Not ideal for those wanting to actually swim. Have been a few times now on different days and not yet seen the 2 smaller pools in use by the public or the main pool open in it's entirety. The last time I went, the main pool was split into 6 lanes... with public swim being just 1 of those lanes while the others were all taken by swimming clubs not noted on the schedule so impossible to avoid. With the exception of 1 lane for lane swimming that was fully occupied and even had an argument break out because of teenagers messing around in it and ignoring lifeguards. So there was essentually 1 lane full of cramped adults trying to swim and kids jumping everywhere and stopping them because they had nowhere else to go. Terrible experience. Ended up leaving earlier than I wanted as I couldn't even get to the wall because of people just standing there packed in like sardines. Won't be returning. The schedule needs to be fully transparent and they need to stop taking admission payments when they're clearly over capacity.
On a lighter note, the ladies on reception...
Read moreExcellent for kids and adults disabled parking lifts to save walking up the stairs lots of changing rooms and lockers £1 coin needed for lockers fair size swimming pool tho odd shape both ends are shallow 1.25m and 1.5m the middle is the deepest but only 2m so no diving basically no jumping in £17 for 2 adults 2 children water side was good fun height restriction 1.2m under must ride with an adult lazy river great to just float around with a jacuzzi in the middle lifeguard male dark hair glasses bit rude because I swam my child from 1 end to the other shouting no children with armbands in the middle I explained I was pushing my child from one end to the other not letting go once he just shouted again and again his attitude was appalling I'm a 40 year old bloke been swimming long enough longer than hes been alive with the same qualifications as him no need for his attitude I'd under stand if my lad was swimming by himself but I was right there only other bad point was the showers didn't work at all other than that great...
Read moreMe and my friend took our babies swimming and We arrived here at 4pm to be told that the baby pool was closed, the lift is bloody tiny and just about fit me and my baby’s pram in it. The floor in the actual changing rooms was disgusting and looked like it hadn’t been brushed in about a week, the lifeguard then told us we were only aloud to stay in a tiny corner of the pool with our babies and their little floats so we took them out of their floats and went a bit further to then be bombarded with ‘you’re not allowed over here with a baby’ so we were confused. We paid £5.80 to stand in a tiny corner for 1 hour. The rapids didn’t start for another hour and then I gave my friend my baby and went to grab my phone to take a pic of her to then come back to the lifeguard telling me friend that I’m not allowed to take a picture unless I sign a form which I wasn’t aware about, he was very rude about it. I then signed the form and took a pic then we left because of how rude the staff were. Will not...
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