Snake in Resort Room?

[steffali]

Where was your son??? How did he get bit??? What did they do at the hospital?? OMG!!!!!

 

[mickey family]

We were at CBR around Trinidad south when he bent over to pick up a toy he dropped in the landscaping. His feet never left the sidewalk, he just bent over to pick it up. Thankfully we saw the snake and called 911. He spent 3 days in intensive care and received 12 vials of antivenin. Just stay on the sidewalks, don't go in the landscaping, and be aware of your surroundings. I do feel Disny should post signs warning of venomous snakes. They have signs about alligators, but not snakes. We saw 2 more water moccasins in the lake the day we switched resorts.

 

[cindym]

I chased a large black snake back into the lake at the BC. It was heading for SAB. I'm not afraid of snakes but I didn't think it needed to be scaring the kiddies who were swimming! My adult daughter was freaking out as she has a huge fear of snakes. I don't know where she got that fear as her father and I aren't afraid. Just be aware that it is Florida and is built in a swamp, so critters are going to be everywhere.

 

[steffali]

I would have thought that with so many people aat WDW every day that snakes would look to go off into the less crowded areas..... I am also wondering why WDW doesn't put some sort of "snake away" around the parks and resorts

 

[Berta]

Mickeyfamily wrote: "We saw 2 more water moccasins in the lake the day we switched resorts."
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Cindym wrote: " I chased a large black snake back into the lake at the BC. It was heading for SAB."

Mickeyfamily, thank heavens your son is OK!!!!

At least this explains the "No Swimming" rule in the lake...but I think I was better off NOT knowing!!!

So if the snake was headed for SAB, how is it that they let people swim in there????? Seriously staying in the quiet pool area at BCV now!!!!

Definitely requesting a room ABOVE ground floor now!!! I shouldn't be reading this thread...

 

[SiAmCrAzY]

That's interesting. I didn't know that.

Now for the obligatory facetious comment!
So, any nervous posters, if there's a snake in your room, you know now what to do! Bite him first! And don't stop biting (and chewing) until he stops moving!

This has to be the funniest comment I have ever read on the DIS There are tears in my eyes from laughing so hard

Just finished all 25 pages, and now I have to thank you all- I never once thought I had to worry about snakes in my room. Now I have something else to stress about I am leaving for a solo at POFQ in 16 days and had requested a ground floor room due to a knee injury. Guess I better call and change my request. I would rather climb up 3 flights of stairs on a bad knee. Than out of fear feel the need to constantly check every inch of the room for unwanted guests. Or worse yet be unable to get to sleep out of fear something would slither in through the ac

DH and I stayed at shades in July/2007 and I will never forget walking back from the Poly and hearing a very large splash next to the path
I looked at my DH and he said "don't worry, it's just a gator". We had a ground floor room and he wanted to leave the door open to the patio to get some fresh air Not a chance. Call it a phobia, but I think its just a heightened sense of self preservation. I don't like anything higher on the food chain than me. I don't swim in water that I cannot see through, won't swim at all around dawn or dusk or near piers where people fish. I don't wander to close to the water at night in FL, and now thanks to this thread- I don't sleep on the first floor anymore at WDW.

 

[collcass]

OMG - your poor son. DH and I are deathly afraid of snakes and have been unlucky enough to see three in our trips to Disney. After the story of your son I'm even more cautious about watching where I walk and touch.

I'm glad your son was okay, too. That's horrible.

I think I posted this before but we saw the largest snake I'd ever seen (a water moccasin) on the sidewalk between the pool and playground @ POR. My kids had been walking back and forth between the two and my 10 yr old finall made a comment about it. I was completely terrified. I think the lifeguard ws just about as afraid as I was!

 

[Canyon girl]

I would have thought that with so many people aat WDW every day that snakes would look to go off into the less crowded areas..... I am also wondering why WDW doesn't put some sort of "snake away" around the parks and resorts

Basically, with WDW being built on a swamp, I don't think that they would be able to put out enough to scare away the shear number of snakes and gators there. People are in the snakes' and gators' territory, we have to live with them. It is like any place where people have moved into the animals' territory, ie moose wandering the streets in Alaska. I just keep my eyes watching and carry a flashlight at night. There have been snakes found in the lazy river at one of the water parks. Gators are found in these places as well. I remember seeing a photo in the news a year or two ago of a gator standing on his hind legs leaning against a house door as if knocking. It was probably photoshopped, but the point is that there is really no way to get rid of the critters at WDW. It is their home. We like to see Mickey, maybe they do, too!

