50% of all New York City Buildings Are Infested With Bedbugs, and Now Disney?

I used to pine for a getaway in New York City, a place to crash after partaking of all the cultural wealth and allure that city has to offer.

Then came the bedbugs. Roaches were bad enough when I lived there, but now I travel with a flashlight and trepidation. How can you trust a hotel when the sacred Waldorf Astoria has bedbugs? How can you go to a movie when a bedbug might crawl up your leg while you munch on popcorn? Almost half of all the buildings in Manhattan have bedbugs. Ew.

The worst cities for bedbug infestations now are New York City, top of the list, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton. And to make matters even worse, the guy who founded the Bedbug Registry — after he encountered bedbugs in a San Francisco hotel — says the problem is only going to get worse. You know what’s going to happen: people are going to leave New York for the holidays and bring those bedbugs on¬† board planes and into homes across the country.

Meantime, even Disney World is no longer Snow White when it comes to bedbugs: bedbugs were reported at the Disney Yacht Club Resort on Epcot Resort Road in Bay Lake, Florida.