I have just seen bedbugs in pictures and they look so awful.. you can be sure I checked things that came into my house very good..W e really did no traveling and staying in hotels for a long time..but you could get the ugly things just by sitting in a chair on the plane or train where some people brought them in from other countries..It gives me the creeps to think about them..
There is a website called begbugregistry.com. It is good thing to check before you book a hotel in US cities now.
The other places where bug bed have become a problem is movie theaters. Just another reason not to go to the movies.
Here the buses have them along with the public library (they closed the branch down and cleaned the books). But even the best hotels can get them. The Waldorf in New York has them.