Please check your bed linen and under your mattress if staying in cheaper hotels!
7 nights into stay my wife was covered in big red welts.thought it was an allergic reaction to mozzies so went to the chemist and was told it was bed bugs.
went back to hotel pulled off linen and mattress protector and what do you know,loads of them,most dead and as small as an ant but a few that had had a good feed about the size of a small spider and full of blood! Our blood.
I have come up in small bite marks everywhere today but not as big as the welts on my wife who cannot go outside as she is covered almost from head to toe.
The marks usually go in lines like a track at first ,then spread everywhere in a few days,if you think its small mozzie bites just go to a chemist who can tell straight away.
The chemist told us that they were quite common in Bali but most people don't notice unless they have an allergic reaction.
It doesn't bother us that much really and think its quite funny in a way as we have never come across this before and we have stayed in some real dives and come out unscathed.
Biggest downfall is we have binned most of our cloths and material suitcases as we were told that they get into your cases when you spray the bed.
Not trying to worry anybody at all but just a warning to have a quick check under your sheets in cheaper hotels.A tell tale sign is a very slight pissy/meldew smell which I mistook for the drains in the bathroom.
I wont mention the hotel as the owner is not present at the moment and cannot be contacted, to be fair this may be an isolated incident and probably would have been dealt with a bit better than the "sorry" and a can of spray from the Indonesians who run the hotel when the owner is overseas.
Also to be fair you can get bed bugs anywhere in the world even the best 5 star hotels but I never thought to check before.
Bed bugs don't spead diseases or make you sick but are a bit of an inconvenience if you are covered in blotches and have to throw stuff out in fear of spreading to another room/hotel or home.