To spur off of this blog post. Rank the best DVC resort for pool days?

[NVDISFamily]

Rank

• Best slide
• Best for little kids
• Best for big kids
• Best overall experience
• Best bang for your points (maybe having access to more than 1 pool is a better value, (AKV, CCV and ?)
• Worst overall experience

We haven't hit all of them. From the Ones we have been to -

Slide - Kidani at WDW and VDH at DLR. Paddock pool slide at SSR also great.
Little Kids - Kidani hands down. Awesome splash pad.
Best for Big Kids - Kidani or Poly or VDH
Overall - Kidani is hard to beat. VDH has great pool vibe too. We also very much liked the HH area pool at OKW. The pool area and chairs at the Grand Cal are amazing. I can sleep on those pads at GC. I'm shocked they haven't taken those to other flagship resorts in the portfolio. The lava pool at the Poly was a good overall vibe/theme.
Value - OKW.
Worst - Hard to pick here. Haven't had any bad overall experiences. I'll call out a few things that are a concern. For some reason our magic bands never worked at the lava pool at Poly and I always had to "sneak" in. Riviera needs another hot tub. Almost every time we have tried to use them they have a lot of people in them. Overall I like the two pools at WL but the slide is meh.

 

[VGCgroupie]

Okay everyone. I didnt want to start a whole new thread for my question so here it goes. When we visited over te weekend I tried to gauge each pool and the amount of shade that is available but want to see others opinions on it.

What pools have the best option for shade from trees or amount of umbrellas?

From what I saw the Poly pool was virtually all sun and I saw very few umbrellas, but I was just looking from beyond the gates so maybe I am wrong.
WL pools appeared to have alot of shade and many umbrellas.
RIV didnt have much natural shade but it seems most chairs had umbrellas.
AKV had a fair amount of umbrellas and good amount of shade in the splash pad.
I forgot to see the BLT pool from the ground level
BWV decent amount of umbrellas from what I remember but we only visited at night so that may changed my view of it.