Spent 4 days with lizard in our room.

[Cool-Beans]

We had a dead one. Kids called him Larry the Lizard. The boys kept chasing DD around with it. She'd scream and I'd say, "Stop chasing your sister with a dead lizard." It was the highlight of that trip and they'll all probably remember it forever.

It is kind of funny that after all the money spent, the highlight of that trip was a dead lizard.

 

[Jacklynn]

hehe my husband and I have a pet leopard gecko, so I would have just caught it and put it outside, I wouldn't have wanted it to die from being inside with all that air running!

 

[leanan]

In Florida we have Lizards Everywhere. I find them all over my house. They sneak in under the door. They sneak in when I go in and out of my house. They are just sneaky lizards. It could have been completely different lizards.

 

[scififreek]

I call my son the Lizard King................he is constantly catching lizards and bringing them in the house to show us. I have watched him catch them and he is really fast..lol

 

[Chris]

I just got back today from a stay at French Quarter. I want to first say we loved the FQ. It was the perfect resort for the family. BUT upon arriving in our room we found a lizard sunning itself in the window. Animal control was called by housekeeping and then nothing.....we kind of laughed it off and told the girls it was gone, but on day 4 at 6:00 A.M. it greeted my 4 year old dd coming out of the bathroom. MY DH took it out of the room and we never saw it again. We made it a big joke but it really bothers me that Disney didn't even try to remove it, move us, or do something.

We had a great vacation, but the lizard seems to be what the girls are talking about. .."and we had a pet lizard.."

OH DEAR!! I'd have passed out. I'm terrified of those little things. ACK.
That's where we are staying in August!! Were you on a bottom floor??!?

 

[Chris]

In Florida we have Lizards Everywhere. I find them all over my house. They sneak in under the door. They sneak in when I go in and out of my house. They are just sneaky lizards. It could have been completely different lizards.

Seriously??! I'd have to move! You're all making me not want to live in FL, ever!!!

 

[LSchrow]

one night in our FW home, ds turned on the bathroom light to see a big fat palmetto bug
give me lizards, snakes, lions, tigers, or freakin' bears ~ just nothing that looks like a roach

 

[Sleepy]

We prefer lizards and geckos in our house and hotel rooms. They eat mosquitoes and other bugs.

 

[EpcotQueen]

Did he have an Aussie acent? Your lizard was probably there filming a car insurance commercial.

 

[eliza61]

Did he have an Aussie acent? Your lizard was probably there filming a car insurance commercial.

My dad is from the Carribean, I remember summers spent with my grandparents and all types of lizards. Look on the bright side, Florida is known for it's 'gators also. that's a really BIG lizard.
My first stay in WDW we stayed in the FT. Wilderness cabins, my sons actually spent most of their time in the cabins trying to catch some lizards. must be a boy thing.

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

If it was a snake or a gator then it would be a BIG problem. Reminds me of when I was in middle school living in military quarters in Hawaii, where geckos run rampant. In our hall closet there was a smashed gecko in the door frame that had simply been painted over for years. It was pretty nasty to see this flattened and painted little guy every day you opened the closet.

With what I've seen on TV and read on this board, I'd also rather a lizard to bedbugs. I'd have called Disney about bedbugs, but not a lizard. Seriously, if I had a lizard at my home I wouldn't call for animal control. They'd laugh me out.

 

[murphnjamie]

OK. I didn't realize that Florida was overrun with lizards. It's a little too cold for them up here in Wisconsin. thgoutRight now, its too cold for people in Wisconsin, too.

If this would happen to us, I was have one dd standing on a chair screaming and another chasing it around wanting to take it home as a pet (or trying to squash it, she has a tendancy to do that, too). It would make for a memorable start for us.

 

[kaysmommie]

This happened to us last year 2006 at the Poly. I was walking into the bathroom and a lizard ran across the floor. I yelled for DH and after he saw the lizard he went to get a garabage can to put him and take him outside. When he got back it was gone. He must have been hiding somewhere . We never called the front desk or anything. Also we were on the 3rd floor and never left the balcony door open. He must have been there from a previuos guests. It did gross me out a bit, but a palmetto bug or snake would be far worse .

