My favorite pool just posted a rate increase of 50% per visit. I’m curious if they are ripping me or if I was just getting a good deal before and now its time to pay the piper. I was paying $4 per visit for master swim program. It will now be $6. I usually swim three times a week. The program is available from 05:30 to 07:00 am and we usually get about 8 lanes. I get a great workout out of it and I enjoy the company. And it is an excellent pool. Should I be upset or just payup?
What are your options? At close to $75 a month, you are talking a good club membership if there is one with a good pool nearby.
I pay $1.50/visit at the community college natatorium (no programs).
I swim with a masters team at a middle school in town. Nice pool. Good coach. Can swim up to 5x a week if I ever feel the need. I believe i paid $200 for the year…
I totally, totally over-pay:
Local Jewish Community Center/Y - family rate of $585, plus a tax-deductable $220 building pledge for the first 4 years of our membership (we’re in year#2).
The family rate is the biggest waste, as my wife never has time to go, and the place is closed on Friday evenings and all day Saturday (in observance of Jewish sabbath) - makes it limited as to when we can go with the kids.
I keep it up only because it’s about a 1/4 mile from my job, which allows me to swim or strength train every day during lunch.
I have access to a 25m pool at my gym, and so the membership covers the cost of using the pool. My previous employer subsidized the gym membership, and so I paid out-of-pocket $250 CDN for a 1 year membership. I was looking at posssibly changing to a different location (for personal reasons) and when I asked they were charging $10/swim or else get a membership which starts at $700/year. And my new employer does not cover gym memberships in their benefits. So my rates will be increasing by the fall.
$25/mo family membership at local YMCA. Great pool. Lap swim available from 6am to 8pm.
Local outdoor pool has free lap swim from 11-12 during summer months. Swim and tan…
But we live in rural Maryland where cost of living is pretty low.
I think I would gladly pay $6 to have a group of people to swim with and help push myself. If it is really improving your training to do masters, I would say stick with it. It really isn’t that much when you compare it to a top end tri-bike.
Converting currency…hmmm carry the 5 ummm
Roughly $50 per 6 months. Gives access too 3 indoor pools and one outdoors + access to a limited weights room.
Nothing. The only time that I “swim” these days is at the cottage in the summer time.
Fleck
$25/month for the best Master’s group around (I go 2x/week, but its offered 4x)
plus
$50 gym dues (for solo swims)
plus
$0 for open water once its warm enough
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I joined a master’s club for $210/year plus $35 for LMSC/USMS membership. I could swim M-F 6-7:30am with them but usually only swim MWF. This club also has 3mo ($85) and 6mo ($130) memberships but I don’t think they have a per visit arrangement.
I also swim either at the university pool ($2) or a community center pool ($3.50) on the weekend because they are both 50m.
$40 for masters, which includes a coach and three days per week at one of the best facilities in the city.
$36 for a gym membership which has a dirty & warm pool – but it’s nice for a recovery workout and very close to home.
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Wow I am paying a LOT more than you all. I swim with a combined masters/age group team. Great coach and tough workouts. I pay either $125/10 workouts or if you go 3+ times a week you pay a flat rate per session. Something like $275/10 weeks. The aforementioned rates are the “new” more expensive rates for the current session, 10-15% increase.
Around here you either swim on the team I swim on or you join a gym with a pool. The cheapest gym with a pool is the Y and that is $40ish a month.
I don’t pay anything because I work at the gym I swim at, but members pay 110 per month for the use of the club. Chicago Masters is 50 per month if you prepay three months up front or 75 per if you pay month to month.
Assuming most of you have a college education, my college lets alumni swim for free. otherwise, there is a pool down the street from me that charges $4/visit
$1.50 per visit to the local city pool. Open lap swimming only from 11 am to 1 pm. I spend about $6.00 per year.
$30/year to masters and $30 per month at local H.S.
< $25 a month for a Bally’s membership, I can swim 7 days a week during regular business hours.
$5 for 1.5 hr at Schoolcraft college with my master’s group
jaretj
$125/year gets me access to the Rec Center pool and all other equipment.
I was paying for a family membership at a local YMCA…probably $50/month. But, we dropped that…now I swim at the pool during my lunch break 3 days a week for free. I work at a university.