To hate people chucking balls around in pools?

Yes we are an active, sporty family - i think i would know 🤣 This is not limited solely to playing games in the swimming pool 🤣

I dont get at all annoyed by other people using the pool for all of it's designated uses so thats another incorrect assumption 🙄

Of course we dont sit down in the middle of a football.pitch thats a completely different thing - what we are talking about here is a holiday leisure pool where ball games ARE PERMITTED.

If the hotel didnt want ball games they would say no ball games and we would adhere to that because we know how to follow rules.

We tend to stay in hotels with multiple pools on holiday and only play in those where ball games ARE ALLOWED. Often there are adult only pools and pools for younger kids and guess what? We dont go in those.

Personally i find miserable fun police types like you annoying but you are not banned so we have to put up with you. Its pretty lame how you think that because you dont like the rules you think we should all use the space the way YOU think it should be used. Yet I am the selfish one here? 🤣🤣🤣 hilarious!

we are an active sporty family
no you are really not 😂that's not what an "active sporty family" is, what you describe is just being a selfish inconsiderate pain in the neck

you have a choice not to go there if it bothers you
No one shouldn't HAVE to keep away from the pool designed for families and everybody because of you, that's the key point.

"Active families" like you also tend to get really annoyed when people dare standing or swimming in the middle of their "game", which tells you all you need to know.

Sitting down on a football pitch in the middle of a football match is a dick move. Floating around or swimming in a swimming pool... you'd think that's what they're designed for?😂

It is just an odd thing to do all round. You can play catch standing in a field. You don't need to be in the water stopping people swimming. You can't swim standing in a field. Go play ball games in an appropriate place!

I think that kind of rough play with a ball where it’s being thrown hard and with several people taking up space is rude.

When on holiday recently there were a few different sets of people throwing a ball between them, some kids some adults, and it didn’t bother me in the slightest whether I was in the pool or reading. But none took up a huge amount of space, were loud or throwing it hard enough to hurt anybody. Worst thing was chucking it back to them a few times if it got stuck under my sun lounger.

Maybe you were just unlucky with some particularly inconsiderate people at your pool

The kids and I love to play volley or catch in the pool. Obviously not in places its not allowed but we are an active sporty family and its fun! We always invite others to join us and many do so its proven a great way to make new friends on holiday. We are respectful of others, wary of babies and sunbathers etc as much as possible but why do you think you can dictate how people enjoy the space.

If its not allowed fine, but where it is allowed you have a choice not to go there if it bothers you. So many fun police these days!

This is one of those polarising things, you are either team “I think it’s fun and don’t give a shit about other people” or team “oh god I hate those people”.

I am one of the latter.

There is always someone who thinks their boisterous games in the pool or picnic area are great and doesn’t understand why the others being pushed aside or hit by balls & elbows might be considered a problem. Same with the bbq crowd who don’t get why being downwind of their hellish smoke in a public space may be a problem.

You can’t win though, all you can really do is remove yourself from the space

You are not being unreasonable! Totally selfish and it puts you on edge cause you’re always waiting to either get hit or be expected to pass the ball back. F* off somewhere else !

At a indoor pool in the uk which is set up for lane swimming, sure. They are for swimming.

But hotel pools are not set up for grannies doing 50 lengths of head out of the water breaststroke. They are there for people to jump into, float around on and have, y'know, fun.

Anyone who is moaning about a pool at a hotel in the sun being used for that has not chosen their holiday destination carefully enough.

But as you’ve just described, some people (like you) have consideration for others.
A couple of little kids throwing a ball round with proper supervision is a lot different from a load of loutish (probably half drunk) adults getting a rowdy game of water polo going

Ah, I see.

Is it fun when the ball hits someone and can be quite painful?

oh... I see.

Ball-tossers and pool-pissers are one and the same. Degrading public spaces for their own selfish enjoyment.

Peeing in the pool? Or is this a joke I am missing?

Far too permissive. I would shepherd my DC away from any family as antisocial as this. Peeing in the pool isn't okay just because you're the only one in it at the time.

Our dc have a rule they are allowed to throw balls until others come into the pool. We have been fortunate to have circumstances with not a lot of others sharing the pool though, for various reasons. After that, they are allowed dive toys or a ring used for floating not throwing.

I don't think that is too draconian.

Understood, but I think that's a shame and a case of those without any common sense ruining it for everyone else. It's perfectly possible to play a ball game sensibly.

they're not for ball games either? Hotels have started banning balls I heard how it sounds and inflatables because people didn't show common sense.

Sounds great fun! I would enjoy seeing kids playing that on holiday.

YANBU just another example of inconsiderate people with no manners. Same with people blaring
music , vaping in your face etc

it's either playing rugby IN the pool (ball game with a rugby ball, it's not quiet or splash free😂)
or a more organised rugby game where you score by jumping IN the pool.

Neither are suitable. They're not dangerous, just would ruin the peace of anyone not involved in the chaos.

I don't think I said swimmers can swim on land, did I? I think I've made my point pretty clear but please correct me if I'm wrong. Hotel pools are not only for swimming.

I will dare to say it: the swimming pool is for swimming. If you are not there to swim, you are a hindrance to those who wish to use a pool for its intended purpose. You wouldn't throw a ball around at the opera, or at a restaurant, or at a spa - why should a swimming pool be any different?

If it is your own swimming pool, then go right ahead and fill it with dog muck and knives for all I care. But in public? Swim, or get out of the way.