Pool Hopping

[Angel25Fan]

Has anyone "Pool Hopped" before?? How did you work it?? Did you use a backpack for your swimsuits and changed at the pool you were hopping to??

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Dean]

You can wear your swim suite and/or change in the rest room near the pool. You will need to be staying on points and have your room ID that says member on it. Current rules require you to call ahead to the destination resort to see if it is currently open or not (at capacity). There are also times of the year that are automatically closed and they are posted on the member website from time to time. Recently 4th of July, Xmas and Easter 2 weeks have been closed across the board. The trouble is that it's possible you could call ahead and get the OK only to be excluded once you arrive. AKL and SAB are off limits to Pool Hopping. You can get towels with your room ID at the destination resort.

Personally, I find the PH to be a pain. We've only done it once or twice over the years and only when there were fairly small children involved.

 

[Uncleromulus]

We have a car, so we just wear our suits under our regular shorts, etc .
We always pool hop, usually to Luna Park at Boarwalk Villas.

 

[PamOKW]

Here are the current black-out dates:

Due to the high occupancy that is expected, Disney Vacation Club Members may not "pool hop" November 26 - December 2, 2002 and December 21, 2002 - January 2, 2003.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

The one time we pool hopped you could still go to SAB--so we just walked over from BWV--we were never carded or anything. Nice pool but not worth buying points for.
Now we switched resorts twice this last trip and both times I left our suits out of our suitcases and put them in one of those plastic bags in the resort closet and put them in the basket of the stroller. If we beat our stuff to the resort we changed in the restroom. We even did this on our check-out day--checked out, went to MGM (yes the security guard looked in our swimsuit bag!) and back to VWL to swim for an hour before our ride came. Good thing because it was HOT.
Robin M.