I personally didn't like the soaker hose when my PB tried to do it because I was going on vacation. We have huge water bills in Austin and the soaker hose was getting as much water outside of the pool making mud as it was getting inside the pool. Plus inside the pool there were significant areas that weren't getting damp. I decided to manually mist it myself and realized it only took 5 minutes each time and my dad didn't mind doing it so I would do that if you could. If you don't have 5 minutes or can't do it in the afternoon then you could do a sprinkler in the middle of the day and only spray in the morning and at night.
Also my PB said to really soak it at night so it is really wet before bed and the water sits longer.