Parties at Public Pools?

[leeloo]

Not sure if this has been asked yet, but has anyone had a gig at a public or semi-private pool like for a birthday party? If so, how does that work? Do you have to get permission from the pool to do a party? For instance a pool at an apartment complex or housing community. Would you have to rent out the whole pool or just use a certain area, and if you don't rent how do you keep track which kids are part of the party and which aren't? Thanks.

[Ashe]

Thanks for posting this thread! Though i dont have your answers yet, i too am thinking of doing parties at my local community pool.

[happyguava]

We did a party at a public pool a couple of weeks ago. Originally we were going to hire a section of the pool specifically for the party, but in the end the pool said we could just use the general use area. There were only three kids and two mermaids so we didn't take up much space - if it was a bigger party we would definitely have had to book the area :)

I'm not sure how an apartment complex pool would work though.

[Ayla of Duluth]

...we don't have pools here. only the motels do. there's no community pool

[Mer_Adella]

See where I like in MI (the boonies lol) we don't have a community pool....we have lakes. I saw not too long ago a party for a little girls 8th bday where it said "come join the tall tails" with a mermaid drawing around it. Luckily we were putting our boat in there and on the other side of the docks where the swim area is, I got to watch all these kids just mesermized as a mermaid preformer swam into the swimming areana for her party. The parents had hired the woman and had asked her to enter like she got lost and swam up river trying to find the ocean and entertain the kids. The bday girl was so happy she started crying saying that her bday wish came true. Thats when I looked at my fiance and said "THAT is why I want to make a mermaid tail and do gigs".