These hotel pool rules were bonkers

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Stayed in a hotel with a pool this weekend for extended family get together. The pool had to be booked in advance by a group to use it - we knew this in advance. We didn’t know until we collected the key that we would have to have one adult per under 15 year old swimming, and 2 adults for an under 8 year old. This meant for our 5 children to swim in the pool we had to have 6 adults in the pool (kids age 14, 13, 12, 10 and 4).

AIBU for thinking this was health and safety gone mad? Does this actually seem reasonable to people?

She means yes it was the royal lion…I think. Anyway, the pool area looks lovely but if you’re booking there check beforehand cause I don’t take 4 adults or lifeguards on holiday with my family 🤣

sounds crazy. I've never heard that before.

Does that mean a family of four can’t go in the pool unless they find two other adults?!

Drowning is a very, very quiet affair. Please be very glad that the hotel took this seriously.

With no lifeguard then it sounds very normal if one of your party got in trouble you would need someone to take charge of each child and if a parent got ill with a non swimmer it makes perfect sense.

I'm all for adult supervision and responsibility but potentially 4 adults for 2 children is more than most people would have with them in a family group. Unless the child has special needs and requires more supervision, then one adult should be enough per non-swimmer and surely teenagers don't need an adult each?