Oct 15 2008
Ventura Motel Bed Bugs
Ventura Motel found to have bed bugs Travelers Beach Inn (805) 648-2557 929 E Thompson Blvd, Ventura, CA.
Five rooms at a Ventura motel on Thompson Boulevard were yellow-tagged this week for substandard housing violations, including bedbugs and water leaks, authorities said.
The owner of the 37-room Travelers Beach Inn agreed to move those people affected into different rooms at the motel and is cooperating with officials to get the rooms with bedbugs sprayed, said Brad Clark, a Ventura city code enforcement officer who examined the motel Monday with a Ventura County health inspector.
Three rooms had bedbugs and two had water leaks, he said. “He is getting on it right away,” Clark said.
The decades-old roadside motel at 929 E. Thompson Blvd. has a history of problems. A handful of rooms was tagged in December after officials found bedbugs, missing smoke detectors, exposed wires and a partially charred mattress that had caught fire from an overloaded outlet.
Inspectors visited the motel after an angry resident who had been forced to leave the motel showed up at City Hall with a bedbug in a plastic bag and demanded an investigation.
Monday’s inspection also was prompted by a complaint, Clark said. “He has 30 days to fix the problems,” he said.
Once a popular attraction to the motoring masses before Highway 101 was built and pulled traffic from Thompson, the motel has joined others in the area as a low-rent housing alternative for the needy.
Source: Ventura County Star
