Filtered saltwater pool for kids

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Looking at booking a holiday. Have 2 DC. Hotel has a filtered saltwater pool. Aibu to want to change hotel? Worried about kids eyes stinging etc in saltwater pool. Has anyone been to hotel with saltwater pool that has DC? Thanks

It's a "freshwater" pool - it uses a filter instead of lots of harsh chemicals like the adult pool so much better for kids delicate skin and eyes (as far as I understand)

I don't understand the problem. Do you not let them in the sea? Literally billions of people swim there without issues.

This has to be the daftest thing I've heard on here in a while. Do you realise how many chemicals are in normal swimming pools and you're worried about salt water. 😂

It’s so much better for their hair and skin. I don’t find it stings anymore than chlorine. Use goggles when they go under?

Ooh, where is it? I’d prefer that for my toddler to horrible chlorine.

I haven’t as I actively discount a hotel if it’s a saltwater pool. A friend went to one last year and her disgusted hardly swam in the pool as she hated the feeling of it and made her eyes sting.

I stayed in a hotel with one last year. I wouldn’t even have noticed if my dh hadn’t pointed it out.

Thanks all for the replies. Yes I was worried as the salt water seems to sting my eyes more than the chlorine so don’t want it wasting my dc holiday.

We've got a pool we switched over from chlorine to salt. It's much nicer and smells way less now.

I have a saltwater pool. It’s much more pleasant to swim in than a chlorine pool.

Even though salt is added to the pool, you’re not swimming in salty sea water. The amount of salt in a saltwater pool is much, much lower than in the sea, so it doesn’t taste super salty or make you float the same way.
a saltwater pool still uses chlorine, just like a normal swimming pool. Instead of pouring chlorine in directly, the pool has a machine called a salt chlorinator. This machine turns the salt in the water into chlorine to keep the pool clean and kill germs.
So the water is still disinfected with chlorine — it’s just made in a different way. That’s why saltwater pools often feel softer on your skin and don’t smell as strong, but they’re definitely not mini oceans!

I used to go swimming every year in a freshwater pool as a kid when visiting family abroad. It was fine.

Do you think they’ll melt ?

Do you mean the pool has a salt chlorinator?

Or is it right next to the ocean so it fills up with the rides?

Two very different things.

Years ago we went to a resort with a saltwater pool and I didn't like it, it did sting my eyes. I know chlorine is a harsh chemical, but I prefer it 🤷‍♀️

Salt has chlorine in it, that's why it's NaCl.
Get over yourself.