For using the family changing rooms

heavens imagine if someone stripped off in the showers! That would cause quite stir at our pool!

I think the way to think of it as someone has said up thread is a communal locker room - changing is (or should be) private in a cubicle. You just then stash your stuff in a shared area.

Yes you’ll be taking your swimming gear off after showering, that’s why I agreed they need more cubicles!

I just want to express appreciation for your user name 😂

I would use the family one if that’s the only available cubicle.

But isn’t the family one unisex too?
I think it’s ridiculous- they aren’t saving space. Women and men are equally entitled to privacy. If my teen DD was gong to your gym she would stop if she had to use a communal space. Now I wouldn’t mind communal locker room as long as there were plenty of changing cubicles.

I think you should try to cancel your membership and get your money back.
In the meantime i'd tell them that i was going to continue to use the family facilities, and that if there are complaints about waiting - that is a direct consequence of their daft action.

And try to get as many people to give feedback as possible.

You say you gave them feedback - did you point out to them that unisex changing rooms create a higher risk or assult and voyeurism? https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/sexual-assault-unisex-changing-rooms-sunday-times-women-risk-a8519086.html

Yes but when you get dressed after showering, in your costume, you’ll be taking your costume off. Or are people putting their dry clothes on over their wet swimming gear?

Of course you can use the family ones if they're the only free cubicles, why on earth wouldn't you.

Did you miss the OP's point that there are only 2 cubicles in her space?

The local leisure centre has had mixed changing rooms since I can remember and I’m 32. All cubicles. Doesn’t bother me. What does bother me is the thought of my Husband and I and our DD needing a family room and 2 women using it instead of other cubicles.

Unisex is fine for most so long as there are cubicles. So based on their set up YANBU. I would keep complaining though.

Lots of pools have unisex changing these days. You are definitely meant to keep your swimming gear on to shower, so it makes no difference if it’s unisex or not. Swimming pool showers are really only for showering off chlorine, you should have already had a proper “pits & bits” shower at home before.

Your pool does need more cubicles though, that’s for sure. I reckon ours has about 20

That sounds like an incredibly stupid idea OP - many changing rooms are unisex now, but I've only ever come across the ones with lots of cubicles. Our local one has no open changing space at all, and has open showers (swimsuit on) and lockable cubicles with showers.

Keep complaining and maybe also raise it on their social media pages as well. Many people will be unhappy about having to either change in front of others (of any sex) or wait ages for one of the two cubicles.

We pay by the hour and you are not allowed in before your hour starts. If I'm then waiting in a queue for one of only two cubicles, with 20+ other people, I lose swimming time.

Why can’t you wait for one of the two smaller cubicles instead of using a family cubicle though?

Presumably the family one is equally busy and in demand so couldn’t you just wait for one of the other 4 private cubicles?

But if it's only two cubicles (see OPs updates) and the rest open plan, that doesn't work. I don't want to get changed in an open plan changing room regardless of whether it's single sex or mixed use, and lots of other people feel that way too.

@WildBalonz you are not unreasonable but if you're really uncomfortable I'd vote with your feet and go elsewhere.

What a bizarre thing to trial! I would be using the family cubicle if necessary and complaining as often as possible.
Similar to other posters have said, the pool I use has unisex changing but rows and rows of cubicles as well as some cubicle showers.

I had assumed the family changing room was basically a big cubicle - all the ones I’ve seen have been. If that’s also open plan, then no difference to the main one and I’d be changing in the toilets!

What is the point in avoiding unisex changing to go in to family changing? What's the point of this post? I do suspect it is just another attempt at getting a gender critical debate going, I'm sure you know how popular they are OP, you could be trending in no time.
Anyway, back to the changing rooms. Are men not also in the family changing rooms??? Why is that okay but unisex isn't?

You’re supposed to shower in swimming wear and use cubicles for changing in unisex rooms. Then you come out of the cubicle fully changed and place your stuff in the lockers. A lot of swimming pools have unisex changing for a long time, I never saw anyone stripping naked in them.

Oh hold on, I voted YABU because I thought you shouldn’t subject children to a mixed adult changing room. However, I assumed the mixed changing room had closed door changing areas? You’re saying you have to get changed in an open room with members of the opposite sex?!? If so, I apologise, I change my vote!!