VENT! Towel Return!!!

[bongo59]

we just bring an extra suitcase with our own towels...........been doing that since 92............we no longer have any towel issues.

 

[MELSMICE]

Our motto:

If you found it clean, then leave it the way you found it.

If you found it dirty then leave it the way you would like to find it.

We have taught our DD's to pick up EVERYTHING - papers, cups, towels & anything else in our area before we leave the pool.

I think it is rude & inconsiderate to do othewise.

 

[bongo59]

you can not let others lack of manner spoil your time ...........if they leave a dirty towel and no one is there we will clean it up and take the chair if we need it...........we use the 15 minute rule we did in college.......if the professor was not there in 15 minutes.........we were gone...........and in my world so would your chair!!!!! with or with out your towel upon it

 

[goldilocks_63]

I now usually just ask politely, oh, are these seats now open? You wouldn't mind putting these in the bin over there, would you.....

Thanks so much, and leave it at that.

I used to pick them up myself, but now have decided that educating the masses is better....

***
And if noone is around, use the 15 minutes rule also. Usually get very nice seats this way, and haven't had anyone complain yet after years of doing this... So I think lots of people think it's okay to hold a seat, and leave for days.....

When we swim as a family, we put everthing on one chair. We really just need a space to park our stuff. Are there lockers anywhere?

LOL! Goldi

 

[Sammie]

Bring it on, got my super soaker ready. The one's who need bodily harm are the ones saving chairs indefinitely. I don't have any problems with saving for 15 or 20 minutes while someone is getting ready. It's the low life's that go out at 7-9 and expect to come to the pool between 11 & 3 or similar, that I have NO use for.

Actually the person who threatened to physically remove me from their chair, said they leave the pool to go back to their villa and have lunch and maybe a nap and expect their things to be left on their chairs and the chairs left untouched.

 

[bongo59]

ridulous.............the chair is not a parking meter

 

[calypso*a*go-go]

Actually the person who threatened to physically remove me from their chair, said they leave the pool to go back to their villa and have lunch and maybe a nap and expect their things to be left on their chairs and the chairs left untouched.

It moments like this where incontinence could be a real benefit!

(Sorry if that offended anyone )

 

[Dean]

Actually the person who threatened to physically remove me from their chair, said they leave the pool to go back to their villa and have lunch and maybe a nap and expect their things to be left on their chairs and the chairs left untouched.

Like I said, bring it on. We can educate low life's one at a time.

 

[lsutigger2]

The towel/chair saving bit doesn't bother me much, but only because we don't use the pools much - our choice! But .....
the shopping cart thing does! I've seen buggies that we're returned to a cart return place go wheeling across a very busy street in front of a local grocery store on a windy day. I'm the one who is slow moving her car because she's returning the cart to the proper place. I've even been known to return lots (2 - 3) buggies!

Thanks for letting me vent -Know this is a bit off topic, but it was part of the discussion.

 

[Sammie]

Like I said, bring it on. We can educate low life's one at a time.

When is your next trip, I want to be at the pool when you go, so you can handle the chair bullies,

 

[Cruelladeville]

The worst chair hoggers are at VB. It was a common practice to have 3/4 of all the chairs, in the best positions, covered for the entire week! And, since I swam from 7-10 am every day, I can say with some authority that I was usually one of 3 or 4 people in the entire pool area! I was so appalled by the practice that I cancelled an add-on there, and, on my last morning there, I scooped up all those towels and put them in a pile way over by the kiddy pool, where you would have to really look to find them. Of course, I scurried back to my room afterward, and rushed to check out, just in case one of the chair hoggers was looking at what I did!

 

[erikthewise]

It's nice to know rude behavior is universal. DVC people have nothing on DCL cruisers. On our cruise last month DS and I went to the Mickey pool a little before 9:00AM. Every deck chair was covered with a towel, sometimes accompanied by other stuff. And NOT ONE was in use! This is when the daily Navigator (newsletter) says in bold print below the pool hours that saving chairs is not permitted! So I just sat down in one and had DS use the towel that someone had so thoughtfully laid out for us. And I encouraged other parents who were actually there to do the same.

