Crown Pools — Local services in Ipswich

🥵🥵🥵🥶🥶🥶😳😳😳I'm shocked by what I saw, I'm shocked. From the conditions in which the pool is located, where adults with children come, a person who owes money there, he, in fact, does not invest anything at all in many places. It just hurts terribly everywhere there are some machines. What you have to pay for even just to dry your hair. It's just awful In general, I think that they should also work there. specially service since this place is not safeDespite the fact that they allegedly cleaned everywhere, people washed the floors where there is water, but in the main hall, where the pool was located. Today there were some flower beds that are simply in a terrible state. I could advise you. You could just put in some plastic or glass sculptures. It would look much more solid and much more attractive that I saw rotten plants on the floor, some kind of earth scattered towards me along with garbage, plus it's all on the floor. It's just awful.I was very dissatisfied. And I would even say that in this institution they should carry out an appropriate check, since in many places, in my opinion, and, in my opinion, there is a need to check whether the ceilings, where we saw rust, are really there is in order and nothing can fall on the head of children or adults, I would also like to ask a question to a specific manager who is responsible for this, where and what he spends money on, because what we saw there was not invested for a very long time. Actually, it's just terrible.I don’t understand at all why you need to pay more for the sauna, which is located at the other end, and in order to get there you need to understand where to go, moreover, there is a small room next to the two saunas, which sometimes remains open, since there are also chemicals that are available to any person So sorry, but I was very dissatisfied. Even though everything was pretty cheap, you know, I've been to many places, be it cheap or expensive, but it's just awful And also when there are a lot of people on weekends, I don’t understand at all why the vending machines that sell chocolates, snickers and drinks for children are empty...

I have been swimming here since it opened in 1984. The facilities have reduced from when it was in its prime (with a classic 1980s colour scheme of brown and orange!). For example, the cafe and small bar are no longer there (or at least used for those purposes), and the inflatable giant slide (in the leisure pool) and inflatable assault course (in the competition pool) are long gone.

However, having been to many swimming pools around the country, Crown Pools is by far one of the better ones, and I'm yet to visit any other complex that has three proper pools like Crown Pools does, with something for everyone.

The centre is generally clean, the staff are fine and the temperature reasonable. Yes, you do get people who behave rather selfishly in there from time to time, but you cannot blame the venue for that and in sure the same is true of most places like this. The reality is if someone is really causing a problem, the management will deal with it.

No silly booking systems or time limited sessions like most other pools, just turn up when you like and crack on.

If I was being fussy....

It's a shame there is no cafe, I understand the previous one lost money, hence it closing. I wonder if the Council considered letting it out to private operators?

It's quite rare in the week to be able to use all three pools at any one time, due to the amount of pre-booked users for lessons etc. But that is quite understandable when the centre has to make best use of the facilities in terms of number of users.

A very good venue on the whole, and having been to many others, one I no longer take...

Me and my lovely lady decided to go and have a nice swim in the waters of crown pools, once there we got changed in a crowded changing room and then proceeded to the pool. After stepping into the pool we eventually got use to the temperature or the water which is slightly cold, we managed to swim past all the children who where floating a round on the floats and reach the deep end, after a couple of minutes the way machine started and we had great fun bouncing up and down and getting pushed around, we decided the best way to experience the wave machine is in the baby section where the water will push you around like a ragdoll, I then went to the competition pool and set a record of 1 minute exactly, there and back which I challenge someone to beat, after that we cleaned the chlorine off in the public showers which did a fair job of this but the chlorine stayed to my skin much later on, the only thing bad worth mentioning was the dirt in the water from the plants that sit near the pool and the hair that was floating and wrapped around my arm, I feel like they need to clean it more frequently, the life guards look slightly bored and didn't seem to put full attention into scouting for danger, apart from that it was a plesent trip and we will return...