Busted

[KarenP99]

Just had to share that it was nice to see some enforcement of the use of the beach house at HHI on our recent vacation there.

There was a family sitting next to us, husband wife & 2 teenage girls. Recreation came around stating that they needed to see everyones room keys to verify that they are staying at the resort.

This woman was sitting by herself (the rest of her group was in the pool). She said she forgot her key. So they asked her name and villa #, after hemming & hawing she blurted out #7. The cast member stated that there was not a villa #7. She got up and talked to her husband in the pool, then came back and they all were asked to leave. She thought that they could just use the pool, and buy a yearly pool membership!

It made me laugh, and it was nice to have 4 deck chairs freed up for those that deserved them!

 

[childsplay]

Excellent.
It is hard to police these kinds of things without turning it into an "inconvience" for the actual members.

 

[LakeAriel]

It isn't hard at all. All they need do is give out plastic bracelets at the time of check-in. One color for your resort, another if you're a DVC owner and can pool-hop. Though a few people will figure out how to cheat that system too a quick look by CM's will let them know who does not belong in the pool! I will gladly don a bracelet to assure a seat at the pool where all my money is going! I'm thinking more people will be busted form here on out!

 

[childsplay]

It isn't hard at all. All they need do is give out plastic bracelets at the time of check-in. Pinkbounc

Are you talking about what they do at BCV, where you get a braclet when you bring down your resort id? Because there no chance I'm wearing a braclet for 10 days straight with Victoria& Alberts reservations, golfing, and other types of activities where I'd find the bracelt annoying.

 

[DrTomorrow]

It isn't hard at all. All they need do is give out plastic bracelets at the time of check-in. [...]

So, you either have to wear it 24/7 throughout your Disney vacation, or it can be removed and put back on. Once it's removable, well, let's just say it'll be less than a week until they start showing up on eBay....

 

[keishashadow]

In the Myrtle Beach area this practice has been used for some time. The adult bands are removeable and dated for your stay. The childrens' are of the hospital type that cannot be removed without cutting them off - yes, if you do remove it they charge you $10 for an additional band.

Although this is an inconvenience, especially when you are paying in excess of $200 a night for a hotel room, you begin to understand the reasoning after you've experienced a holiday or Bike Week. We've seen 20 people jammed into a room, overtaxing the pools, hot tubs, parking, etc. Additionally, I'm sure that more than a few folks staying across the street in lower-priced hotels visit the pools on their way to the beach.

 

[LakeAriel]

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Not at all ! A bracelet for each day of your stay. After your swimming is over snip it off. I'm sure they would cost Disney about 1,00 for 10,000 of them.Think they can afford them?
Deluxe resorts around the world use them, they must know something we don't at Disney? Except at BCV and the Yacht club?????

 

[TW1]

KarenP99:

Was the lock on the gate at the beach side entrance working or is it still propped open with a towel? It had been broken for awhile.

Hope you enjoyed HHI. Its a gem, isn't it?

 

[NMW]

Lots of resorts do the bracelet thing. I don't see why it's such a big deal for Disney to do it. We got them in Myrtle Beach and the resort staff did check them. They were dated so they couldn't be sold and reused and they were removable. We didn't mind them at all. I would love it if they would do this at the Boardwalk pool! It would also be a good idea at SSR because of it's proximity to DTD and the WL pool because of the campgrounds. In fact, it'd be a good idea at all Disney pools.

 

[KarenP99]

TW1: The beach gate was propped open with a garbage can. The other locks (on the front doors of the beach house), must have been disabled, they opened without a card. One day I noticed someone working on one of the card readers at the door, it was dismantled into a pile of parts on the ground.

Karen

 

[dianeschlicht]

I agree with this concept. They would have to rotate the colors per day, but that would make it more secure too. Each person registered at a resort would have a color per day of their stay. If they used 8-20 different colors, the color could be changed in a difficult to determine pattern each day. I think it's a marvelous idea! Wouldn't be much sense in selling them on EBay then, because they wouldn't know what days to use them.

