to go to fun leisure pool on my own

[Redflagsabounded]

I go lap swimming at my local fitmess pool a couple of times a week and there's also an amazing fun pool there with flumes and slides, waves and a little lazy river. I LOVE this stuff but haven't been for years as no young children to take and obviously they are mainly aimed at families.

Would it be too creepy/weird/embarrassing to go in there on my own as a nearly 60 year old and lark around with all the fun stuff?

At our pool adults are not allowed to the fun sessions when the slides etc are on without being with a child

No, do it. It's not weird, it's fun.

YANBU. I've done it a few times. I've been to the one in Scarborough and the one near Legoland in Denmark because I was there for work and had a few hours to kill before my flight.

I must have looked trustworthy because a Danish woman asked me to take her 8 ish YO DD on the slides while she changed her baby. So I suppose there is a risk that if you go to one without a child, someone will try and palm one off on you

Idk what others think but I would want to do the same as you!

No. I love a lazy river and a water slide

I don't think I would, but I'd love to

Ahh get yourself down that lazy river! Life’s too short to not do fun things (that don’t come at the expense of anyone else) because people might think you’re weird - so what if they do?

Thanks, nice to hear some others would do it. I just need to pluck up the courage now. I guess I can always switch pools if it's too weird.

I’d say it’s a situation with distinct female privilege. Think 60 yrs old women in the fun pool on her own equals legend 60 yrs old man not so much.

Go for it and if your in the north they are building an incredible one at the Traffod centre reportedly 13 pools!

Most people would assume you had a child (somewhere in the pool) or possibly grandchild, niece or nephew with you without overthinking it - the rest probably wouldn't notice you at all, most likely. If they let you in, why not?

I used to think the same about going to gigs/ films/plays etc by myself.

And then one day I just realised that I was missing out of stuff I wanted to do just because nobody else wanted to see film X and that 1) nobody will give a shit or even notice someone going by themselves and 2) if they do, who cares?

Go and have fun, ffs!

@ShodAndShadySenators that's a good point

no, sounds great! I went to a hen party at our local fun pool a few years ago, obviously we were all adults. I always wish you could get day passes to centre parcs, I love the pool there

This! I love a water park and will continue to go to them regardless of whether I have a kid with me or not.

I've done it. Give a fuck. Love a slide.

Honestly - I think you need to be prepared to adopt a slightly thick skin. A small group of childfree adult friends and I pitched up at Alton Towers Water Park last year. We had a fucking blast. We weren’t paying any attention to children, we weren’t showing any interest in getting our hands inside children’s pants. But from the reactions of quite a few of the parents there with their children, it was pretty clear they didn’t think the Water Park, despite not having an age limit or a requirement to be with a child, and our hotel and park tickets booking being accepted, was not for adults to enjoy alone, and that we should go to a “normal” swimming pool.

We all have said slightly thick skin, so gave no shits, but I can imagine potential for awkwardness if you don’t.

If the pool has no policy against it go for it.

My kids are getting older and are begining to get a bit cool boring for fun stuff.

Volunteering with youth groups is another good excuse to keep playing at fun stuff

Where is it? Can I come?

DP took his two teenage boys to Butlins one week and my smaller girls were with their dad the same week.

DP doesn't drive and the £50 fuel vs £240 train for the three of them meant it made more sense for me to drive them and join them as I was off work anyway.

I left them to it once there and took myself off to the waterpark everyday.

BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE.

Can I come?!

This is awesome you should all do a mumsnet water park meet up!!

It also make a welcome change from the tales horrible aggressive male lane swimming behaviour maybe they need a good old water slide to chill them out x

Fuck it, I'm going in the morning - what a great way to start the weekend. I'll report back...

This

I went to our local fun pool with slides etc with my teens last summer. They bogged off and left me, so I decided just to use the pool and slides myself. I was asked to leave. People had been complaining about me, saying it's weird for an adult to be in the pool by themselves, and apparently it's in their ts and cs, although I'd not noticed this in the 15 years I'd been going to that pool.

(So I went and did some lengths, but hit booted out of there too, because the length pool is for members only. I'm not sure what driver-adults are meant to do whilst their teenagers are on the slides).