Everyone acts like the beach is this magical paradise, but let’s be real for a second: sand gets everywhere.Stepping on blazing hot sand feels like walking through hell barefoot.Sand is everywhere In your shoes, your bag, your towel… somehow even in your scalp. You come home feeling like you’ve smuggled half the shore with you.
And don’t get me started on saltwater. It burns your eyes like you’re being punished for trying to have fun. Plus, waves are unpredictable—you try to swim and end up getting smacked in the face or dragged halfway down the coast.
Meanwhile, pools? No surprise attacks, no itchy salt, and zero sand in uncomfortable places. Just swim, chill, and rinse off. Simple. Peaceful. Superior.
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Pools are better for swimming but beach is better for vibes and playing around
I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion lol
“The Pool Boys” just doesn’t have the same vibe to it.
both are terrible
I think it depends what pools we are talking about
Private pool? Hell yeah.
Public pool in August during the holiday with a billion of kids or that all in hotel pool with a bunch of drunk Americans in Cancun (yes it’s very specific, I am still traumatised by that day) ? Nope.
Disagree. The waves of the ocean while swimming is amazing. I do hate the feeling afterwards from it though
As a Black woman…fuck the beach. Do you know how hard it is to get sand out of an AFRO? Sand is nature’s glitter.
I would take salt water over chlorine any day.
But anyway, it really depends on what you are trying to achieve. If all you want is swim, beach is not going to be ideal. If you want to chill for a day, the concrete of the pool is not what is going to keep you the more entertained.
If you have kids, a day at the beach is the best.
Springs are the best. Better than pools & beaches but yes I would put beaches last as well. Ocean water is gross
Depends both are great. A resort pool can be better than a dingy beach but a beautiful beach day is so much more rewarding and relaxing
Both are wrong. Rafting on a river is the best way to enjoy water. And it’s not even close.
Being in a boat is the best
Outdoor pools only though. That crazy humid indoor pool feeling, I am not a fan
Night Beach in the summer is the best beach experience. I like to sit where the currents intersect and let the water move my body
Also, I don’t wanna get eaten by a shark so I wholeheartedly agree with your opinion.
What are y’all doing that gets sand everywhere!?? Never understand that and every time this opinion is posted nobody responds lol
Sand does get everywhere. It’s also coarse, and rough, and irritating.
I agree with this because I don’t like sand. It’s course, dry and irritating and it gets everywhere.
This! Also, please, no salty water on swimming pools!
Doesn’t bother me…. It’s worth it!
This is like saying walking the sidewalk is better than taking a hike through the woods.
You can’t surf in a pool though
Public pools are nasty as hell, no thanks
Definitely an unpopular opinion
I feel like you just have a shitty beach. A good beach solves all of lifes issues.
The Saltwater is actually really good for your skin.
People piss in pools, if it’s not mostly empty, I’m not interested. Swim up pool bars are like 53% urine.
Lake Erie is awesome for swimming. Pools are ok, but inferior
I need the beach, that’s how I grew up
I agree, beaches are only good for fishing. Even then all you really catch is surf perch or given the right time of year, right now, you could catch striped bass.
That said, rocks and cliffs are kind of better for fishing anyway
Waves are the reason you go to the beach. It’s fun to bob up and down in them. Ride them. Surf them.
The beach has always been my family’s “bad day” and weekend place since I was little. As an adult, the beach is my first place I go to when I’m having a rough time.
The pool is less messy and easier to go to by just walking out your door but something about the sound and smell of the ocean is good for your soul. And paired with a pub sub it’s the perfect day
I see your pool and raise you the lake
Beaches are free. Not hot in morning and afternoon.
I prefer lakes especially one with a beach, shore. But I also went to a small beautiful island in the Dominican Republic and found it clean and fun to swim in. It all depends.
Going for a run on the beach at sunrise, or a walk with my wife at sunset, is awesome.
But yeah, for an actual swim, I love a good pool more than I enjoy getting in the ocean.
Op you know beaches don’t only exist with oceans?
There are lakes and rivers as well and both will negate most of your problems but yeah the sand is still there.
But even that isn’t always the case there are a lot of stone Beaches.
Yes. Don’t go to the beach people.
I agree about the sand, but unless it’s a massive luxury pool without a lot of people, I just can’t get over the fact that so many people pee in pools and go in without showering or properly wiping down there
Beaches are their best when you’re watching the sunrise.
As a person who gets sunburns in March, yes.
The beach is too sandy, the sun is too bright and the water is too wet 🤮
As someone who has an intense & ginormous of open bodies of water AND swimming. Let me say, I think they both suck, so fuck oceans, seas, lakes, pools etc. That’s all.
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I always forget how much the beach annoys me until I get there. Yet, I’d miss it if I don’t go once a year.
It’s annoying. The sand… the heat… the water isn’t that clean and there’s sometimes seaweed… every ones around and close to you. You want to have lunch but the sand sticks everywhere and it’s annoying to carry everything. The towels or beach mats never stay put. The umbrella always flys away.
Then you have to get yourself to the hotel and wash yourself… you’re a whole family having to shower and wash your hair… my hair alone is a pain the ass the wash and especially to dry. It’s hot and humid and ugh…
But I’d be sad not going. There’s still something therapeutic about it.
If sand and salt are causing you so much pain, you seem very fragile. Life must be difficult to live that way.
It’s not about going to the beach for the beach. It’s about the experience with the people you love.
The ocean is usually way too cold.
I would argue that a hot tub is better than both a pool and the ocean lol
You should not open your eyes in the pool…
Ever been in a lake?
Water parks are far superior to both
I love the NC beaches. In August that Gulf Stream water is like a warm bath. I walk on the sand at sunrise and evening and the sound of the waves settles my soul.
I put a toe in the Pacific Ocean once and it nearly froze before I could pull it out.
Lord Vader?
I moved to Florida. The beach was fun the first couple years but now I find it boring.
I moved to an apartment with a great pool and that is better. I can bring a cooler of drinks and not have to worry about driving. I can grill stuff. I can talk with some of my neighbors.
Body boarding is the most fun way I’ve ever done the scorpion
In my experience, unless it’s a private pool, pools are fucking gross
Seems to me a lot of yall haven’t seen a lot of beaches. Like calm ones, crystal waters, and no sudden change of depth like very wide pool.
Lake is the best of two worlds
OP loves chlorine, urine and other things then 🙂
Those don’t exist in the Ocean (where I live anyway) in any measurable quantities
I’m just not a beach person. There’s just nothing for me to do there. I don’t want to tan, it’s hot, I don’t want to deal with sand everywhere.
Lakes beat both.