WILLING TO PAY MORE DUES....

[PamOKW]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>If anything I think lifeguards prevent kids from getting a little over-rambuctious [/quote]

That's kind of what I had in mind. Not just kids but any large group that tries to monopolize the pool. If a slide is really important to a majority I don't have a problem with one. I just don't "need" one for my purposes. Just like all the planned activities. I've got plenty to do at WDW without activities at the resort.

 

[KNWVIKING]

Another common thread on this board is what do people do after they have done the parks for several years. A common response is to not do the parks-not even buy passes, but kick back and just enjoy the resort.I feel a slide would enhance this type of vacation.Some have commented they enjoy the quite at the pools.Even without a slide the main pool is the noisest place in all of OKW. There are 3 other much quiter pools within easy access to nearly all units.

 

[baileybrad]

I dislike that game (marco, polo) but you know the real gut of the matter is if you have 4 pools in a resort...what would be wrong with having one that has a slide. When you think about it, kids and pools do not and should not equal quiet. Yes, there is a difference between rowdy/obnoxious and just plain laughter/fun behavior. And since everybody has those cars parked outside their doors close by @ OKW it would be real easy for folks to drive over to one of the nearby quiet pools if one were not within walking distance. But I guess it won't happen because the slide wasn't there to begin with. I wonder if there would have ever been a DVC if Disney had stopped with 1 or 2 parks. And, yes I know the answer that has nothing to do with anything, there was no slide at OKW when "we" bought so things shouldn't change. Frankly, I am glad that things do change in the world.

 

[KNWVIKING]

Yes'es are slowly catching up.

 

[nickglover]

here is the answer (but don't ask me, my home is VB) - how about a bus with a pool slide built onto it - that way it could sit by the main pool and then when Richyams drove up, the bus would have to leave (just kidding Richyams)

 

[KNWVIKING]

Could drive thru the resort,ringing a bell like an ice cream vender,and pick up all the kids that want to play on the slide.This could work !

 

[Chuck S]

I just have no need for a pool slide. If you're buying today, you can choose a resort with a slide if you want one, or buy OKW through resale.

When I bought in 1992, OKW was the only choice available.Even when I've guests with kids along, we didn't spend a lot of time at the pools...and someone asked of I spend as much time at the parks as when I first bought...well, yes & no, I spend MOST of my time at Disney parks, my guests this year also want to go to NASA and Cypress Gardens. I often 'pop into' EPCOT just for dinner, after spending part of the day at another park. I relax and read by the pool if I happen to be staying in a studio, and I have to do laundry.

PS Richyams, I usually don't use busses either, Mom's in a W/C and our car has a special lift...but I'm sure glad they're there when I need them.

Chuck
DVC '92 (OKW)

 

[SueOKW]

LOL! sqeeeeeeeeck...... or Marco
Polo..............

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[spruce]

We do pool hop and have been to almost every pool onsite. At OKW, I've done a quiet pool but have never been in the main pool. (Although my son,13, loves it. I'm not cheap, I own DVC (OKW & BWV, 228 total points) and 2 other timeshares neither of which has a slide but my dues in DVC is $267 and $354 more costly per year. One is even an RCI Gold Crown summer oceanfront.
DVC is my best timeshare except it's a leasehold (RTU) and not deeded forever. I don't want or need a slide at OKW and never will...spruce

Offsite 87,92,97,00
CBR 95
DI 98
Vero 98
BWV 98,99,00
OKW 99x2,00,01
DCL 98,01

 

[Dean]

If I recall, the 66% range against was about the same as the survey vote. Doubt it will get much closer than this. There's a lot more than just adding a slide. There's also the lifeguard requirements and I'm sure a lot of other issues. For liability reasons as well as initial construciton and upkeep, this would be a nightmare.

Dean

 

[nydizfan]

hey viking are u a MEMBER..... sorry for the caps but you use them liberly(sp)...thanks DAVE

offsite '71 contemporary '72 golf resort '76 village resorts '93 okw '94 okw '95 contemporary '96 okw '97(got married) okw '97 okw '99 okw '00

 

[KNWVIKING]

Yes I'm a member- OKW,1998. Pardon my use of CAPS but I'm on-line while at work. My work application only accepts caps so that's what I'm accostume to use and don't really pay attention when I bounce over here. When I bought at OKW, BWV was an option. I know what the DVC program was and virtually signed site-unseen, even though I was staying at Port Orleans. Honestly, I just assumed they had a slide,never even thought to ask about one. First time we stayed I actually went to the front desk wanting to know where the slide was because I didn't see one. Talk about looking stupid. 20-20 hindsite is usually perfect. To do it over today after knowing everything thing I now know about both resorts- I'd pick BWV, (but not just because of the slide).

 

[normr]

Actually us OKW owners aren't cheapskates, it's the owners at the other DVC resorts that are, they're the ones that won't pay to go to the waterparks, they prefer to "think" of their pools as miniwaterparks and probably tell their kids who want to go to Blizzard Beach that their slide is just like going to the waterpark so it's not necessary.



