People who complain about "cold" swimming pools on holiday.

VincentHanna

VincentHanna

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What's the deal with this? I've never understood it.

If you go away on holiday, chances are the pool won't be heated because that costs a lot of money to do so. But I've yet to use a pool on holiday that's ever been too cold to be in.

Yet I've heard/read so many complaints about it, literally in real life (usually whilst I am swimming in the pool) or people complaining in Tripadvisor reviews.

People dip their feet in and go "Ooooh it's so cold" or they get in for 10 seconds and then scarper because they can't hack it, when all they need to do is swim around for 30 seconds to acclimate to the temperature of the pool.

I'm sure if you are in Iceland in winter, or even in europe and the outside temperature is 5°C or something then the pool will be bloody cold, but I can't say I've ever wanted to use a holiday pool in that sort of weather anyway. But when the suns been on it and it's 20+ °C there's no such thing as a pool that's too cold IMO.
 
a good splash to cool down never liked heated pools anyways.

nice cold swin in the villa pool early morning lovely.
 
Haven't really heard this complaint before to be fair.

Personally, I want a cold pool to jump into if I'm in a hot country...

Also in hot climates, the pools tend to be relatively warm (or at least not freezing cold) naturally anyway :confused:
 
Well, well, well, I see we've got a regular David Hasselhoff here, unfazed by the chilliest of pools. My apologies, I didn't realize we had an Arctic explorer who happens to also enjoy lounging around resorts in the middle of winter. Listen, not everyone's got your liquid nitrogen blood or polar bear fur, my friend.

The truth of the matter is, heated pools are the Willy Wonka golden tickets of vacation. You see, when the average person goes on vacation, they want to RELAX, not prepare for a reenactment of the Titanic. A vacation isn't a test of courage against hypothermia. You're trying to sip a cocktail by the poolside, not audition for the next installment of the "Ice Age" franchise.

As for those so-called complaints you've read, those are genuine cries for help. They are the echoes of the brave souls who've attempted the ten-second plunge and lived to tell the tale. Sure, the sun's been beating down and it's a balmy 20°C, but we're not all solar panels. The sun doesn't recharge us, and it sure as heck doesn't make us immune to the chill of unheated pool water.

So yes, you might find it amusing that people "can't hack it" or complain about the cold. But remember, not everyone has your Ironman-like resolve or your Yeti-like tolerance for cold. Some of us just want to dip into a pool that feels more like a relaxing hot tub than the heart of Antarctica. Is that too much to ask?

To each their own, my frost-resistant friend. Enjoy your icy plunges, and we'll continue with our shrieks and gasps. After all, that's half the fun of pool-side holidays, isn't it? The shared suffering and camaraderie of those of us who've taken the plunge. You go ahead and splash around in your icy lagoons, we'll be just fine in our warm, cozy tubs, thank you very much!
 
Some people run hotter than others, so the sudden temperature change is more of a shock to their bodies.
The resulting tachycardia can be enough to incapacitate some people and even 1st stage cold water shock can last up to three minutes.

I'm sure you'd still be laughing and calling them a pansy ******** when the ambulance (or in some cases, the coroner) was taking them away, though.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Some people run hotter than others, so the sudden temperature change is more of a shock to their bodies.
The resulting tachycardia can be enough to incapacitate some people and even 1st stage cold water shock can last up to three minutes.

I'm sure you'd still be laughing and calling them a pansy ******** when the ambulance (or in some cases, the coroner) was taking them away, though.
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ttaskmaster said:
Some people run hotter than others, so the sudden temperature change is more of a shock to their bodies.
The resulting tachycardia can be enough to incapacitate some people and even 1st stage cold water shock can last up to three minutes.
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The irony is that normally the people in the pool with me are pensioners, who would likely feel the cold more.

The ones complaining are often young or overweight - The sort of people who should be better insulated from body shock.
ttaskmaster said:
I'm sure you'd still be laughing and calling them a pansy ******** when the ambulance (or in some cases, the coroner) was taking them away, though.
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Bit much
 
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Ignore the stupid people on Tripadvisor, they complain about everything and rate it down.

"The bathroom floor gets wet when we take a shower!" - commenting the fact that the design is a wet room. You would know this if you only looked at the photos on the website.

"The bedside reading lamp didn't work, 1 star". - of all things to be mad about, if that is the only thing the hotel has done wrong, I'd love to stay there.

"We got there early and they wouldn't let us check in early!" - 1 star.

"The swimming pool was out of service, they were doing maintenance" 1 star.

And it's not just the British either, every culture, every walks of life. I always ignore the 1 star reviews, because they are outliers, they are not reasonable people.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Ignore the stupid people on Tripadvisor, they complain about everything and rate it down.

"The bathroom floor gets wet when we take a shower!" - commenting the fact that the design is a wet room. You would know this if you only looked at the photos on the website.

"The bedside reading lamp didn't work, 1 star". - of all things to be mad about, if that is the only thing the hotel has done wrong, I'd love to stay there.

"We got there early and they wouldn't let us check in early!" - 1 star.

"The swimming pool was out of service, they were doing maintenance" 1 star.

And it's not just the British either, every culture, every walks of life. I always ignore the 1 star reviews, because they are outliers, they are not reasonable people.
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Oh yeah, to be fair it's very easy to filter genuine complaints from people just being absolute moaning entitled nit-pickers.

My 17 year old Nephew just went to Villamoura with his girlfriends family and stayed in a 5 star hotel. When they arrived there was literally a human **** on the balcony and when they complained, the staff refused to clean it away! They said it was probably an "animal" and "wasn't there when the room was cleaned earlier" - This was a third story balcony, what sort of animal can get up there to do a human sized poo?

That's a scenario when you complain, big time!

But the "pool is cold" is one that comes up again and again.

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MoNkeE said:
I stayed at Wyndham / Ramada last month, and didn’t particularly like it. The water is beyond freezing (perhaps all the Turkish resorts do this) meaning our young kids struggled to enjoy the water activities
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"Beyond freezing" - So it was literally a complete block of ice was it? :D
 
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Food reviews on supermarket sites are the same. I’ve seen someone rate a lovely jar of tiptree jam 1/5 because the lid was too tight :rolleyes:

There’s also plenty of examples where people give certain products a low rating because it wasn’t nice and it’s obvious from the review that they just can’t cook properly. No one cooks a chicken to the supermarket instructions as they make sure it will be overdone and dry as **** to cover their arses.
 
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