To think that for nearly £60 a month, we should be warm in the pool?

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My 20 month old goes to swimming lessons and has since being a little baby (once lockdown was over.) We pay nearly £60 a month for one half hour lesson a week. So really not cheap!

But AIBU to expect a reasonably warm pool for this? This week was shockingly cold.

Yes, at £280 an hour minimum (5 kids in each class) I'd expect the water to be reasonable

Depends what is written in the contract with swimming lessons provider.

Lol at the mix of responses

How dare you even post, you are not sensible

Thats expensive and only for middle class mums

thats cheap.

buy a wetsuit.

Thanks

LOL

Sling your hook, haven’t heard that for years 😂

are you new to mumsnet?

No

No that’s not acceptable at all but then neither is paying £15 a lesson for toddler swim lessons that’s crazy! I pay £9 for a 30 minute lesson with 5 kids in the class and the pool is kept at 30c year round and the pool room is ROASTING hot! But it’s great for the kids to get dried and dressed in as they aren’t cold at all. It’s a swimming teacher who hires a private pool at a house so she’s in control of the temperature.

Where are you guys getting these swimming lessons where £15 is expensive!? 😭 help a mum out please mine is £17.50 a week and I was already waiting years for him to start and the class is way over subscribed as it is

I’m sorry @SeenYourArse but who actually are you to tell me that what I spend my money on is ‘not acceptable’?

My pool is 28 and it's a very popular pool for lane swimming.

It's a bit nippy on getting in but after a few laps I'm fine and get warm

However when we took the kids there for fun swims I do find it a bit cool as not moving So much.

Is it a leisure pool or A rectangle lane swim pool.

Ours are £25 per lesson. The pool is quite warm though.

Jesus do you not understand my point?! I’m on your side ffs! Im meaning it’s a ridiculous price for them to charge never mind for a cold pool. For that price the pool should absolutely be lovely and warm as should the changing room. I think £9 for a 30 min lesson is expensive enough ☹️

Agree with a few previous posters to look at lessons in a hydrotherapy pool if you want warmer water. The one I work with is always 33 degrees.

@SeenYourArse if I’ve misunderstood I apologise but then I genuinely don’t understand this:

that’s not acceptable at all but then neither is paying £15 a lesson for toddler swim lessons that’s crazy

That is literally saying £15 is ‘not acceptable.’

In any case, there is sod all else so I pay the going rate or we don’t have swimming lessons!

I think we spend about the same (I just pay it and accept it tbh) and get lessons at Nuffield. Water is toasty warm, facilities are great. This is SE, outskirts ish of London.

Is it just water temperature or
air temperature as well? DD used to have lessons at a private school, the swimming school was just renting their pool on Sundays. It was very cold as they used to switch off heating on Friday after lessons. The building itself was big and old, with single glazed windows. We stopped going eventually. I’ve emailed to the swimming school but they answered that nothing they could do.
I hate cold swimming pools, it makes you so uncomfortable and takes away all joy of swimming.

Not read the whole thread but have you bought a neoprene swim suit? Keeps them lovely and warm and they still to swim.

£15 is fairly standard. If you don't like the pool/ facilities find somewhere else.

It depends what sort of pool it is, my gym has a 25m 6 lane pool that's very much a "training pool" not a leisure pool. Consequently, kids find it cold, particularly if they can't swim much or are hanging around in lessons. Most of the younger ones wear long sleeved tops and shorts type sun suits.
If it's a leisure pool with a kids splash pool then it should be warmer.

I wear a 2mm neoprene swimsuit with arms, got it 7 years ago when my first was a baby for £45 and have worn it each time I take the children swimming. I get cold standing around with them for an hour! I buy secondhand children’s wetsuits for about £5. Your baby needs a wetsuit! Sack off the crazy expensive lessons and go to the council pool - the savings will pay for a wetsuit in no time.

Puddleducks always was extortionate.

Pools can feel warmer/ colder depending on air temperature even if the water temperature is consistent.

My DCs have worn shortie wetsuits for many years as they feel the cold quickly. Unfortunately I only got into this in the late stages of accompanying them to parent & toddler lessons, but I still use my shortie if it's a bobbing around supervising session.

Training pools are often around 31/32⁰C. 29⁰C for main pools. To a swimmer pounding lanes, that can end up feeling rather hot and steamy. You can't do much about temperature control from one type of user to the next.

You can’t think why I might not be using the council pool, @BeardieWeirdie ?

We have a wetsuit. Thanks. Second page, at the top.

There you go.