They are becoming problematic everywhere. We check every hotel and keep flashlights with us. We were infested once and we spent all of our rainy day money getting rid of them. Replacement furniture, that needed to be replaced, but we all wished it could have waited a while longer. A special exterminator came in, then after the beds were steamed, they were sprayed and immediately put into specialty mattress covers on both the mattresses and the box springs. You can wash in hot water all you want to, unless they are in boiling steam for a long, long time, they'll just enjoy the bath. The trick is getting them in a hot dryer.
Every stitch of clothing had to be washed and dried. Then all the rest had to go to the dry cleaners. My stash, what little there was, was bagged up. As I need it, I pull out the pieces I need and wash them. It stinks because I don't like to prewash my fabric. I like the way it looks after you wash it once it's been quilted.
They can live at least a year with no food in sub zero and hot temperatures. We had the carpets steamed by professionals we saw on the bed bugs segment of our local news. We had already replaced our furniture by then. We followed their directions to the letter and paid a fortune for the special exterminators to come in. They said they had to come every 3 months, but we couldn't afford 250.00 more than once. We haven't had issues with them since. I still flip the mattresses and look over everything every week when I change the sheets. When we travel we look EVERYWHERE. I put the bags on the table, sink, or on top of the dressers and the can's seem to climb on what isn't covered in fabric.
So far so good.....