COCKROACH at value hotel

[puntagordabob]

I am very sorry that this happened to you and the CMs should have been more sympathetic to your situation....

... BUT regarding the bugs...this is Florida (I live here)...and even the cleanest and best kept homes or resorts for that matter are beseiged by the insect kingdom.... as Floridians we do our best to keep them "outside the gates", but from time to time the Bugs score a point or two and get a foothold Disney is not immune to this any more than any of us other Floridians... Roaches and most other bugs live outdoors in the natural surroundings (they love the Palmetto bushes especially) BUT the weather outside can encourage the bugs to seek different "lodging" and unfortunately your room was the (UN)lucky pick!

Considering the rarity that this seems to happen at WDW with its 48 square miles in size I would say "salutes" are in order to their groundskeepers.

 

[ilovebassets]

I've lived in Georgia most of my life and went to college in Florida. Roaches are just a part of life down here. They're gross and can be quite shocking to people not used to them, but it's just a fact of life even at very nice hotels/houses. Kind of like the constant grayness of Seattle

(DH and I have spent two summers living out there. I remember one time there was thunderstorm and I guess you guys don't get a lot of thunder and lightning in addition to not a lot of roaches judging how people reacted. Other than the weather though, we loved Seattle).

 

[kaytieeldr]

OP--What you experienced can happen at any Disney resort, not just at the Music. Big bugs are a fact of life in Florida, it doesn't mean that a resort is dirty

Yep. I can laugh about it now, but... I stayed at CSR back in 1999 or so. As I entered my room one night, this HUMUNGOUS (I swear, it had to be SIX INCHES long) bug flew in! I covered my head with one hand, left the door open , ran in, called the Front Desk, and reported a bug emergency. Okay, I didn't word it exactly like that, but you get the idea.

Then I dragged a chair outside and sat and waited for maintenance. That poor man went through about every inch of my room - it was close to midnight - and couldn't find a thing. He determined it must have left while I was calling for help, and it was safe for me to go in and go to sleep!

He was right. It never showed up again during my entire stay.

 

[Sillyminny40]

Believe it or not, I am enjoying this thread!
Tropics=bugs

I have lived with cockroaches for about 6 weeks (back in 1997), in fact I did not even know what they were when we got them! Farms on the prairies rarely get them. It only took that amount of time to take over my kitchen. Our family is very clean and it has NOTHING to do with anything except opportunity for one male and one female.
Did you notice in "Wall-E" how the cockroach is the ONLY survivor on Earth after everything else has died or left the planet? Brilliant writing.
They came from my MIL's Apartment and the seniors were told they were "silverfish" HA! Not. They were those German cockroaches mentioned above! I even found them in my baby's crib! YUCK.
We called in an exterminator and we had to go to the lake and stay in a friends' camper for 7 days while the house was "bombed" =$600! They sprayed then stuck this dark glue looking poison all over my kitchen cupboards and bathroom. In fact 2 years ago (we gutted our kitchen) I still found this substance all over the place and cr bodies.
Oh and we had RATS at the same time under our deck from flooding in the area (all farms did in 1997). Rats were easy to get rid of and only $50 extermination. It was not funny when the POULINS man said "oh mam, these are not silverfish, they are the German cockroach..." oh boy was I glad I was ready though: we had emptied every drawer and cupboard out into the middle of the rooms and he was able to start that day....can you imagine with a baby and two pre-schoolers my horror?

So when we were in Mexico 3 years ago and there was a huge Cucoracha (Cockroach) dead in our room, it was like "oh okay, no problemo".
Well, sorry you had this in your room and this topic does come up on this forum every few weeks. It is just a shock if you have not had to deal with it. If you are really concerned, there is a great suggestion to see how bad it is in a hotel room but you can only do it at night.
Lay in bed or sit on a chair and be very still. After about 20 mins hold a flashlight out and see the bugs come towards it (no vibrations). That is the only way to hunt down the rare bugs in the room. Honestly motels/hotels are pretty diligent about bugs and do their best but if a guest has brought them in (like my MIL to our house) housekeeping cannot find them in the middle of the night. Resorts are sprayed and fumigated regularly but this is where they come from: hitching a ride.
If you do find them, you did the right thing by alerting the staff but holy dinah, they were not good with you. A character meal is SMALL compensation for the attitude not the bugs. I would still complain about how they treated you. Good luck.

