Just back- Cockroach in my room!

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Hey - this thread is better than the Discovery Channel

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[BibbidiBobbidiBOO]

It's Florida, there will be bugs. I don't like them and can't stand if I see one in my house, but it truly is just impossible to entirely avoid one here or there. It does not mean anything bad about AKL. I imagine some get into any resort on occasion. The big ones are outside bugs and just can come in with you ! Probably came in through the balcony.

 

[DisneyDadInFL]

I live in South Florida and have grown accustomed to the palmetto bugs you are referring to. Although I would rather not share the same habitat as them they are very tough to control this time of year with hot and rainy weather. If you had a savannah view, the opening of your sliding glass door would have given this bug ample opportunity to fly right in. That is what makes it difficult to curtail these bugs as they fly all over the place. You were one of the unlucky ones but I don't think there was anything a CM could do as they are probably just used to this happening. I continue to laugh at the stories of children chasing palmetto bugs and also lizards like they are so rare when we Floridians are just used to them.

 

[floridafam]

This thread is making me feel like I'm Sully from Monster's Inc. when he keeps fainting and then standing back up and then fainting... when he thinks Boo was crushed in the trash cube.



I know they are virtually impossible to get rid of but I'm interested in what you would do if you saw one in your room:

1. Kill it and stay in the room

2. Ask for a different room

3. Run down the hall screaming

I'm interested to know what people's response would be to a roach in their room.

Let me know.

 

[ShaneV]

I know they are virtually impossible to get rid of but I'm interested in what you would do if you saw one in your room:

1. Kill it and stay in the room

2. Ask for a different room

3. Run down the hall screaming

I would do 1, being from Texas its really not that big of a deal to me. Not something I want to see, but something beyond control. Asking to move would be implying that the room is dirty enough to attract the roach, which you should have asked to move in the first place. The truth is it can happen at any room in any hotel in flordia, why move and cause yourself all that time wasted to have the same chance in another room.

 

[minnie56]

Cockroaches and Palmetto Bugs live there! (Which is why I don't anymore!! )

A 'group' of Roaches held myself and my 2 daughters hostage in our room at PO/FQ last summer.It was a ground floor room and they apparantly often come in through the AC system. Bug control (!) was called and they came and got the offending Roach but there were plenty more where that came from and at 2:00 a.m....we moved rooms! Upstairs!!!

At the time we were advised that Disney recently had adopted an organic approach to pest control and were encountering a bit of a surge in numbers.

I will be at AKL shortly...were you on a main floor room or upper? Personally, I can't stand them and hope I don't see any...but....it is Florida and I guess the chances are good?

BTW....have a look on the ground around Casey's on Main Street after dark..there are usually many of them scampering whilst people sit on the curb readying for the nightime parades!! Yech!

 

[phamton]

Originally posted by floridafam


I know they are virtually impossible to get rid of but I'm interested in what you would do if you saw one in your room:

1. Kill it and stay in the room

2. Ask for a different room

3. Run down the hall screaming

I'm interested to know what people's response would be to a roach in their room.

Let me know.

I can not, absolutely can not, step on them or even hit them with anything. I can spray them with Raid at home and then I run from the room. At a hotel, I would not have bug spray so I couldn't kill it on my own. If my husband or kids were around, I'd get them to kill it and flush it down the toilet. If I was alone, I'd want to go screaming down the hall but would call housekeeping to come get it. I'd look like a fool for calling them but phobias are like that. I would not ask for another room unless the room was crawling with roaches or junebugs.

 

[walt's assistant]

Ahhh....la cucaracha! As a native Floridian, I have become very familiar with the state insect (or is it the mosquito? hmmmm...).

Seriously, that's nasty in ANY hotel. yuck!

WA

 

[christi]

I know they are virtually impossible to get rid of but I'm interested in what you would do if you saw one in your room:

1. Kill it and stay in the room

2. Ask for a different room

3. Run down the hall screaming

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Definitely number 3!!
I'm from Scotland and the most exotic bug we have here is a housefly, I'd die if I saw one of those! How big are they?
On second thoughts.... I don't think I want to know!

 

[Pammy_from_WI]

Man those pics were awful!!!! I stand corrected then. We had the American AND the German, back in the '80s the locals and news people used to tell us they were Asian (but they didn't look like that pic with the Asian or Oriental. Back then they thought the Asian came into S. FL on a boat with tires). In the pics they were the first pic and the last pic. I remember them very clearly. LOL

I'd probably just kill the sucker and stay in the room. But if I was seeing them often, like back in N. Miami I'd ask to be moved, probably to another resort, even if it meant a downgrade. After I moved back to WI I had nightmares for several months about them. One or two I can deal with, but dozens, forget it!!!

Really they are harmless, being they don't bite, but they are gross. We use to keep anything and everything that wasn't tightly sealed in the fridge. Once I opened the dishwasher and hundreds, and that isn't an overstatement, came scurring out. Sort of like a horror film. That was the night I called and told my mom, "THAT"S IT!!! I'm outta here!!!" LOL

I have to say tho, we spend a lot of time in the south and I've never seen a roach ANYWHERE on WDW property, which does suprise me. We've seen them in other hotels, offsite, but never onsite, guess we're just lucky.

Pammy

 

[countdownqueen]

We had a family of roaches last year at PORS, we were going to bed on our first night there when we noticed they were on the night stand and the bed rails even the clock. We called and someone came out (maybe 10 minutes) and confirmed the roaches (like I would lie about a roach) and we were moved to another room. At first we were sad because we had such a great room and ended up with a room faaaar away from everything, but who can stay sad at Disney very long. It was in July and you know it rains almost everyday so I'm sure that had alot to do with it.

