Discouraging Children from Swimming – Plascrug Leisure Centre
We don’t take Morgan swimming quite as often as we should, but Cerdigion County Council don’t make it easy either.
Last time we took him to the pool at Plascrug leisure centre we were told that the children’s pool was a little cold. When we got in was was more than cold, it was absolutely freezing and there was no way anyone could stay in it so everyone had to use the large pool. This wasn’t much better and Morgan was only able to stay in the water for about 10 minutes before going blue. Needless to say we weren’t too pleased but the leisure centre didn’t seem too bothered about it and were still letting people in (and of course charging them) despite the fact that the pool was unusable.
We tried again on Monday as it was half term and there is supposed to be free swimming for children in the mornings. A good idea as this encourages children to get in the pool and of course gets their families into the pool as well. As far as I’m concerned this is just the sort of thing the council should be doing – no doubt getting people more active and therefore fitter would save money in the long term.
However, we turned up just before 11:30am only to be told (by a very grumpy girl on the desk) that we were too late for the free child swim and we had to pay full price for Morgan. We argued the point for a bit but in the end had to pay for him. It’s not the money that gets us, its the principle. For a start we were on time – last entry for the free swim is apparently 11:30am and both the credit card receipt and the till receipt from the pool has a time stamp before 11:30 (only just admittedly but we did argue the point for a minute or so before actually paying). More important though is the fact that they should be encouraging people to go swimming, not making it difficult for them, even if it had been a few minutes past 11:30 surely they should let you in anyway, afterall we were only going there because of the offer of a free kids swim so they were getting the full price for two adults anyway.
Anna has e-mailed the council to moan about it, so we’ll see what they say.
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ah mate ceredigion council are so bad at some things, if you dont get joy from council man your next best is polite letter to cambrian news and western mail. that always rattle afew cages, oh and nuke em with a letter to your local lib dem mp
hee hee
The e-mail seemed to do the trick… We’ve have a reply from the Centre Manager – Along with the promise of some complimentary free swim passes:
CC do my head in far too often. We’ve found Mach pool to be good for kids, or the one at Clarach, although I don’t know what type of chlorine they use at Clarach, but it’s very smelly :-/
Yep, we decided against Clarach on that day sue to the smell.