Wilderness Lodge Pool Pics, Please!

[thomascaldwell1]

I am looking for some Wilderness Lodge pool pics, please. DD4's favorite thing on any trip (other than Disney) is the swimming pool/slide, etc. Last year we stayed at AKL and theirs was GREAT! I'm hoping Wilderness is about the same thing, but not sure.

In addition, I'm hoping for my father-in-law, that there is a slow walk into the water (like at a beach, which they had at AKL last year)- you know, versus steps into the water. He doesn't like to get in by much, and after nearly drowning twice, I can completely understand!

Thanks very much for the pool photos!!

 

[vicki_c]

Check the WL FAQ for photos of the pool.

There is no zero entry place at the Wilderness Lodge pool, though, it's all steps into the water (but there are steps - not just ladders).

 

[brentalex]

You should look at the sub forum, resort pics, link is at the top of this forum. There is a thread there with pics of the wilderness lodge and there is also a thread just of pictures of various pools at disney.

 

[mef78]

Ask and you shall receive!

Image Gallery of Silver Springs Pool


Image Gallery of Hidden Springs Pool (at Villas at Wilderness Lodge)

 

[irunnoft]

Ask and you shall receive!

Image Gallery of Silver Springs Pool


Image Gallery of Hidden Springs Pool (at Villas at Wilderness Lodge)

FWIW, the pool at the Lodge is not too bad. The slide isn't that great or exciting, but that won't keep kids from sliding down it again and again. After swimming at Stormalong Bay this past December, it seems kinda "meh" to me now. However, the fact that the pool starts in the lobby is cool. The river emptying into the pool is probably my favorite part. There is enough force in the downward flow of that river that you can swim against the current. That, to me, is more fun than the slide.

 

[grimley1968]

FWIW, the pool at the Lodge is not too bad. The slide isn't that great or exciting, but that won't keep kids from sliding down it again and again. After swimming at Stormalong Bay this past December, it seems kinda "meh" to me now. However, the fact that the pool starts in the lobby is cool. The river emptying into the pool is probably my favorite part. There is enough force in the downward flow of that river that you can swim against the current. That, to me, is more fun than the slide.

The river doesn't actually start in the lobby. Yes, there is a fountain in the lobby which then flows outside toward the pool. But that fountain ends before the pool. The water flowing into the pool from above begins right there, and is not the same stream coming from the lobby. If it were all the same water, the chlorine smell in the lobby would be overpowering. It's just another Disney illusion.

 

[vicki_c]

The river doesn't actually start in the lobby. Yes, there is a fountain in the lobby which then flows outside toward the pool. But that fountain ends before the pool. The water flowing into the pool from above begins right there, and is not the same stream coming from the lobby. If it were all the same water, the chlorine smell in the lobby would be overpowering. It's just another Disney illusion.

I'm glad you clarified that, because I was sitting here stumped trying to imagine how that waterfall ended up in the pool - I was trying to imagine if it ran under the sidewalk somehow and that I just never noticed!

 

[grimley1968]

I'm glad you clarified that, because I was sitting here stumped trying to imagine how that waterfall ended up in the pool - I was trying to imagine if it ran under the sidewalk somehow and that I just never noticed!

It does something like this. I can't remember exactly what it does, but I did follow it on one of our trips there, and the creek goes under a sidewalk or overpass or something of that nature, so that guests can't see the end of the creek, and then the creek "continues" on the other side, but is a separate flow of water, which you can tell by smelling and by looking (it is bluer than the water in the creek coming out of WL).

 

[vicki_c]

I'll have to look closer next time we're there!

 

[thomascaldwell1]

You folks are just a wealth of information- thanks for the links & info!