[Surfrat2]

Can Villages residents use the country club pools if they arent members?

[dewilson58]

It's not like normal country clubs................no membership in TV.

The Villages Country Club Pools are for the exclusive use of Villages Country Club Priority Members and their guest(s). Priority Pool Membership Enhancements are available to all Villages residents.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

It's not like normal country clubs................no membership in TV.

The Villages Country Club Pools are for the exclusive use of Villages Country Club Priority Members and their guest(s). Priority Pool Membership Enhancements are available to all Villages residents.

...for an extra fee. Country Club pools are not amenities, not included with your amenity fee.

Any villager resident can buy membership.

[Papa_lecki]

Originally Posted by Surfrat2

Can Villages residents use the country club pools if they arent members?

No, the country clubs are owned by the developer, who owns the championship golf courses.
You can buy and enhancement to use them.

[Surfrat2]

Thank you all! I will inquire at the Country Club about the membership for the pool

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

...for an extra fee. Country Club pools are not amenities, not included with your amenity fee.

Any villager resident can buy membership.

True. I consulted with my wife (who knows about such things) and learned the following.

As far as the country clubs go, you can buy a "priority" membership for either golf, tennis, pool, or all three. We have a priority membership for tennis which gives us access to the tennis courts (Lopez or Glenview, which have the only Har-Tru courts in TV) for $400 a year. Members get first access AND pay a reduced rate for court time. The tennis membership used to include pool access but that stopped about a year ago now: you can still buy monthly pool access that gets added to your tennis membership at $52, or I assume a yearly rate for somewhat less.

Don't know about golf membership.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

True. I consulted with my wife (who knows about such things) and learned the following.

As far as the country clubs go, you can buy a "priority" membership for either golf, tennis, pool, or all three. We have a priority membership for tennis which gives us access to the tennis courts (Lopez or Glenview, which have the only Har-Tru courts in TV) for $400 a year. Members get first access AND pay a reduced rate for court time. The tennis membership used to include pool access but that stopped about a year ago now: you can still buy monthly pool access that gets added to your tennis membership at $52, or I assume a yearly rate for somewhat less.

Don't know about golf membership.

Go to golfthevillages.com, all the "enhancement" rates and application forms are there. A 12 month couples' country club pool membership is $273/ year. When the "free" trail fee for exec courses was split off from priority golf membership, they made everything "a la carte". I understand the exec trail fee since it wasn't country club administrations fee to give away, but the CC pools are owned by the developer and they could have continued to include it with priority golf membership.

[Stu from NYC]

Other than a few extra pools to go into, what do you actually get by becoming a member of the cc pool?

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Other than a few extra pools to go into, what do you actually get by becoming a member of the cc pool?

Food & Beverages

[bowlingal]

NO they cannot

[Villages Kahuna]

Of course they can, and they have for as long as I can remember. The only difference is the “priority” fee used to be one fee for golf and pool; now everything is ala carte.

The Developer owns the country clubs and has every right to charge for the use of their facilities, including leasing the restaurant space to independent operators.

Other than being somewhat less convenient than the neighborhood or sports pools, the country club pools are always very lightly used. If you don’t like crowds and noise, the country club priority pool membership is a bargain.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Surfrat2

Can Villages residents use the country club pools if they arent members?

Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

Of course they can, and they have for as long as I can remember.......

Perhaps the original question was misread. The answer is no, they can't.

[Nucky]

Not worth it. We did it for one year and Orange Blossom was our spot. Don’t get me wrong but I preferred Hilltop by far and the family pool was just fine too. After the thrill of being in the grotto at OB wore off then the only other attraction is food and drinks and the long trek from the parking lot to the pool which is considerable when you are a hurting potato.

Other C.C. Pool may be much better, I really don’t know about that. Good luck.

[collie1228]

For those of you who believe priority pools are less crowded, take a look at Orange Blossom pool any day during snowbird season, and you'll see it is filled to capacity (or near capacity) by noon every day.

[justjim]

It should be noted - Not every CC has a pool. Not interested so haven’t noticed for sure which do and don’t have a pool. Just saying.