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Are most local pool changing rooms mixed?

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LighthouseBrighthouse · 26/07/2021 13:32

I was surprised to turn up a couple of days ago and find out the changing rooms are mixed. All the shower and cubicles have doors but obviously mixed when walking around to and from.
Is this normal now?

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 26/07/2021 13:59

Same at our local pools - I don’t see anything wrong with it, as long as there are cubicles with doors. Ours have larger family cubicles, too.

I wouldn’t go to any pool with communal changing rooms only, even if female-only. I don’t want to exhibit my own flab or bits, and I certainly don’t want to see anyone else’s.

newnortherner111 · 26/07/2021 14:59

More commonplace so that fewer staff are needed. A long term consequence of the contracting out of leisure services.

MinnieMountain · 26/07/2021 15:04

Ours is single sex with the group changing room in between.

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championofdance · 26/07/2021 15:09

Ours are. There’s larger family cubicles and the individual cubicles have doors. I don’t have a problem with it, it saves a lot of hassle as a family.

helpfulperson · 26/07/2021 15:11

All the ones I've used in the past few years are.

gogohm · 26/07/2021 15:19

Ours are mixed poolside, enough room for 2-3 in each, but there's single sex at the gym end of the complex. Outdoor pool is poolside individual cubicles with doors to outside

emmathedilemma · 26/07/2021 15:20

The “council” leisure centres round here seem to be mixed fro swim changing but still have separate for gym / non-pool changing although they tend to be communal with just a cubicle of cubicles.

DrunkenKoala · 26/07/2021 15:21

I swim at two different swimming pools. One is mixed, but separate showers and toilets. The other is completely separate. Both pools are run by the same council.

EverythingDelegated · 26/07/2021 15:25

All mixed here (changing village). That's the 6 sports centres in my area, run by several different operators. I haven't seen single sex ones for many years.

mafted · 26/07/2021 15:28

I find locally larger pools tend to have changing villages with lots of cubicles for anyone to use, usually some large cubicles for families to use etc
The smaller pools have separate changing areas for men and women but with few cubicles and occasionally a separate family changing room where Mum and son/ Father and daughters or other mixed group could change together.

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