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

[Freezinginthepool]

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.

Honestly, I'd cancel the lessons and teach them to swim yourself and find a warmer pool. I did with my two.

Can you move to David Lloyd’s ….I think they do lessons and you’d be paying about the same.

OP I paid a similar amount for a similarly cold pool when my dc was tiny. In the end he would start screaming as we pulled up at the centre because he knew what was coming. I cancelled the lessons after a couple of months. Awful experience for us both and it really put him off getting in the water.

I ended up taking him for a general session to the pool in the next town that had a baby pool which was so much warmer - plenty of socialising with other babies and mums/dads, warmer water, so much cheaper, and he went from being reluctant to go in to jumping off the side in a few weeks.

Toddler absolutely loves the lessons themselves, it’s just been really noticeably chilly the last two times.

I hope this comes across in the spirit intended but it’s getting a little bit frustrating people telling me to go to this lovely, warm, cheap council pool. It doesn’t exist, not here anyway. Hence paying so much for lessons!