nodge
TUG Member
Hi Gang,
We just returned from another great spring break week at the Westin Kierland Villas in Scottsdale. It’s hard to have a bad time when the view outside your villa is this:
One annoying thing we did notice this time over our visit there last year was the absolute abuse of all discretion by pool chair turf claimers. I asked two separate pool area employees wassup with that, and as expected I got two different answers. One employee said that the policy is that people can claim as many chairs as they want for as long as they want. Another pool area employee told me that items left unattended for more than an hour are removed so the chairs can be used by other guests. I tend to believe the first employee, because most the following prime, pool-front turf claimed chairs in the following pictures remained unused and untouched during our 4 hour stay in the WKV pool area last week. (These photos were all taken on the same day during my quick walk-around the pool area, and I’ve limited the photos to just the nine limit imposed by TUG. I cropped out people since I know I wouldn’t like it if someone took a picture of me in a bathing suit and posted it on the web. The pool area was really much more crowded than how things appear in these pix).
Since pool chair turf claiming is apparently A-OK with the WKV management, I guess we should make lemonade out of this lemon and have a little fun with it. How about we rate these turf claimers’ “works” in the following categories: 1) creativity, 2) use of materials that look valuable but are really cheap enough that the “artist” doesn’t really care if they are removed; and, 2) genuine attempt to appear occupied.
Artist No. 1:
Artist No. 2:
Artist No. 3:
Artist No. 4:
Artist No. 5:
Artist No. 6:
Artist No. 7:
Artist No. 8:
Artist No. 9: (My personal favorite . . an old tennis ball!)
Oh Yeah, most of the pool front chairs are claimed by 8:15 AM, when the staff puts the white towels down, so remember to pack an old flip-flop or tennis ball on your next trip to WKV and be there by 8:15 AM, for the best turf claiming selection. (PS. I have pictures of the lady that put down the tennis ball and then returned 3 hours later if anyone wants to see a real live turf claim artist in action. Of all the turf claimers, she almost deserves to have her picture posted here . . . ..).
Sheesh
-nodge
We just returned from another great spring break week at the Westin Kierland Villas in Scottsdale. It’s hard to have a bad time when the view outside your villa is this:
One annoying thing we did notice this time over our visit there last year was the absolute abuse of all discretion by pool chair turf claimers. I asked two separate pool area employees wassup with that, and as expected I got two different answers. One employee said that the policy is that people can claim as many chairs as they want for as long as they want. Another pool area employee told me that items left unattended for more than an hour are removed so the chairs can be used by other guests. I tend to believe the first employee, because most the following prime, pool-front turf claimed chairs in the following pictures remained unused and untouched during our 4 hour stay in the WKV pool area last week. (These photos were all taken on the same day during my quick walk-around the pool area, and I’ve limited the photos to just the nine limit imposed by TUG. I cropped out people since I know I wouldn’t like it if someone took a picture of me in a bathing suit and posted it on the web. The pool area was really much more crowded than how things appear in these pix).
Since pool chair turf claiming is apparently A-OK with the WKV management, I guess we should make lemonade out of this lemon and have a little fun with it. How about we rate these turf claimers’ “works” in the following categories: 1) creativity, 2) use of materials that look valuable but are really cheap enough that the “artist” doesn’t really care if they are removed; and, 2) genuine attempt to appear occupied.
Artist No. 1:
Artist No. 2:
Artist No. 3:
Artist No. 4:
Artist No. 5:
Artist No. 6:
Artist No. 7:
Artist No. 8:
Artist No. 9: (My personal favorite . . an old tennis ball!)
Oh Yeah, most of the pool front chairs are claimed by 8:15 AM, when the staff puts the white towels down, so remember to pack an old flip-flop or tennis ball on your next trip to WKV and be there by 8:15 AM, for the best turf claiming selection. (PS. I have pictures of the lady that put down the tennis ball and then returned 3 hours later if anyone wants to see a real live turf claim artist in action. Of all the turf claimers, she almost deserves to have her picture posted here . . . ..).
Sheesh
-nodge
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Did you send any of that stuff adrift ?
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