How much is a swim at your local council pool..

[Sawyershair]

£8.20 for an adult
£6.90 for a child over 3

That’s bloody excessive isn’t it?!

Lc2 in Swansea

www.thelcswansea.com/opening-times-prices

£3.80 for adults, £1.60 for kids and £6 for a family swim.
Kids who have swimming lessons can swim for free at general swimming sessions.
I don’t think that’s too bad.

About a fiver or you can buy a monthly pass for £25. That's for adults, not sure about DCs.

Yes yours is expensive. Is it a sparsely populated area, as in they don't get many customers to cover the cost of running the place?

www.basingstokeleisure.com/aquadrome/PriceList

Council leisure pool: £4.95 adult, £2.60 child

Adults £5.20
Over 5s £2.80
Under 5s free
Family max 2 adults £11.50

You see I would love to go swimming a couple of evenings a week to try and get a bit fitter, but ours is the same and I just can't justify the cost of it!!

That's extortionate! In the Uk my local pool charged £10.50 for a family ticket. In Germany now, a family day ticket to our very good local pool is €10. That includes the outdoor pools in the summer plus a big meadow and play area. The more fancy pool in the next town with slides, heated outdoor pool and current pool is €12 for a family ticket.

Yours is a rip off OP.

My local pool is £4.16 for an adult, £3.36 for a junior and free for under 8s. It's a lovely, modern pool as well. Worcestershire.

£5.30 an adult
£3.50 for kids 8-16
Free for children under 8

Free for children who have swimming lessons there £26pcm)

Included in gym/swim membership of £38 pcm for an adult

I think we are lucky though. It's a good council run site which is currently under discussion for sale. I expect prices will rocket if it goes private.

Mines £9 for an adult and £4 for 4 and over.

But your local pool has flumes, rapids etc It's not a basic pool. Price reflects the facilities.

Ours is £13ish for me and two DC. No concession for the fact they also take swimming lessons (£40 a month for the two of them), which is a bit annoying as this seems to be a common offer elsewhere.

OP that's for the leisure pool. There is a normal pool upstairs that's half the price. Saturdays and Sundays 2-4pm are the only times you can use it though, it's 2-4 in the holidays every day.

We went to the council pool the other day 2adults and 2dc was £10.40 in total very reasonable I thought

Local pool: 4.70/2.30
Beach pool: 7.65/6.55

Is it just a normal square pool you are going to or is it a leisure pool?

Just saw your earlier post.
But misleading OP. That is not really a swim at a local pool.
That is more of a themed fun pool.
Come back with the prices for a plain 25x10m then it may be more comparable

That is a pool with flumes and rapids and stuff, so not really just bog standard swimming?

I think they just have a normal pool there too, which I think is £5.20 for adults. If you want cheaper swimming crown pools up in Ipswich has a "basic" leisure pool without rapids etc but with a shallow end and things that's only £5.20 as well.

It does really add up though - I've ended up getting membership because it really wasn't much more!

Oh, the prices I gave were for a bog standard municipal pool. I'd expect to pay a fair bit more for something with flumes etc.

Ours is a fiver for an adult. Not sure about child as ds has swimming lessons so gets a membership for free swimming thrown in for free.

Flumes? I wish. Our £9 is for all pools where the kids one has one plastic slide that you could probably get in pound land

It costs me around £5 for me plus ds. We go quite alot because it is a cheap thing to do here.

cheapest locally is a fiver for a family swim - adult and 2 kids. it's a rubbish pool with grim changing though.
the nicest standard pool is about a tenner for me and two dc
the fun pool with waves, flume and sprinklers is £14 for the three of us.

OP - I know which leisure world you mean, it is the closest one to us too. Yes it is expensive and never even that clean! Our kids love it though so sometimes I take them. However I get annoyed if they get cold and want to get out after 40 mins!

It's £14 for a family swim, but it's also another £14 in bus fares, so we use the university pool which is £12 for a family swim and which is on a short, safe cycle route.