 

[OneMoreTry]

I would hate wristbands. We'd have to wear them to the beach and back and forth to the condo or restaurants if we left the Beach House for a while. Or we'd have to get new ones each time.

I say just have the CMs ask for IDs like they did in this case. If it becomes known that Disney asks for ID, then trespassers will be less bold.

 

[dianeschlicht]

I would hate wristbands. We'd have to wear them to the beach and back and forth to the condo or restaurants if we left the Beach House for a while. Or we'd have to get new ones each time.

I say just have the CMs ask for IDs like they did in this case. If it becomes known that Disney asks for ID, then trespassers will be less bold.

I don't understand why they couldn't be removable. If the colors are changed like I suggested above, there would be no reason to have them be a part of your permanent attire. Of course, that wouldn't stop you from handing yours over to someone else, but why would you do that?

 

[lllovell]

I don't understand why they couldn't be removable. If the colors are changed like I suggested above, there would be no reason to have them be a part of your permanent attire. Of course, that wouldn't stop you from handing yours over to someone else, but why would you do that?

As a DVC member, I wouldn't...but not all guests are DVC members and the resorts are pricey, so maybe for a few extra bucks???

 

[LakeAriel]

I say just have the CMs ask for IDs like they did in this case.


In an ideal word...but a lot of the pool CM's are student's that shouldn't have to confront random people. The bands make it less personal. If you don't have one you'll be qquestioned. Case closed. I have to wear them at the Jersey Shore, I need to show ID when I use the amenities at my vacation home why not Disney? I'd rather be secure and inconvenienced. If you want to call that an inconvenience. To me not having a chair at the pool is an inconvenience not wearing a weightless plastic wrist band.

 

[Alexander]

I plan to address this with Disney as we just returned from VWL and the pools, both themed and quiet were so crowded it was very unenjoyable. I'm sure there were many people there who were not staying at the resort or were not DVC. In fact I'm thinking it was such a busy week, that pool-hopping in general should have been unavailable. The only place I've seen them check ID's is at SAB. I think they need to enforce this much more. Once word is out that ID's will be checked, intruders may think twice before coming.

 

[spiceycat]

first WDW would have to fence each resort main pool. they have been unwilling to do this.

so I can't see that happening in the future.

It is almost like WDW is daring offsite guest to use their pools - yes they put up signs - but fencing are much more telling.

if you find someone using your resort pool who is not staying at WDW - then go tell a CM or the lifeguard. then they should do a check on the ID's. if you tell them and nothing happening - go tell the manager!!!

After one of my first trips to WDW when some offsiders try to cheat us out of using our pool - I have no sympathy. They know they are breaking rules and they don't care.

If WDW really cared - they would put fences around the pools - they don't.

 

[lllovell]

I understand how fences would cut back on this issue (if they weren't simply propped open as the one at VB apparently has been for some time), but I would hate to see fencing around the pools. I love the look of the resorts we have been to and cannot see how fencing would not interfere with it.

I am all for "reporting" if you have an issue. Should I have to? No. Will I? Probably.

 

[LakeAriel]

Alexander

You just had the same experience I had a few weeks ago. I am a DVC member with home ownership at VWL. The pools were not worth swimming in and I knew for a fact people were there that didn't belong there. This was Easter week when pool hopping was suspended. I have recently written to the CEO of The Walt Disney Company Burbank, CA. A phone call and E mail went unresolved so...It is ridiculous that people spending $400 dollars a night or a year or more of points can't enjoy a swim because people who aren't even staying at a resort are hogging the pools.

 

[Disneyaholic]

Alexander

I have recently written to the CEO of The Walt Disney Company Burbank, CA. A phone call and E mail went unresolved so....

Do you think a letter to the CEO might have been slightly overkill? Perhaps you would get more personal attention, not to mention a better chance of resolution, if you directed your mail to the general manager of the resort or the VP of DVC. Just a thought.