Pest control and disinfection for Airbnb hosts
Bed bugs, cockroaches, rodents: protect your listings, your reviews and your revenue with a pest control partner that works between guests.
Bed bugs, cockroaches, rodents: protect your listings, your reviews and your revenue with a pest control partner that works between guests.
A short-term rental welcomes new luggage every week, which is the number one entry route for bed bugs — and the reason an Airbnb host should treat pest risk as an operating cost, on a par with cleaning and laundry. AntinuisiblePro inspects, treats and disinfects short-term rentals across Val-de-Marne and eastern Paris, with slots scheduled between bookings and a dated intervention report you can keep on file.
Short-term rentals concentrate every risk factor: rapid guest turnover, luggage arriving from stations, airports and other accommodation, bedding handled constantly, and a property that often sits empty between stays — precisely when a bed bug harbourage or a cockroach colony establishes itself unnoticed.
Building-level factors make it worse. In a Paris-region apartment block, service ducts, refuse chutes and kitchen risers carry cockroaches and rodents from one flat to the next. Your property can be spotless and still be contaminated by a neighbour, which is why any serious diagnosis looks well beyond the single room where the guest saw something.
Finally, hosts almost always find out through a guest message — in other words, too late. By the time bites appear, the infestation is already weeks old. Routine inspection moves that line, catching the signs (dark faecal spots along seams, shed skins, eggs) before a paying guest does.
The treatment itself is nearly always the smallest line item. The real cost is the calendar blocked during treatment and follow-up, the refund on the current stay, rehousing the guest, possible mattress and bed base replacement, and then the unsold nights of a listing whose rating has just dropped.
A review that explicitly mentions bed bugs or cockroaches stays visible on the listing and weighs on every subsequent booking decision. It also undermines the performance status many hosts rely on, and therefore the listing's visibility in search results.
Acting fast and being able to prove it changes everything: a dated intervention report, stating the protocol applied and the follow-up inspection date, is what lets you respond calmly to a guest, a platform, a building manager or an insurer.
We start from your booking schedule. In most cases the intervention fits into a turnover day or a short vacancy window, and the quote states upfront how long the property will actually be out of service, along with the follow-up inspection date.
The treatment is matched to the pest and the setting: heat and steam treatment for bed bugs in furnished properties, bait gel in kitchens for cockroaches, secured bait stations and entry-point sealing for rodents. Biocidal products are applied by certified technicians, with re-entry intervals stated in writing.
For hosts running several properties and for management companies, we set up a scheduled inspection contract: planned visits for each unit, priority response when an alert comes in, and a single traceability file covering the whole portfolio.
Pest risk looks very different depending on whether you rent a studio twelve weekends a year or manage thirty units on behalf of owners. Our protocols cover both.
Describe your problem and we'll call you back quickly.
8 Bis Rue de la Côte d'Or, 94500 Champigny-sur-Marne, France
Monday to Sunday, 8am–8pm
Detection, treatment, disinfection and prevention — every service comes with a written report you can archive property by property.
Mattresses, bed bases, headboards, sofas and skirting boards checked, with a written record of what was found — or of its absence.
Heat, steam and insecticide as the layout requires, followed by a scheduled inspection to confirm eradication.
Bait gel in kitchens and bathrooms, plus a search for entry routes from common areas and neighbouring flats.
Secured bait stations, entry-point sealing, and checks of cellars, bin rooms and service ducts.
Surface and bedding disinfection after an infestation, so the property is fit to take bookings again.
Planned visits across your portfolio, priority response on alert, and centralised traceability.
Five in-depth guides to understand the risk, anticipate it, and know exactly what to do when a guest reports a problem.
Why short-term rentals are ideal territory for bed bugs, and how to find them before your guests do.
Read the guideSeven concrete steps to add to your turnover clean so nothing slips through.
Read the guideWhat to do — and in what order — when a guest reports a pest during their stay.
Read the guideThe French legal framework applying to furnished lettings, in both holiday and standard leases.
Read the guidePest risk does not disappear with a twelve-month lease — it simply becomes slower to detect and costlier to treat.
Read the guideIt depends on the pest and the method. Heat treatment for bed bugs often allows the property back into service the same or the next day, once it has cooled and been ventilated. Insecticide treatment carries a re-entry interval, which we give you in writing before the visit precisely so you can adjust your booking calendar.
If the treatment is complete, verified and the property is compliant again, there is no obligation to notify. But while an infestation is active or under treatment, taking a guest exposes you to a cancellation, a refund and a lasting negative review — better to postpone or rehouse.
We prefer to work in an empty property between stays. Our technicians can use unmarked vehicles on request and coordinate directly with your cleaning team or property manager, with key handover following whatever process you already use.
Yes. The multi-property prevention contract covers your whole portfolio with an inspection schedule, a priority alert line and a single traceability file. It is the format most property managers and investors with more than three units choose.
Yes — it is the most common situation in short-term rentals. We adapt the method to the furniture present: steam and heat for bedding and textiles, targeted gels away from contact surfaces. We tell you in advance what should be removed, washed or protected before we arrive.
Describe the situation and we will call you back, assess the urgency and offer a slot that fits your booking calendar.
Request a free quotePest control pricingAlso running a hotel, a guest house or a residence? Pest control and disinfection for Booking.com properties
AntinuisiblePro (BTPNE) is an independent pest control company. Airbnb is a registered trademark of Airbnb, Inc.; we are not affiliated with, partnered with or endorsed by that company. These pages are written for hosts who use the platform.