Comments on: Heeren Inn (Malacca) has bed bugs

By: evita ong

evita ong — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:19:24 +0000

aiyo… me out date, coz just back from Melaka which stayed at Heeren Inn,no23.
lucky my child didnt complaint about bed bugs, but only complaint the enviroment hotel a bit dirty coz we found 1 pair of dirty stoking inside drawer..maybe their worker not proper clean up the room after last customer check out.

By: C2

C2 — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:09:08 +0000

Hi Jake,

same role as Heeren House right ? located in the middle of the role right ? operated by a chinese family with surname “Au”?

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:40:58 +0000

C2 – no, the hotel right next to the river is Heeren House which is a nice place to stay and is often fully booked.

The place with bedbugs is Heeren Inn which is further up the road (Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock).

By: C2

C2 — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:47:32 +0000

hey, just want to confirmed the location of this hotel, is it the one that right next to the river ?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:53:34 +0000

We’re lying in bed at ‘River View Guesthouse’ at 5am watching these things crawling around for the last hour.

I’m wondering if they’re in the other rooms too, or whether we can change to a different one tomorrow, and we’ll be ok for one more night.

What horrible things they are.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:29:52 +0000

Sorry to hear that Teobesta. At least you woke up and can prevent any further bites! I suggest you capture one of the bugs – dead or alive. They are very hardy – to kill them, you have to really squash them hard. You will see the blood (your blood) come out.

Bed bugs will live anywhere – the cleanliness of the hotel/guesthouse has nothing to do with it. They hide in cracks in the day (floor boards, bricks, behind furniture, in bed frames) and even the most professional cleaner won’t find them. Once they have taken up residence, they can live for months without feeding, so they are very hard to eradicate. Even professional pest control companies can have a hard time removing them once and for all.

One preventative measure you can take in the future is to check out the room when you arrive. Pull the bed away from the wall, look in the cracks, lift up the mattress and look along the bed frame. If they are there, you will probably see them scurrying along.

Good luck on your travels and tell the owner of Cheng Ho Guesthouse that they must hire pest control immediately!

By: teobesta

teobesta — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:26:32 +0000

thanks for this informative entry
i’d no idea what they looked like
it confirmed my fears that those nasty things that woke me in cheng ho guesthouse an hour ago were bedbugs
though i also found a tinier red bug happily wandering around the white sheets sometime later
your photos have thoroughly scared me
and am imagining that they’re all over me now
i’m hoping i don’t react as badly S-:
the place looked so squeaky clean too
i wasn’t even supposed to stay here
just stumbled on it
and the gentleman on duty was so warm and hospitable i decided to stay
i’m sitting in the lobby now
waiting for dawn so that i can leave
)-:

By: punchi baba

punchi baba — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:07:21 +0000

We stayed in Baba house, and that didnt have any problems like this. Only complaints are that the bathroom was not very clean, and the breakfast is meager.

By: punchi baba

punchi baba — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:05:10 +0000

OMG, thanks for sharing> We were just about to book the hotel for a night. I will remember this, and will tell everyone not to stay in this HORRIBLE hotel !!!

Any recommendations for good, clean yet not so expensive hotels in Malacca?

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:20:16 +0000

James – does this product really work on bedbugs or is it for dustmites?