This is a big deal for some folks, and surely some unpleasant stuff for the lot.  If there was a quick and effective way to eliminate the blood suckers from even being an issue, no matter where you were staying, I know some folks would buy in, but you would just have to prove it.  Perhaps you could prove that such a thing worked with a time lapse infomercial or just a time lapse youtube advertisement on the cheap.

Either way, it would go a little something like this.  You would bring a small travel bag, the size of a bowling ball bag with you into the room.  Inside it would be a special sheet, a 6 inch wide elastic/velcro belt, and a 110 plug in adapter.  Upon entering your room you would just pull everything off of your bed and set in the closet. You then take out the sheet, a california king size fitted sheet. This would fit a king and could also be used on queen, it would just have extra material. After covering the bed with this special sheet the hotel guest would then take out and apply the velcro belt. It is designed to wrap around the outside of the matress, pressing against the flat outer face of the matress. The sheet could have a velcro portion at various points to accomodate this belt, and make applying it easy for one person to do. After the belt was applied it would be connected to the 110v plug in, and that could then be plugged into the nearest outlet. The velcro belt would have a simple electric blanket type of heating wire running through it. Bed bugs, if present, would not be able to tolerate the raised temperature (heat is what hotel chains typically use to drive the bastards out). So you could be certain that once this device was setup on the bed, you could lay atop the bed and no bed bug would disturb your sleep.

I did consider a power outage or a failure to the heating element. The solution for the heating element outage or just a general power outage woud be an alarm that would sound when it sensed element failure. Now concerning the power failure, I know it’s possible to lose power. The solution here would be a small battery powered alarm built into the power adapter, such that if the power ever did go out for longer than 5 minutes the alarm would sound, and you wouldn’t worry about falling asleep and being attacked in your sleep if the power did go out.

This is not a product for everyone. This is a product for those who lose sleep at the idea of bed bugs and just the possibility of exposure to them.

Now, the sheets and blankets are a slippery slope, if you truly look thouroughly at the situation. You could easily put the sheets and blankets into the hotel dryer for 10 minutes and eliminate any would be hangers on, but you run into a problem when you fall asleep and a bit of blanket flops off the bed, providing a hypothetical ladder for some bloodthirsty traveller to navigate past your protection onto your carcass. Now, is it likely that they will be able to crawl past the heated belt area? No, but it is posisile. The solution would be to tuck the linens into the belt so that they would be far less likely to ever contact the floor,

The pillow? Well look, a pillow is a troubling bedfellow. A big bag of material that your typical foul organism thrives in. I would recommend having a microfiber pillow cover anyway, on any pillow you use, whether it’s at home or in a hotel. Just include 4 large cases in the kit, and instead of a zipper at the end, you would want a ziplock style seal.

Again, not for everyone, but someone asked me for a solution to this issue, and that would do it. I think it would be a viral video if you made a presentation including a underwear gilded maiden time lapsed on top of a bed which was specifically shown with magnified video to have been overrun with bed bugs. Then at the conculsion of the time lapse, you could show that none came near the heated belt region, the top region of the bed was clear of any, and it worked reliably.

There, I’m done with that topic. It’s giving me the creepy crawlies!