I was originally planning on going with a salt system, in fact I ordered it when we bought the house. We used the pool company they did to replace the liner as the liner was not in good shape when we bought it, and at the end of winter (we bought it right when the pool was getting closed) the liner fell apart.

Anyway, they did a horrible job on the liner, it kept falling in, we told them they should have used liner lock, so they came and put little tiny pieces where ever it fell in, 7-8 calls we finally convinced them to liner lock entire pool. Instead of one strip, they used tons of tiny strips and we still have issues with pieces falling out.

I just told them to cancel the salt system, I don't want them to do anything else to the pool. It has been a few years, but I am not sure I'd like a salt system and want to swim in one before I make the decision. We have a friend that has one, just never got around to trying it.

The system I use is great, but it does require tons of bottles of 10%-12.5% liquid chlorine which is a real pain to constantly buy 20 bottles at a time.

I considered putting in a liquid chlorine dispenser, but I'd still have to buy and carry ~20-gallon bottles every few weeks.

I might reconsider a salt system, but I really need to try it before I can commit to it. I don't see either happening this year.