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Sloterparkbad
Length: 50 meters - 8 lanes
Price: € 4,10 including bracelet for locker
optisport.nl/locaties/sloterparkbad - Location: 52°22'12.2"N 4°49'03.4"E
> I use this Olympic pool the most, as it's closest to my home. It's a great pool, good clean water, as are the facilities, easy free parking. Very specific lap swimming hours (see website) and can be pretty busy, but most people stick to the swimming rules.
Rating 4/5
Sportcomplex De Hoornse Vaart
Length: 50 meters - 8 lanes
Price: € 5,00 - Lockers available (do not remember if it's with a 0,50€ coin)
LINK HOORNSEVAART - Location: 52°38'37.3"N 4°46'01.9"E
> Nice clean Olympic pool, showers and dressing rooms bit old. Parking is easy.
Rating 3/5
Zwemcentrum Rotterdam
Length: 50 meters - 8 lanes - and an extra 25 meters pool
Price: € 4,10 - Lockers 0,50€ refunded
LINK ROTTERDAM CENTRUM - Location: 51°53'13.2"N 4°29'15.2"E
> My favorite olympic pool in The Netherlands, everything is very clean, a lot of opening hours for lab swimmers and not crowded. It's a brand pool with dedicated staff. PArking outside can be bit difficult, but they are next to a big train station. Bit unclear website, as it is not a dedicated one. But nevertheless a clear 5 star pool!
Rating 5/5
Sportfondsenbad Nijmegen-West
Length: 50 meters - 6 lanes
Price: € 6,00 - Lockers € 0,50
LINK NIJMEGEN - Location: 51°50'17.1"N 5°49'41.5"E
> Happy to have found a 50 meter pool in the East of Holland, good for Nijmegen! But it needs a make over. Water was bit warm and not very clean. Showers and changing rooms were ok, but outdated.
Rating 2/5
Nationaal Zwemcentrum de Tongelreep
Length: 50 meters - 8 lanes
Price: € 6,00
LINK EINDHOVEN - Location: 51°24'52.7"N 5°28'41.0"E
> One of the best known Olympic pools in Holland, due to the club PSV that trains here with swimmers like Pieter van den Hoogenband and Ranomi Kromowidjojo. Last time I was there was in 2016, it was bit out dated then
Rating 3/5
Zwembad Krommerijn
Length: 50 meters - 8 lanes
Price: No day passes, only monthly subscriptions (1 star less) - Lockers €0,50 rf
LINK KROMMERIJN - Location: 52°04'58.3"N 5°09'27.0"E
> Another great 50 meter pool, I try to use it once every week, it has many opening hours for lap swimmers from the 1st of September untill the 30st of April. Not during the summer and unfortunately no day passes. The Lockers and showers are good and clean, as is the water. It can be busy and has grumpy swimmers. Parking is easy and free, for the pool.
Rating 4/5
Zwembad De Vliet
Length: 50 Meters - 8 lanes - OUTDOOR (heated)
Price: €4,30 - Lockers €0,50
LINK DE VLIET location: 52°08'24.4"N 4°28'57.8"E
> Nice and warm enough outdoor pool, Showers are warm. Communal dressing rooms, some private ones. Parking is very easy and free. Unfortunately they do not use (al least I have not experienced it yet) floating line indicators, so people tend not to swim in straight lines, and they have stairs on the long side that stick out in the water, so almost broke my hand in lane 1...
Rating 2/5
Zwemcentrum De Welle
Length: 50 Meters - 8 lanes
Price: €5,20 - Lockers €0,50
LINK DE WELLE location: 53°05'59.8"N 6°05'36.7"E
> Great pool and the only 50 meter pool in the province of Friesland...Good for Drachten! The pool is bit out dated, but you will not hear me complain, the showers, dressingroom all were good. Parking was easy, but not free.
Rating 4/5
Price: £5,35 and £1,00 locker refunded
LINK AQUATIC CENTRE - Location: 51°32'24.3"N 0°00'37.8"W
Great Olympic Pool! Wide lanes, at 06:30 on a Thursday not busy at all, good rule following. Nice venue, very clear space. Unfortunately, all the toilets were dirty (maybe coincidence), but strongly recommend this pool!
Did not see parking space, but normally travel abroad by Public transport, Stratford Station nearby.
Rating 5/5
Length: 50 meters - 6 lanes - OUTDOOR (heated)
Price: £5,10 and £1,00 locker refunded
LINK FIELDS LIDO - Location: 51°32'32.2"N 0°03'41.8"W - "London Fields" train station
Great open and heated pool in a Park, the lanes are wide enough. Swimming rules bit unclear, clock and counterclock lanes... Pool was not very clean, maybe due to outdoors. On one side it's shallow, I touch the bottom during breast stroke with my hand.
Lockers and dressing room (communal) were a bit worn. I was there 7 AM on a Tuesday and it was rather busy. But certainly a pool to check out!
Rating 4/5
Length: 27,5 meters - 3 wide lianes - OUTDOOR (heated and open all year!) and 25 meter pool inside - 3 lanes also (did not try this one)
Price: £6,00 and locker 20p refunded.
