Swim Lessons at PG Pool - New Policy 👎

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would definitely make me think twice about booking more private lessons there for sure. In all honestly when we have done private lessons at $40 for 30 minutes we usually end up there for about 2 hours in total. When we come to PG Pool as guests of friends who are members its costs $17 for me and my two kids and we could literally stay all day so... It is a bummer because the young people who do the swim lessons there do a great job and I am happy to support them but I will likely just come as a guest in the future and save myself the extra $$

And I don't think the PG pool allows non members to sign up for lessons out of the kindness of their hearts, this year we have spent around $550 on group and private lessons (the membership would cost us around $770 if we ever moved off of the waitlist) and that clearly benefits the membership. It just seems short sighted to potentially alienate a group of people who are contributing to the pool finances.

Is your priority to get access to the pool or get your child lessons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s surprising to me that your pool would allow non members to do lessons and especially privates. you definitely can’t expect all the paying members to subsidize your family using the pool. Wouldn’t you be upset if you paid for membership?

Well that is the mindset of this area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would definitely make me think twice about booking more private lessons there for sure. In all honestly when we have done private lessons at $40 for 30 minutes we usually end up there for about 2 hours in total. When we come to PG Pool as guests of friends who are members its costs $17 for me and my two kids and we could literally stay all day so... It is a bummer because the young people who do the swim lessons there do a great job and I am happy to support them but I will likely just come as a guest in the future and save myself the extra $$

And I don't think the PG pool allows non members to sign up for lessons out of the kindness of their hearts, this year we have spent around $550 on group and private lessons (the membership would cost us around $770 if we ever moved off of the waitlist) and that clearly benefits the membership. It just seems short sighted to potentially alienate a group of people who are contributing to the pool finances.

Is your priority to get access to the pool or get your child lessons?

Clearly the priority is to get access cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would definitely make me think twice about booking more private lessons there for sure. In all honestly when we have done private lessons at $40 for 30 minutes we usually end up there for about 2 hours in total. When we come to PG Pool as guests of friends who are members its costs $17 for me and my two kids and we could literally stay all day so... It is a bummer because the young people who do the swim lessons there do a great job and I am happy to support them but I will likely just come as a guest in the future and save myself the extra $$

And I don't think the PG pool allows non members to sign up for lessons out of the kindness of their hearts, this year we have spent around $550 on group and private lessons (the membership would cost us around $770 if we ever moved off of the waitlist) and that clearly benefits the membership. It just seems short sighted to potentially alienate a group of people who are contributing to the pool finances.

Maybe work on your understanding of your own words: "if we ever moved off the waitlist". You are occupying space at the pool and not paying your share. They have more demand than spots.

Capitalism, PP. If you take your dollars elsewhere, they won't feel it. Now stop leeching.

[Anonymous]

“Is your priority to get access to the pool or get your child lessons?”

It was the lessons. My child is a strong swimmer thanks to the high quality group lessons at PG pool so we continued with privates to hone skills further. It’s just I can also do privates at an indoor pool for the same price where it will be easy to get them out the door after due to the freezing cold pool and lack of ice cream for purchase. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I would rather just go as there as a guest moving forward to not deal with a kid who doesn’t want to leave immediately after.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

“Is your priority to get access to the pool or get your child lessons?”

It was the lessons. My child is a strong swimmer thanks to the high quality group lessons at PG pool so we continued with privates to hone skills further. It’s just I can also do privates at an indoor pool for the same price where it will be easy to get them out the door after due to the freezing cold pool and lack of ice cream for purchase. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I would rather just go as there as a guest moving forward to not deal with a kid who doesn’t want to leave immediately after.

So your kid struggles to leave the nice pool where you’re not a member, and you’re here with the 🙄 and the 👎 about a reasonable policy for nonmembers to leave after the lesson.

Go away with your entitlement. This isn’t the look you think it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s surprising to me that your pool would allow non members to do lessons and especially privates. you definitely can’t expect all the paying members to subsidize your family using the pool. Wouldn’t you be upset if you paid for membership?

Well that is the mindset of this area.

