We were recommended Palm Beach by friends, as a cheaper alternative to other big public pools in Bavaria. We visited on a Saturday, not in the holidays.

First off, parking is a nightmare. It's not clear which spots belong to Palm Beach or belong to private houses around. The few signs are very worn down and hard to read.

The entrance area is nicely decorated with cristals of various kinds, but there is only a single 3 person wide staircase leading up to the 4 registers. Not enough for the size of the place - a scheme you will see again and again.

We paid 72 euros for all areas for the whole day as 2 adults.

You then have to walk downstairs again to where the lockers and changing rooms are. There are about 2000 lockers and 20 changing rooms, notice an issue?

When you find your way through the labyrinth of lockers, you go into the pool area again up a staircase, that is made of stone, is wet from all the water and you are barefoot, a somewhat dangerous combination.

Once you are upstairs, you are in the center of the place where you can get to the restaurant area, the jumping and swimming pools, the wave pool, the slides and the sauna and Therme areas. This sounds like a lot, but the area is actually very small and quite claustrophobic with a low ceiling. There are also few loungers or places to store your towel and whatever belongings you brought. Also it's very loud here.

We finally found a free pair of loungers in the therme area. It only consists of 2 indoor pools and 1 outdoor pools, that's it. These pools are all very warm, shallow and quite small.

The Sauna area consists of well, a lot of saunas, and is fabric free, so you will have to get naked, which in it's self is fine. There are maybe 30 different saunas around the place, which are quite fun to try out. Also the cool down places where you can go into a cold bath or get a bucket of cold water emptied over your head are nice to try out. But here are again only 2 small, very warm and shallow pools, not enough for the amount of people here.

The main area is naturally the most crowded one and even if the pools are a bit larger here, they really aren't considering how many people are in them. The wave bath is kinda fun, but you really feel like one of many sardines squeezed into a can.

In the outside pool with builtin bar, we wanted to get a drink. It took 30+ minutes for us to receive the drinks. The personell is inattentive and unorganized, and even vanished for 15 minutes. The very small font on the menu and the blaring music doesn't help either. Prices aren't cheap as you would expect, as well. Drink quality was ok, size was on the small side.

On the way out we had to find our locker again, fair enough, and then we wanted to shower. Again, a showers that fits maybe 20 people, is simply too small. There was no privacy or any kind of cabins, just one room with a few shower heads. Undressing in such an environment, crowded with lots of people and also children, was the last part of a quite unpleasant experience.

Considering what you get for the price, we won't come here again anytime soon. For us it's the same distance to another big public pool near Munich, which granted is a bit more expensive, but in our experience delivers a lot more room, variety of things to do and also more relaxation.

We will have to talk with our friends about the recommendation, haha.