I like OKWe just like it is, we don't need no stinken slides, the one and only time we stayed @ BW, the slide was closed for repair, it looked in such terrible shape, discolored fiberglass, and wood.

 

[Pa@okw95]

I am one that voted against a slide or for paying for life guards. I just wish that parents would stop their kids from jumping into the pools. As for the buses, they have always been horrible. I don't use the bus system at all. Who needs to pay more dues for that??

 

[Joeblack]

Sorry normr. I don't agree with your conclusion. A slide is a nice perk to have for children, and not a replacement for a water park as much as renting a surrey ar OKW is not a replacement for riding Rock n' Roller Coaster.

This was supposed to be a poll. Let's not make this another childish battle between different Home Resort's owners. We are all DVC owners. I find calling owners of a resort cheapskates based on whether they have or not a slide is one of the most ridiculous things I have read in this site.

 

[KNWVIKING]

The count has stayed pretty much 2-1 against a water slide but after reading all the post I truely believe OKW would be a better,more valueable resort if it had a slide.
On several threads people justify purchase into DVC as an investment in their family & children, but don't want to disturb the piece & quite at any of the pools a slide would cause. I've never seen a quite pool when kids are there-slide or no slide and I know kids would vote YES to a slide.
2: Read the "pool hopping mad" post. Ever hear of any one staying at BWV pool hopping to OKW because they hate the slide at BWV. Why is SAB so popular. What happens if & when DVC ends pool hopping priveledges.
3: When the idea of at least one of our 4 pools couldn't have a slide,a post stated that someone staying near the slide pool might want a quite pool and that's not fair to them. My experience when requesting a general location for a ressie has ben very good. If 2/3 of OKW don't want to be near a slide pool,MS would have 3/4 of the resort to accomodate there request, so this isn't even a valid issue.
4: Sorry,but I just don't believe a parent with children wouldn't feel safer with a lifeguard on duty,regardless of what the stand looks like.

Well,on to the next subject.This was fun.

 

[HorizonsFan]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I just wish that parents would stop their kids from jumping into the pools. [/quote]

Isn't that what pools are for?

Dave

 

[baileybrad]

sorry to generalize, but no wonder some don't want a slide at OKW...when someone posts that parents should keep their kids from jumping into the pool, I give up. Thanks for the effort, KNWVIKING>

 

[Richyams]

I am just happy that it seems to be running 2 to 1 against the slide.

I am also happy that it was a pretty respectable margin against the slide when DVC asked the question on the survey.

That is because I believe, a slide would detract from the value at OKW.

I don't believe pool hopping is going away.

If a slide is all that important, there are two and soon to be three other DVC properties on site.

Wether you believe it or not, I wouldn't feel any safer with a lifeguard at the pool. When my daughter was small, I was in with her. Now that she is bigger, she can swim well and I don't have to worry about her. A lifeguard would not make me feel better, his whole area would only detract from the pool.

Nah, no slide, no lifeguard and I am happy the large majority agrees.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", Karl Marx,This has failed every time it has been tried, why do we still have liberals?

 

[Peterd]

We own at the BW and the OKW. We never received the famous survey about the slide. I guess we were not among the chosen older members.
We used to feel very strongly towards getting a slide at the OKW. We have a quiet pool at home with a slide, so another quiet pool was nothing special.
We felt that every resort in Disney except the All-stars had a slide (GF getting one soon), why not OKW? As for Disney putting in a slide for the OKW for free, Not happening!
As for slides at a pool leading to rowdiness, being a liberal, etc... GET REAL!
We always felt there are already quiet pools at the resort, why should the main pool be a quiet one too? As time has gone by, our attitude has changed. We used to really try to change people's attitudes about how nice a slide would be. Didn't work! New attitude, if the slide isn't that important to you and you don't want to pay the dues for it, stay where you pay!
I understand why some like the okw for not having a slide. When we first bought into DVC, we were all for the pool hopping too. We could care less now. We just stay where we own, and change the Okw points over to the BW at the 7 month window. I know it used to be one of the perks for all DVC owners, but who does it really benefit? (Now this is from an OKW/BW owner), who pool hops to the OKW? No one! Occasionally a BW owner will walk over to the Y and B, but after awhile it gets old. Who hops? people not paying the dues, that's who. It would be a shame for them to take away the Pool hopping, but with the BCV coming soon, and now with the WLV, the pools with the slides are getting overcrowded by the cash paying and dues paying members who are staying at THEIR resorts.
You can't change the Old timers who are the majority owners at the OKW who are against getting a slide. More power to them, their resort, their opinion. So, these same people can't complain when pool-hopping is taken away, and don't fool yourself, it WILL be the next perk to leave.
Pretty soon the "own where you want to stay" will really be put to a test.