Does this ad bother anyone else?

True. People who have high prescriptions might still wear glasses in the pool and they've probably been advised not to wear contact lenses in the pool.

Prescription goggles aren't always as expensive as some people think. Just in case anyone wants a pair: You can get basic ones for under £25. They won't be your exact prescription but should be enough to let you get around the pool.

How bizarre. Lots of people wear glasses in the pool, particularly for a kids swim session when are just holding them.

I have prescription goggles, I swim a lot. Tend to wear sunglasses in the oool on holiday though, is that odd too?

This is the most bizarre thread I have seen for ages.

Have you been to swimming classes with a child? The baby is the one doing the "swimming", not you. So wearing glasses is perfectly fine. Why would it not be??

I was a bride with glasses. Might have walked down the wrong aisle otherwise 😆

I've always worn my glasses in the pool, I literally wouldn't have been able to take my kids swimming when they were small otherwise as it wouldn't have been safe! Plenty of us do. I think those who say they haven't seen anyone wearing them just aren't particularly looking for it.

What an odd post . I wear my glasses to my Aquafit class or I wouldn’t be able to see the instructor!
Presumably that lady needs to be able to see her child . And why should she take her glasses off for a photo, are glasses some kind of social no no I didn’t know about?!

It's Ducklings classes being advertised. You don't swim. You stand and aid your child. If I didn't have my specs on I wouldn't be able to properly see the instructor who stands on the side or in the poool often some distance away and indicates what you should do next and how to hold the baby.

For those classes I wore my glasses. If I was simply swimming I wouldn't

Tbf I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in an indoor pool wearing glasses. But then I maybe don’t really notice other people in the pool.

Devils advocate here, but a decent splash on my glasses and I’m fucked. Nothing to dry them on straight away. It fucks me off enough getting them rained on when I’m going to the supermarket. Might be an astigmatism thing (really quite bad) but water on my glasses debilitates me straight away if I can't sort it. Not an option going without. I don’t swim. Not because of this, I wouldn’t be seen dead in a swimming costume either
Just generally not my thing. I spectated DD's swimming lessons and the most I'll do is a quick dip in the pool fully covered with a tshirt and sarong if we're on holiday every few years
Glasses splashed, I’m out. She can swim with her cousins.

You can get cheap prescription goggles! They won’t be made perfectly to your normal prescription, but will be close enough to be useful in the pool. I love mine.

And this is partly why I always wear my glasses while mermaid swimming/performing too, because there are still people in the world who think taking them off is an option / it looks better / why would you wear them in x situation 😂 and as a small child with a high prescription I rarely saw anyone do anything fun wearing glasses, and certainly never any princesses/mermaids/main characters wearing them.

I have a prescription dive mask which was hideously expensive, but if I'm just swimming lengths breaststroke I'll wear my glasses cos it's more comfortable, and when performing as a mermaid you can't wear a dive mask so I have a pair of glasses that I also wear underwater.

And there isn't a chance in hell I'd take any of my niblings or cousins anywhere near a swimming pool without wearing my glasses so I can supervise them properly!

Hilarious!

I'm very short sighted. If I didn't wear glasses/ contacts I can't see anything past 4 inches from my face and certainly couldn't find my way around. It's not good to wear contacts in the water due to risk of infection and prescription goggles are very expensive especially if you're like me and have a prescription that keeps changing- I'd need to get new ones every few years and as others have said it's unlikely they'd be made in a high enough strength for me. I have worn glasses in the pool when I've been going in with ds for his wee classes where I'm not actually getting my head wet but if I'm going by myself for a proper swim I wear contacts and goggles and then give them a good clean at home after but that's not recommended...

Before I had kids I used to swim without glasses and accepted the odd moment of walking into the men's changing room by mistake as I could see the signs.

Being that blind without glasses and swimming with children? Absolutely no way.

I tried prescription goggles, but the cheap ones let in water which didn't do much for my vision, and expensive ones were more than I could justify at the time.

Not sure why you're seeing it as an issue.

I always swim with my glasses on when I’m with my kids. Im too short sighted to keep them safe without my glasses. When I do lengths on my own I don’t wear them

Your life must be really hard if you get so upset about things like this.

I have a super high prescription and had goggles made so I could swim from a swim goggle prescription site....

I still played in the pool with glasses whe. I had babies as you don't get the same breadth of vision in goggles and I wanted to. Play and enjoy my baby! Seems quite normal to me!

I wear mine in the pool and swim lengths with a headband to keep them on. I can't see anything without them. When I checked ages ago, Goggles didn't come in a high prescription like mine

Another one who wears glasses in the pool. Can't see anything without them. End up bumping into people, can't see where my child is, etc.

I do need some prescription goggles!

I have an old pair I wear in the pool. I'd be as blind as a bat without them.

If only my potential swimming goggles were £25, more like £400+

Even my ordinary glasses are close to £800 and that's with cheap own brand frames.

And, loads of people at my pool wear glasses.

The women in the photo is holding a baby though so even if she was a normal swimmer in the pool (as opposed to a posed photo) she's hardly likely to be doing a front crawl

Much more likely is that she will be standing around in the shallow end supporting and playing with the baby in the water. All of which is perfectly possible when wearing glasses

I agree with you OP. I would never take my ludicrously expensive varifocal glasses into a chlorine filled pool.

Prescription goggles are really cheap, c£25 anyway, you just buy the pair nearest to your proper prescription. Look at the Speedo website. I’m blind as a bat and they are fine for pool use. Stop me walking into the mens changing room anyway.

I honestly do not think I have ever seen anyone ever swim in glasses. Like properly swim. Front crawl or something. Although to be fair, as I said, I am very short sighted.

Why on earth would it bother you?