Profiteering council run facility vent

st999

Your local council run pool will publish term time and school holiday timetables on their website and available at the pool.

Do you check the opening times of something you have been going to 5 times a week for the past 10 years? OK slight exaggeration.

This is the first time they have put up the prices before 3 pm, that is why I go at 2 pm.

peachyprice

st999 wrote: »

Do you check the opening times of something you have been going to 5 times a week for the past 10 years? OK slight exaggeration.

This is the first time they have put up the prices before 3 pm, that is why I go at 2 pm.

When it comes to council run pools yes, I do. There's precious little time they can be used as it is once they've been booked out for school lessons, aqua aerobics, ladies only etc.,

The annoying thing about the one next to my office is that it's booked out all morning and all afternoon during term times for school lessons, but schools only turn up 2-3 times a week, the rest of the time it's sitting there unused 'just in case' and everyone else has to go between 1-2pm or 4-5pm before it closes again for private lessons etc.

powerful_Rogue

peachyprice wrote: »

When it comes to council run pools yes, I do. There's precious little time they can be used as it is once they've been booked out for school lessons, aqua aerobics, ladies only etc.,

The annoying thing about the one next to my office is that it's booked out all morning and all afternoon during term times for school lessons, but schools only turn up 2-3 times a week, the rest of the time it's sitting there unused 'just in case' and everyone else has to go between 1-2pm or 4-5pm before it closes again for private lessons etc.

Off topic, but curious. Do they do a men only session?

force_ten

our local council run leisure centre sells a 12 month swim pass for £200.00 which works out around £4.00 per week

over 60,s residents of the town get free off peak swims

Off-Peak times are Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 4:00pm Weekends: 9:00am - 6:00pm

looks like you are getting a rough deal

peachyprice

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Off topic, but curious. Do they do a men only session?

Nope. Why they think that's fine, I don't know.

ThumbRemote

dld2s wrote: »

I'm with the OP, frankly I find it ridiculous that a local council up the prices when the kids are on holiday/in service day, money is tight for a lot of folk and if there is more than 1 kid it can add up, in fact I believe the council should be encouraging kids to use the pool by cutting the price on school holiday not increasing them, apart from maybe getting bored kids off the street there is the health benefits

OP has only said that they don't get their 30p OAP discount during school holidays. They've not made any comment on the prices for kids. So it's quite possible that the council are doing as you suggest, and encouraging kids to use the pool by giving them the cheap prices instead of the OAPs.

I would assume that the discount is to encourage people to use the pool when it's quieter. During school holidays they don't have a quieted daytime period, so don't offer the discount. Seems sensible enough to me.

It's entirely possible that the pr

robatwork

ThumbRemote wrote: »

It's entirely possible that the pr

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paddyrg

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Off topic, but curious. Do they do a men only session?

Is there a demand for one? Men tend to be fine with open sessions, some women prefer not to get into their skimpies with guys around, I'm fine with that.

If men want a men-only session and there is a demonstrable demand for it, they will implement one.

powerful_Rogue

paddyrg wrote: »

Is there a demand for one? Men tend to be fine with open sessions, some women prefer not to get into their skimpies with guys around, I'm fine with that.

If men want a men-only session and there is a demonstrable demand for it, they will implement one.

Who knows.

Just as theres some women that prefer to only wear costumes in front of other women, im sure theres men that would prefer to wear trunks around other men.

Did the women demand a womens only session or was it automatically put on? Im sure if they advertised a men only session it would get enough demand. Probably not from men worried about being in their trunks in front of women, but mainly because its just another swimming session they can attend.

In this day of equality etc, It does wind me up when pools have women only sessions and not men only.

Zinger549

If they advertised men only sessions there would be women claiming it's sexist.