Pool Chairs...staking claim

[n2mm]

I've watched as items were removed by cast members during several cruises. It wasn't just towels, it was beach bags. The woman was mad too. The cm put her things on the towel bin. On our cruise in February this year, the pool attendant at the adult pool would remove towels all day long. He would watch and if he didn't see activity, he took the towels away. We were on a b2b so had the same attendant both cruises.

 

[Baklava]

WE usually watch for a hour or so (except meals times where I give it more time, everyone needs to eat), if no one returns, I take the items give them to a CM and use the chairs.

AKK

But if I leave for a meal, why would I be entitled to keep a chair? Once I go away for a meal or a nap or another activity, I'm no longer using the pool. When I return, I can get a new chair but for the hour or two I'm gone, I'm not using the pool and not entitled to the space.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

But if I leave for a meal, why would I be entitled to keep a chair? Once I go away for a meal or a nap or another activity, I'm no longer using the pool. When I return, I can get a new chair but for the hour or two I'm gone, I'm not using the pool and not entitled to the space.

Winner!!

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

But if I leave for a meal, why would I be entitled to keep a chair? Once I go away for a meal or a nap or another activity, I'm no longer using the pool. When I return, I can get a new chair but for the hour or two I'm gone, I'm not using the pool and not entitled to the space.

Point Taken, it is just our feeling folks should be able to leave and have lunch and not lose their chairs...........To each their own.

AKK

 

[WebmasterJackie]

I know there is limited chair space on the pool decks from pictures and videos I have seen. Do people go out early, put stuff down, and claim a seat for the entire day whether they are there or not?

Just curious because the same happens at our community pool. There are limited tables with umbrellas. People go out at 8AM, put towels on them, and come back at noon.

Thanks for starting this thread; the chair issue is definitely real!

We liked your thread so much that we picked it to be featured in today's DIS Daily Fix!

 

[wombat_5606]

Why would you need to put a towel anywhere? There is always a pool attendant handing out fresh towels. You don't bring the towels from your room. At least not on DCL.

I'm proposing a place to put your things(whatever they may be) while you are not using the chair. Perhaps you have a towel, sunscreen, a book, shoes, or those lovely beach bags for returning guests, then a cubbie would be nice to use until you are finished getting wet.

 

[wombat_5606]

I'm going to go all out and state another one of my pet peeves on this subject. I don't understand why parents with children need to get loungers for ALL of their children.

When my children were young, they had to sit out of the pool for 15 minutes every hour. During that time, we would just share, sometime as many as 3 of us on one lounger. If someone didn't want to get back in the pool, then we went looking for a lounger, but we didn't keep one just to hold their towel.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I'm going to go all out and state another one of my pet peeves on this subject. I don't understand why parents with children need to get loungers for ALL of their children.

When my children were young, they had to sit out of the pool for 15 minutes every hour. During that time, we would just share, sometime as many as 3 of us on one lounger. If someone didn't want to get back in the pool, then we went looking for a lounger, but we didn't keep one just to hold their towel.

Just as a note - there are no true "loungers" on the pool deck (in the family pools area). Most of them are high backed chairs you can recline in (at least on the Dream & Fantasy):


I'll have to see if I've got any recent pictures of the pools on the Wonder & Magic.

 

[n2mm]

Good point about the chairs at the family pool. Yes loungers on the upper deck and adult areas....Our cruise last September 2015 we had full size loungers on our veranda (5E rooms) so no problem getting a lounger for that 7 night cruise!!

 

[wombat_5606]

Most of them are high backed chairs you can recline in (at least on the Dream & Fantasy):

Yes, I can see that from your picture. But I also see a lounger in the lower right. Perhaps the 2nd row and further away are the lounger type?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Yes, I can see that from your picture. But I also see a lounger in the lower right. Perhaps the 2nd row and further away are the lounger type?

As noted by n2mm there are a few (very few) loungers (usually on the deck above the pools, or set back a couple of rows from the actual pool area).
I found a picture from the Wonder last year, same high backed chairs:


Also on the Magic (this year):


Also managed a shot of the funnel vision scroll about not saving the chairs:

 

[hanscarlet]

I have seen one person sit in a row and tell everyone the whole row is saved!! I have also seen people ignore the person and go around to the other side of the row and take the seats they are entitled to.

Those are quite literally the worst kind of people.... completely selfish, rude, and arrogant to think they are above the rules, ugh

 

[tinkerone]

Point Taken, it is just our feeling folks should be able to leave and have lunch and not lose their chairs...........To each their own.

AKK

My feeling is that folks should be able to leave and get lunch, not have lunch. Its one thing to take a stroll over to grab a piece of pizza or a burger to bring back to your spot and quite another to go to cabanas and enjoy a full buffet lunch at the tables there or even a sit down service at the Royal Court. If your strolling over and back the chair is yours, if your going to eat somewhere else for an hour, the chair is mine. The whole thing is, their not losing their chairs, their losing a chair they have left.
Now that's JMO and that's about all its worth. Some may agree, some may not.

