Hi! Cockroaches are my worst phobia - I'll probably give myself nightmares tonight, after having read about them on the Gran Canaria forum!
Just wondered if the little beasties are a common sight in Egypt (Sharm).
I don't recall seeing any at the Conrad, Sharm, last year. We did have rather large ants on the balcony though!
I'm going to take some ant killer next year, sorry ants
I'm going to take some ant killer next year, sorry ants
Plenty of cockroaches in Cairo and Luxor! Can't remember ever seeing any in Sharm or anywhere else in the Sinai. Most of the tourist hotels spray and disinfect against insects regularly.
Seen one or two in Nuweiba in 10 visits, but that's it. Thinking about it though, that was only when Wild Bunch members were there! 
Not seen any 'roaches. Some big beetles, and remember the Scarab Beetle is sacred.
Isn't it strange, I have no problem with Scarab beetles and their smelly and rather disgusting pursuits. When I see a big 'roach scurrying about it nauseates me and all I want to do is kill the perisher!
Every year in Europe, particularly Tenerife, we were bothered with cockroaches at some point, in our room, flying and getting caught in my daughters hair [yuk] but have visited Luxor, Sharm and El Gouna, and have never seen ONE whilst there. As previously mentioned, they do 'fumigate' hotels, in El GOuna there was a pest control van that went round the streets about seven o'clock in the evening in a Del Boy type van which was hilarious. Somehow I expected to see a lot of flies in Egypt, I dont know why, but thats something we have never encountered either. Only thing we have been bothered with, slightly bigger, were camels - folk trying to sell you rides on the beach ! 
Been to Cairo, Luxor and Sharm El Sheikh many times, never once seen a cockroach - forget about them
I saw one of them out doors in Nuweiba last week. Stamped it to oblivion of course.
you shouldnt stamp on them because you get loads of eggs come out then you got hundreds of the things to kill lol
When I walked the same way an hour later the staff had cleaned it up, so no worry there...
The worst place for cockroaches that I've ever come across is.....Australia! 
They are awful and huge!!!
They are awful and huge!!!
Just a thought, but I don't know how many of you guys who have been to Egypt have experienced the locusts that appear there on occasion? Now they are scary!
Carrot
Stop talking about the creatures, cockroaches are alright, don't talk about locusts,beetles, etc
We don't want that much detail
Stop talking about the creatures, cockroaches are alright, don't talk about locusts,beetles, etc
We don't want that much detail
rpken2000 you must be the longest member here i didnt think the internet was around then thinking about i wasnt around then 
obviously none of you have worked in our old victorian asylums. when working nightshift and went downstairs for something to eat and switched on the light you would see hundreds, maybe thousands of them scurrying for cover. if you were really sad you would not switch the light on and would hear them crunching under your feet as you walked across the floor. We used to pick them up and put them in a matchbox and when the student nurses asked for a match you gave them the box. many a time we had to pick them up when they fainted 
Carrot.... the locusts only come round every 50 years or so... only you are old enough to remember the previous couple of attacks !
Now.... shall we start talking about camel spiders agaon ?
Now.... shall we start talking about camel spiders agaon ?
As you well know "sonny", I was in Nuweiba at the end of the last "plague" of locusts (not in the biblical sense you understand) and the sight of those enormous things was quite amazing! What was even more amazing was to see the dead ones moving quite rapidly along the ground, being carried by hundreds of ants who must have thought it was Christmas!
Altoman,
Are you sure you were working in the asylum? I mean, did they let you out at the end of your shift?
Altoman,
Are you sure you were working in the asylum? I mean, did they let you out at the end of your shift?
Carrott I must have been at the Coral same time as you 'cos we were nearly at the end of our holiday when the locusts arrived, quite an experience watching them come down between the mountains. The staff were in denial, many of them not having seen them before.
One of the gardeners seemed to be on a mission to keep our patio clear and I was almost as busy knocking the things off him ...... and the constant munching...... pool boys scooping them out of the pool. Hubby caught one and brought it home in a cigarette packet, didn't tell me till we landed, it lived for months!
So maybe we've spoken and there I was thinking I'd only met Swiss.
One of the gardeners seemed to be on a mission to keep our patio clear and I was almost as busy knocking the things off him ...... and the constant munching...... pool boys scooping them out of the pool. Hubby caught one and brought it home in a cigarette packet, didn't tell me till we landed, it lived for months!
So maybe we've spoken and there I was thinking I'd only met Swiss.
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