Does anyone else NOT like SAB?

[LisaR]

We just spent 4 nights at BWV. Everything was great except the 1 1/2 hour wait for our luggage to be brought up to our room!! Our home is OKW but we usually do our shorter trips to BWV. In all our trips to BWV and OKW, we have never pool hopped. Since this would be our last chance to try SAB unless we stay there, we decided to give it a try. My kids are 4 and 7. My 7 year old hated the slide. My 4 year old wouldn't even try it after she told him how bad it was! Yet, they both love BWV and the VB slide. Then they wanted to just swim for a little while. When we were in the pool with them, it was fine. When my 7 year old made a friend (which she does everywhere we go), she didn't want to swim with us anymore. In the OKW or BWV pools, we can see her the entire time. At SAB, she wanted to go into a different section constantly. I was forever moving from one chair to another to keep an eye on her. I found it to be a royal pain!!

I am glad we were able to try it out but it just wasn't for us. That is what makes DVC so great. There are so many choices to please everyone!

Lisa

Lisa

 

[Muushka]

We stayed at BC a few years back. It was mid-May, and pretty hot. We found the pool very noisy and crowded. Really not worth getting wet for! But then again, we don't have kids, and really appreciate the peace and quiet (so why do we go to WDW ???)

 

[BuzzLightYear3]

We pool hopped from BWV over to SAB last June when our 3 kids were 8, 4, and 21 months, and I didn't like it either for the same reason you stated.....difficult to keep track of the kids, and they have us out-numbered, so we couldn't even split up and follow them around. It's definitely not a place where you can easily sit by the pool and watch the kids splash (unless they're really little and are easily satisfied playing in one area without wandering.)

I think people with older kids would love it though....it has a large number of really cool features. My 8 year old did love the slide. Even the younger kids loved the the little slides at the base of the ladder to the big slide (although it took us a while to notice those.)

With little kids, I look at it as a 'nice place to visit' but not the pool I'd want to use for the daily mid-afternoon break. I imagine I'll view this differently when the kids are older though. As they say, the flexibility is the great thing about DVC!!!!

 

[Patricia]

I completely agree with you. I felt like I was constantly on the run looking for my kids. It wasn't relaxing at all. I guess if you are into action, it's the place to be. Or maybe if you go without kids. That will be awhile for me.. Plus, I hated the feeling of the bottom of the pool at the sand section. Not much of a lake girl...

 

[wdwnut]

hi: i can see where sab would be a problem with younger kids. ours are teens and twenties and they love it. they have also spent a fair amount of time in the quiet pool and hot tubs at bwv.

 

[Johnnie Fedora]

SAB is definetly a pool you need to have a mental map of. Once you have that, finding your way around isn't a problem. Our kids were 2 and 4, and they loved the kiddie pool and the whole lagoon area on the YC side. The YC lagoon is a shallow one, and I didn't have to spend my entire time at the pool holding my 2yo. The pool at ASMu has no zero entry and a little one can't splash at all unless an adult is holding him. We spent hours at SAB last Sept. Also, the kiddie slide on the pirate ship was perfect for the under 5 crowd.

 

[DVCajun]

We went when we were childless-- the lazy river was great!

I guess it depends on your situation.

 

[DisneyCrazy]

Personally it doesn't thrill me. When we were staying at BWV in June of last year, my nephew (11) and my friend's daughter (10) didn't even bother going over, they were more than happy at Luna Park - plus I don't think they liked the sand bottom.

 

[Towncrier]

When the sinking sands part of the pool worked, we loved SAB. But the sad fact is that the sinking sands have not been working on our past two vacations to WDW. We had so much fun there in 1999 that it was a major disappointment to us when we were back in 2000 and 2001. In 2000, the CM at the pool blamed a lightning strike for burning out the pump. There were no excuses in 2001. It just plain didn't work.

SAB is a nice pool, but not worth the hassle for us anymore.

 

[Mouse Ears]

What do you mean by 'sinking sands'?

I am not too familiar with SAB since I have never seen it. I am interested in this discussion since I am considering joining DVC by purchasing at BCV and SAB has been part of my justification for the higher cost vs. resale.

M.E.

 

[Towncrier]

There is a section of the pool that contains a "surprise" if you stand there long enough. It is marked with buoys that warn of sinking sands (or something to that effect). That should be enough info for you to figure out just what might happen in that area of the pool.

 

[Terry S]

My childern, ages 4 and 6 and husband love SAB, this is one of the reasons we bought BCV. I on the other had don't like it, but not for the reasons you mention. I know this is going to be a shocker, but I really don't like the sand (I don't like to swim in an ocean either, because of the sand), it just seems dirty to me with the sand, and then there is the whole issue of sand in my bathing suit bottom, but I won't get into that.

I was kind of hoping that the BCV pool would have a small slide and mabe a waterfall so I didn't have to go to SAB, but we all know that that is not the case.

 

[madcoco]

Not that we dislike SOB it is a great pool but usually way too crowded to enjoy most times.No more pool hopping. (but it needed to be done with the addition of BCV)

 

[Lew]

We have taken advantage of SAB during our stays at Y&BC and have pool hopped there a couple of times. It's a wonderful pool area...we enjoyed it very much.

SAB was always a mob scene when we were there...prior to BCV. With the addition of close to 300 units, SAB will be unbearable.

I can't imagine fighting the crowds at SAB!

 

[sgtpet]

SAB is so unoriginal, there is nothing that makes it stand out. I can't wait to sell my BCV points when it opens. Unless of course, they make it one huge pool with no slides of any sort. That sounds perfect. Of course the rooms will still by tiny...


SAB is the best, ask Terry S.

 

[FreshAir]

Sorry folks I need a Mickey Mouse decoder for some of these forums. What is SAB and where is SAB? Thanks

 

[ncligs]

FreshAir,

Welcome to the DIS!!! the SAB is the pool at the Yacht and Beach Club, (Storm Along Bay)It is one of the largest Resort pools on Disney property.

 

[DVCajun]

It took me a second, sgtpet, to get it! I'm still on my first cup of coffee!!

 

[Ashley'sDad]

I took my daughter there last time we stayed at Beach Club. I purposely chose Beach Club because I thought she would love the pool. Well, she hated it. She said it was too crowded and some older kids kept splashing her in the face. It might have just been an off day (knowing how kids can be), but she did not want to go back.

I talked her into trying it again the next day, and we went early when it wasn't very busy. She liked it better, but still said she missed the Poly.

I am hoping that when she is a little older she will like it more. Dad loves it!

 

[KaraKW]

There are several reasons I don't like it.

1. I frequently scrape my feet at the bottom of the pool in areas where sand is suddenly scarce. Ouch!

2. The slide is terrible. It's rough on the back -- the "connections" between the slide tubes is rough at best, so it irritates the back as you go down "whee! bump! whee! bump! whee! bump! " I started going down with my back elevated so that it would not make contact with the uneven surface of the slide. Hardly comfortable!

3. I have seen ducks swimming around that pool on several occasions. Yuck!

By the time I hit reason #3 I stopped swimming there. But, in all fairness, I have to say that it's themed beautifully and laid out uniquely!