Did you get bitten by mosquitoes or sand fleas on your last resort vacation? Develop an itchy rash? Are you sure that's what it was? Cheryl thought so too, until she realized she was a victim of bed bugs biting her in her room at the luxury Caribbean villa she and her family enjoyed for a week. She says, "Our vacation was wonderful, the villa spotlessly clean, the resort employees very friendly and helpful, the food was good overall and truly excellent in the specialty restaurants for dinner...Bed bugs would be my only complaint! Now I know what to look for BEFORE getting into bed no matter where I may travel!

It can happen here in the United States, too. Just ask Mariusz, who found the familiar three-bite pattern after a stay in an upper-range hotel in San Francisco.

UW sent in some really clear (and disturbing) pictures of bed bug bites on her face, neck and arm. She says, "Good that people can see what the bites and lesions look like. They throbbed and were very painful for three days afterwards. Ice packs certainly relieved the swelling and throbbing, and also antihistamines and Panafcortelone were prescribed by the doctor for me. Has been a very harrowing and emotional time for me. Now eleven days later they are beginning to disappear."

See all the pictures of bed bug bites so you can learn to recognize when your hotel room is infested, and learn what to do if it is.