Just got back from a long weekend. Everything was great. Saturday was a little chilly, but sunday was sunny and warm.
We asked for a room close to the pool, and got a room about 10 steps away. As a result, my kids hardly ever left the villas pool.
Oddly, my kids (6 kids) did not love stormalong bay. It was a fun novelty, but they complained that:
The slide exit is far from the entrance, taking you outside of the pool area, crossing the main walkway, then back to another pool area. And the slide was not all that fast.
The sand pool was ankle deep. The lazy river was deep, but not sutable for jumping in.
All the pools were so small, you are constantly going in and out and in and out. and if its not really hot outside, you go from warm to freezing to warm to freezing.
As a parent with 6 kids, there is nowhere to sit where you can see even a small section of stormalong bay all at once. Sure, lots of life guards, and I feel safe enough, but the layout, especially with all those darn bridges, makes any parent nervous.
So yes, they just stayed in the villa pool. It was almost always empty anyway, so nobody to complain about cannonballs!