 

[veraletta]

I'm glad someone posted this thread as in all the years I've gone to Disney I never worried about snakes, just thought they wouldn't really be a problem as there are tons of people making a lot of noise. So I didn't think snakes would want to be around people and all the noise.

My granddaughter will be walking by the time we go to Disney world and being from Ohio I don't think I would have worried about her walking in the grass, with this info I will make sure we keep her on sidewalk, as well as the boys.

I really don't think we will see any snakes, as we never have, but you can't be to careful with children. We will be staying at the beach club and I did ask for first floor, like I've always asked at every other resort we stay at.

I've always liked snakes and would hold them, but I wouldn't think that, about any Venomous snakes.

I'm a little nervous thinking about when we stayed at the cabins we walked in the weeds, foliage and never worried about snakes. I was more worried about the boys getting to close to water because of alligators. My mind set was that snakes wouldn't want to go near noises. Well I will now avoid bushes and thick landscaped areas.
Thanks for the posting as sometimes you just forget that your visiting Florida and Alligators aren't the only thing that can spoil a trip!

Sorry "Mickey family" about your son getting hurt, thank god he's alright now, and your right Disney needs to post about snakes as well.

 

[shyjade]

OMG, this thread is like a bad accident, I want nothing to do with it but can't seem to keep from looking. UGH!

I am so deathly afraid of snakes that all these posts are making me reconsider our original plan of taking a cruise instead of going to Disney. Yeah, that's how pathetic my fear is.

 

[disneyfan4u]

We were at CBR around Trinidad south when he bent over to pick up a toy he dropped in the landscaping. His feet never left the sidewalk, he just bent over to pick it up. Thankfully we saw the snake and called 911. He spent 3 days in intensive care and received 12 vials of antivenin. Just stay on the sidewalks, don't go in the landscaping, and be aware of your surroundings. I do feel Disny should post signs warning of venomous snakes. They have signs about alligators, but not snakes. We saw 2 more water moccasins in the lake the day we switched resorts.

What did Disney do or say? I would think they would have felt bad?

 

[IDoBelieveinFairies!]

I've read several posts of vistors hearing about other vistors seeing snakes in thier resort rooms.. I would think this is more likly for anyone who's door opens outside and most likly on the 1st floor... anyone have any actual real life encounters...not just heresay? Not that I doubt anyone, just the possibility of this feaks me out so bad, I guess I just want to see with my own eyes...a photo or something.. I DONT want to see one in my room

We saw a small garden snake at the POR, and another one at the Shades of Green. Being a Florida native I am use to spotting snakes in yards, and I was sure both of these snakes were not venomous. Just little ole garden snakes.

 

[IDoBelieveinFairies!]

Basically, with WDW being built on a swamp, I don't think that they would be able to put out enough to scare away the shear number of snakes and gators there. People are in the snakes' and gators' territory, we have to live with them. It is like any place where people have moved into the animals' territory, ie moose wandering the streets in Alaska. I just keep my eyes watching and carry a flashlight at night. There have been snakes found in the lazy river at one of the water parks. Gators are found in these places as well. I remember seeing a photo in the news a year or two ago of a gator standing on his hind legs leaning against a house door as if knocking. It was probably photoshopped, but the point is that there is really no way to get rid of the critters at WDW. It is their home. We like to see Mickey, maybe they do, too!

Absolutely we carry something at night when we go back and forth. On my keychain I always have some kind of light, as do most members in my family. When we go to Disney we faithfully make sure we have at least one flashlight and our LED lights on key chains. I have yet to be in one area of Florida where I did not see snakes. In Fleming Island on top of the snakes, we had the gators, venomous frogs and the ever creepy Land Lubbers, ITS A JUNGLE OUT THERE!

 

[IDoBelieveinFairies!]

We were at CBR around Trinidad south when he bent over to pick up a toy he dropped in the landscaping. His feet never left the sidewalk, he just bent over to pick it up. Thankfully we saw the snake and called 911. He spent 3 days in intensive care and received 12 vials of antivenin. Just stay on the sidewalks, don't go in the landscaping, and be aware of your surroundings. I do feel Disny should post signs warning of venomous snakes. They have signs about alligators, but not snakes. We saw 2 more water moccasins in the lake the day we switched resorts.

Poor little guy, I cannot believe this, I guess we all should be more aware. I agree signs should be posted, I just showed this to my daughter and she was amazed. Glad to hear he is ok.

