Calling recent HRH visitors! Say it isn't so!

[IMGONNABE40!]

We are scheduled to be at HRH 8/2-8/6. A big part of the attraction at HRH is the basketball hoop in the pool. Initially, we could not get a reservation at HRH for our dates--only at RPR. I booked RPR for $159/nt and figured DS would just have to pool hop. Since HRH is really the fav for our whole family, I contacted the HRH directly and since we are Loews Plat, they were able to get us into our favorite room for $199/nt. I later found out the RPR now has a hoop in the pool. I hemmed and hawed and finally today decided to spend the extra $$ and cancel RPR and go ahead with the HRH reservation. For some reason I decided to contact the HRH and inquire about the hoop in the pool. Guess what!? They say there is no hoop!


So, for anyone who has been to HRH recently...is the hoop there or not? I am hoping the employee is incorrect! Thanks!

 

[goofy!]

We were there on the 16th from 10am to 10:30pm (cabanas 7 & 8) and never saw a basketball hoop.

So, how did your dh like the villa suite? Sorry we missed you!

-Goofy!

 

[IMGONNABE40!]

Thanks, Goofy. I was afraid of that. I was able to rebook the RPR at the AP rate of $159. Reservations told me only King rooms are available, but I called the RPR directly and was able to get us into room 1740 which is a Queen room with a great view of the parks.

DH and I both loved the villa suite. I think we ran into some of your clan on Monday night in the elevator. A young boy asked if we had been to the parks yet and we said we had. When I asked him the same Q he said he'd been there for 10 days and had gone plenty of times. He was with a woman who, if I remember correctly you were traveling with your mom(?), who also gushed about the place.

I am trying to get around to writing a report about my experience.

 

[robvia]

Wow, that's dedication, booking a room based on where there is a pool hoop. Well, maybe it will work out, because on my recent visit, the RPR pool had two hoops, and plenty of basketballs. They also had a volleyball net up with a bunch of people on each side. I think you already saw my report here.
http://www.nogodforme.com/RPR2005.htm
You do realize, you could have pool hopped, even if it meant taking the boat over or walking?

 

[IMGONNABE40!]

Yes--we have pool hopped before when we stayed at RPR and DS wanted to shoot hoop in the HRH pool. Given that DS will stay 6-8 hours in the pool at a stretch, it is easier for me to keep tabs on him if he is actually in the pool at the hotel where we are staying. I do plan to pool hop a bit myself to ride the slides at PBH and HRH. Hopefully DS will go with me.

Yes, I did see your prior post and pictures on the hoop at the RPR pool. Thank you for posting those.

 

[robvia]

I just got back from a visit. Yes, it's true, the HRH pool does not have a basketball hoop. Instead, it's a nerf football pool. There's about 5 of them in there with people throwing them to each other.

 

[JulieWent]

And I gotta tell you.... if I got hit in the head by those *%@ footballs one more time while I was there last week!

Seriously, no basketball hoop. Just those dog-gone footballs sailing endlessly across the sky. (You can buy them at the kiosk.) Every time I thought I'd found a safe place to float, I'd find myself in the middle of someone else's football game. Don't know who came up with that idea, but .... a basketball hoop sounds a lot better.

(Don't want to sound like a kill joy. Hope you guys will cut me slack on that.)

Julie