n
"So, after you\u2019ve got up, it\u2019s unlikely that you\u2019ll see them in your bed unless you\u2019ve got a really bad infestation, and you\u2019ll be aware of it then because you\u2019ll have lots of bites."<\/p>\n
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