 

[Alexander]

Staying in a hotel that has outside access from your room will can easily result in some type of visitor. If the OP truly wants to avoid almost any possibility of visitors, then they need to stay in a deluxe resort, higher than the first floor, and keep the balcony door closed. Even that won't assure no visitors, but it makes it a bit harder for them to get in.

 

[Sillyminny40]

Staying in a hotel that has outside access from your room will can easily result in some type of visitor. If the OP truly wants to avoid almost any possibility of visitors, then they need to stay in a deluxe resort, higher than the first floor, and keep the balcony door closed. Even that won't assure no visitors, but it makes it a bit harder for them to get in.

Very true! If we do not want to live with a lot of bugs, we need to live at 66 degrees north of the equator. Bugs are essential to life.

 

[Rylee]

We stayed at ASMusic last Aug/Sept 2008.

While we didn't like the resort... it was very loud, (I don't understand why some say it is the quietest with all the pool activites going on, etc.) I will say our rooms were very clean and we had towel animals everyday. In fact our mousekeeper went beyond the towel animals, placing our children's toys in various activities. We came "home" to find one stuffed animal had unrolled the toilet paper and still had it wrapped around him, on the floor in front of the sink area. Another night, all of our toys were on the bed watching TV... one had it's paw on the remote and the TV was on! Someone had quite a sense of humor.

We didn't see any bugs in our room, but we did see what looked like an ARMADILLO walk across the pool area, from one bush to another.

 

[kaysmommie]

Sorry you had a bad experience with the room. I don't think bugs in the rooms are acceptable. Just gross maybe they need to spray better. I know one can get in but the OP said bugs. We did have a visit from a lizard at Poly once. We were on the 3rd floor and deluxes have interior corridors. Guess the maid left the balcony door open or something. Not a huge deal but when I got up to use the bathroom during the night I had to get DH to remove it.

 

[annie1995]

We found one at POR about 4 years ago, and boy were my boys facinated with it. We dont' have big bugs like that in Michigan. Last year when we went, my DS found a dead one outside and wanted to take it home for his bug project for school. Uhhhh, no I'm not taking a dead bug home in my suitcase . Bugs don't pick the level of resort to visit, they are everywhere in Disney. Sorry the CM's acted the way they did, but I'm sure being used to them it really wasn't a big deal in their opinion

 

[Jenniferb]

This thread is crackin' me up!!!! I'm a southern belle from Alabama and bugs are just a part of life. The house next door to me is a rental that military families move in and out of every June. These folks are from all over the country and are ALWAYS freaked out by the bugs we have here in the south. I'm finding out that bugs must only live in the south. And the armidillo? That is so funny, we saw one also when we stayed at POP. Some folks at POP weren't sure what it was. I guess we southerners are just more familiar with these critters.

 

[KatMark]

Staying in a hotel that has outside access from your room will can easily result in some type of visitor. If the OP truly wants to avoid almost any possibility of visitors, then they need to stay in a deluxe resort, higher than the first floor, and keep the balcony door closed. Even that won't assure no visitors, but it makes it a bit harder for them to get in.

I disagree with you. We've stayed at the Poly and the CR--both indoor access and have bugs and lizards in our room (and we were on an upper floor at the CR). It does not only happen in rooms with outside access.

 

[vicki_c]

We didn't see any bugs in our room, but we did see what looked like an ARMADILLO walk across the pool area, from one bush to another.

Yep, that would be an armadillo! Before I lived in Florida, we were there on vacation in 2004 and my DS looked out the car window (he was 5) and said - hey, there's an armadillo! My DH and I were like "no way, they don't have armadillos in Florida" -- we were wrong! I had no idea though -- I thought they were out in the western desert states or something! When we lived in Florida, we saw them quite often.

Along with the palmetto bugs, love bugs, and my absolute least favorites ... spiders everywhere! (I can deal with anything but spiders -- and they were big and fast -- luckily mostly on our enclosed patio and not too often in the house)!

