AITAH for asking parents to take their baby out of the pool?
My husband and I were staying at a beautiful resort in the Canary Islands last week
The hotel had 3 outdoor pools
One was marked “for swimmers”, another “for non-swimmers” and the last was a shallower kids pool with small slides.
These were not heated but with the warm weather they were cool but not freezing.
There was also a spa with an indoor heated pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room. The spa was open 10am-6pm, with 4pm-6pm being adults only.
In our first day I braved the outdoors pool, which even for a wimp like me wasn’t unbearable, but with the option of the indoor pool I quickly opted to switch to that one.
There were lots of kids jumping and playing in the pool,0plus lots of babies so I opted to return at 4pm so I could swim without worrying about taking care around small children.
I did this each day and it worked well. 4 days later, however after about 20 minutes a family with 3 kids under about 5 years old came into the pool area of the spa.
A few adults were murmuring and I thought, they probably don’t know, so politely told them and pointed out the sign on the door. They were nice about it and said they’d come back tomorrow.
Then however 2 more couples with babies of 1-2 years old came in so of course everyone was looking to me as t he age lim it enforcer!
I did the same thing and politely told them as before.
However the dad said , “Does it really bother you that much?” I
I said, “Not loads, but it’s the adults only time and the adults in the pool prefer to come now to swim”he said, “It’s the only pool that’s heated and the babies have been napping so we’ve come now.”
I said I understand but it’s just a 2 hour adults only time, the rest of the day is for kids.
He ignored me and they got in, of course meaning 3 or 4 more young children ended up in there over the next half hour or so.
I spoke to the lifeguard and he said he’d already told them but they ignored him. However someone else must have spoken to him as he soon went and got a man in a suit who – after a heated discussion – got the parents to take their babies out.
So, AITA?
tldr I told some parents it was the adults only time in the pool, theygot annoyed, ignored me and got in until someone from the resort came to tell them.