Will Pool Hopping Discontinue with completion of OKW Slide?

[DrBond007]

Will Pool Hopping be discontinued by DVC management with the addition of the OKW slide?

 

[Chuck S]

Presonally, I don;t care as I don't pool hop. But, I think adding the slide adds to the possibility of discontinuing this perk.

However, if Disney saw pool hopping as a major problem, it would have been discontinued with or without a pool slide.

 

[timC]

Perhaps this new slide actually improves the hopping program by balancing things out a bit. It could relieve some pressure off other resorts from OKW guests looking for a more interest pool experience…ie. reducing concerns about overcrowding at other resorts.

I'm with Chuck... we don't pool hop either... except to Typhoon Lagoon.

 

[tjkraz]

I just don't see the reason for discontinuing hopping. It's a legitimate member perk that costs DVC NOTHING to offer.

If it was going to happen, seems like it would have been when they excluded SAB from the list of eligible pools.

 

[jarestel]

If the WDW resorts continue to experience near or at maximum occupancy, I could see pool hopping going away. It seems one of the main complaints of resort guests is not being able to enjoy their own pool because of crowding and chair hogs. For the small number of DVC members who actually pool hop, I don't think DVC would feel much of a backlash if they removed this seldom exercised perk.

 

[DisneyMim]

I'm with tjkraz, it costs management nothing and sounds like a nice perk. IMHO the people who crowd the pools are not DVC members, but other Disney guests, people who are staying at resorts with "boring" pools, people who are curious at to what other resorts look like, people who are staying off-site who don't want to bother going back for a swim (Hey, let's just use one of the Disney pools) and locals. The problem with off-site guests and locals has been around for years since they opened SAB, before DVC. I can remember watching people coming in from IG with huge bags containg bathing suits, etc and seeing them going into the bathrooms and changing. I have always believed that the best thing for Disney to do is watch those people, not DVC members. I always believed, and still believe, that it is NOT us that are causing the problem. Discontinuing pool hoping will not make any impact on the number of people who are "crashing" the best resort pools. Just MHO.

 

[Scoootch]

Perhaps this new slide actually improves the hopping program by balancing things out a bit. It could relieve some pressure off other resorts from OKW guests looking for a more interest pool experience…ie. reducing concerns about overcrowding at other resorts

That's my thinking too, I know for us we probably won't feel the need to pool hop now that we will have the slide at OKW. So the addition of the slide may actually make things better for the perk to remain in place rather than eliminate it if lots of others end up doing the same...who knows though, only time will tell I suppose

 

[Jamesbyr]

Pool Hopping as a DVC perk originated because the original OKW pool was so, well, quiet. (And OKW was heavily marketed as a place for granparents to take their extended families, meaning lots of kids.) BWV opened with a "themed" pool with a slide. VWL had access to the main pool at WL. By the time BCV opened, DVC members had already been told that SAB (I hope I am getting these right) was OFF LIMITS to the rest of us. As well as AKL. Plus, we got increasingly persistent reminders that ANY other resort could limit our use of their pool in case of seasonal overcrowding.

Now is any one pool (except maybe for SAB) currently that much more attractive than any other? Not really. Pool-hopping will wane as an issue, then suddenly be formally done away with. So CMs can spend their time guarding against outsiders slipping in and overcrowding the deck chairs. Maybe that is the real issue anyway.

 

[spiceycat]

without zero entry - OKW and WL/VWL don't have it - I don't think that BW does either.

the Polyn and GF paid alot for their new pools with it -

remember one day we will (well most of us) be old and need this....

of course I don't think I will made it to 2042 ....

 

[Granny]

My cynical side firmly believes that pool hopping for DVC exists for one reason only.....to help sell new points!! It just sounds cool when a sales person can talk about the "exclusive" DVC perks...and for us who are jazzed about WDW anyway, anything that even hints at having an inside track on anything would be a nice selling point.

So IMHO, pool hopping will be around as long as Disney thinks it helps sell new points. As many have pointed out, it's a perk that a very small percentage of DVCers even take advantage of anyway, so it's clearly not stressing the system now that SAB is off limits.

 

[lisareniff]

I think they will end it sometime..... but not within 6 months. Think of all the new DVC members coming in with SSR and the crowding issues at some of the resorts. I realize that crashers are the major problem but putting an end to DVC hopping would be an easier fix.

 

[tjkraz]

Think of all the new DVC members coming in with SSR and the crowding issues at some of the resorts...

What impact do the new SSR members have on pool hopping? What crowding issues at "some" resorts?

 

[lisareniff]

What impact do the new SSR members have on pool hopping? What crowding issues at "some" resorts?

I was just thinking that with the DVC membership base becoming larger with the addition of more resorts (SSR at the moment, who knows what is next) the number of pool hoppers would also increase. This increase might be more then some of the resort pools could handle. I was thinking of the Poly and WL when I said "some". I hope Disney finds a way to protect the resort guests ability to enjoy their pool. ....of course I think they should try to eliminate crashers first.

It's just my $0.01 - (not even worth $0.02)

 

[OneMoreTry]

If pool hopping is outlawed only outlaws will pool hop.