Crystal Pool receives more than 1,000 visitors a day and about 400,000 visits a year. There are about 1,000 club users who swim on average three times per week.


https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comment-why-the-province-should-chip-in-for-a-new-crystal-pool-9978820


So 150,000 visits are just these 1000 club members.

If the other 250,000 visits are by people that go once a week, that’s less than 6,000 people that use the pool.


The new pool will cost over $35,000 per user.

So 150,000 visits are just these 1000 club members.

Exactly this!

Despite the big numbers the City is throwing around, the only number that counts is the number of individuals who use the Crystal.

One singular hard core swimmer who visits the Crystal 320 times per year most definitely does not equate to "320 visitors".

Readers of the City of Victoria's numbers have to be careful to note whether any given paragraph in any given report uses the wordage "visits", or "visitors".

The City seems to intermix those two words as it suits them, in order to imply that the Crystal Pool is smokin' busy, regularly used by over half the residents of Victoria.

I've never even set foot inside the Crystal Pool. When our daughter was little I always took her to the Oak Bay Rec. Centre. No idea why I chose that pool. Seemed like it had more parking maybe? Also we had used it for skating so I was more familiar with the facility. I have also used the Y pool for aqua fit.

The new pool will cost over $35,000 per user.

That's real money. And a good portion of those users are not CoV residents. But CoV residents will pay $35,000 for each user - $70,000 after interest).