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We are planning our first trip to Desire Pearl and are thinking about getting a room with a plunge pool. Anyone out there who has stayed in one of these rooms have thoughts/opinions? Please and thank you...

We had the one behind the hot tub. Great location, hardly used the plunge pool. It had 2 beds and a handicapped shower. I prefer plain master suite. The plunge pool is a good transition from hot tub with another couple. Other than that, we won't get again.

Thank you for the insight...means a lot...

If I might add another opinion...

We've always stayed in Penthouses, but on our last trip we decided to save a few bucks and split our stay between a penthouse and then try a plunge pool room. We were there last May right when a tropical storm hit the resort. It kept us from using our Penthouse deck and pool even one single time.

Then we moved to the plunge pool room. The room itself was fantastic... The two full bathrooms was a huge deal. And here's one that most people don't think about... The penthouses have vaulted ceilings, so you can't "rent" a sex swing (because there's no hooks). So we were excited to be able to rent one in the plunge pool room for a couple days as we'd always wanted to give that a try.

In the 4 days we were in the plunge pool room, we got in the pool on our own only one time, for like 10 minutes.

But the last full night there, there were TORRENTIAL downpours, and those plunge pool rooms are COVERED (where the pent pools aren't, obv). So we got a hold of all of our friends and told them all to come over, ordered a ton of food and bottles of alcohol, and basically had a HUGE party (where otherwise the resort was basically shut down from the storm).

So... In that case, that night of the party made the money for the plunge pool room well spent.

But outside of that sort of circumstance, we've decided it's tough to justify, and this next trip will be our first in a master suite only. I'll be very interested to see if we miss our rooftop deck or plunge pool... But I'm guessing we won't. If anything it will force us to be out in the public areas a bit more, making more friends and hanging with old ones.

For us, it's not worth the extra money. It's small, you really never use it and upgrade is usually expensive.

ksr wrote:For us, it's not worth the extra money. It's small, you really never use it and upgrade is usually expensive.

Thx for the reply!!!

We ended up getting a membership with the plunge pool room.. There are only 5, 2 in the back of the resort close to Pearl which they have added shrubs so you no longer can watch people eat from the plunge pool.. 1 that over looks the Jacuzzi and the 2 others overlook the ocean. We love the 2 rooms overlooking the ocean.. So now we have the excitement of looking forward to the trip, but the fear of having the second most expensive room category but the equivalent of a garden view room at RM.. worth the money?? for the 2 ocean rooms yes but not for the 2 garden view unless you need a room with few steps.. Believe most of the plain master have a view of the ocean and same room amenities

To be honest - we have been 4 times (5th coming up!!) and after we spent almost no time in our room the first two trips, we ended up just going for the ocean view suite to save money. It has not impacted our stay in any way at all. Kind of regret doing the more expensive rooms the first couple of trips as rarely as we were in them.