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Originally Posted by asianthree
You must be at one regional center that doesn’t have 10 people in line 30 minutes before open. Each person I’d scanned before entering. I swam at 4 sites, since 2010, only once was Id not scanned, because of malfunction. However ID’s were still checked. Water sports are far more brutal to acquire a spot that open swim
Since guest aren’t allowed at sports pools and most swim 30-40 minutes. Didn’t take long to acquire a lane to get 2 miles in every morning. Bunch of lanes open at that 50 degree temp
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I’m not a morning person, so I can’t speak for ID checking for lap swimming during the early morning lap swimming window (dawn until when the organized group activities begin). I mostly swim during the late afternoon/evening window when the group activities end for the day. In 10 years, and probably about 1,000 times swimming laps at the various sports pools (during both open swim and lap swim times), I could count on both hands the times my ID was checked. The only times my ID has ever been checked were either during COVID, when the pools were reopened to a very limited amount of people, or if I showed up when a group activity was still going on because I got there early enough to lay claim on a swim lane knowing they would immediately fill up when the class ended. They seem to almost always check ID’s for organized activities like water volleyball or exercise classes, but never for either dedicated open swim (half the pool for lap swimming and half for water walkers) or lap swimming time. Over the years, I have witnessed many people using the sports pools who I highly doubt were Villages residents and over 30 years old. Perhaps on rare occasion my intuition was wrong, but typically it’s very obvious, and some openly admit it like they are proud of what they are getting away with. I would be totally in favor of some kind of a gated system, where the only way possible to enter the facility would be by having to scan a valid ID.