LINK OASIS SPORTS - Location: 51°30'56.7"N 0°07'33.1"W (tube Northern, Central, Piccadilly)
>Unique open air pool in the centre of London! I was there on a Thursday at 9AM, it was very quiet. Nice staff, clean pool and warm enough (February). Right lane was for " fast" swimmers.. Will return!
Rating 4/5
Piscine Paul Valeyre
Length: 25 meter - 5 lanes (12,5m)
Price: €3,50 - Need you own lock for lockers
LINK PAUL VALEYRE - Location: 48°52'40.6"N 2°20'42.6"E - Metro Cadet
Unique Pool in the 9th Arr. as I think the pool is almost 9 meters underground, just for that would recommend a visit.! My first underground pool. I was there at 07:30AM, not busy at all, mostly slow swimmers. Dressing room and showers were ok.
Rating 3/5
La Piscine Olympique D'eau de Mer
Length 50 meters - 8 lanes
Price: €6,00 - Locker €0,50 refunded
LINK D'EAU DE MER - Location: 49°21'34.3"N 0°04'03.9"E
This Olympique pool is worth the trip!
The building is beautifull from the inside, architect is called Roger Taillibert, by coincidence same architect of the Olympique pool in Montreal I swam one week earlier.
You can see the sea from the pool and when the sun shines, it's very clear in the pool. Do not forget your cap and they close the pool 30 minutes prior to closure.
The water was 28C and very clean, not busy at all (10AM).
Rating 5/5
Dortmund Sudbad
Length 50 meters - 8 lanes
Price €4,00 - Lockers €0,50
LINK SUDBAD - Location: 51°30'25.1"N 7°28'06.0"E
Everything was very clean, they usually are in Germany, which is nice.
Staff was helpful. Spacious and bright, I liked the room.
Rating 5/5
Hallenbad City
Length: 50 meter - 6 lanes - 28C
Price: CHF 8,00 - CHF5,00 for locker
LINK HALLENBAD - Location: 47°22'20.1"N 8°31'58.3"E
Everything very clean, not busy (07AM), Nice building. Showers and changing room communal.
Most expensive pool I have been, but it's Swiss..
Rating: 5/5
Piscine des Vernets
Length: 50 meters - 8 lanes
Price: CHF 6,00 - Lockers (do not remember price)
LINK DES VERNETS - Location: 46°11'41.3"N 6°08'04.0"E
> It a nice large, clean and bright pool, with free sauna in changing rooms. They have very strict rules, I swim with a snorkel and this is deemed, so was only able to swim in a lane for dangerous items..
Ratings: 4/5
Eriksdalsbadet
Lenght: 50 Meters 8 lanes + 25 Meters 13 Lanes! There are also outside pools (I was there in in the winter so did not see them)
Price: KR100,00 - Lockers unknown
LINK ERIKSDALSBADET - Location: 59°18'17.4"N 18°04'31.6"E
> Great swimmingpool, very clean open at 6AM and you can go to the sauna for free after the swim training, well deserved!
Rating 5/5
George Delacorte Olympic Pool
Length: 50 meters - 8 Lanes
Price: $35,00 - it's a private club (Asphalt Green Upper East Side), but you can buy a day pass (inc fitness) and it was the only 50 meter pool I could find in Manhattan. - Lockers you need your own lock to close them, as is most American locker rooms. (Metro: 96 Str Subway Station)
LINK GEORGE DELACORTE - Location: 40°46'45.3"N 73°56'37.7"W
> The water was clean, but the building had a worn out feeling, nevertheless had a good swim, it was not busy 7AM. Liked the incrowd atmosphere, many regulars that knew each other, but bit elitist vibe.
Rating: 3/5 - way to expensive, like they want to exclude some people..
Greensboro Aquatic Center
Length: 50 meters - 8 lanes and 2 x 25 meter pools with many lanes to use.
Price: $5,00 - Lockers with own lock (but they kindly lend me one)
LINK AQUATIC CENTER - Location: 36°03'26.2"N 79°49'41.0"W (great parking)
> Very big Swimming pool complex, with three pools and they were building a 4th. They like swimming in North Carolina! I drove 20 miles from Winston Salem to swim here. I arrived at 7AM, a swimming competition was to take place, I had to get out of the water for the anthem, which was a first. Liked the staff.
Rating: 5/5
Length: 50 meters - 8 lanes
Price: CAD 7,30 - Need own lock for lockers
LINK PARC OLYMPIQUE - Location: 45°33'34.5"N 73°33'06.4"W
> Nice Olympique pool, it's open from 06AM, dressing room and showers were clean as was the water. The water temperature was higher then 28C I think (need to buy a temp meter...) unfortunately! But is was not busy at all and a nice atmosphere. It was a first for me to swim 25 meters across a 50 meter pool, was disoriented at first, by the lines:-)
Rating: 4/5
Length: 16 meters ( I think, but not longer) - 4 lanes
Price: CAD30,00 - It's a private sports club, the price is including fitness.
LINK CLUB SPORTIF MAA - Location: 45°30'03.9"N 73°34'33.6"W
> I like these unique pools, it's older than a 100 years, in the center of Montreal. Water was to warm and had to turn so much due to the short length that I got cramps in my feet:-) But it was worth it. My hotel had to book my entry ticket.
Rating: 2/5 - but for the unique experience worth a visit!