Lake Claire Pool

$ 525 for the yearly fee for a family and $ 100 to join a five year waiting list. Holy crap that is insane.

Thought I better put something in to counter the stupidity of the older review. The pool is private, the website states this fact. The manager clearly stated it to the person before, I guess they chose to ignore it. I have been a member for several years and am very happy with the pool, its clean, well run and well maintained. The fee to join is pricey compared to other neighborhood pools, but the location fits for my family so we joined Lake Claire. I do feel that for the fees we have to pay a few more amenities should be considered, such as BBQ grills/​area. Snack bar etc,
Overall, very happy with this «private» neighborhood pool.

Shame on you Lake Claire Pool. Shame on you.
On a recent Friday afternoon with the thermometer reaching 102 degrees, I was refused entry with the manager stating that the pool was private and there was a three year wait to join. There were only seven people in the pool. Really???
Either this private business owner does not know how to manage its business or is racist and is managing the membership to exclusion versus inclusion.
My athletic gym is private and busy, yet they allow non-​members to join on a daily and hourly basis for a fee. It is more business and revenue for them. Why would the pool not have the same model even in a limited way to accommodate any concerns? Have a capacity limitation per hour or per day versus the number of memberships. As anyone with common sense knows not everyone who signs up shows up.
If you understand the business case and still do not adopt it then perhaps the pool’s membership objective and practice is to discriminate. I wonder how many African Americans are on the membership list? The seven people in the pool that day were definitely as white as it gets but I am not sure if this small sample is representative of the whole.
In the conversation with the manager, she mentioned the word «we are a private business» no less than 5 times. I get it, but even if it is not against the law for private businesses to discriminate, it just smells bad and is morally wrong. Is that really what we want and expect from businesses is the ability to treat people differently based on inherent characteristics?
If this pool was really an asset to the community, they would open the pool even for a limited time to any resident. They do not — you have to wait three years to join until you are deemed acceptable while they remain underutilized and undercapacity with seven people in the pool on weekdays.
By the way, I ended up driving to Emory, the ultra-​posh, ultra-​private university that lets the public use its beautiful pool for a small ten dollar fee instead of having the ability to walk 200 yards from my house to the local Lake Claire pool where I was refused service.
Again, SHAME ON YOU Lake Claire Pool.