What is the best swimming pool you have ever been to?

Growing up going to the swimming pool was a very exciting experience. The smell of the water, the size, the echoes and the impending fun.

As a kid, The Pyramids in Portsmouth was the best swimming pool ever. The whole of Southsea was like a kids dream. A beach, a huge playing field, amusement park, sealife center, ICE CREAM but best of all The Pyramids.

It had three snaking slides which you usually had to queue for. Three seperate pools in one giant room but the best one had a wave machine that went off every so often, hurling you around the pool. It was the greatest thing ever!

In the top right of this picture the pole made quite a powerful water forcefield that was really fun going in and out of, like waterfall.

Next month I'm going to Center Parcs and the swimming pool there looks stunning.

What are your favourite pools?

What an odd question. :lol:

I go to the Pyramid Centre. Never been in the pool though.

I don't go to pools these, and all the ones I've been to in the past have just been in leisure centres or hotels, so nothing special.

Something Fishy

Not my local one, i go under the water in my goggles and there is always "stuff" in there.

No longer i get sick less often since i stopped going.

Water Park in Rhodes:

There is also a big pool with huge waves.

discovery cove in florida, sort of a pool

My local. Captian Kil works there.

Indoor. Centre Parcs. Amazing place. The indoor outdoor rapids are so addictive. Never the same ride twice.

Outdoor. Typhoon Lagoon in Disney. A 10th wave every 5 mins. Amazing lazy river. Fun and scary slides. And snorkling.

smurphy wrote:

My local. Captian Kil works there.

Came to say this :lol:

Cheltenham Lido.

The only other pool I really go to is the one at the Crystal, and that's a bit... iffy.

Indoor: The Splash, Bude

Got a wave machine and a big flume. It's well good.

Outdoor: Tinside Lido, Plymouth

A 1935 art deco lido which has recently been renovated.

Before:

After:

They did a really good job on it. Glad they decided to renovate it.

Wet 'n Wild in Florida

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Frank wrote:The only other pool I really go to is the one at the Crystal, and that's a bit... iffy.

Haven't been to that for years.

Condoms and plasters all over the place in that gooseberry fool hole.

Best I've been to is probably one in Hiley (sp?) as it was outdoors and awesome in the middle of summer.

More of a sea person, myself.

Something Fishy

Good to see they did that Noes, it was the former when I lived there.

That big one in Tralee, Eire.

Oh Teh Noes wrote:Outdoor: Tinside Lido, Plymouth

A 1935 art deco lido which has recently been renovated.

Before:

After:

They did a really good job on it. Glad they decided to renovate it.

Wow, that's really nice. Early 20th century architecture: :wub:

I must say I never go to council swimming pools. I really can't think of much worse.

jamcc wrote:
Oh Teh Noes wrote:Outdoor: Tinside Lido, Plymouth

A 1935 art deco lido which has recently been renovated.

Before:

After:

They did a really good job on it. Glad they decided to renovate it.

Wow, that's really nice. Early 20th century architecture:

Worth a visit if you ever find yourself in Plymouth. Not too expensive iirc and the water is seawater with chlorine added.

Time Capsule in Coatbridge, blates.

The Olympia in Dundee. Haha. The "Bomber" that is a flume with a drop at the end into a diving pool is fun, as are the "river rapids".

I've never seen the top diving board open there. I'm pretty sure it's got a few near-fatalities under its belt.

What is the best swimming pool you have ever been to?

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