I just read this interesting thread and just have to add an interesting quiet pool story that just happened at WDW.
Friends of ours are presently staying at BWV from 7/27 untl 8/ 5. We called them on 7/28 to see how they were doing, to see if they got and were enjoying the gift basket we had sent to their villa, etc. This is an adult couple, no kids. During the course of the conversation, they were telling us how everything was at WDW and BWV and said they had only one disturbing time at BWV's quiet pool, that afternoon.
What happened was our friends (2 adults) went to the BWV quiet pool early that afternoon. As of 7/28/04 the pool is called the "quiet" pool NOT leisure, neighborhood etc pool. When they got to the pool there were several other groups there including 2 families with children. The children were playing very nicely in the pool, enjoying themselves as kids do, but were certainly not disturbing anyone. One of our friends is a smoker, so they sat in the chairs fartherest away from the pool and the other groups. Everything was just wonderful for all parties at the quiet pool for the first 40 or so minutes. Then a woman with 4 children, ages approx 7-13 came to the pool. At that point the whole atmosphere of the pool changed. These kids were repeatedly doing cannon balls into the pool, they were yelling and screaming as they were having relay races the length of the pool, they were using the pool noodles to hit each other over the head and as lassos to try and knock each other off their feet while in the pool and were tossing around 2 of those water baseballs from one end of the pool to the other. Meanwhile the woman with these kids sat at a pool table polishing her nails. The other families with children left since their poor kids were essentially forced out of the pool. The remaining adults, including our friends said nothing until one of the baseballs hit an older woman who happened to be sitting close to our friends. Our friend at that point threw them back the ball and said: "Come on guys, give us a break. You are not the only ones who want to enjoy the pool. Can't you play ball somewhere else." The kids totally ignored him and continued with their fun. Then the woman -who brought the kids left for about 15-20 mins and left the kids in the pool still continuing their "fun". A sort while later the BWV/BWI manager came to the pool. It seems as though when our friend asked the kids to play ball elsewhere, the woman got angry that someone said something to one of her kids and went to the front desk and tried to get our friends thrown out of the pool for smoking. Finally the mgr was summoned and he came out to the quiet pool to survey the situation. The end result was the woman was told that smoking is allowed at all pools, however doing cannon balls in the pool, using pool noodles as weapons, overtaking the whole pool with relay races, excessive screaming and hollering and the throwing of baseballs was not allowed at the quiet pool. The manager went on to explain to this woman that at the quiet pool, other than for specific scheduled times for pool games that last a specific amount of time and the times are posted; the quiet pool is to provide resort guests with a more quiet and relaxing pool atmosphere. That the main pool was for more actve pool actvities and that if her children wanted to partake in more actve pool activities to please take them to the main pool. He did add that even at the main pool they still would not be allowed to use the pool noodles in the fashion in which they were; they would not be allowed to have swimming relays taking up the whole length of the pool, nor would they be permitted to throw water baseballs the whole length of the pool.
The woman and her kids left in a huff. BTW, all the remaining guests at the pool cheered when they finally left.
However, I guess they were not happy with the main pool rules either because our friends heard them walking back to their room from the main pool (they had rooms right off the quiet pool) grumbling that WDW stinks and kids aren't allowed to have any fun!
From this incident it seems as though Disney does consider the quiet pools to be more quiet, much less active (except for scheduled actvities); then the main pools. There is no age limit on who can enjoy the quiet pools but it does appear as though there are certain quiet pool guidelines. At least at BWV and as of 7/28/04, there were.
I just had to share this story. What a coincidence that we were just talking with our friends about this the other day and there is a thread about it here today!
