Aibu to think the no glasses / prescription googles rule at Butlins is worse than the risk of glasses?
Without glasses I can’t see the steps, pretty much anything that’s going on for my own safety. Can’t read rules, see if I’m about to walk off a ledge, find a handrail or see the exit. Let alone the see the kids and supervisethem safely.
I just found it all a bit bizarre. You can hold your glasses, so it’s not the glass in the water risk. I mean, I’m more likely to drop them in a reflex reaction than have them fall off.
It’s not just glasses either, the rule includes prescription googles.
It might sound minor to some, but it really really impacted my holiday! It’s horrible being in water and being effectively blind to anything more than 20cm away. Well terrifying! On the slides I couldn’t even see the exit on one, another my child slipped away and I couldn’t help them.
Ive never had the rule anywhere else. The lifeguards were also really unfriendly about it, there’s no where to place glasses like a ledge or something and they won’t watch them. They tell you to hold them. I was worried about dropping them. There was eye rolling like it was a fashion accessory I was fussing about.
I tend to swim in old glasses, as when Google steam up you’re blind and also the peripheral vision is awful. I did though offer to wear them instead, but they aren’t allowed. Surely people who can’t see accessing the slides is a risk? Especially people without any skills in navigation unseeing who are used to seeing?