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Last updated at 7:35 AM on 27th January 2012

One of New York's swankiest hotels, The Ritz-Carlton, has
had some very unwelcome guests – bedbugs.

Hotel management confirmed it found the bedbugs in one of
their rooms on Sunday following a complaint from a
guest.

A worker at the hotel, where a midweek room can start at
$695 and soar to $4500 for a suite, said that a guest in Room
1005 produced a specimen of the pesky bug, a wingless
six-legged bloodsucker before checking out on
Sunday.

Hotel management said it subsequently called an
exterminator to rid the room of the creepy crawlers.

Guests in rooms next to the infested area, as well as
those above and below it, were transferred to other
accommodations and hotel workers received bedbug training,
reports the Times.

'Bedbugs are inevitable,' said Scott
Geraghty, the hotel’s general manager.

'They’re brought in by guests and come in on luggage or
things of that nature.'

He said the problem had been remedied.

A worker at the Ritz, Rosanna Polanco, a room attendant,
told The New York Times she was asked on Monday to service the
room next to 1005 but was not told about the bedbugs. She found
out only when she encountered a worker from Ecolab Inc., a
company that supplies cleaning products and pest elimination
services.

'He was the one who told me: ‘Be careful. There’s a lot
of bedbugs in there,’ Polanco said, referring to Room
1005.

'Management didn’t tell me. I found out myself.'

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Bedbugs with expensive taste: A midweek room at the Ritzfor a
midweek night starts at $695 and can soar up to $4,500 for a
suite

The Ritz isn't the first New York luxury hotel to be paid
a visit from the wingless, six-legged creatures.

Three people have separately accused the Waldorf-Astoria
of harboring the critters– one woman even claimed the bites
caused her some severe trauma.

Bedbugs have been found at a slew of Gotham landmarks
recently. The Empire State building, Abercrombie & Fitch
and the AMC Empire 25 Theatres all have had their
problems.

One Brooklyn school was attacked by the bugs 31 times in
2011. And even the headquarters of the city's Department of
Housing isn't safe!

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