Bethesda Outdoor Pool — Local services in Somerset

This pool is horrible. For some reason, they do not allow the goggles which have the nose piece on them. I spoke with the manager and she told me at first that the reasoning was because you could breath through it with your nose, which is completely false. The goggles provide a suction around the nose and eyes, and leaves the mouth open. For me, I prefer having the nose peice because it makes it so water does not enter the nasal passage, which makes swimming much more safe. Apparently, they do not want this to happen. Another worker came up to me and told me that the actual reason was that they did not have the accessibility to the face when performing CPR. These workers must be untrained or perhaps the do not have a clear mind because you are perfectly and easily capable of removing the goggles, even though the mouth is already easily accessible. They also do not allow water guns, floatable hammocks,...

Pool itself is nice enough and clean but the surroundings are in bad need of maintenance: toilets and showers are dirty and run down, the building looks like it could collapse every minute. Seating area is nice though. Staff presents a mixed bag: people at the door and ticket desk and really nice and helpful but most of the lifeguards are rude. I witnessed a man asking the lifeguards why the swim aid for his kid was not approved and they started threatening to have him evicted and arrested by the police. The pool rules are extremely illogical and just enforced at will by some lifeguards who constantly abuse their power by shouting and whistling at random without explaining anything. It's a nice pool but the lifeguards kill all the fun with their condescending behaviour. Not fun for kids either since they are not allowed to take any kind of inflatable or other toys and get shouted at the moment...

Every time I go to Bethesda, I realize how buggy it is. I went to this pool, and somehow clipped through the bottom and ended up in Brentwood. Can you believe that? I managed to get back pretty quickly though, cause my car could drive straight up the sides of buildings. Once I got back to the pool, the rest of my day was pretty nice. I met a couple of guys who told me how they used to be adventurers, but all got shot in the knee. They were pretty fun to hang out with. The one lifeguard they have gets really angry if you run, so watch out for that. If you just stick a bucket over his head though, he won’t notice. Just make sure you’re running the...