Anyone know of a list of Timeshares with salt water pools?

[JT]

My son is allergic to chlorine.

Thx

JT

 

[TheTimeTraveler]

You should double check this but I believe most of the MVCI Resorts switched over to saline about 10 years ago. Much better for your hair and skin.

I would call the individual Resort which you are thinking about to get an absolute confirmation.



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[jimf41]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news here but saline pools have just as much chlorine in them as do chlorine pools. They work on a device called a salt generator. Salt Na and Chlorine Cl are very close to each other on the periodic table. The salt generator takes salt and converts it into chlorine. When you are at a resort sometime get up early and go down and talk to the guys who maintain the pool. They will tell you they measure for the amount of chlorine in the pool every morning. Salt pools do feel better than straight chlorine pools, the water has a silkier feel but thats the salt doing that.

If your son is allergic to chlorine then the only safe pool for him would be a pool cleaned by ionization.

 

[VacationForever]

We stayed at Westin Hotel (Verasa) at Napa Valley and it had a salt water pool which smelled like a regular swimming pool and I would not have guessed that it was a salt water pool. That explains.

 

[controller1]

We stayed at Westin Hotel (Verasa) at Napa Valley and it had a salt water pool which smelled like a regular swimming pool and I would not have guessed that it was a salt water pool. That explains.

Then it was improperly maintained. A salt water pool should not have the chlorine smell even though the salt has been converted to chlorine. A great advantage to a salt water pool for a homeowner is being able to leave for a couple of weeks and not have to have someone add chlorine to the pool.

I love our salt chlorine generator. No chlorine smell from the pool or in your hair or on your skin.

For a homeowner the cost over a five-year period is about the same. The salt chlorine generator will need to have the blades replaced every five to six years and the cost of the replacement and five years of salt is roughly equal to what one would spend on chlorine. But the convenience and lack of smell gives the salt water pool an advantage in my opinion.

Just left Westin Nanea and the plunge pools are salt. Not sure about the main pool.

 

[mjkkb2]

IF the salt water pool (water) smells like chlorine then the chlorine generation is set too high. At an optimal level, the salt water pool (water) shouldn't smell like chlorine.

 

[AJCts411]

This might help....The chlorine level in a saltwater pool should be between 1 and 3 parts per million (ppm). SO yes salt water pools have chlorine.

 

[davidvel]

The "chlorine" smell in pools is not the free chlorine, but the byproduct of sanitation called chloramines. This is what irritates the skin and burns your eyes. It can often be due to not enough free chlorine, as opposed to too much. It occurs most in high demand public pool where there is a lot of stuff coming out, and off, of lots of people.

 

[Fasttr]

The "chlorine" smell in pools is not the free chlorine, but the byproduct of sanitation called chloramines. This is what irritates the skin and burns your eyes. It can often be due to not enough free chlorine, as opposed to too much. It occurs most in high demand public pool where there is a lot of stuff coming out, and off, of lots of people.

You make pool swimming sound delightful. ;-)

 

[controller1]

This might help....The chlorine level in a saltwater pool should be between 1 and 3 parts per million (ppm). SO yes salt water pools have chlorine.

I don't believe that's the debate. Of course salt water pools have chlorine. Salt water pools use a chlorine generator to make the chlorine from the salt dissolved in the water.

 

[BJRSanDiego]

Interestingly, most municipal tap water contains chlorine too. In the area I live in, they typically keep the chlorine level low but occasionally it is very high. I had a new swimming pool built and I filled it with municipal water. The color of the water was slightly yellow. I checked the chlorine level and it was off the charts. I used one of those kits where you put in 5 drops of something. It should have shown a slight yellow color but it came out orange. Like I said: "off the charts". After about a week it dropped to the point where the chlorine level was more normal.

The EPA requires the PPM for drinking water to be less than 4 ppm. According to a google search 3- 5 ppm is normal for a commercial pool. So, they actually overlap to some extent.

