Otara Pool and Leisure Centre — Attraction in Ōtara-Papatoetoe

Most degrading pool I've been too. Was told by staff to seperate my kids from the other kids in the pool because my kids weren't enrolled into there school holiday program. I thought this was a public pool ? Was told to move to another side of the pool that was about knee high. It was embarrassing to hear my kids ask why they couldn't play with the other kids as that side of the pool was more suitable for kids to play and enjoy I sore many other parents go through the same thing. Surely there is a way where we can share space equally in the pools without...

Usually not like this, but today staff closed the men's changing rooms at about 3pm when the place was busy "to clean" and all the spa changing rooms were full. It took me 30 minutes of waiting to get a changing room and I was late for my appointment as a result. The children running the place wouldn't open the other unused "disabled" changing room to free up congestion. And the family changing rooms were still filthy. Just really messy...

Swimming Pool is big, Otara has a small pool for the kids and Large pool inside and out - (outisde is normally opened mainly in Summer ofc)

Otara has two Sauna's one for the Mens and one for the Ladies, it is quite small inside, probably fit around 5-6 people. The Spa pool is 2 feet away from the Sauna so when you walk out you can just literally jump right in, it is quite big but Papatoetoe one is much bigger, but Otara one is...