To think that my local swimming pool is outrageously expensive

[Missunreasonable]

I went swimming with one child this morning. This is a local council run pool. I didn't want to leave a lot of money in the locker so just took £5 and a £1 coin for the locker. I asked for an adult and child swim and the man said £5.80! Luckily I always keep a couple of pound coins in the car for parking and supermarket trolleys etc so I went and got another one for the locker.
That seems extortionate to me. My local private gym charges £30 per month for unlimited use and has a full fitness suite with gym, sauna, pool etc.
Am I just out of touch with prices of leisure facilities or is this very expensive? It seems expensive to me because the town I used to live in charges £5 for a family swim of two adults and two children but I am prepared to accept that this might not be the norm.

Wow! Just checked out our local council run pool. £5.10 for adults and £3.50 for children.

Missunreasonable
I understand about the running costs being eye watering but surely more people would use the facilities if they were not so expensive, plus it is a council pool and running costs should be subsidised by the council.

That probably is the subsidised price. It could be subsidised more but what council services would you be prepared to lose to fund it?

It is a shame though. As I said up thread, my local pools now prioritise classes and hiring out to groups which means there are very few windows for bog standard swimmers to go. I actually can't remember the last time I went to a council pool now - and that's not through choice.

My local pool charges £3.90 for an adult swim and £2.90 for a child - same here.

It always make be laugh at how council pools in UK are full of bodily fluids but pools at foreign hotels are an essential requirement for a holiday. Only on MN.

My council run one is;

Adult £4.60
Under 16 £3.20
Under 5's free

Indoor pool

My non council run one is;

Adult £4.90
Under 16's £3.40
And this one is an out door pool

Ours is similar - over £4 for an adult and nearly £3 for a child.

But French/Italian/Greek bodily fluids are obviously superior to those of filthy Brits. And Mumsnetters only ever go to exclusive hotels miles away from those ghastly,common sun worshipping,sunbed stealing,buffet hogging,child hating Brits,so they should be safe.

For the fun pool with slides and a wave machine it is £18 for family of four.

For boring pool it is under a fiver for 1 adult 1 child.

I think that's a bargain but I live in London wheee a membership for the council leisure centre is £50 per month and a private one would be upwards of £100!

YANBU.

Ours is similarly priced. £5.50 per adult with under 5s free. Once DS turns 5 it will cost us over £13 for us all to go swimming. I think I'll be looking at gym membership instead tbh.

Birmingham run a scheme where at some pools all residents u16 swim free & adults can swim free in a set off peak hour each day. It's great.

It's not often you can boast about your local council

Ours cost us nearly £20 for a family ticket (2 adults and 2 children) which I thought was expensive.

I thought it was expensive here (3.80 for an adult, free for under 5's).

Where i used to live its 2 (possibly 1.80) for adults, 1 for children and disabled, free for under 5's. Its also the best maintained pool ive been too, with by far the nicest changing rooms.

But then it is in an area where the council seem to place real value on activities (they run lots of kids sports for a 1 during the school holidays - including things on the ski slope!)

should say that's for the one with the slides and waves. It was for 90 minutes.

My local one is £1.60 for children over 3, £2.40 for adults, and they do a family ticket, one child free with two paying adults. I think it is quite reasonably priced.
It is a council one and just one 25m pool, so my children always want to go to the more exciting leisure pool with jacuzzis and lazy river and flumes and outdoor pool etc. That one costs £4.75 for adults and £4.35 for children for a 2 hour off-peak swim. I think the adult price is quite reasonable and that the child one is too expensive, but on the other hand I suppose my kids get a lot more out of it than I do.

6.50 here for one adult and one 6 year old. no slides or wave pools/toys unless it's a specific session for them these are usually shorter. over summer they offer a free swim for under 16s for an hour but it usually so busy

It is just a normal pool, no slides or anything fancy.
I'm shocked at some of the prices on here especially the London ones.
I suppose I only had my previous town to compare to. It does make me wonder how one council 10 miles away charge £5 for a family of four but my town charges more than that for one adult and one child (especially when council tax is 20% higher in my current town).

I think it's £5.70 per adult at my local. I pay £24 per month for unlimited swim and gym.

£7.80 for one adult and one child at ours. No extras included and we're not in London either.

Ours is £5.70 for an adult (12 and over) £5.40 for over 3s.

I refuse to go. Changing rooms are disgusting, pool cold, extortionate prices.

COLCHESTER borough council can fuck off!

Our local one is more than that, I looked at their website for exact prices but they don't advertise them conveniently. It's around 10 for 2 adults and a toddler when we went.

So to me that sounds cheap!

Our council ran a free swimming thing a few summers ago.

It was mental. Basically huge gangs of teenagers would turn up, loads of families, there'd be massive queues, hardly anyone would be let in as lifeguards got freaked. One particular incident the police had to be called.

It's still "free swimming for under 16's". But you now have to present your library card, which has slowed it up a lot :).
I put inverted comma's as families are no longer free, the adults have to pay, kids free. But seeing as under 8's can't be unaccompanied, then technically it will still cost £5 for the adult with them.

Our local pool just doesn't open. It opens really random hours, about 2 hours a day and Sunday mornings. But children aren't allowed in the big pool, so everyone's stuck in the tiny toddler pool. I drive to the one further away.

Champneys is only £70 a month for full 4 day access every week

So you can go to posho Champneys 16 times a month, have unlimited pool/sauna/steam/indoor and outdoor jacuzzi plus 100 classes.

Local council pool is £7 a session . Which is 2-3 hours max.

Ours is 4.20 adult, 2.10 child