RPR Pool Area

[DeeInMS]

Does anyone know if there is a place to blow up floats at the RPR pool area?

 

[A Mickeyfan]

I could be wrong, but I didn't think that they allowed floats in the pool for safety reasons???

 

[debbie655]

I saw people with floats and I am also positive I remember the lifeguard telling someone to go over to the other side of the pool (near tower 3) where they have a pump to blow up their float. My daughter had one of those long noodle things and the only problem we had was that these three kids "borrowed" it from my daughter and she was too shy to ask for it back.

 

[A Mickeyfan]

I really thought that would create a saftey hazard. I know I think horrible things sometimes, but what if:..... there were many many people with lounge floats, there are little children swimming underwater, one comes up for a breath & boom......he/she is trying to come up under a 180 lb man on a float!!!!!! Noodles are a different story, they don't take up much water space, but floats do. That is just my thought.....like I said, I could have been wrong, but I would think they were a hazard.

 

[debbie655]

A Mickeyfan: I thought I was the only one who thinks stuff like that! My kids think I'm kinda nuts..LOL.

Have you ever been to the the RP? The pool is very large and there weren't tons of people with floats, maybe one or two. I definitely did see the lifeguard telling a girl where to blow hers up and then saw her floating around on it. The thing that really irked me (and if anyone was there last week maybe they saw it too) was a little boy who couldn't have been more than 1-1 1/2 swimming around with a lifevest on. This boy was with two other girls, the oldest of which couldn't have been more than 6-7. I guess the "older" kids were supposed to be watching him but they didn't always. He was just floating around all over the place while his mother lounged around without paying any attention. At one point, he went under and swallowed a lot of water and my husband had to pick him up out of the water. I mean I don't know what's wrong with some parents? My daughter is almost 10 and I still don't take my eyes off of her in the pool.

 

[A Mickeyfan]

debbie655
Boy do we sound alike! My daugher is 10 & she is watched constantly (by me or my husband) when we are in a public pool. We have a pool at home, of which as long as they do the buddie system, they can swim without me there. At home there aren't the distractions of what there are in public pools (ie: my teenagers can't see a cute one of the oppisite sex & take eyes off the little one LOL) My kids are 10, 14 & 16..... no one in our house is allowed to swim alone! Now back to RPH, yes I have stayed there, the pool is very large. I don't remember seeing any floats when I was there. It was only open about 2-3 weeks when I stayed....maybe at that point they didn't allow??? I don't know....

 

[debbie655]

Gee Mickeyfan, it looks like we were there about the same time last year! I can't remember the exact date right now but it was about mid July, maybe a little earlier. I don't remember floats at that time but I definitely did see them this year, not many like I said but one or two. I'd be curious what others have observed. Anyway, it was really nothing to worry about I don't think. We always sat near the sandy beach area, as you walk in the gate near Tower 1 and my daughter knew to stay on that side of the "island" so I could keep my eye on her.

 

[A Mickeyfan]

We checked in the last week of July like around the 28th or something. We got that great rate of $139 for the Club level. I stayed mostyly on the other side from where you were. I always sat over by the bar area....that way I watched my daughter swim & my son play pool....not in the pool LOL. My other daughter just lounged and tanned....I will be staying at the HRH in October, I will have to remember to look to see if I see any floats...