Being guest to Stormalong Bay

[dianeschlicht]

Another question: OK, Stormalong Bay is using waist bands in order to show that you are staying at the BC. I can understand this but, I have 3 teenage boys who really hates wearing waist bands especially when swimming. In Hawaii they let us put the bands onto our tote bags, will Stormalong Bay let the boys do this or do they require them to have them on their waist the whole time.

No, it's not a waist band...it's a wrist band. That shouldn't bother the boys too much. I can see why they would hate wearing a waist band!

 

[Harley-Mouse]

You can have the come to the resort to meet you. Then when you and your family go to the pool Have them get some icecrean at Beaches and cream from ther thay can watch you enjoying the BEST pool IN WDW. Then from that point on thay will know why thay should stay there or become DVC members. This is what thay will thik of you.

just kidding no you cant have guest to the pool. we will be going this July and staying AKV & SSR we will miss the SAB AT BC

 

[ktbugsmom]

I am at BWV right now and we have access to BCV (due to the Clown pool being refurbished). They are even putting wrist bands on us now - and it has been in the 60s and very few people in the pool. So - they do check pretty much all of the time.

 

[Robo-Daddy 3000]

Lazy river??? Hah, more like teeny loop with an 8' depth and a swift current. You can almost get dizzy on that.

Is the Lazy River at SAB really 8 feet deep?

I've been in plenty of Lazy Rivers and I was always able to stand up and walk if I wanted to do. That's pretty much what my son does, at BB and TL he just walks around the river with a tube while we float. But at 8 feet deep, he wouldn't make it very far!

 

[Harley-Mouse]

Yes the pool is 8 foot deep in most of the lazy river. If you go in make shore you can swim good.

 

[colleen costello]

RoboDaddy, I have been told by lifeguards at SAB that to guard the "lazy river" area they have to have special training for water over 5 or 6 feet. The water is deep enough in that section that if someone is hurt on bottom they have to know the special steps to follow. One guard told me that is the ONLY pool on property like that. I have seen tons of little kids jump in and be totally surprised at how deep it is, and I have seen one very crochety older gentleman get "stuck" in this section and need help getting out. It is deep and swift but there are lot of exits too.

 

[llmurphy17]

going for the first time to BCV in July

 

[kmc]

we will be there in may....do you actually have to bring everyones room key to the pool can't you just carry one for the family..i mean its not like a 3 year old is pool hopping?

 

[Deb & Bill]

we will be there in may....do you actually have to bring everyones room key to the pool can't you just carry one for the family..i mean its not like a 3 year old is pool hopping?

Yep, you do need everyone's room ID.

 

[buzz5985]

I'm afraid to post this but here goes.

I was there the last couple of weeks of August a couple of years ago. And yes you needed to show your room key to get your towel and wrist band. But what is stopping someone to turning that room key over to someone else to get a towel and wrist band at another location or even the same location?? It's not like they are asking to see your driver's license.

I don't see anything wrong with wanting to have family over to share your pool with you. SAB is great, but I had a hard time relaxing trying to watch my DS 9 at the time who is a strong swimmer.

 

[Melrosgirl]

we will be there in may....do you actually have to bring everyones room key to the pool can't you just carry one for the family..i mean its not like a 3 year old is pool hopping?

No. We just show one I.D. for our family of 4. never have been asked to show more than one i.d. I've stayed at BC many times.

 

[JFrey4240]

We stayed at BCV the last two summers and only needed to show one key for our family of three. We've never had to go back to our room and get all three keys.

 

[Mike]

I have been to BCV two times in July (for a week each time) and we went to SAB at least once a day. We were only asked for ids during the day - never at night. And we only had to show one id for our family of 5.

 

[crisi]

I'm afraid to post this but here goes.

I was there the last couple of weeks of August a couple of years ago. And yes you needed to show your room key to get your towel and wrist band. But what is stopping someone to turning that room key over to someone else to get a towel and wrist band at another location or even the same location?? It's not like they are asking to see your driver's license.

I don't see anything wrong with wanting to have family over to share your pool with you. SAB is great, but I had a hard time relaxing trying to watch my DS 9 at the time who is a strong swimmer.

Pretty much nothing but being ethical would stop you from doing that.

What is wrong with it is that SAB can get very crowded - and crowded at SAB is dangerous. If everyone did that, SAB would be unusable for guests of the resort. You'd have people who book one room at the BC, then have the rest of the 26 person family reunion stay at the Value resorts and hop over. A year or so ago there was a woman who had rented a BCV studio, and was planning an SAB birthday party for her kid's entire class (apparently, Disney management found out and redirected it). And it isn't fair for some people to "get away with it" while other people don't.

Disney doesn't "allow" it at any pool however, except to DVC members when pool hopping is available. You can't stay at the Y&BC and join your family over at the Pop pool either. Truth be, any other pool at Disney if you change in your friends room and hit the pool, you aren't very likely to get asked for room keys.

 

[Freddie Beach Shelly]

well, as long as you don't compare it to Blizzard Beach, it is a lazy river of sorts, I think. Its enough that you can get a raft and it lets you drift on the current, very nice.

Does anyone have photos of this section at Stormalong Bay?

 

[paults]

Does anyone have photos of this section at Stormalong Bay?

this is tagrels site
try this site, hit DCV up top and go down to stormalong bay
silde show

http://tagrel.com/