Last year we were at a very well kept Airbnb in Cornwall that turned out to have been bugs.

Last spring we stayed at an equally nice family place in the black forest (Germany) also with bed bugs.

My brother bought a nice wooden cabinet in London that turned out to be infested.

It's incredibly distressing cuz you don't want to bring them home. And I've spoken with a fair few people since who've had similar experiences in the past few years.

I live in London and had bedbugs in my apartment 2 years ago. I knew what to watch for (colinear musquito bites), so got rid of them at the first sign.

No idea where they came from, though. But the building is old and they might have crawled from a neighbour's bedroom.

> Do you mean in AirBnB’s or generally?

Generally. In any case they get carried very easily in clothes or suitcases and you need only a couple of them to start an infestation somewhere else. If they are in AirBnBs, it means that there are also in a lot of houses.

I got some in a London flat. A friend of mine got some in Manchester. They are not that common, but they are on the rise, which is concerning. It’s like early COVID, nobody has it until everybody does.

See for example https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/19/bedbugs-heat... from a couple of years ago, or https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bed-bugs-epi... .