Whats the 'poop' on the DLH pool??

[BayGirl22]

They don't literally drain the pool and scrub it do they? Do they just add extra chlorine and check bacteria levels? What do they do?

I'm going to knock on wood that I've never seen this IRL. I'm at our association pool several times every week and I've never seen a code brown. Dear lord I would flip out!

I watched from afar as they cleaned the landing pool under the red monorail slide. That's the deeper pool, not the wading one, but they turn off the slide water and waterfall and close all the slides down. There were some red hazmat bags involved, triple bagged it appeared. A net scoop, and I saw housekeeping with a pack of sawdust that hadn't been opened. There was no draining. That whole retrieval operations probably could take 5 minutes but the slides were closed for 40. Not sure if they have to treat the water for a period of time too, or if they just aren't particularly fast about it.

 

[Mary09]

They probably also shock the pool to kill the bacteria. It's just a high dose of chlorine that gasses off quickly.

What surprises me is that everyone KNOWS why the pool was closed each time. I think normal guest relations policy would be to keep it rather hush-hush, because it is gross and would make you not want to swim even after the clean out. Just say it's closed for a required special cleaning or something. What do they do, put up a sign- "Pool closed due to POOP"?

 

[arthur06]

We were at OKW last year and when we arrived at the pool, were told that we wouldn't be able to swim for a few minutes. A few minutes turned into close to an hour, so we just decided to leave and go to one of the quiet pools.

The staff at OKW said it happens occasionally, but they did not drain the pool, they just cleaned up the "pieces" then added more chemicals to the pool.

 

[BryANDJessMom]

It happened at the water park at HoJos when we were there. Some little kid (about 4)had an "accident" while going down the slide. I don't think he wanted to take time away from the slide to go to the potty.

Anyway, they had to close it the rest of the afternoon. A company has to come in and do the whole scrub down thing. I was talking to the manager to see when it was going to be reopened....poor guy...he just sighed and told me a "few hours" and then said it costs the hotel thousands every time this happens. I guess it happens fairly often...

 

[RevKjb]

Sorry this is a bit disturbing but we were at the DLH from 8/20 to 8/28 and everyday 2-3 times a day they had to shut the large pool because someone pooped in the pool. I have never had anything like this happen and I'm a WDW vet (30+ trips). It was really annoying and it wasn't like it was the same person. We stopped using the pool but noticed it happening over and over and over. The lifeguards were also very frustrated. I mean they were leaving baskets of swim diapers around complimentary for people to use.

This happened to us TWICE in 2010 on the same trip. We were staying at ASMovies The 2nd time they had to have a municipal inspector come to declare the pool safe. We were offered time at ASMusic pool, but it didn't seem worth the trek. It was a few hours before we could enjoy. So, if u have little ones...use the diapers.