I hope you didn't misinterpret my post. (I'm sorry if I confused you!) You ARE allowed to use both pools as long as you are a registered WL guest!
It's the same at AKL: regular resort guests and DVC guests are allowed to use all the facilities on-property!It's all good!
Your MagicBand will open that quiet pool gate!
Thanks. That’s the way it was before, but with new pool gated with MB access I wondered if something changed. I was surprised to see the quiet pool locked, as they didn’t do this to main pool when they gated it. They should have especially since it’s a small pool, doesn’t need pool hoppers.If a guest on WL property, DVC or not, your MB should enable entrance to the quiet pool. It did for us in August (we were staying in the resort rooms) and I haven’t heard that that has changed. My DD works at WL so I will double-check with her and post again if I get any new information!
There are standard view rooms that have bunk beds but they are by request only. They made all the woods view rooms into standard view and when they did that they eliminated the bunk bed category from the former woods view rooms but didn’t remove the bunk beds. So there are still as many bunk beds in the north wing of the WL but the only ones you can book are the courtyard bunk bed rooms.
I agree that is great news! The new DVC pools looks nice and we're looking forward to trying it out in August
Doug
According to DD, "technically" the quiet pool is the DVC pool, however, any registered WL guest is welcome to use it!
Personally, I think that's exactly why they have that one gated. They want to make sure anyone using it is staying at WL! The main pool is easier to "police" for those who don't belong!
You are asking people who love the WL and find it amazing.
We really love the WL. We haven't stayed there since they opened the new villas pool, but it looks great. We absolutely love Geyser Point. It is on the shore of Bay Lake with a wonderful view of the lake. You don't feel like you are in Disney with a view like that. The boat to MK is a huge plus to this resort, too. As far as I know, both WL and AKL turned regular resort rooms into DVC villas and studios. And I think resort rooms at WL and AKL were about the same size. Therefore, I would think that the WL studios are about the same size as the studios at Jambo House.
The bus to Epcot takes about 20 minutes. We prefer it to the monorail to Epcot that you have to take when staying at the Poly. It isn't the monorail ride to Epcot that we dislike as much as the monorail back to the Poly at the end of the day. That line gets huge. We go to Epcot frequently when staying at the WL and the buses have never been a problem for us.
Make sure you spend some time at the geyser point bar
We definitely found our WDW home to such an extent that we became new DVC owners at Copper Creek (the only thing that stopped serious sobbing upon leaving was knowing we are going back!). We still have a serious case of withdrawal symptoms which is why I can't stop reading this thread. We've already booked to go back the same week next year and until then I'm buying red-and-black-buffalo-check-everything in the after-Christmas sales so we can try and decorate like WL next year (Mr Fett's patience is wearing a little thin on this one), plus drinking coffee from my WL mug helps too ... 
