Will BCV resale price fall if SAB is too cold to use?

[Daitcher]

As I admitted I'm not a swimmer but if memory serves, the only time that lower air temperatures affect swimmers is when they leave the water, not while they are in it. Maybe they shouldn't heat the pools at all in the cooler months to take maximum advantage of your theory.

Score 1 for jarestel!!!!


DAVE

 

[LisaS]

I'm also from a cold climate but I do not like cold pools! We've spent a week at WDW in January the past two years. What made them such wonderful and relaxing trips was that the pools were so nice and warm. It was a little tough getting out of the pool when those cool air temperatures hit you but we just made a dash for our lounge chairs and covered ourselves from neck to toe in towels and we were fine.

I don't think it will cause BCV resale prices to fall unless this was the only DVC resort where they were dropping the pool temperature. If SAB was always too cold to use in the winter months but all of the other DVC pools would continue to be heated to 84 degrees then yes, someone like me who doesn't like cold pools would never even consider purchasing points there for that reason alone.

This may, however, cause people to rethink their vacation plans and avoid going to WDW during the coolest months of the year. We just bought an add-on so that we'll have enough points to make a trip every January to escape the New England winter for a week. If we won't be able to enjoy the pools, however, then we won't be going to WDW.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

As long as it's warm enough for women to sit poolside in their bathing suits, the value of SAB will remain high.

MG

 

[Daitcher]

I already posted how I feel about this but I felt compelled to offer this. I just returned from 4 days at BCV and 2 days at OKW. The stormalong bay pool was much cooler than in past trips. I would say about 80 degrees, not freezing but cool. The quiet pool was much warmer at about 85 degrees. My parents have a heated pool so I'm pretty good with judging temperatures. I also have a 8 person hot tub that I dial down like a pool in the summer. OKW, we swam in the main pool and it was just great, about 85 degrees or so. Who knows, I'm starting to doubt that this is policy except maybe at BCV due to the sheer size of the pool. What I noticed kind of goes against what I read as "policy" on the threads that Cobbler provided.


DAVE

 

[bicker]

This may, however, cause people to rethink their vacation plans and avoid going to WDW during the coolest months of the year.

I think it is highly unlikely that a three degree difference will have any such impact. We're not talking hurricanes here, eh?

 

[LisaS]

I think it is highly unlikely that a three degree difference will have any such impact. We're not talking hurricanes here, eh?

I don't know where your three degree temperature difference is coming from but I have read several posts where people have said that the pools were too cold to enjoy. If this turns out to be a change in Disney's policy regarding pool temperatures in the winter months, then DH and I will not be going back in the winter months. So here are two people who will be rethinking their vacation plans if this turns out to be a new policy.

 

[LIFERBABE]

I don't know where your three degree temperature difference is coming from but I have read several posts where people have said that the pools were too cold to enjoy. If this turns out to be a change in Disney's policy regarding pool temperatures in the winter months, then DH and I will not be going back in the winter months. So here are two people who will be rethinking their vacation plans if this turns out to be a new policy.

Add the LIFERBABE family to the list also! We live in Texas so we don't go to WDW for 2 weeks during Christmas to escape the cold.

We go because the pools are heated and my boys love to swim. The pools at BCV and SSR were really nice (although SAB was a little cooler but that was to be expected) this last December and January.

I would hate to cancel our winter visits, but we dont visit the parks enough to justify the points. The pools are a huge factor for us!

I wouldnt sell our BCV, but I would not stay there in the winter if SAB was cold. That one little hot tub in the quiet pool would be packed all day and filled with kids! And the hot tubs at SAB would be also.

 

[Alexander]

Great, now the hot tubs will be loaded with people trying to stay warm!
No, I like my pool temp above the 80 degree mark. DH won't put his little toe in unless it's close to 90!

 

[LIFERBABE]

And Im sorry, but If we pay Prime points to stay in December, and the pools are cold, my boys will be in the hot tub with the rest of the kids! With goggles and a floatie and I wont pull them out!

 

[bicker]

I don't know where your three degree temperature difference is coming from

From earlier in the thread.

 

[manning]

Don't forget to bring your water thermometer.


Looks like Disney is going to make the record books. All the hot tubs filled to over capacity by bathers and no room to put water in.

 

[rogerram]

I figured it out. SAB is always crowded and to keep it a little less crowded, they cool off the pool a few degrees. Less crowds in the pool and more going to the parks to spend money. great conspiracy theory.

 

[Daitcher]

I think it is highly unlikely that a three degree difference will have any such impact. We're not talking hurricanes here, eh?

At one time someone speculated that bicker was another screen name for me. I hope this person's recent posts have put that to rest. Pools were heated to 84 now 78, errrr I think that is 6 degrees, a huge difference. How about I knock 6 degrees off your morning shower?


DAVE

 

[Daitcher]

I don't know where your three degree temperature difference is coming from but I have read several posts where people have said that the pools were too cold to enjoy. If this turns out to be a change in Disney's policy regarding pool temperatures in the winter months, then DH and I will not be going back in the winter months. So here are two people who will be rethinking their vacation plans if this turns out to be a new policy.

Add us also if this plays out. We don't do many parks so pool is very important to us.


DAVE

 

[Melrosgirl]

When it's 95 degrees with 90% humidity in Florida, a 78 degree pool will be perfect. Any warmer than that and it's not very refreshing. We had that problem at SSR after it first opened. The pool was too warm.

 

[bicker]

How about I knock 6 degrees off your morning shower?

This is a very common recommendation during the winter, in the Northeast, where a major cause of dry skin is too-hot showers.

Regardless, 82 to 78 is actually 4 degrees, not 6 degrees. I was closer. I win.

 

[Sammie]

Where did the 84 degrees that they were supposedly heated to previously come from? What source?

 

[bicker]

As far as I know it was 82 degrees, not 84 degrees. Just second-hand, though.

 

[Daitcher]

Where did the 84 degrees that they were supposedly heated to previously come from? What source?

That is what I was told on many visits to WDW. I could be wrong but either way my main point is that bicker is so off here.


DAVE

 

[bicker]

You could be wrong.