Public pools in the UK
Posted: 5th Jan, '13, 06:59
They are horrible.
It was only when I went again yesterday did it all come back to me why I stopped swimming when I came here to study 19years ago. The changing area is unisex so that we could not bathe properly before going out in the cold. Then bathe again when we got home with a tone of laundry to do.
What is worse is that threre was no place to just sit and watch if you don't want to swim and had to put all our bulky coats, towels etc in the lockers in the disgusting changing room where footwear is not allowed. (I have this thing about my feet where I don't like it to touch the ground, floor etc) it was wet everywhere.
To top it off, there was no olympic size pool. The biggest (or most common ) is a 25 m pool with miserable no. of lanes. I suppose the children's pool was reasonable for a public pool in the UK. Overall, It was not a pleasant experience at all.
Even the public pools in Singapore had 3 huge pools - one 50m, one 25m and a children's pool generally. Granted, the changing facilitiesin singapore are no better and probably worse, at least I could put on a t-shirt, drive home in 3mins and take a nice shower at home ,w ithout so much as stepping into the singapore changing room at teh public pool.
Anyway, if not for the children I would never go swimming here again !
It was only when I went again yesterday did it all come back to me why I stopped swimming when I came here to study 19years ago. The changing area is unisex so that we could not bathe properly before going out in the cold. Then bathe again when we got home with a tone of laundry to do.
What is worse is that threre was no place to just sit and watch if you don't want to swim and had to put all our bulky coats, towels etc in the lockers in the disgusting changing room where footwear is not allowed. (I have this thing about my feet where I don't like it to touch the ground, floor etc) it was wet everywhere.
To top it off, there was no olympic size pool. The biggest (or most common ) is a 25 m pool with miserable no. of lanes. I suppose the children's pool was reasonable for a public pool in the UK. Overall, It was not a pleasant experience at all.
Even the public pools in Singapore had 3 huge pools - one 50m, one 25m and a children's pool generally. Granted, the changing facilitiesin singapore are no better and probably worse, at least I could put on a t-shirt, drive home in 3mins and take a nice shower at home ,w ithout so much as stepping into the singapore changing room at teh public pool.
Anyway, if not for the children I would never go swimming here again !