She argued with the CM for like 5 minutes until she just grabbed her kids and left. She was staying at some non Disney timeshare nearby and was convinced that she could be there for whatever reason (*cough* entitlement *cough*)
I wonder if she tried showing them her DVC White Card that says only one thing: enjoy pool hopping. Then the CMs say sorry, not permitted here. She asks them where, leaning on their professionalism to know or go find out. That answer is ‘nowhere, actually’ to which she now hopes to gain sympathy points for DVC causing all this unnecessary confusion.
Nope, 0 mention of DVC.
That does sound pretty flawed on Disney part. Not everyone stays super up to date with all the in’s and out’s
This is the reason we avoid Poly. We visited one year and overheard a HUGE group commenting that they never visit the parks, just hang at the Poly when they are in the mood for fireworks. We've also shared a bus with a group that was traveling to Poly for fireworks, and the kids were planning on swimming. They parked at Disney Springs....I don't feel it's fair to have to fight for a spot after spending thousands on a week's stay to have someone come in off the street and receive the same benefits for the cost of parking a car. This is another reason I like AKL, especially Kidani Village. It's so far-removed people seldom "sneak" over. I've often wondered why they don't issue bands (like the ones at Beach/Yacht Club) to prevent this at all resorts, including value. The pools should be for the pleasure of the guests staying at the resort!
I’m trying to imagine a situation where I would take the whole family’s magic bands to the bathroom with me. At least people can’t make up realistic excuses.
The card says pool hopping. Not everyone is going to go full detective mode. It’s just a vacation spot at the end of the day, not everyone’s entire identity.
Parking at Disney springs is actually free lol
Should have just said took them to the room to nap and charge them up.
Actually having all the MBs in a single Backpack does make sense when at the pool these days. With original MB, and MB 2 Guests very often just wore them everywhere, and including in the pools.
If the pool gets crowded - they will check for room key cards at HHI -
I don't see the harm in adding people to your room. There is a limit on how many people are allowed per room.
It definitely is. We’ve been at both pools where we could tell people who were not staying there were using the pool. How? You overhear them discussing it or referencing it. I’ve even seen people on these boards talking about “hanging out” at Vero when not staying there. Disney needs to come down on this hard. They need to come down on all resort amenities hard, not just the pools. And Disney also needs to ban some of vloggers. It’s just too much. We watched one the other day who said she went to a resort lounge to work but it was too loud!! She wasn’t staying at the resort. There are thousands of vloggers now. If they all hang out at the resorts every day “to work” that’s a significant amount of people using resort amenities who are not staying there.
if they start charging a day guest fee then you are just opening the door to them charging people a pool use fee which would then just make pool more crowded and parking lot more crowded, but it will make Disney richer. Be careful what you wish for. Any suggestions for Disney to charge for something will just backfire.
What other resort amenities does Disney need to come down on “hard” besides the pool (which I don’t completely agree with as I think the pool policies are fine)?
If you think pool policies, which are the big ones, are fine then you obviously think all policies about resort use are fine. You just have a different opinion. Or maybe you’re on the other side of the situation.
