The Olympia - what happened?!?

Firstly, I'll cover what was good. At £17.60 for 3 children and 2 adults for between 60-90 minutes (depends on when you join during a session) it does represent good value for money.

And that's it. That is all I have that is good to say about this place.

Now the bad. And there is a lot of it to cover.

Firstly, the volume of changing cubicles did not appear to match the volume of people using them. I appreciate however it was the last Saturday of the school holidays where weather has turned rather poor, but the volume of lockers in use did not seem to be proportional to the number of shut doors.

The "fun" pool is small to say the least. It might be better when it's quieter but with around 40-50 people in this section alone, it felt very cramped. It also has no real "play" space that would involve swimming. The training pool is not for splashing about it and the splash pool is too small to have a proper muck about in.

It's maximum depth is 1.6m when meant during the waves, I could literally stay standing in the deep end without any issues.

Switching to the river rapids, it's at a depth of 1.0m, about I think that number was used for its width and length too! It's narrow, short and dull.

The dive pool shares the exit of the "cannonball" flume ride which had the diving boards cordoned off from use.

Speaking of the flumes: the green one is still taped off with yellow & black hazard tape mentioned a few weeks ago by another visitor review. Standing in a lengthy queue for the 2 remaining ones (very few kids go on the yellow cannonball) the one thing you will notice is for a place that has not been open long, it is absolutely disgusting. Remember that yellow & black hazard tape I mentioned? It seems to be the all-in-1 repair tape too! It's all over the last step to the flumes platform, which is missing the grip. The platform itself looks like it had the flooring fitting by "have a go Jimmy", something I would have done to save myself a few quid on my bathroom floor. It's in a terrible, disgusting state. Looking at the structure itself, it's painted a bright and airy white, then covered by the dripping orange stain of rust. Seriously, I doubt this place will have the same longevity of the old Olympia pool building. If I had privately paid for this place to be built, I'd be getting to contractor that built it back in to make rectifications to it! I really cant help but imagine 20 years from now, people standing on that platform and it being in the news that it has collapsed.

Truthfully, the Olympia is an embarrassment. It's general maintenance is awful and it's facilities whilst well priced are poor.

Scotland is crying out for a really good indoor water park. Think Sandcastle in Blackpool or waterworld in stoke: Dundee could have had it to match it's V&A museum and other tourist grabbers, but it has sorely missed out on a great opportunity.

I seriously recommend getting up at 4:30 in the morning & driving to Blackpool instead of coming here.