While at first we were enchanted by the beauty and longevity of the condominium complex we became very disappointed to discover mid-vacation that our condo in specific was INFESTED WITH ANTS.
In order to feel more "at home," I decided to put my belongings in the closets and drawers, which is something I don't typically do. I did this around the third morning of our stay and we left the condo and began our day of activities. Exhausted from the long day, I got some pajamas from the drawer I put clothes in, changed, and went to bed for the night. When I awoke, I was in absolute shock to discover that I was covered from head to toe in BITES that itched immensely. My daughter who has shared the bed with me was also covered in bites. Now, of course, we didn't just automatically blame the condo for this. We had never experienced this before and it could have been anything. We thought maybe we had even brought something home with us from one of our excursions. But there was one thing that made it impossible to believe that had come from anywhere else other than the condo. Probably the next day or two later, I decided to grab something else from the drawer when I noticed something moving in there. I grabbed a shirt that was in there, turned on the light, and began shaking the shirt on the tile floor. Tiny light brown ants that run pretty quickly began to fall out and run across the floor. We then began taking everything out of the drawers, washing our clothes, and cleaning our belongings of these bugs that we began to realize were EVERYWHERE. They were just too tiny to see without really looking and we had never expected a condo like this to be infested with anything. We even realized that there were ant strips near the master bedroom back door and the kitchen. We were livid that we had to waste this vacation time cleaning and removing items of these ants instead of having a good time like we planned. Nights with the itch had got so bad that we had to spend an entire day finding a doctor that could prescribe us something for the itching. We weren't even motivated to go anywhere or do anything because of the itch or even just walking around with all of these red bites all over our bodies. The absolute WORST part of this entire thing was that when we called the owners of this condo, they did NOTHING. They claimed they never had a bug problem even though they have ant strips in the condo, didn't apologize, and began to ignore all of our calls and emails.