Pools of Opportunity

[phltanner]

Living in a city of row houses without yards, sometimes I'll take "advantage" of a good hotel or apartment complex pool, like today in a 1.5" Aussiebum titanium loose suit. A city hotel with small pool & deck, but fine enough - great sun today but hot. Strings out -- laid back -- very loose.

Usually it's easy to get into the pools; a short wait for someone to enter and follow them. I've never been questioned.

Anybody else take this route?

[shaulis]

I have walked behind someone going the pool. I got to the pool without a question.

[Torchwatch]

I infiltrated a French naturist resort and did karate training and shopping there every morning for a week.

[kumu]

A friend lived next door to a house where a professional Speedo model lived in a house with a pool. The friend was, well, enchanted watching the speedo parties there.

[PSDave]

We used to get pool crashers at a resort hotel I managed. Hotel security would detain them while the local police came to arrest for trespassing. Signs were clearly posted so it was within our discretion. Word got out and the problem stopped. There are too many public pools and hotels that allow pool use for a small fee (based on hotel occupancy) With the advent of security cameras, security can often spot a non-guest just by observing.

[Byron]

Don't understand this - there are "too many" and for a "small fee".
If they are PUBLIC pools there is no trespass?
If they are at a hotel then payment of the fee ALLOWS entry ?
(in law a contract has been entered into ).
Is this post trying to say too many yobbos get access to exclusive facilities?

[PSDave]

Byron -- That is exactly it. Everyone wants something for nothing. In some minds it seems to be cool to use a hotel or private pool without paying the fees that are being collected. If the shoe was on the other foot and they had just paid $350 to stay in the hotel, how would they feel about the locals using it and occupying the facilities that they had paid for?
Pool fees (or occupancy in hotel privileges ) include the insurance that is required by such facilities and the restrictions cities put on occupancy of a space or number of lifeguards required.
It is basically theft of services. Theft, whether B&E, shoplifting, sneaking into a movie or using a private pool, is theft. It costs us all money every year through increased prices and higher insurance. But still, people will justify in their minds that it is ok -- if they aren't caught.

[Drenalin]

About the furthest I ever went was climbing the fence to the local public pool after closing hours at dark. No sun but having an Olympic size pool all to yourself and a few friends was pretty sweet. We respected the property and always cleaned up after ourselves so no harm no foul I say.

[kumu]

I haven't been in a pool in years. The ocean is always open. Not always nice, but always open.

[Byron]

My best experience was at night and in wintertime, whilst enjoying a stay at a Spanish hotel with excellent guest facilities. These included an in/out heated pool with a flexible barrier and the "out" allowed a swim under the stars - plus a quick snowball fight in speedos on the deck - and a return to "in" when feeling cold at minus whatever it was.
The fun time was heightened by the participation of some friendly "locals" - whether staff or gatecrashers I know not.