Sorry to the OP about the attitude you got -- but the bug thing is just life in Florida, I agree.

 

[CoachBagFanatic]

Yep. I can laugh about it now, but... I stayed at CSR back in 1999 or so. As I entered my room one night, this HUMUNGOUS (I swear, it had to be SIX INCHES long) bug flew in! I covered my head with one hand, left the door open , ran in, called the Front Desk, and reported a bug emergency. Okay, I didn't word it exactly like that, but you get the idea.

OMG this happened to us as well. It hit me in the head as I opened the sliding door to the balcony and I screamed as it scared the *&^% out of me. My DS13 said, Mom why are you screaming, it's just a lunar moth. I said lunar moth my butt. It looked like a moth on steroids it was hugh. My DH got it out of our room.

 

[ninjamama]

Ok, so, my gag-reflex ick factor is at LEVEL ORANGE!!!

We're off in a few weeks and between this and the stomach-flu threads, I will be sleeping with one eye open, and Purell clutched in my cold lifeless fingers! We are "flinty Chicagoans" (love it!), and NOTHING survives our brand of weather here (except the cold and flu germs.....but that's a whole other thread!) Thanks to all who posted that now have me appreciating the dreadful windchill and all that it eradicates.

 

[kismet1003]

Sorry you had a bad experience with the room. I don't think bugs in the rooms are acceptable. Just gross maybe they need to spray better. I know one can get in but the OP said bugs. We did have a visit from a lizard at Poly once. We were on the 3rd floor and deluxes have interior corridors. Guess the maid left the balcony door open or something. Not a huge deal but when I got up to use the bathroom during the night I had to get DH to remove it.

Holy cow, I would die!! I'm one of those 'northerners' that can't take the bugs, let alone a lizard!!! God forbid I ever see a snake down there, that would be it for me. I need to toughen up I guess

 

[KatMark]

Holy cow, I would die!! I'm one of those 'northerners' that can't take the bugs, let alone a lizard!!! God forbid I ever see a snake down there, that would be it for me. I need to toughen up I guess

Good thing you didn't see the thread about the snake in the Contemporary with pictures and everything.

 

[kismet1003]

Good thing you didn't see the thread about the snake in the Contemporary with pictures and everything.

 

[Alexander]

I disagree with you. We've stayed at the Poly and the CR--both indoor access and have bugs and lizards in our room (and we were on an upper floor at the CR). It does not only happen in rooms with outside access.

Staying in a hotel that has outside access from your room will can easily result in some type of visitor. If the OP truly wants to avoid almost any possibility of visitors, then they need to stay in a deluxe resort, higher than the first floor, and keep the balcony door closed. Even that won't assure no visitors, but it makes it a bit harder for them to get in.

'Nuf Said

 

[laceemouse]

Ok, so, my gag-reflex ick factor is at LEVEL ORANGE!!!

We're off in a few weeks and between this and the stomach-flu threads, I will be sleeping with one eye open, and Purell clutched in my cold lifeless fingers! We are "flinty Chicagoans" (love it!), and NOTHING survives our brand of weather here (except the cold and flu germs.....but that's a whole other thread!) Thanks to all who posted that now have me appreciating the dreadful windchill and all that it eradicates.

We lived in Naperville for 5 years and had mice in the house more than once. And don't tell me big cities up north don't have rats.
I'll take bugs over rodents any day. I can smoosh a bug with my shoe, I can't do that with rodents

 

[katyjeka]

Funny, we always tip the "mousekeepers" for the hard work they do, not to be left towel animals. I believe they have one of the hardest jobs in WDW. I can't imagine cleaning some of the rooms we've seen as we walk down the hall. Wow!! People can really trash a room. Sorry about the bugs, roaches are disgusting, but a common problem in Florida. Just as ants are a common problem in hotels in Pa. My parents have a condo in Clearwater, and are constantly having pest control treat their home.(My mom keeps her place spotless, and is quite the clean freak) I'm sorry your had problems with your stay, but I hope some of your trip was magical, and that you enjoyed your free breakfast. Janice