As I read everyone chasing black snakes I shuddered, most cotton mouths are black or close to black and they are known for nasty tempers. I had one in a canoe I was climbing into, I saw this thick fat body, with this tail about the size of my pinky. I freaked to say the least.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

One day when I was working in custodial at MK, the man assigned to the mens' restrooms in the breezeway between Liberty Square and Adventureland found a small alligator sleeping under the urinals when he was doing a walk-through before park opening. It had come from the river, and our managers put it back in the water after notifying the proper departments. They said that happens every once in a while. They had photos of it and passed them around at our daily meeting, which was interesting. All the girls but me were terrified, and the guys (and me) were all "OMG AWESOME". I do think people just have to remember that Florida is a very swampy area, so animals like that are going to be around.

Honestly, this is going to sound weird, but I'm more worried about the birds than any snakes or alligators. I stay out of the greens, but there's no guarantee that a bird won't swoop down and bite me in the face while trying to get my funnel cake. Something similar happened to a coworker of mine while he was busing tables near the fruit stand in Liberty Square, and I've heard of many kids getting bit for chasing birds or feeding them and then stopping. Those birds are vicious, greedy creatures, and they WILL bite you or your kids. I tended to warn people about the birds more than anything else, because it's pretty easy to avoid snakes and gators most of the time. The birds are everywhere.

 

[IDoBelieveinFairies!]

Ok this just FREAKS me out! BTW snakes do climb at least in South Dakota. A few years back we were caretakers of a Victorian house museum and lived on the second floor. Our central air system was on the second floor roof right near our bedroom window. The air conditioner guys came to fix it because all of a sudden it did not work. Well here I am outside watering plants when all of a sudden I hear the guy on the roof screaming obscenities. Apparently a snake had laid eggs up there, they hatched and there were tons of snakes in our unit. All I could think of for weeks was that we slept with our windows open no screens with that snake den right there.
Another note my grandfather was a house sider and roofer. He told numerous stories and took pics of siding that he would do near a river community in CT where the snakes would be all up in the siding of the house when he tore it off

I have a friend in Pensacola Florida who had a coral snake get in her wall and die, the stink gave it away. My friend Gail in Alabama had a snake in her bathtub, as far as a plumber could tell it came up through the pipes. I am in Nebraska now, and I only use the bathrooms upstairs, no critter is going to surprise me

My friend Jay was camping and used the rustic facilities at camp site and was bit on butt by a spider while doing his duty. To this day he is meticulous about checking every crevice on the ceramic thrones that he descends on.

 

[tami82]

I couldnt help it, Im back just to read any updates

 

[stitch34]

I couldnt help it, Im back just to read any updates

I know... back to read updates myself! been following this thread for what, over a year now has it been going?

Just back.. .no snakes.. phew - well, except the toy snake my daughter bought with her aunt in Morrocco in Epcot to scare me with.

We did have an issue with a squirrel of all things! Sitting at an outside table at ASMovies eating our breakfast.... kept sitting on the ground at the table, like a dog begging for food would. Was creeping us out! Then my daughter got up to get some napkins... darn squirrel jumped into her seat, put paws up on the table and went to attempt to steal my daughter's mickey waffle! I kicked the chair and screamed GET OUT WACKO SQUIRREL!!!, which my other daughter found hysterical. But never saw a squirrel that outgoing... and keptthinking what if this thing has rabies!?

My daughter is happy to have had her first armadillo sighting... but thankfully, NO snake sightings!

 

[DisneyDoc5]

Just back from a 3 night stay at POR (our first time there - a little swamplike for my taste,but beautiful) of course after reading this thread, I was on snake patrol for the first time at Disney. I tried hard not to LOOK for them and just let it go. Of course, we had building 24, the farthest, thus long walks down paths, but we/I stayed in the middle and looked ahead. NO sightings I'm happy to say! I did pull my chair away from the greens by the pool remembering a post about a snake climbing in those behind someone. Anyway, the moral of this story is, as much as I'm terrified, it won't keep me away from my favorite place!!!!!!!!!!

 

[PoohNFriends]

I'm not even sure how I got to this post to begin with, but most importantly WHY did I click on it?
Like many PP's I HATE SNAKES .
Unfortunately, reading this thread sucks you in like a bad reality tv show that you're embarrassed to say you watch, but secretly you can't stay away.
So now my pulse is racing and I'm a bit nauseous and I have to work tomorrow AM so should go to bed soon but don't want to because I'm afraid to dream about snakes...
The magic of Disney and my new home at AKV won't keep me away but I will definitely be having my DBF checkall bedding and nooks and crannies first - even if I can't wait to pass out after a day at the parks.

BTW it's Disney World - Why can't Tink just sprinkle some pixie dust around to make the snakes move on to the undeveloped, surrounding areas