All the swimming pools are cold!
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All the swimming pools around us have turned their temperature down to the absolute minimum, making them an ok temperature for a fairly athletic adult swim session, but blooming miserable for both small children and the supervising adults. This includes the local 'fun pool' with slides/obstacles etc, even the little baby paddling crèche area they have which I remember being really warm as a kid, is proper cold.
Lots of the more conventional pool around us also now only use the smaller and warming 'training pool' for kids swimming lessons, leaving it heated but empty during public/leisure sessions due to 'staff shortages' . As well as retaining the fixed '50mins on, 10mins off' scheduled sessions they introduced for covid, rather than rolling 1hour slots with coloured lights/bands whatever.
I get the whole cost of living crisis, but the pool being cold has really put me off going and reduced the amount we would go from probably every other week as nice thing to do, to about once every 2-3months when we feel guilt our 2yo was 18months old last time we went! Putting 90% of the running costs in and having the pools empty half the time is surely madness.
We did do baby swimming lessons once a week, which were held at the local additional needs school in a lovely warm pool, but when my wife went back to work at 1yo it was too much on top of 3-4days a week and nursery and they where just tired and not enjoying it which was defeating the point.
Lots of the more conventional pool around us also now only use the smaller and warming 'training pool' for kids swimming lessons, leaving it heated but empty during public/leisure sessions due to 'staff shortages' . As well as retaining the fixed '50mins on, 10mins off' scheduled sessions they introduced for covid, rather than rolling 1hour slots with coloured lights/bands whatever.
I get the whole cost of living crisis, but the pool being cold has really put me off going and reduced the amount we would go from probably every other week as nice thing to do, to about once every 2-3months when we feel guilt our 2yo was 18months old last time we went! Putting 90% of the running costs in and having the pools empty half the time is surely madness.
We did do baby swimming lessons once a week, which were held at the local additional needs school in a lovely warm pool, but when my wife went back to work at 1yo it was too much on top of 3-4days a week and nursery and they where just tired and not enjoying it which was defeating the point.
IJWS15 said:
Tell them you will meet the additional heating cost if they turn it up.
I have made it as clear as I can to anyone that will listen, that if they turn it up a bit I will go four times as often and be willing to pay significantly more.We once went to a local hotels swimming pool, which allow paying as public, but sadly it was a seriously run down, poorly lit and and generally squalid affair, which somewhat took the edge off.
The only other option seems to be to join a local gym solely to use the swimming pool but I would rather support the public baths.
Sheepshanks said:
I suppose the next thing is they'll close them as they'll say no-one is using them.
It comes up many times, one is already been 'temporally closed' for a year.Slow.Patrol said:
ETA your kids probably don't notice the cold as they are active.
Child is 2yo, enjoys it, but is shaking and visibility turning blue within half an hour.Gassing Station | Sports | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff