Swimming pools
 

:shocked:Can anyone tell me if the pools and bathrooms at the pools are open to the public or just for use by card carrying (id cards) villagers?

Open to the public

The pools are suppose to be for residents and their guests. The bathrooms are public. When i moved here 8 years ago ids were checked. I put in a pool 2 years ago.. I do not know if they currently check ids,.

We have lived here now for just under a year and nobody has ever checked our ID.

Typically we walk to a neighborhood pool and do not even carry it.

From the Community Development District website. There are 100 pools in TV.

11 Sports Pools Villages residents only, located at Regional Rec Centers

Colony Cottage
Eisenhower
Everglades
La Hacienda
Lake Miona
Laurel Manor
Mulberry Grove
Rohan
Savannah
SeaBreeze
Spanish Moss

58 Neighborhood Pools Pools for residents and their guests who are 30 years of age and over. Located at each Village Mail Station.

31 Family Pools Pools for residents and guests younger than age 30. Located at Neighborhood Rec Centers

Village Community Development Districts

Country Club Pools Country Club Pools are for the exclusive use of Villages Country Club Priority Members and their guests. Priority Pool Membership are available to all Villages residents. Located at Golf Country Clubs

Golf The Villages


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I believe they still check, maybe not as often this past year. The bathrooms are used by many contractors.

I live across the street from a neighborhood pool. You would be soo surprised at who uses those bathrooms! I will never use one again!

Contractors use the Palmer golf course bathroom on Weston Manor Drive on a regular basis

Today's (Wednesday) paper says 100 pools.
58 neighborhood pools
31 family pools
11 sports pools

I would have to assume, that because homeowners pay a amenity fee which includes the local pools that the pools are only for The Villages Residents!!!! The public should not be coming into The Villages and using our pools!! If the public drove into The Villages and used our pool facilities that would be TRESPASSING ????

all the pools are for residents/guests only. ID's are checked periodically. bathrooms are open to the public and that includes the bathrooms in the rec centers. The lobby of the rec centers are considered public.

No one is talking about pools. Its about bathrooms at the pools and theyre open to the public. Thats not tresspassing

2 posts since 2016?? hmmm,...

Is it fair to assume that you have seen people using the bathroom that don't measure up to whatever socioeconomic status you have set as acceptable to use your bathroom?

Reread the original question please the person is asking about pools and restrooms. The checking of ID’s does go on. If you are in the pool they don’t make you get out and get your ID, however is you are in the pool area they will check and scan your ID. They come around and check about every hour or so, at least that’s what they do at Santiago where I go

Pools and their bathrooms, showers and locker rooms are for residents and their registered guests, except sports pools which are for residents only. You are supposed to show an ID but the Villages is very lax about checking. I swim laps seven days a week as long as weather permits. In five years I have encountered young gals jumping in the pool in cut offs, guys drinking bottled beer and smoking, children in the sports pools, a young woman showering while her boyfriend watched as lookout, and various others who are obviously not residents. My 75 year old husband was denied access to a pool bathroom while out for a walk near Everglades because he did not have his ID.

Read post #5.

I agree. That's why I just pee in the pool!

Pools
 

Maybe it's all about timing but I have never been asked for my ID at Riverbend pool. I was asked twice at the shuffleboard court and when I said it was in the golf cart was told no need to get it. If indeed nonresidents are using the pools and facilities that residents pay for then security needs to be stepped up. I understand that a certain number will take offense at being asked to prove residency just like they do when asked for ID when using a credit card or making a bank transaction but that's no reason for TV to ignore everyone elses security.

My ID was checked multiple times last year.

That is not true, You have to have either a Resident Card, Rtemp Resident card or a Guest Pass that only a Resident can get for you. Also no one in the 3 Counties, Marion Lake or Sumter can get a Guest Pass.

Bad form - what happened to yo this morning?

Bathrooms at Pools
 

I have no problem with contractors, landscapers, those working in the Villages to keep it beautiful for our enjoyment, using the bathrooms at the pools. What’s the problem with that? Where would you want them to relieve themselves? OP stated “you wouldn’t believe who uses....” Who, pray tell, would we be shocked to see using “our” bathrooms.

I go to the pool on a regular basis and get carded all the time

I got all the kids & grandkids a Village ID in order to swim in the pool. We only went 1X and played Bocce 1X with them all. The ID's were not checked which is good because no one brought their wallets to swim.

In 20 years in 5 different neighbors
 

I have never seen any of these things happen except maybe an occasional discrete beer I find it really hard to believe that a neighborhood watch guy would deny you access to a bathroom and if so you should have complained to the neighborhood watch

What were the contractors doing before they came to the bathroom.
 

We are in the pool walking around with bare feet and the contractors come in with dirty boots after doing God knows what to use the bathroom.
What is needed are new ID cards like motel room keys to use the bathrooms at the neighborhood pools.

Where else do you want the contractors to go to the bathroom? I have no problem with that. They are people too.

Yes let’s stop the workers from using the bathrooms instead we can line the streets with portable toilets instead. I wouldn’t just worry about workers though, going into men’s rooms anywhere in villages restaurants and watching so many guys skip washing there hands and going back out makes me wonder what there bathrooms look like

You live across the street.

Wow. You must have awesome bladder control on long trips. (Are you the lady that pees on the toilet seat instead of lifting it?) 🤣

Are we now saying we can not share a pool bathroom with the underlinings that keep our neighborhood what it is? Elitists much! WOW.

Pools are only for the use of residents and guests who have guest passes. I have seen neighborhood rec center attendants check IDs and ask people to leave who did not have an ID or guest pass with them, but I believe that's just random and not done very often.

True, I agree!

Card carrying members and guest only

They are not open to the public. Residents and guest only

Pools are only open to Village residents. This is in part of our monthly fees.

I've lived here almost 8 years and was using the pools on a regular basis. Occasionally, someone would come in to check ID's. However, there were people who, knowing ID's were being checked, quickly jumped into the pools. You were not required to leave the pool so your ID could be checked. Were they non-residents or merely someone who forgot their ID? Your guess is as good as mine.
I think ID's should be checked by staff for ANYONE entering the pool area.

For those who skip the first two pages, I'll post #5 again. This answers everything about the pools.

From the Community Development District website. There are 100 pools in TV.

11 Sports Pools Villages residents only, located at Regional Rec Centers

Colony Cottage
Eisenhower
Everglades
La Hacienda
Lake Miona
Laurel Manor
Mulberry Grove
Rohan
Savannah
SeaBreeze
Spanish Moss

58 Neighborhood Pools Pools for residents and their guests who are 30 years of age and over. Located at each Village Mail Station.

31 Family Pools Pools for residents and guests younger than age 30. Located at Neighborhood Rec Centers

Village Community Development Districts

Country Club Pools Country Club Pools are for the exclusive use of Villages Country Club Priority Members and their guests. Priority Pool Membership are available to all Villages residents. Located at Golf Country Clubs

Golf The Villages


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Not enough staff.