 

[Dean]

When is your next trip, I want to be at the pool when you go, so you can handle the chair bullies,

I'll be there two time this fall, I'll try to remember to let you know.

 

[dbond]

We visited a resort recently that issued us a towel card upon checkin. It was just a well worn generic card, not specific to any particular room or guest, but you had to have it to check out towels. You could check out as many towels as you needed and then you had to turn in a towel to get a card back for the next day. They didn't keep a record of how many towels you got or brought back. I didn't notice the chair saving issue or the non return of towels as being an issue like we see at WDW or DCL so maybe this procedure acted as a reminder to folks to pick up their towels and return them so they could get their card back for the next day. This method is certainly not fool proof and people could still get away with leaving towels or keeping extra towels, but I thought it worked in a sense that it served as a reminder to people leaving the pool area to pick up the towels and go get your card back for the next day. Also, it probably cut down on the saving of chairs before pool hours somewhat because there had to be someone at the towel desk issuing towels.

 

[kathleena]

OK, so I have a question.

I go to the pool, I have my T-shirt on and my sandals. I get a towel. I put the towel on a chair with the T-Shirt and my sandals underneath the chair. I go in the pool for an hour and then come out and want to relax in the chair.

Is that chair-saving in the eyes of some posting here? To me - I'm using the pool area and just because I'm not sitting in the chair at all moments...........well, you get the picture.

Just a question.............I'm only asking because some are saying that a towel left on a chair for xxxxx minutes makes it fair game..............

 

[Nanajo1]

Nancy,
I wouldn't consider that chair hogging. The annoying thing is folks staking out chairs with no intent of using them in the immediate future. I personally dislike it when folks not only claim lounge chairs in the sun but then also commandeer a table and chairs.

 

[Dean]

OK, so I have a question.

I go to the pool, I have my T-shirt on and my sandals. I get a towel. I put the towel on a chair with the T-Shirt and my sandals underneath the chair. I go in the pool for an hour and then come out and want to relax in the chair.

Is that chair-saving in the eyes of some posting here? To me - I'm using the pool area and just because I'm not sitting in the chair at all moments...........well, you get the picture.

Just a question.............I'm only asking because some are saying that a towel left on a chair for xxxxx minutes makes it fair game..............

NOPE. What we're talking about is people who go out in the morning and put articles on the chairs with the intent of returning later, usually hours later. There are resorts that actively enforce this much like a meter maid for parking.

dbond, I referenced that basic approach earlier. In most situations they have a way to overcharge you for the towels if you don't end up returning them by the end. It's usually in the $25-35 per towel range. It's quite a deterrent to leaving towels and quite an enticement to pick up extra towels left laying around. And as I also hinted at, many resorts have you do an inventory and can (some do) charge you for anything not there at the end of your stay that you don't include on your initial inventory. Anyone looking to exchange should be aware of these issues and many others that are similar. And make sure the don't charge you by "mistake". Just like some resorts charge you to use the W/D and it can be quite hefty if you wash like my wife does with all the little piles. Me, I wash like a college kid and pile almost everything in together that won't fade using the lowest common temperature, drives my wife nuts so she usually doesn't ask me to wash, all the better.

 

[kathleena]

OK! I thought that's what was behind the statements, but I just wanted to be sure! I'm just not certain if a just a towel is on a chair (in my case I would have the shirt and shoes also) that you can be sure they aren't in the pool! I would think most people would have something else with them, however.....

 

[Cruelladeville]

The hoggers are the people who lay towels out at 7 am, for example, for a dip in the pool at 3 pm, during the busiest time, when the rest of us can't even find a chair to sit on! At VB, the people laid out their own personal towels when they arrived and NEVER picked them up until they left for home a week later!!! It just made me so mad!

 

[bongo59]

My DS and his fiance came up with this idea at VB last yr..........they went to Sams and bought the folding chairs that they could carry with them so they could sunbathe at 2-4 PM without the chairs hassles...........it is a bit of a pain but worth it when your walking around for an hour looking for someplace to relax