Find bed bugs before your guests do
Bed bugs arrive in guest luggage, and no protocol reliably keeps them out. What you can change is how long they go unnoticed once they are in the building — where bed bugs come from explains why prevention alone never holds.
"Bankside Hotel is proactively dealing with the increasing number of Bed Bugs being detected here in London, and Spotta is an excellent product for doing so."
Andras Goldsbrough, Maintenance Manager,
Bankside Hotel, part of Marriott International
What a bed bug incident actually costs
Guest Complaints
Negative Reviews
Loss of Loyal Customers
Reduced Bookings
The cost of treating bed bugs is just the tip of the iceberg:
Cost scales with time rather than insect count. One bed bug found in week one is a room out for a day.
The same bed bug found in week six has spread along a shared wall and become a floor-level problem. The full picture is broken down in the impact of bed bugs on hotels.
Pest control emergency call-out treatments
Current preventative bed bug protocols (e.g. dogs)
Negative reviews online leading to Loss of business and lower ADR
Guest compensation & recovery costs
Cost of replacing fixtures
Cost of settlements to avoid lawsuits
Increased burden on management and housekeeping
Spotta's Solution
An early warning system built into the room
The Pod draws bed bugs into a concealed trap, confirms the catch with an onboard sensor, then sends a room-level alert to the people you nominate.
It runs on its own wireless network, so it never touches your guest WiFi, and arrives as a subscription rather than a capital purchase.
It is the same smart pest monitoring platform Spotta runs in agriculture and forestry, tuned to one insect.
See how it works.
How This Compares With What You Do Now
Most properties already run some form of detection. The useful question is what each method covers, and when.
If your team needs the practical background, how to identify and treat bed bugs covers it.
Canine inspection
Accurate on the day it visits. Covers that day, not the nights between, and cost rises with frequency.
Housekeeping checks
Daily presence in the room, but bed bugs hide during service hours and visible signs appear late.
Passive interceptors
Cheap and effective at capture, but nobody is alerted. Someone still has to look.
Spotta Bed Pod
Every fitted room, every night, with a confirmed detection sent to your team. Detects rather than treats.
Why Hotels Choose Spotta
24/7 automatic detection and email alerts to hotels
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10x more effective at detecting bed bugs than current methods
Zero time commitment from hotel staff
Zero visibility to guests - no wires, no sound, no smells and hidden from view
Does not use hotel WiFi
Bed Bug Detection Questions
No. The unit is hidden from view, silent, odourless and has no visible wiring. Guests are not aware the room is monitored.
No. Each Pod runs on Spotta’s own wireless network, so there is no impact on guest bandwidth and no security review of your network.
Within minutes. The alert names the room, so the response starts the same day rather than at the next inspection.
Many properties reduce inspection frequency and use the dog to verify a confirmed detection instead. A Pod covers every fitted room every night; an inspection covers the rooms it visits on the day it visits.
No. Spotta is a bed bug detection service, not a treatment company. Your existing provider treats, and the work is usually cheaper because it is early and localised.
