Longest pool waitlist you stayed on?
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Anonymous
| 9 years but it would have been longer were it not for families moving away during Covid. |
Anonymous
| For the person on a waitlist, it really depends on the pool! Many pools clear their waitlists within a year so do not lose hope! Or perhaps get a membership elsewhere until a spot opens up at your closest pool. |
Anonymous
| 9 years and counting (still on waitlist at our pool), but we have received a full summer “rental” membership in every year except our first. |
Anonymous
This is true- Op of this thread and while I was on the 13 year waitlist I joined a neighborhood pool with no waitlist that was a 30 minute drive from my house (worth it to get the kids access to a pool, any pool when they were tiny), and then joined a 18 month waitlist for yet another pool that was slightly closer at 25 minutes but also has dive and tennis. We are very established at the second pool. So now that we are off the waitlist at pool 3, which is 8 minutes away but has no dive or tennis, the kids are going to use the 13 year waitlist pool for friend time and the distant pool for dive and tennis. It is stupidly complicated. My advice to anyone just starting out: buy that first house within a neighborhood with a no-waitlist pool that has an acceptable swim team at a minimum and don’t look back! Bonus points if it is walkable or bikeable. |
Anonymous
That’s a huge benefit! No pools close to us have rentals as an option but it’s too bad because it works for the families on both sides of the equation. |
Anonymous
Go to a different pool. |
Anonymous
| You all need to move to just outside the beltway in Northern Virginia. Areas that feed to high schools: Woodson, Lake Braddock, Robinson. There are nice pools to join. No waitlist. |
Anonymous
| I just looked up the waitlist of the pool near us and there are folks who have been waiting since 2010. |
Anonymous
Where are you located? Is there another nearby that doesn’t have a waitlist? We’ve been members of ours for 17 years and during that time there has never been anywhere close to a waitlist. We use it a lot and never once had to wait outside to get in either due to capacity. |
Anonymous
It’s the same for at least some that feed into West Springfield. |
Anonymous
Little Falls is always talking about what could have been with Katie. |
Anonymous
| Cardinal Hill in Vienna says it’s 8+ years for a summer lease and 10+ for a membership. |
Anonymous
It’s not about pools being too upper class it’s about capacity limits. We could offer more memberships but then members would throw a fit if the facility was at capacity and they weren’t allowed in. |
Anonymous
Was it Cardinal Hill? We sold the house and moved away and got a 'congratulations' email eight years later. Did we still want the membership? |
Anonymous
| Overlee - 10+ years. |