If you want to avoid bedbugs on your trips, experts urge when you enter your hotel room, put your luggage in the … bath and not in bed.

Travel + Leisure Magazine talked to Lydia Mancel, a travel writer and founder of Just Packed, who gives some useful tips for travelers and how to escape her girls who are found in hotels around the world.

The first advice Mansel gives is when you check-in in a hotel room“Do not put your luggage in your bed in any way,” he suggests, on the contrary, to put them in the bathtub. ”

This way, your luggage they stay away from Any fabric surfacesincluding carpets, bed linen and curtains, which can host bedbugs that will jump into your suitcases and stay there.

“Every time I check-in in a hotel, I immediately put my luggage either in the bathroom, at the entrance or in any space away from the bed and not on the carpet. In this way, my things are quite far away from any furniture where they usually inhabit bedbugs – and I significantly reduce the chances of bring them home‘he stresses.

You can also leave a note in the suitcase to not movefrom the cleaner who will enter the room.

“From time to time my suitcases have been moved and placed on luggage shelves – which can also host bedbugs – so the note ensures that my luggage stays where I left her.”he says.

But there are other ways to prevent ‘invasion‘ girl In your suitcase.

You can choose a suitcase that has hard surface On the outside as bedbugs cannot be attached to rigid materials.

Another measure of protection is to be your thing to be packaged in plastic bags And have a small lens to inspect the hotel room you visit.

Finally, you can also have a spray against insects with you, good evil.

And good trips!