Are the lounge chair in front of the pools on the Wonder that fabulous....?

[Grumbo]

Personally Melody I don't think it is a problem... You're going to be gone 10 - 15 minutes?
Its individuals that figure because THEY get up early, and put a towel or a couple of personal items on a few chairs they own them for the day.
I stayed at a hotel where the staff came along and took all the stuff off the chairs around 8 O'clock in the morning. Upset a few people but more people were happy so in the long run it worked
Cheers,
Grumbo

 

[outahere]

The last time we stayed at the Marriott in Marco Island, FL, they had an employee going around the pool area every 30 minutes or so and removing towels from chairs. If someone was sitting nearby, the would ask if the chair had been used in the past half hour or so. If the answer was yes, they left things alone. Maybe DCL should start doing something like that.

Grumbo....... I like your idea. I'll help out by taking things to lost and found while you handle the towels.

 

[crisi]

There IS a way to handle this (and its a problem at the Disney resorts as well).

Ever see how a policeman tickets a one hour parking space? They chalk the wheel of the car. If the car is still chalked when the policeman comes through again, they get a ticket.

Disney could put a time token on chairs - they could even color code them. At 6:00 am a red plastic token is laid on the "stuff." At 6:30 a blue one is put on the stuff thats appeared in the last hour. At 7:00 anything that still has a red token is removed - personal items moved to lost and found, towels put in the used towel bin, and new stuff gets a yellow token. At 7:30, the red tokens come back out and anything that has a blue token still sitting on it gets removed. If you are using your chair, you just need to get back to it in the hour to remove your token and put it in the token bin.

People truly dedicated to the saving chair effort would still be able to save them - by running up to the pool every hour to remove the token. But I'd guess most people wouldn't bother.

 

[kcashner]

The problem isn't the person who leaves their chair for a few minutes to get something to eat or tend to a child. It is the person who puts their junk on a chair (or more likely, DCL's towels on a chair) to "claim" it, and then isn't even on the pool deck.

It's just a few rude people who make everyone's life more difficult....and there are always some. Yes, CMs will be on your side if you choose to get them involved. Personally, if I see an unoccupied chair "wearing" a towel when I have no place to sit, I'll clean it off. If anyone protests, I'd answer that whoever it supposedly "belongs" to isn't using it, and that if they show up, I'll gladly give it up. They can't argue with that! Especially since NO ONE is using it!

 

[CRSNDSNY]

Personally Melody I don't think it is a problem... You're going to be gone 10 - 15 minutes?

Yes. Just like to eat relaxing by the pool. I'm quick because I'm always afraid someone will remove my belongings.

 

[makaylee]

I agree picking up lunch at topsiders and coming back with it or grabbing some pizza are to be expected and are totaly fine, but there was a lady on my cruise who reserved 5 chairs every morning (3 were for young kids in the pool all day) and when they went to lunch everday she would leave all of their stuff on the chairs for ruffly 2 hours while they ate. I guess she expected them to be waiting for her when she came back because one day when my husband and I needed 2 chairs so we could watch our DD in the pool, I moved stuff off of 2 of "hers". Well I guess she didn't like this because when they came back 2 hours later she gave me evil looks. I just ignored her. She must have known she was in the wrong because she didn't have the nerve to go to a cm or say anything to me, she just kept giving me the look. She didn't ruin my day though.

 

[inkkognito]

I guess I should be grateful for my albino complexion, as it keeps me from ever lying out in the sun, so I don't have to be in the middle of the controversy! But you can bet if I needed a chair and saw that one had been abandoned for more than half an hour, my butt would be in it and woe to anyone who would dare to say a word. Actually, I wouldn't even respond to them verbally. I would just point to the sign. I mean, what could they really say to that?
Hubby and I use the hot tubs a lot (yes, we are hot tub hogs and proud of it...just call us boiled pork). When there are lots of chairs available (often the case at the adult pool), we leave our stuff on one. When it's starting to get crowded, we put our stuff elsewhere so someone else can use the chair that we would otherwise take up.
Barb
Visit the Platinum Castaway Club at: www.castawayclub.com

 

[Mickey527]

Even worse than hogging the pool chairs is what I saw on my cruise.
Hogging the hammocks at Castaway Cay.
I really wanted to lie in a hammock, I saw the videos and couldn't wait to get on the island and grab a hammock and take a nap in the shade.
There were plenty of hammocks, but they all had towels, toys, shoes and stuff in all of them.
I never got to lie in a hammock!!!!!!!!!! Peggie

 

[inkkognito]

Peggie,
I recommend that if you cruise again, you watch for people near the hammocks and ask if you can share. When we get a hammock, hubby and I switch off using it, but there are times when we are both in the water. A lady asked me if she could share because she had really been looking forward to relaxing in a hammock and gazing out at the ocean. I said sure...after all, no one can be in a hammock the whole time, so why not share the wealth.
Barb
Visit the Platinum Castaway Club at: www.castawayclub.com

 

[crisi]

Haven't been on a cruise yet (2 days before we leave) but I wish Disney resorts (and I imagine the cruise) would install "stuff cubbies." I think a lot of people stick their things on chairs so they aren't sitting on the ground - especially kids things. They aren't really sunbathers and don't intend to sit in the chair, but where else do you put your things?

We put all the families stuff on a single chair. But I know the day we spent at StormAlongBay we didn't sit in the chair to do as much to put our shoes on. I'd have gladly thrown my stuff in a cubbie - but I wasn't going to just drop it in the sand.

 

[DMS_cruisers04]

No crisi, unfortunately some people just believe that they have paid $X for their vacation and are entitled to anything and everything that they can lay their hands on. So if they have to get out of bed before sunrise and put a sandal on a chair that they aren't going to use anyway, it's because they paid for that chair. Some people.

Now those hammocks on CC, with the CM waving the palm leaf and feeding you the grapes, that's the way to do it! (you had to see the hammock post)

 

[crisi]

Well, yes, some people - but others are just looking for a place to stick their stuff. We don't tend to lounge - we are in the pool with the kids or not near the pool (at least not currently, when they get a little older we will lounge). You wouldn't take care of the "entitled" with cubbies - nothing short of enforcement by Disney will take care of that - but you'd free up those chairs being used by people simply so no one trips over their flip flops.

We ended up at SAB shortly after their was a long DVC pool chair hogging thread, so I was aware that I wasn't going to sit in that chair, that someone else might want to sit in that chair, and that I was going to use it for two and a half hours to keep my cap and the kids swim coverups from getting sandy. But I wasn't being given any choice to do anything else other than "hog" the chair (or dump my stuff in the sand).

 

[nu cruzer]

When we were on the 7-day Western last year, we didn't have any problems at all getting a chair. I did see a few families saving several chairs with their water shoes and shirts, but unless there were personal items on a chair, I didn't consider a towel to be saving a chair. I actually thought the towels were put out by the cast members.

 

[ClarabelleCow]

other than the pool decks, is it an issue getting chairs? The kids will probably be in the clubs most of the time, they love the group play stuff, so DH and myself will be just vegging out in the sun.

 

[minniemouse1]

I think that if one chair was being saved it wouldn't of created such a problem but most people are saving 5 for their family of 5. The 3 kids will probably be in the pool most of the day so it just isn't fair for say me who has a family of 4 and only wants one chair so I can sit and watch my husband and kids swim. Maybe on our next cruise I will be more apt to remove towels for a seat.