 

[Lilolvr]

I just got back today from a stay at French Quarter. I want to first say we loved the FQ. It was the perfect resort for the family. BUT upon arriving in our room we found a lizard sunning itself in the window. Animal control was called by housekeeping and then nothing.....we kind of laughed it off and told the girls it was gone, but on day 4 at 6:00 A.M. it greeted my 4 year old dd coming out of the bathroom. MY DH took it out of the room and we never saw it again. We made it a big joke but it really bothers me that Disney didn't even try to remove it, move us, or do something.

We had a great vacation, but the lizard seems to be what the girls are talking about. .."and we had a pet lizard.."

I wouldn't care if they are like spiders to some people, I would need to get it out of the room. I wouldn't be able to sleep. I wouldn't want a room with spiders and I wouldn't want a room with a lizard. That's why I have my house sprayed for insects.

 

[tmarquez]

Sorry it bothered you...but really in Florida it's to be expected. It may not have even been the same lizard. They will run in anytime you open the door if they feel like it. I wonder why they didn't just remove it when they came to your room...or maybe it had run off by then?

We call DD(5) the "lizard whisperer" as she like to play with them and does this wierd little trick where she can get them to hang from her earlobes like earrings. Apparently it impresses the preschool crowd.

 

[leanan]

The gator hunters had to come to my condo complex recently to use the bang stick on one particular naughty gator. He was harassing the college students up the path. So I totally agree rather have the geckos or other small cute lizards loose in my house.

Then again I have one very cute breeding pair leopard geckos. I really recommend them as a pet. Just get yours from a private breeder. Mines are the sweetest guys ever.

 

[akastitch@comcast.ne]

I can't belive the big deal being made over lizzards! They're way more afraid of us!!!(unless you're a bug!)

 

[happymommy]

If it was a snake or a gator then it would be a BIG problem. Reminds me of when I was in middle school living in military quarters in Hawaii, where geckos run rampant. In our hall closet there was a smashed gecko in the door frame that had simply been painted over for years. It was pretty nasty to see this flattened and painted little guy every day you opened the closet.

With what I've seen on TV and read on this board, I'd also rather a lizard to bedbugs. I'd have called Disney about bedbugs, but not a lizard. Seriously, if I had a lizard at my home I wouldn't call for animal control. They'd laugh me out.

I am laughing! We lived on the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay in the late 90's. I had one window frame with a similar smashed dried out gecko! We used to swat them with flyswatters (not nice to have them IN your bed or on the dishes in the dish dryer in the sink, or the big 5 inch one above my bed the first night we spent in the house!). We killed over 300 in our house. Most locals say it's not lucky to kill them; sorry, their poop stains and it's everywhere otherwise!

Even in super nice hotels in Hawaii (the Ritz on Maui) we have had geckos in the room. Okay, didn't swat them, since they were just a hotel guest along with us! So if we had a lizard in a hotel room in Florida, I wouldn't freak or anything; it's Florida after all!

 

[MsStinkerBelle]

I can't belive the big deal being made over lizzards! They're way more afraid of us!!!(unless you're a bug!)

Tell me about it. For us, a trip to Florida isn't complete unless we do get to see the lizards.

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

I am laughing! We lived on the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay in the late 90's. I had one window frame with a similar smashed dried out gecko! We used to swat them with flyswatters (not nice to have them IN your bed or on the dishes in the dish dryer in the sink, or the big 5 inch one above my bed the first night we spent in the house!). We killed over 300 in our house. Most locals say it's not lucky to kill them; sorry, their poop stains and it's everywhere otherwise!

Even in super nice hotels in Hawaii (the Ritz on Maui) we have had geckos in the room. Okay, didn't swat them, since they were just a hotel guest along with us! So if we had a lizard in a hotel room in Florida, I wouldn't freak or anything; it's Florida after all!

Hey HappyMommy,

This was at Fort Shafter Army Base. Small world, especially in terms of smashed up, dried up geckos!

When I was writing the first post I thought it would be cool if someone read it and said, "I know that gecko. I lived in that house!"