To think having dogs in Saltdean lido is utterly disgusting?

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They let dogs into the lido with people on weekends 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

https://www.saltdeanlido.co.uk/dogtember

It’s an end of season one off… not every weekend!!!!

I think it’s a brilliant way of getting extra revenue to the Lido in the autumn.

It wouldn’t be done if normal outdoors swimming was still profitable after mid-September

My local pool does this on the last day of the season before it's drained for the winter. I love it.

Of course it’s disgusting. Dog owners lack perspective, think their pets are sacred and businesses are cashing in.

@ticktickticktickBOOM because it would be fully shut otherwise. Presumably the people running made those decisions using actual financial data and previous experience of what's viable or not to decide opening times. You know, a bit more than "well it's still warm in September ". That's how they decided when to end the season. Now they're simply adding a few weekends when they'd be shut anyway to make some extra money. Which again, would only happen if it was financially viable and offsets the costs of being open those extra few weekends.

Rather than relying on a random hope that Suzie and her family might decide to finally turn up on September 19.

My newfoundland puppy will love this next year!

They seem to be quite popular and as others have said they don’t run normal sessions in between. I think it was a strange decision to spend millions on a pool that’s only open for a few months of the year, at least they can make a bit more money before it closes for 6+ months

If what you say is correct then it all seems fine to me.

I am very sceptical that they ever drain the pool. It’s a lot of water. Most pools are NEVER drained. It’s just to expensive/slow/wasteful. Instead they get a chemical shock and a bit of a breather over winter. Which I do find a little gross, but I would think that they have researched the health and safety aspects and are confident that what they are doing is safe, even if it gives some of us the ick.

Having grown up in the tropics and subtropics with pools and dogs, the main problem is dog hair in the pump.

It's a special session at the end of the season before they drain and close. Outs does it too though only one day in late October/early November normally

Proving my point

So why aren't they doing any of this then?

If you read more of the website, you’ll see that there are loads of other things going on, both in the pool and in the buildings.

The dog swimming is a short special before the pool closure for cleaning, then the winter (human) swimming season begins.

Outside the specified dog dates, all dogs (except assistance dogs) are not permitted anywhere on the site

I went last year with my dog, it was such a lovely atmosphere and fun! Nobody was swimming (as in laps of front crawl) just standing in the water or sitting on the steps in the shallows to keep an eye on their dog so I don’t think any need for germ paranoia.

They raise lots of money and it’s then drained and cleaned afterwards ready for the new human season.

Yes I did see, but the current “loads of other things” obviously is not making enough money so why not add yet more other things instead of having dogs in the pool? You’ve said nothing I don’t know or refutes my points.

100% this!!

Where does it say they “drain” the pool?

There hasn't been an anti dog thread for at least a week? I love how wound up people get.

I love my dog and he’s allowed in the kids paddling pool with them but like heck would I get into an actual pool full of dogs. For a start mine thinks I’m about to drown every time I get further than knee deep in the water and starts trying to pull me out 😂

It's a dog and owner sessions, under 16s not allowed.

I swim in the Thames (🤢), so a load of dogs in a chlorinated pool is doubtless a lot more hygienic than what I'm used to.

How wonderful! Brilliant idea - if I was close I’d go in a heartbeat! Those dogs and owners must have so much fun! How lucky that those people who don’t like this idea don’t have to go there 😉

I think it's a great idea. The pool will be fully cleaned before it returns to 'normal' use in the next season and it will not affect anyone who does not want to swim with dogs as the lido wouldn't be open for them during that time anyway.

Its after the season has finished. Its a special ticket only event. Its not for the general public.

Why not have dogs in the pool when people who don't like it ARE NOT THERE?

It probably generates a ton of money or they wouldn't be putting on so many sessions.

My assumption is that this is very profitable 100x paying humans plus 50x paying dogs (max, might not reach full capacity) yield more than max 8x pool hire to kayak clubs and lifeguard trainers (who might already have training venues, so the Lido would need to undercut existing provision to attract custom)

www.brightonandhovenews.org/2023/09/17/saltdean-lido-to-stay-open-over-winter-weekends/
Standard practice to drain any kind of pool tbh for deep cleans. Even normal chlorinated ones. But here you are - it gets drained, as does my local Lido at PZ