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

VincentHanna

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.
 
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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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.

This thread was inspired by this post:
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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apatia77 said:
Well, if you are going to be active in the water ie swimming then you are going to be just fine. But if you are going to be just sitting doing nothing then eventually your body will get cold.
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Not really my experience.

As long as you swim for a short amount of time when you first get in, you can generally then stay in the water not doing a lot for ages after that.
 
grudas said:
think the reality is that everyone deals with cold different.

I can jump straight in the sea and have no issues, my other half takes time to get in.. people around us often bail out of take 5 minutes to get in because it's "freezing"

pools are the same for me, straight dive and I'm golden.
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Surely the different ways of getting in are the key.

If you slowly get in, you are going to feel the cold more. I've had it when wading out to sea.

Much better jumping in (not diving under) and getting your whole body in, then swimming straight away.
 
Pottsey said:
Iceland might not be the best example. Last time I was there typical swimming water was 37c to 40c even in the middle of winter. Even if you swim in the large outdoor lagoons the water was often still 37c+. Hot swimming water is one of the things Iceland is known for. Its a long way from bloody cold. Its an interesting experience swimming in a large lake in the middle of winter with the water at 37c+ while air temperature is -5c.
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Noted

(I've never been)
 
Yeah I don't get that either.

Just because I don't like certain foods, I can still tell the difference between a restaurant offering good food vs one offering mediocre stuff.

I don't like white based sauce Pasta for example, but I can still rate an Italian on the other food they do, that I do eat.
 
DJMK4 said:
Anyone who complains about the water being cold when you go to spain or something, needs to go and have a dip in an ice lake in the artic circle in december or jan/feb after getting out of a sauna in a log cabin.

Now that is refreshing :) and good for the soul
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Now that would be a struggle for me.

I also hate sauna's :D
 
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