I'm also surprised that a private pool would allow non-members in for lessons at all!
And certainly, if permitted this unusual special access just for a lesson, one wouldn't expect to stay at the pool after the lesson is over and lounge! How tacky. Its right up there with people who go to hotel pools and swim and don't stay at the hotel.
You weren't doing that, were you, OP? I'm not sure your reason for posting this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

“Is your priority to get access to the pool or get your child lessons?”

It was the lessons. My child is a strong swimmer thanks to the high quality group lessons at PG pool so we continued with privates to hone skills further. It’s just I can also do privates at an indoor pool for the same price where it will be easy to get them out the door after due to the freezing cold pool and lack of ice cream for purchase. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I would rather just go as there as a guest moving forward to not deal with a kid who doesn’t want to leave immediately after.

So, I don't understand why you were doing lessons at the privates outdoor pool when the indoor public pool seems to suit your needs better, with the lack of ice cream and all. Can you elaborate?

[Anonymous]

I'm cringing in second hand embarrassment at the idea of carpetbagging my whole family into a members-only pool for the day by signing one kid up for a swim lesson.

[Anonymous]

It seems they just need to make lessons only available to members and that would render all of this moot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s surprising to me that your pool would allow non members to do lessons and especially privates. you definitely can’t expect all the paying members to subsidize your family using the pool. Wouldn’t you be upset if you paid for membership?

Well that is the mindset of this area.

I'm also surprised that a private pool would allow non-members in for lessons at all!
And certainly, if permitted this unusual special access just for a lesson, one wouldn't expect to stay at the pool after the lesson is over and lounge! How tacky. Its right up there with people who go to hotel pools and swim and don't stay at the hotel.
You weren't doing that, were you, OP? I'm not sure your reason for posting this.

Non-guests pay for day passes to use a hotel pool. Not a big deal.

What OP is doing is trying to cobble together a quasi-membership to the pool where she’s on a waitlist. Between the $17 daily guest fees when she goes with a member-friend here and there and the swim lessons that she dragged out beyond the 30 minutes, she figured she’d get enough pool time. But the pool put a stop to that plan with its new policy.

[Anonymous]

How can it be taking people more than 20 minutes to leave a pool once the lesson is over? How odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s surprising to me that your pool would allow non members to do lessons and especially privates. you definitely can’t expect all the paying members to subsidize your family using the pool. Wouldn’t you be upset if you paid for membership?

Well that is the mindset of this area.

I'm also surprised that a private pool would allow non-members in for lessons at all!
And certainly, if permitted this unusual special access just for a lesson, one wouldn't expect to stay at the pool after the lesson is over and lounge! How tacky. Its right up there with people who go to hotel pools and swim and don't stay at the hotel.
You weren't doing that, were you, OP? I'm not sure your reason for posting this.

Non-guests pay for day passes to use a hotel pool. Not a big deal.

What OP is doing is trying to cobble together a quasi-membership to the pool where she’s on a waitlist. Between the $17 daily guest fees when she goes with a member-friend here and there and the swim lessons that she dragged out beyond the 30 minutes, she figured she’d get enough pool time. But the pool put a stop to that plan with its new policy.

HAHA HA. You must have grown up with classier relatives. One of my aunts was FAMOUS for rolling up to a hotel pool and swimming at it and pretending to be guests of the hotel. Lots of people do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can it be taking people more than 20 minutes to leave a pool once the lesson is over? How odd.

OP doesn’t want to upset little Pyper Jax by imposing limits and suffering his wrath directed at her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm cringing in second hand embarrassment at the idea of carpetbagging my whole family into a members-only pool for the day by signing one kid up for a swim lesson.

I don’t think you could bring other kids in? Just the lesson kid(s).

I did this last summer. What it looked like was we did our 30 minute lesson, then played in the pool for another 45 min.

I think the really angry and outraged PPs don’t understand how widely shared by word of mouth this “perk” for swim lessons has been. I even asked the kid at the check in desk to make sure it was okay because I’m an anxious rule follower, and she said we could stay as long as we liked.

Everyone agrees that they’re perfectly allowed to change/clarify/enforce the policy. I think the OP just wanted people to know so they could decide if they still want to do the lessons.