Strap to keep glasses on?

[purpleme12]

Has anyone got a strap to keep their glasses on for water park, going on slides?
I want to be able to keep my glasses on and I'm not sure they'll let you keep glasses on

Has anyone got any recommendations?
My head is small too (if that makes a difference)

Look for ‘neoprene glasses strap’
They should slide onto the arms, and can be worn as a strap holding them on your head, dropped around your neck, and should float if dropped in water (that may or may not work in moving water)

Thank you

Could you get prescription goggles instead?

I have considered that but I think all in all I'd prefer to wear my normal glasses. I don't really want y wander around a water park with goggles on all the time. (Ie having to still wear them in between the slides as well)

It would be better for me if I could wear my glasses

I'm not sure glasses would be safe or allowed on the slides. We had to take our watches off when we went on water slides

Surely they should be ok if I get a strap 😭😭
God I hate this I really need to wear them

Yes, I’ve used one in centre parcs. Works fine, my glasses survive the rapids. Was just a cheap neoprene one off Amazon. They are allowed, remember lenses are plastic these days not actual glass (very rarely to be glass anyway).

im -12 , I can’t get googles.

Check where you're going. Last time we went to a water park, glasses were not allowed.

I know it says no glasses that why I thought it the strap to keep them on
Surely they'd be ok with that

They are still glasses even if held with a strap. Its in case they break and damage your eyes

Can you use contacts?

You arent supposed to use contacts in water either

You need a sports strap. Try your local opticians, I know Boots Opticians does one for under £5.

swimming goggles can be a good option, definitely worth talking to a Dispensing Optician about. Lots of prescription options and some inexpensive options available

From experience, if the swimming pool says no glasses they really do mean no glasses.

Contact lenses also not an option in case of infection

Oh god I so needed to wear them

The little water slides in the pool near us are really really NO GLASSES. I guess it’s easier to have a blanket rule than for them to have to start assessing whose straps are properly robust.

Is this one abroad?

I'd probably have to take the infection risk and use contacts. I literally can't see well enough to do anything without my glasses so I have every sympathy. I don't go swimming for this reason as I can't risk my glasses getting lost and I would have to wear them in the pool. Goggles with strong prescriptions aren't cheap either.

I took an empty water bottle with me and used it to store my glasses in it whilst I went on the slides. I stored it in the shoe holder with my pool shoes. This meant I didn't have my glasses on whilst queuing and actually going down the slides, but I did have them in between slides, whilst walking around the park, in the pool (separate area from the slides) and outside. It meant that I could wear them to suss out exactly where the slide queues where and where I had to go before I had to take them off.

I'd be happy to take the risk
I normally keep them on in the swimming pool (but I'm not someone who swims under water)
And on every slide I've been on they've never come off. Apart from the one time I went on a bowl slide but I won't be going on one of those again (for reasons apart from the glasses!)

I feel your pain, such a hassle. I tend to wear them around and about in the pool bit etc and then just give them to someone in the group who isn’t going on the slide to look after. Not ideal as it means I can’t see anything in the queue or on the slide itself, obviously also dependent on having someone to leave them with. It’s actually been a big factor in me stopping wanting to do slides at water parks as I’m never allowed to wear them and I hate not being able to see anything, ruins the fun a bit!
I do have prescription goggles but am also not allowed to wear them on the slides. Possibly dependent on which park you go to but the one we use doesn’t allow you to wear glasses or goggles on the slides.
I guess if I was desperate and going somewhere special I’d risk dailies but I actually don’t like wearing lenses much anyway and especially not in a hot environment, I find they tend to stick to my eye and be uncomfortable.

I've always been allowed down holding my glasses in my hand. So I sit at the top of the slide, take them off - hold them going down - stand up at bottom - put them back on. I'm - 15 and -17.

Ok but I don't want to hold them going down!

But to me that doesn't make sense anyway
If you're going to hold them going down surely they may as well let you keep them on your face! They must be safer on your face than in your hand going down a potentially fast slide where you'll come out the other end in deep water!

They are more worried about the safety of your eyes and face. They dont really care about the glasses themselves; just about the damage they could cause

Mmm I'm still not convinced having been fine on all the slides here with them on

Anyway I having to resign myself to getting the strap in the hope that they'll let me on with them. And maybe buying prescription goggles as well now!