Public pools etiquette

[skyfly]

I’ve been taking kids to summer crash course in a local pool. It’s lovely and well managed facility with lots of activities on for children of various abilities. Absolutely lovely staff and swim teachers. But could anyone explain, please, why it’s considered normal to go to the pool side with prams, in outdoor shoes and even with kids scooters??? There are signs literally everywhere, warning to leave buggies/prams/scooters/bikes in buggy park and to change outdoor shoes. Also, announcements from front desk. Yet, every single day there are people ignoring it all! And their own kids and everybody else have to walk on dirty floor full of grass, dirt etc. Is it really a norm and I don’t get it?

Not normal.

I bet some people would feel uncomfortable taking shoes off. Possibly because they stink, or they think other people might think their feet stink.

It’s not normal. People are just scummy and rude.

Not normal here at all.

It’s not normal or acceptable
the pool I go to at a local village hotel is very strict - no outdoor shoes on poolside, shoe covers provided at all doors to the pool. Or people can go barefoot or wear flip flop type footwear. People are stopped if not obeying the rules. Prams left in changing room. Wheelchairs and walking aids are of course permitted but there is a hoist and steps very close to changing rooms so people can enter the pool quickly without needing to wheel or walk a long way.
the only (sensible) exception re shoes there is the occasional workmen doing heavy repairs.

@nuttyroche2 ours took them away a while ago because of plastic waste. You have to take your shoes off.

Parents / carers aren't allowed poolside during lessons.

Buggies and anything else get left in a designated area.

Not normal, the staff should be enforcing the rules.

He did, people leave and return next day with same behaviour

They do as much as they can but people return next day and repeat. Today the lady was told off for brining buggy and she lashed out to pool staff that her kid is late to lesson and her baby is sleeping in pram and she won’t take baby out of her nap to obey to the rules

DD has done a crash course this summer and we didn't have that problem.

Parents aren't allowed poolside and there's racks outside the changing rooms for shoes to go in. No shoes in the changing rooms or down to poolside.

Someone did take a buggy into the changing room today but technically there's no signs saying you can't.

The staff aren't doing their job, clearly.

They need to be strict and absolutely unbending.

The fact that they're not, doesn't fill me with confidence in the way they deal with children around water.

The staff at my local pool would be having none of it.

So they told her to turn around and take her child straight home?

That should've been the end of it.

And the staff need to be supported when the person goes whinging to the centre manager, and know this is the case.

It's not normal. In fact, I've never seen it happen. Complain to the Pool Manager.