OMG what a ripoff!!!

Grimmerick
Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
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Just tried to get an outside member pool pass for my stepson so he can swim a bit this summer. They want $500 F-ing dollars for a pool pass for 4 months. WTF, are they serving lunch and mojitos with this pass cause he is only sixteen and way to young for the mojitios. Anybody know the deal with this? Why the price gouging? I know it's expensive to upkeep a pool but I also know it isn't that d@mn expensive. This is a very popular pool with plenty of people.

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  • JaneDough_
    JaneDough_ Posts: 301 Member
    Yeah, the local one where my sister lives requires a $400 deposit to be able to use the pool....

    cray-cray

    ಠ_ಠ
  • saxmaniac
    saxmaniac Posts: 1,133 Member
    That's a bit nuts. That amount of cash buys a gym membership for the entire family, with indoor *and* outdoor pools.

    Not to mention an entire gym of equipment and free classes.
  • chunkydunk714
    chunkydunk714 Posts: 784 Member
    Thats fkn ridiculous. Id send my kid to soak city for 1/4 of the price. And yes, thats all summer....
  • onwarddownward
    onwarddownward Posts: 1,683 Member
    That's the same as the local pool here. It's outside, only open for three months and $400!!!

    I swim at a hotel. My family pass is $500 for the year and it includes the weight and aerobics room.
  • _Krys10_
    _Krys10_ Posts: 1,234 Member
    We pay $500 a year for our neighborhood pool and it is only open from Memorial day to Labor Day. Being that they have Lifeguards on hand and have pool upkeep I can understand why though. I don't mind paying it.
  • WeepingAngel81
    WeepingAngel81 Posts: 2,232 Member
    I thought it was expensive here! It's $169 for a family pass. Then there is a mini water park called Star CIty Shores and that's $199 for a family. We have 7 pools where I live. I go the gym at the Y and their outdoor pool is included in the membership and it's for members only. It's not nearly as crowded as the city pools.
  • zoober
    zoober Posts: 226 Member
    A lot of the cost for pool memebership is the liability insurance the operators need to have, and the (legal) requirement to hire people as lifeguards. Not that I'm disagreeing that 500 bucks is pretty steep, but running a public pool does cost quite a bit. I hope you have some cheaper alternatives nearby.
  • clobern
    clobern Posts: 341 Member
    Wow... I think I paied like $365 for me, my wife and our 4 kids for an entire year at our fitness center which includes an olympic pool, diving board, kiddie pool, wave pool...
  • K_Serz
    K_Serz Posts: 1,299 Member
    Damn. Thanks for posting this. I have my own pool. Its a lot of work and is expensive, but it sounds like I am saving tons of money to swim in a great pool, thats perfectly balanced with no one elses pee in it but mine!
  • NotRailMeat
    NotRailMeat Posts: 509 Member
    A lot of the cost for pool memebership is the liability insurance the operators need to have, and the (legal) requirement to hire people as lifeguards. Not that I'm disagreeing that 500 bucks is pretty steep, but running a public pool does cost quite a bit. I hope you have some cheaper alternatives nearby.
    QFT

    Insurance for the pool in my own backyard is $500 a year, which I think is pretty cheap. Imagine what it would be with public access.
  • coreyreichle
    coreyreichle Posts: 1,031 Member
    I just go to the beach. $12 per car. I just ride my bike there. So, it's free.
  • markymarrkk
    markymarrkk Posts: 495 Member
    I have a part time job in the evenings for the City's community center. I swim at the aquatic center with Olympic sized swimming pools, indoor/outdoor, and high dive platform .... FOR FREE!
  • newjojie
    newjojie Posts: 292 Member
    Wow, our community pool is $50 for the summer, my kids wouldn't be swimming all summer if it was $500.
  • HealthWoke0ish
    HealthWoke0ish Posts: 2,078 Member
    #firstworldproblems
  • kmbweber2014
    kmbweber2014 Posts: 680 Member
    I am so blessed to live where I live. We don't have public pools, we have a beautiful lake with lots of free access.
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    #firstworldproblems

    it's all relative now isn't it
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    It's $4 a pop to swim in the city pools here. If you went every day for four months, that would be the cost. And while they sell passes, they don't give a discount on them.
  • karl39x
    karl39x Posts: 586 Member
    I'd rather bust open a hydrant.
  • rpoupard99
    rpoupard99 Posts: 28 Member
    Ha! THAT puts it in perspective!
  • rpoupard99
    rpoupard99 Posts: 28 Member
    Oops...I was responding to jzalisa 's comment!! :happy:
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    Ha! THAT puts it in perspective!

    hmm I wonder if he would have said this If I posted that I had tests done at a very renowned hospital with the best equipment and found out I had cancer. *sigh* first world problems......................ah maybe not that much of a d!ck hopefully. Don't downplay others posts with crap like that because you'll be doing it all day. People's issues are relative to where they live, sorry but that's life.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    Just tried to get an outside member pool pass for my stepson so he can swim a bit this summer. They want $500 F-ing dollars for a pool pass for 4 months. WTF, are they serving lunch and mojitos with this pass cause he is only sixteen and way to young for the mojitios. Anybody know the deal with this? Why the price gouging? I know it's expensive to upkeep a pool but I also know it isn't that d@mn expensive. This is a very popular pool with plenty of people.

    Maybe it's expensive because it's popular.
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    Just tried to get an outside member pool pass for my stepson so he can swim a bit this summer. They want $500 F-ing dollars for a pool pass for 4 months. WTF, are they serving lunch and mojitos with this pass cause he is only sixteen and way to young for the mojitios. Anybody know the deal with this? Why the price gouging? I know it's expensive to upkeep a pool but I also know it isn't that d@mn expensive. This is a very popular pool with plenty of people.

    Maybe it's expensive because it's popular.

    like abercrombie and fitch, your prob right but I refuse to pay for that overpriced crap either

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