 

[jimf41]

I don't believe that's the debate. Of course salt water pools have chlorine. Salt water pools use a chlorine generator to make the chlorine from the salt dissolved in the water.

You make it sound like everyone knows salt pools have chlorine. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most people believe that pools with salt generators have no chlorine, just salt. Just ask any owner at Ocean Pointe. You and I know different because we have swimming pools.

As a further note two well maintained pools one with a salt generator and one with chlorine have the exact amount of chlorine. The level of chlorine in a public pool is prescribed by municipal law just about everywhere in the US. That's why you don't see ionization systems that use no chlorine used in public pools. For those of you who don't know what an ionization system is it's the way drinking water was purified on the space shuttle's.

 

[buzglyd]

I rarely get in resort swimming pools, especially ones with swim up bars.

I have a salt pool also and yes it has chlorine in it of course.

 

[controller1]

You make it sound like everyone knows salt pools have chlorine. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most people believe that pools with salt generators have no chlorine, just salt. Just ask any owner at Ocean Pointe. You and I know different because we have swimming pools.

I apologize if that is how my statement was received as that was not the intent. I made the statement because it was placed after three previous statements (yours being the first and posted 36 hours prior) that positively stated salt water pools have chlorine. I was only trying to state that the thread had already established the fact. I should have used different words.

 

[bogey21]

Back in the late 40s when I was a kid there was a hotel right on the boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ with a salt water pool. I have no idea if it had chlorine in it or not. What I do know is that it smelled like and tasted like ocean water...

George

 

[ljmiii]

There is also a 'real' saltwater pool in Fundy National Park - they swap out the seawater every so often. But that doesn't help if your pool isn't by the sea. And probably illegal in the US anyway.

 

[AJCts411]

I don't believe that's the debate. Of course salt water pools have chlorine. Salt water pools use a chlorine generator to make the chlorine from the salt dissolved in the water.

Point was, that all salt water pools have chlorine.

 

[bogey21]

Point was, that all salt water pools have chlorine.

Does the ocean have chlorine and if the answer is yes, can those allergic to chlorine swim in the ocean?

George

 

[topdog]

Not relevant to your concerns, but I wish they all had salt chlorine systems. They just feel better to us.

 

[Mr. Vker]

I am really going to blow up the conversation about chlorine. If a pool has a "chlorine" smell, its because people are peeing in the pool and causing a chemical reaction. A chlorine pool-even over chlorinated-will not smell. Watch this video at the 4:00 mark... It was not good news for me.

 

[VacationForever]

I am really going to blow up the conversation about chlorine. If a pool has a "chlorine" smell, its because people are peeing in the pool and causing a chemical reaction. A chlorine pool-even over chlorinated-will not smell. Watch this video at the 4:00 mark... It was not good news for me.

Not true that if the pool water smells like chlorine it is because people are peeing into the pool. Our indoor pool, which we built, smelled like chlorine and no one else used it other than myself. The pool guy came in each week to check and treat the water.

 

[controller1]

I am really going to blow up the conversation about chlorine. If a pool has a "chlorine" smell, its because people are peeing in the pool and causing a chemical reaction. A chlorine pool-even over chlorinated-will not smell. Watch this video at the 4:00 mark... It was not good news for me.

That is not correct. Chloramines, which cause the "chlorine" smell in pools, will also develop from perspiration and body oils/sunscreen oils. Urine does not need to be present for the "chlorine" smell.

 

[JT]

Ok, then what would account for his rashes etc he gets in a chlorine pool, but does not in a salt water pool? I knew the salt water has some chlorine but I thought less.

 

[jimf41]

Ok, then what would account for his rashes etc he gets in a chlorine pool, but does not in a salt water pool? I knew the salt water has some chlorine but I thought less.

I would guess that it has to do more with maintenance than it does with the method used to sanitize the pool. Chlorine pools are the most labor intensive, Salt a little less so and Ionization the least. Properly maintained all three should not cause a rash.

 

[jont]

You make pool swimming sound delightful. ;-)

still better than the East river