Splott Swimming Pool

This is a swimmers swimming pool. No frills or gyms or yoga classes. Ok, there is a fitness suite. Most of the day there are swimming lessons in here and in the evening there are some very good swimming lessons and clubs. Top points to Splott for its disabled facilities and free over 60s swimming. Recently refurbished so not as grotty as it used to be. If you haven’t been for a few years it’s worth a revisit. If you are taking some kids to swim there’s a nice little playground in the park that the pool is set in (well, more of a grassy scrubland than a park).
Check with the pool about when what activities are on when because events seem to overtake them sometimes.

Apparently, Splott Swimming Pool was originally an open air pool, but opened in 1976 as an indoor pool. It’s also Cardiff Council’s oldest pool, but it did undergo refurbishment back in 2003 to introduce disabled changing facilities and specialised listing hoists and cradles. This means the pool can cater for special needs, and to complement this they’ve introduced a programme of specific sessions aimed at groups of physically and mentally disabled people.
The pool itself is 25 metres long, and while it’s not Cardiff’s most beautiful pool at least it does offer some of the disabled facilities that other pools don’t. There are also free swimming lessons for the over 60s, and women-​only and men-​only swim sessions.
Make sure you phone for swimming times between 9am and 12 noon and 1.30−3.30pm on weekdays during school term time because they sometimes close the pool for school swimming lessons and times change frequently.