Swimming pool with no changing rooms. Is a dry robe the answer?

[Tozin]

Our swim school changing rooms are being refurbished (could be months)

Currently we have to change the children poolside. It’s a very cold pool area and also tight on space. I find it quite stressful.

Would a dry robe be suitable option for the children?

Would it keep them warm enough to throw on, over wet swimming costumes and run to the car? (And then get showered and changed at home away from the chaos?)

Dry robes are very expensive so I don’t want to buy them if the children will moan they are too cold. (Surely their legs would freeze?)

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Why would a coat be ‘better I’m most cases’? Most of them function as coats, too, being waterproof, full coverage and very warm. If you’re seeing them everywhere it’ll be because they have better qualities than a bog standard coat.

Why is it so cold running from a building to a car, OP?

If OP’s child is anything like mine, mainly because they’re a bit rubbish at drying themselves 😂 (despite plenty of demos and encouragement) and don’t have a top underneath as no changing room. Also the car park is a fair walk away (lessons aren’t at a leisure centre that has a car park just outside door) and it’s the evening, so it’s about 1 degree outside atm. I think my ds be chilly in a dressing gown, especially in the wind, but his dry robe works brilliantly.

A coat wouldn’t do, because my children’s coats are short (waist height) so they would have totally bare legs.

They are 4&5 so can’t dry dress themselves quickly and easily independently before getting too cold (v old, cold pool building with no changing rooms)

Of course I can put them in trousers, but it semi defeats the object of a quick exit.

The pool is very old and cold (and crowded with other parents at the side of the pool, nowhere to sit down etc) when they get out. So drying + getting changed is stressful as we get bumped into by the next class coming along etc.

Car would be cold by the time we get to it after class. So it would be a very cold journey home with wet hair.

I was considering a dry robe because they look warm, windproof and easy. But just wasnt sure if warm enough to forgo the trousers.