 

[DisneyGirlMI]

I understand the frustration of people saving seats all day and using them for 10 minutes, but what am I supposed to do with my stuff while I'm swimming or on the AquaDuck? I have a family of 5 and we pile all our stuff in one chair. We have shirts, shoes, KTTW, sunscreen, etc. There is nowhere else to put our stuff. But we don't save a seat for everyone, just one chair.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I understand the frustration of people saving seats all day and using them for 10 minutes, but what am I supposed to do with my stuff while I'm swimming or on the AquaDuck? I have a family of 5 and we pile all our stuff in one chair. We have shirts, shoes, KTTW, sunscreen, etc. There is nowhere else to put our stuff. But we don't save a seat for everyone, just one chair.

I can get behind piling everything on one chair. Preferably in a location that's not very popular. Until such time as DCL sees the sense of cubbies.

But, you're not really "saving" that chair if you're in the area using the pool/AquaDuck. The issue is the people who send one person up for their party of 10 at 6:00 in the morning drop a flip-flop on one chair, a book on another, a hat on a third and so on. Then disappear until after lunch and then want to claim "their" spot.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

My feeling is that folks should be able to leave and get lunch, not have lunch. Its one thing to take a stroll over to grab a piece of pizza or a burger to bring back to your spot and quite another to go to cabanas and enjoy a full buffet lunch at the tables there or even a sit down service at the Royal Court. If your strolling over and back the chair is yours, if your going to eat somewhere else for an hour, the chair is mine. The whole thing is, their not losing their chairs, their losing a chair they have left.
Now that's JMO and that's about all its worth. Some may agree, some may not.

No problem Tink, we will all have differing opinions. However I believe the general opinion is no one should just put down a towel and not use the chair for hours. AKK

 

[Sytrace]

We are a family of 4 , but we only take one chair and put all our stuff on it along with the keeper of the bags,towels, sunscreen, etc (that would be me) who sits in the chair until someone comes back. Then that person will go to get drinks, food etc for the keeper of the stuff. Since I don't care much for swimming in the family pool, this does not bother me...although I might be tempted to take a quick dip and get my feet wet if it is really hot. Or I just rinse off in the shower to get my hair wet and cool off.
I always pick the chairs where I can see the pool area and Aquaduck, but not in the main area where the ground is burning hot. And I am closer to the drink stations that way too.
We don't tend to go to the pool until about 3 or so anyway...since we live in Florida, we get plenty of sun, pool and beach time, so that is not a big deal for us.

On a side note, we stay in forward cabins and will take the forward stairs to the pool deck which means we have to walk thru the adult area to get to the ice cream and food areas as well as beverage stations. I can assure you that my kids don't linger there and in fact move very quickly thru the area of "people drinking in the pool" (their words) and are respectful of those who are enjoying some peace and quiet. Which is ironically hard to do since the partitions separating the adult area from the food,ice cream and beverage areas are not closed door but simply walk ways.
The good news is that if I REALLY want peace and quiet , I can go up to the Adult area at about 10:30 PM every night and no one is out there. It is great.

 

[Plaid Princess]

We just move on, if there were lockers or cubbies maybe then that would free up chairs.

I was just thinking that. Honestly, half the reason I grab a chair when we go to the pool is to keep my belongings out of the standing water on deck. I'd be perfectly happy to tuck them into a cubby while we swim.

 

[darnheather]

I understand the frustration of people saving seats all day and using them for 10 minutes, but what am I supposed to do with my stuff while I'm swimming or on the AquaDuck? I have a family of 5 and we pile all our stuff in one chair. We have shirts, shoes, KTTW, sunscreen, etc. There is nowhere else to put our stuff. But we don't save a seat for everyone, just one chair.

This I can understand. I think the OP was talking about people who reserve seats at 8am to sunbath for an hour at 12 pm.

I'm proposing a place to put your things(whatever they may be) while you are not using the chair. Perhaps you have a towel, sunscreen, a book, shoes, or those lovely beach bags for returning guests, then a cubbie would be nice to use until you are finished getting wet.

Gotcha. From your post I thought you meant only a towel. I just don't think cubbies would work as there is simply no room for them and there would be way more that ended up in the lost and found.

 

[darnheather]

I'm going to go all out and state another one of my pet peeves on this subject. I don't understand why parents with children need to get loungers for ALL of their children.

When my children were young, they had to sit out of the pool for 15 minutes every hour. During that time, we would just share, sometime as many as 3 of us on one lounger. If someone didn't want to get back in the pool, then we went looking for a lounger, but we didn't keep one just to hold their towel.

Yes. We are three people. We share at most two loungers. Someone always seems to be in the pool or getting a drink. We do this even at our community pool.