resort pools

[hrmom26]

hi all

so i have been to disney twice and stayed at pop and movies . i always plan at least one day in the middle of the week to kind of veg at the pool . both times the pools were clean and nice.

but a friend of mine stayed at pop a few months back and told me threw out her whole stay at least once a day they closed the pool because a child's diaper had exploded and they had to clean it. on her first day there she did swim and woke the next morning with a infection in her eye so ...um i am a little worried is this common? the diaper thing? eww

did i just get lucky when i went before?

i have bugged a few others as well about this and got similar stories .

so should i deepsix the day at the pool lol maybe do a water park instead? i will say i did make a point of going to the smaller out of the was pools on my last stays, less people you know? is that why i missed the problem?

thanks

heather

 

[Phonedave]

Hmmmm. It sounds like she was referring to "shocking" the pool -- adding a large amount of chemical all at once to quickly take care of an imbalance. This is what they probably would have done the evening before. But, since it was closed lickety-split the next morning....

I am wondering if your questions triggered her memory.... Once you "shock" a pool, you then have to go back and readjust all the chemicals to make sure everything's at the right pH, that sort of thing. All I can guess (and this is just a guess) is that maybe she realized she had forgotten to do the re-check and re-balancing of chemicals that morning (after the shock the night before), so she had to do her water testing and get everything in balance before she could open the pool???

Do the lifeguards even do this ?

In my local pools the lifeguards watch people. If there is an 'incident' they will close the pool.

However the clean up and any sort of chemical treatment or adjustment - be it pH adjustment, shocking, or anything else is taken care of by the pool staff, not your normal lifeguard.

-dave

 

[EPCOTPluto]

Hmmmm. It sounds like she was referring to "shocking" the pool -- adding a large amount of chemical all at once to quickly take care of an imbalance. This is what they probably would have done the evening before. But, since it was closed lickety-split the next morning....

I am wondering if your questions triggered her memory.... Once you "shock" a pool, you then have to go back and readjust all the chemicals to make sure everything's at the right pH, that sort of thing. All I can guess (and this is just a guess) is that maybe she realized she had forgotten to do the re-check and re-balancing of chemicals that morning (after the shock the night before), so she had to do her water testing and get everything in balance before she could open the pool???

That's the reasoning my parents and I came up with also. :lol:

However the clean up and any sort of chemical treatment or adjustment - be it pH adjustment, shocking, or anything else is taken care of by the pool staff, not your normal lifeguard.

Perhaps the person she radioed wasn't another lifeguard, but a technician. :shrug:

 

[wdwwdeagle]

Do the lifeguards even do this ?

In my local pools the lifeguards watch people. If there is an 'incident' they will close the pool.

However the clean up and any sort of chemical treatment or adjustment - be it pH adjustment, shocking, or anything else is taken care of by the pool staff, not your normal lifeguard.

-dave

I don't know about WDW; they may indeed have special employees whose job is just to maintain the pools.

Where I live, the lifeguards are the pool staff! hahaha. So they are the ones who do the regular water testing every morning and evening. If there's a problem where they've got to shut down and shock, they handle it and notify their supervisor whose office is not at the pool, but at the parks and rec main offices. But that's mainly just to keep him/her abreast of pool closings and chemical depletion and such. This is also the case at the "club" pool where I grew up swimming, as well as the club pool I take my kids to now. The guards are taught how to monitor/test and have a book that tells them what to add when things are off, and that's how it's handled.

I realize, however, that other pools may handle things differently.