What do I need to leave the pool without getting dried and dressed again?

Get a dry-robe. Don’t skimp on the price or quality as it’s a one time purchase. Mine is excellent.

I just chucked on a tracksuit,dried my feet, towel on the car seat.

Sainsbury’s have got knock off dry robes atm. We’ve got a large store so they had loads yesterday. I think they were £55. Regatta have also got some ‘changing robes’ in their sale online.

Luck?
or the staff were tired of dealing with criminal acts and senior management worked out the financial costs involved if when they were sued?

I’ve only experience changing villages, except at uni when it was single sex for gym/pool all together!
I would definitely have something on my legs. Last week I had to put tracksuit bottoms over my gym leggings it was so cold between car/gym. No way could I have bare legs.
Id look in the supermarkets for fleecy Pj/leisure sets and stick a good coat over.

It sounds like same set up as all of my la pools. Showers are in the pool room open to the pool, just meant for rinsing off in with your swim wear still on. Changing village is just one big area with loads of individual cubicles rather than changing rooms.

Changing Villages really are the stupidest idea. Our LA gym had them, but luckily they went back to single sex facilities.

Add a go bag in your car for emergency breakdown/ accidents so you did not end up too cold if delayed

Heavy socks joggers hoodie/coat and a wollie hat

I used to do this with just a really thick pair of sweatpants and a sweat shirt. It gets much colder in winter where I live though, as in we regularly have warnings about exposed skin and being outdoors, so making sure everything is covered before I walked to my car was important. Trousers were essential.

I have a dryrobe-type coat, flip flops for the minging floors and a hair wrap towel thing. Plastic bags for my swimwear so I can take it off, rinse out the chlorine and just put undies and tee shirt on then dryrobe and drive home.

@CaptainSevenofNine please be careful at the turnstiles leaving as one arm of it once caught the back of my coat and showed my arse cheek to everyone present 🫣

They are completely standard at my local authority pools too. I’m in London. The showers are poolside and shared, visible to everyone in the pool. The changing cubicles are individual but are also poolside, no separation between men and women.

I’d go for an oversized trackie, hoodie and bottoms , hat and crocs but I don’t like the wind touching any bare skin so the thought of a draught going up my dry robe onto my naked damp legs would rule out that option for me .

You mean just keep your swimsuit on, cover up and drive home?

Can you not just get dried quickly get dressed. Then shower at home?

I'll tell you, once I did the school run in pjs because we were running late and I broke down at the school. I had to wait for the AA coming looking like I'd just got out of bed.

Never did that again.

My local pools are all like this too - totally open mixed showers and then a mass of cubicles. The leisure centre in my town actually has put mesh over the tops and round the bottoms of the cubicles due to the number of issues with phones being put over/under. It actually feels more exposed than getting changed at our local lake where everyone is in one tent and gets changed under their DryRobe

Very normal here too, in fact every new facility I’ve been to has this setup. Older facilities still have male and female changing rooms complete with showers but changing villages with open showers and cubicles in a communal area are the new norm for sure.

DD1 has a onesie by Goosey that you can put on straight from wet, I wonder if they do adult ones!

If I watched someone spit in the shower they’re also probably doing it in the pool 🤢 I just wouldn’t go!!!

Thanks for clarifying @CaptainSevenofNine @chipsticksmammy @ditalini

I feel pretty out of touch, but I’ve never experienced that kind of set up swimming in any number of swimming pools across the UK. I’m genuinely quite shocked. I’d feel (and I imagine most women would) really uncomfortable in this kind of situation.

Same here. It's very normal in places like center parcs etc. too. Anywhere you have lots of swimming lessons and families using the pool

My kid does swimming lessons in a pool with this setup. I have a toddler in tow so struggle to supervise her doing her hair properly in the showers etc.
After she gets out of the pool she dries with a regular towel so costume is just damp then puts on an oodie and a pair of primark fleece lined leggings, and fluffy crocs. Then home. The leggings get damp inside but it doesn't soak through to the car seat and she isn't freezing en route home.

This describes all three of the Scottish council pools near me pretty accurately to be fair.

Think I saw these on Facebook: https://www.quikdri.co.uk/product-category/jq-ladies-towel-watersports-tracksuit/
Like a dryrobe but in tracksuit form.

A kaftan plus sliders or crocs. You can peel your Cossie off under it without baring any flesh and swish out. Looks a bit smarter than a dry robe although not as absorbent of course! One for the summer perhaps.

I also loathe changing "villages" they are just gross. I was in the pool today listening to a load of blokes having a lovely natter inches from the door of my cubicle with big gaps under the door and both sides as I was getting dressed. I'm sure they were nice enough but it was unnerving. I have just got changed in ladies loos before.

Edit - Oh and our pool has signs telling people not to spit on the floor so it's definitely a thing. It might be women doing it of course but I doubt it.

Dry robe and short uggs! If you spend time faffing with anything else, you may as well get completely changed.