Just back from a points stay here. Lovely hotel. Agree the pool area is small, but they have not got much to work with in the hotel footprint. That said, we were always able to find seats at the pool even though the hotel appeared pretty full to me. Good value at 15k, but not at 30k which I expect it to go to with the devaluation. No recognition as a diamond, though I was not expecting anything (I only recently matched and had low expectations anyway. What I will say is that there were no shenanigans with trying to charge a resort fee. I had read some posts recently about Wyndham properties trying to (incorrectly) apply resort fees to GoFree stays. In fact one of the emails I got after making the booking mentioned the resort fee so I was prepared to argue......but in the end was a false alarm.
Hopefully you used your 15K for a 1000 SF one BR condo (and not a hotel room) as resort fees and parking are always free on the condos
That place is huge, a condo side and a hotel side. It could be half empty and still appear crowded.
Starting next week until Mid April is when it will be near sold out ( and it should be warmer) so the pool will be packed.
We walked around the property in early April last year and there were no pool chairs at 10am one day ( we came back later, 2pm or so and it was a zoo and 3/4 of the pool was in the shade) so we passed on staying this year.