Lido Aquatic Centre — Attraction in Palmerston North

I see some slight improvements but☝️my first time back in a while... the whanau room showers were cold, and man ...we been having some cold days lately. So that wasn't too good. I asked at reception..the lady apologized, said for now to use the female changing rooms. Would of been nice if they had a sign up warning us. I asked a lady a week later who came out of the whanau changing rooms...she said it's been like that for a while..I thought she said 18... Either weeks or months.. probably weeks. And was gonna put in a complaint. I like the ground covering around the pools. I have slipped, just walking near the sauna rooms before years ago, so that's great. And the boat play by the baby pool..👍cool addition. I did worry bout the kids at the bottom of the hydro slide mucking around. And the guard on the other side by the baby pool... Anything happened they'd need to swim across or run all the way around the active pool to get to them. What's the big screen for? It needs a clean...has mold and insects stuck to it. A great addition for the changing rooms would be to add a tog spinner. Like in Tauranga. Put your togs in, close the lid, push the button...and it spins your togs out so you can use em again tomorrow. And I saw...they will charge you for bringing in your own food... during times their cafe is open. That's stinks.. I don't agree with that one... If folks are not buying from the cafe...it's not the people's fault... The prices are probably ridiculously expensive. So you shoot yourself in the foot and punish the customer for it. Or ...ya just being greedy for money? And the pool outside..is it usual practice to leave it like that stagnating green?Wouldn't it be best to clean it out? I did notice you don't have the cleaning chart up for the changing rooms anymore, maybe its moved or you've removed it. For me.. it showed me you like to keep those...

Great place for family hang out, suite well for hot day. Staff were friendly and helpful.

Long queue for slides. A bit expensive for the slides. Not recommended to go to indoor hydro slides. Really dark inside, banging the head a few times. If you scare of dark and narrow space. Don't recommend it.

We went once and like not for me. Not just me felt that, a few ppl.

It is weird to see people went to the Pool in jeans, Pyjama, random clothes. I wish they gave rules about swimming togs only. T shirt on top togs is acceptable but jeans and PJ is weird. And not hygiene.

Lots of kids were unwell at lot of runny nose. Parents just used water in the pool to clean there face. I saw a trodler full of poo in nappies go into the pool. 🤢 Staff saw them just ignore. If this happens in Dunedin Moana Pool. They would have been told off.

Lots of kids were unsupervised in the pool. We had been in the pool in different town - they were more strict in these rules. When the kids without supervision by their parents. The lifeguard would tell them to get out.

Changing room was pretty dirty. Probably need more stuff cleaning regularly. Public areas were not clean. Lots of rubbish around. Probably not enough staff to clean.

But they have free cold water available for guests. Really like that.

Plenty of parks.

If you are not too stressed about some health and safety and hygienic issue.

It is a very great place to go on hot day. (water is...

Couple of years ago when I went here a kid pooped in the pool, I told the lifeguard and he openly mocked me and didn't believe me until at least 10 other people told him. Today I reluctantly went again for a shower since the water at my home is currently broken.

The two people at the counter seemed to be half asleep or not entirely there and couldn't understand that I was just asking to shower, and when I went into the womens showers (which were filthy and reeked of oranges for some reason), the cubicals with doors had no room to place my things, and so I reluctantly took my shower in one of the two larger cubicals in the center of the room with no doors. I lost count of how many people just stared at my body, including CHILDREN, leaving me feeling incredibly violated. Some of them were also eyeing my belongings.

As I left, I noticed a promotional poster they had for some after school thing for kids was AI generated. The fact they didn't even have enough money to buy a stock image or a cheap illustration and would instead opt to get a machine to steal and mishmash the hard work of dozens of real artists really speaks volumes.

Just go to the Levin...