bethany102399
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,550
Oct 11, 2014 3:17:29 GMT
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Post by bethany102399 on Jun 5, 2023 21:09:30 GMT
I think it’s a whole different story if you’re actually sitting in the chairs periodically though. It’s when people take up a whole bank of chairs and then never get out of the pool to sit in them that people are taking issue with. So I must be the only lounge chair claimer on 2 peas and I will own it. I don't care if I am in the pool for 2 hours straight, lounge 15 mins, then get back in This, you're taking up one chair that you're using periodically. That's fine. When we go to the pool DS sits down to get suncreen and goggles on, then he's in the pool. He comes to check on me and maybe get a pool toy out of the bag but that's it. He doesn't need a chair. People who "claim" a chair for someone who spends 99.9 percent of their time IN the pool are who I'm aiming my vent at.
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Post by longtimenopea on Jun 5, 2023 23:39:04 GMT
We have a neighborhood pool and swim all the time in the summer. We take food and eat there, we take friends, it’s pretty much the hub of our summer activities.
I feel that one deck chair per person is entirely reasonable, during the time they’re at the pool. I might not use it that much (I like to be in the water) but my chair and umbrella are my home base. I don’t take up more space than that. I don’t move other people’s stuff and if my favorite spots aren’t open I’ll go sit at a table or on the deck. But I think the chairs are there for pool patrons, and I don’t think there are right or wrong uses of them in that context.
Just my take.
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Post by floridagirl on Jun 6, 2023 13:49:10 GMT
At one of the country club pools in the Villages, the people that check id's at the gate remind you that you can have one Chair and will come over and move a second chair from you if they see you violating this.
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Post by peasapie on Jun 6, 2023 14:14:41 GMT
Our HOA pool has a list of rules, and one of them is that you can't save chairs. Check and see if your pool has rules about saving chairs. If not, they should make some because it's annoying when people hog up chairs they aren't even sitting in. Country Ham I don't think this is about people like you who are using a chair for yourself. It's about people who come in and save a group of chairs for their pals who aren't there, and keep their belongings on them for hours while others don't have anywhere to sit.
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Post by peasapie on Jun 6, 2023 14:17:12 GMT
A resort we frequent in Hawaii has pool staff who keep track of those "claimed but not used" chairs. They come around a fold a towel in a certain way at the top of the chair. If they come by an hour later and the towel is still there, still folded, they gather up the belongings and take the to one of the pool huts, where they can be claimed by the owners, freeing up chairs for others. That's a great idea.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Jun 6, 2023 18:04:42 GMT
We have a neighborhood pool and swim all the time in the summer. We take food and eat there, we take friends, it’s pretty much the hub of our summer activities. I feel that one deck chair per person is entirely reasonable, during the time they’re at the pool. I might not use it that much (I like to be in the water) but my chair and umbrella are my home base. I don’t take up more space than that. I don’t move other people’s stuff and if my favorite spots aren’t open I’ll go sit at a table or on the deck. But I think the chairs are there for pool patrons, and I don’t think there are right or wrong uses of them in that context. Just my take. It's reasonable if there are plenty of chairs for all the users of the pool to keep them for the entire day. Most pools have vastly more people using the facility than chairs for each to keep one for the entirety of their stay. We will home base A chair - and would be happy to have another "home base" for my stuff if facilities made them available. But to have chairs for everyone in the group that are in use for a small fraction of the time that you're there is the entire reason chairs are at a premium. If it's just you and you're using is some - great! I think the big issue people see is a family of 4+ taking all of those chairs and then hardly ever using them. Again - it's the whole reason chairs are so hard to come by.
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