03-21-2013, 04:02 PM
My two cents: I went to the Pahoa pool once, but also found it a bit restrictive. While I acknowledge rules are important and necessary, I am a school teacher, I think that not allowing floaty arms and small inter tubes is a little over the top. We travel a lot in the summer and the pool by my kid's grandparents home(San Diego) is much more "accepting" of children. They have allotted times to accommodate everyone. There is a 2 hour block of family swim time, which is family friendly, there are also blocks of "adult only" swim time which is I think what Julie was trying to refer to. I think this is a reasonable. While I can see the problem with big rafts and bouncing balls, i do not see a problem with my 4 year old wearing floaty arms and a small inter tube. We prefer Onekahakaha, the ocean water is better for you, but it would be nice to have a choice. I'm not sure why everyone was so hard on Julie, her points seemed valid to me. keep the aloha folks..