 

[*Fantasia*]

I only read the OP... I didn't read the rest...

We took it to the front desk and were told "well you know, it is the animal kingdom". I informed them that it wasn't the "bug kingdom".

LOL... You are right...It isn't a "Bug Kingdom Lodge." And the bug is definitely not welcome in the room...only outside.

The front desk response to you was unacceptable. It sounds like they didn't care or showed concern.

We stayed at CBR for one night on our first time on-sight stay and we had a roach in our room. It was on the bed where my (late) husband was lying on. He said his back was itchy and it feels like he is lying on something...sure enough as soon as he jumped off the bed...there it was...the roach!! The roach ran down and underneath the bed. We ended up at the ASMo for the rest of our stay.

 

[ScarletIndigo]

Originally posted by DrTomorrow
My DW and I will be at the Polynesian this fall for our first empty-nester trip and I'm trying to make it special. Do you think that I could contact Concierge Services ahead of time to guarantee some Living Disney Magic?

::Grin:: You're too funny, Erick! If I see any creepy-crawly things in our room at ASMu, you'd better believe I'll be dumping them in your "romantical" room at the Poly! Beware of any suspicious packages that seem to "move" on their own!

 

[KittenLittle]

Can't stand 'em can't stand 'em I cannot stand them!!!!!!!
I have lived in Alabama all my life,but I will not put up with the big R-can't even type the word! We learned the hard way not to store firewood close to the house! I would be soooooo upset to see one in ANY hotel-esp. a $$$$ resort! I surely would ask to move to another room!!!

 

[swampkatz]

This thread is making me feel like I'm Sully from Monster's Inc. when he keeps fainting and then standing back up and then fainting... when he thinks Boo was crushed in the trash cube.


Floridafam thank you, thank you for a really great laugh, you know the side splitting kind! Your "visual" was great.



I'm interested in what you would do if you saw one in your room:

1. Kill it and stay in the room

2. Ask for a different room

3. Run down the hall screaming

It would depend on who else was in the room. If it's just me or any combo of me DH, DS, DGS's or DSIL, it's a definite #1!
Oldest DD or DGD, I'd have to do the "catch and release". Granola's, you gotta love 'em. If the youngest DD (aka the Drama Queen ) were in the room, I'd probably sit back and thoroughly enjoy #3.

 

[audflash]

Here in Az we call them sewer roaches - gross, huh? Anyway, I would rather have one of those in my room than one of the small german ones. There are never just one of them!!

Where we live those huge roaches come out after it rains and they almost never make it into the house.

We are staying at the AKL, too. However, both of my kids LOVE bugs so I never have to worry about getting rid of them . The only problem I have is making the kids play with them OUTSIDE - and "you better wash your hands after that!" .

 

[SplshMtn99]

Yep, it's Florida. Bugs happen. I don't like it, but bugs happen.

Saw first one on 1991 trip on the small ferry (yep, on the boat)that goes from MK to Fort Wilderness. CM was trying to discreetly kick overboard. Asked him what it was. He told us all about Palmetto bugs (& yup, he said cockroach). And how Disney sprays...... So after that, I started looking for them. Saw a dead one the next day while climbing the Swiss Family Treehouse.

Then on 2001 trip, we had one in our room at the Beach Club. We came back to our room early afternoon. I walked into room & to the sink area. FIRST THING I SPOTTED, was this HUGE brown bug (legs side up) in my small ziploc back of cotton facial squares. COULDN'T MISS IT!! Right away, came a knock on the door. It was the maid, sheepishly asking if a maintanance man had come to the room. I said no. Big up the baggie, zippe it closed, handed it to her.....and asked "Is this why?". She was so reliefed. She had been cleaning the room, saw it fly by, and freaked, and went to get help when she couldn't find it again. She took the baggie by the corner & walked away carrying it at arms length. LOL A few minutes later, maintanance showed up. I told him the bug was gone.

That night, I kept looking in the sheets & towels.
We assumed it came in when she had the door to the balcony open OR came in with the towel carts when they bring them in from outside.

Florida.....nice place to visit....but I DON'T want to live there. FYI, when we do go to FL, I prefer Disney property over MIL's house. Obviously for many reasons, LOL, but one is less bugs. (OK, that didn't sound good, did it? You know what I mean. )

 

[Kaycee]

As far as the vote goes, I'd go with 1. Get rid of the bug and stay in the room.

I hope everyone has figured out by now from all the great info in this thread that having a huge roach in your room in Florida does not reflect on the cleanliness of the resort. Since those types live outside in trees and leaves (hence the nickname Palmetto bug, after the Palmetto tree), they can get inside anywhere.

On the other hand, if I found one of the smaller roaches, I'd be a lot more freaked out, because that does reflect on the cleanliness of the resort.

 

[MandaPerry]

I am getting all grossed out. I lived in Tampa Fl for just under 5 mnths. I lived in a very upscale community in a brand new apartment building but I still saw big and little roaches. When you learn a few thing about the smaller ones you tend to get so creeped out where there is one there are at least 50 more. I had nightmares for a while after I moved back to CT. I have only seen them at night in MK by space MT. But Then again I try not to look to hard for them. And if I saw one in the room I would run out of the room and wait for my father to kill it thatn I would need to change rooms. And since Scotland only has house fly's I think I am moving to Scotland

 

[susy]

Umm, this is Florida.

I would "run down the hall screaming". I live in FL and hate bugs!


As for showing it to the front desk...
I have one question...


Do you eat in restaurants?