Cobb County Central Aquatic Center

The best thing about CCCAC is definitely their hours of operation. Between the hours of 6am, and 8pm, you can get a workout in, which extend beyond most of the aquatic centers in the Atlanta Metro.
The locker rooms are generally pretty clean — MUCH cleaner than someone the ones I’ve seen around here, let me tell you.
The pool is only about 5 – 5.5 feet deep, but is never extremely busy, especially on the weekdays, so, you can run laps, no problem. Not to mention, there’s always lots of adult-​sized fins available, so you don’t have to bring your own.

This place brings back some crazy memories from swimming growing up. It’s amazing what your child brain thinks and how this becomes distorted as you get older. I remember this place being enormous with dim lighting and packed full of people. In reality, it’s the size of a standard aquatic center, not enormous, the lighting is as you would expect it, and there was a normal flow of swimmers, but nothing crazy.
Like any aquatic center, you’ve barely opened the door and you’re smacked in the face with the scent of chlorine. I decided to go ahead and pay for a 10 visit membership with the intention of swimming once/​week. Like anything else, I know money is tight, but I visited the Mountain View Aquatic Center a few years ago and the cost to swim was $ 2 and change. If you read Lauren’s review, apparently they upped the cost some time around 2010 to $ 3 and now, it’ll cost you $ 4 and change to swim once. It was a difficult decision because a 1 month membership is more expensive than a full membership to a gym that includes a pool. Seeing as how I’m not a gym girl, this was a tough decision. The cost of 10 visits was something like $ 32 and I figure it’ll last 2+ months. If I were interested in going multiple times/​week I don’t think I’d splurge on this, but instead get a membership at a gym instead.
Everyone who worked at the pool that I interacted with were super nice and helpful. The pool was kept up and seemed nice. It was a pool. The locker rooms were in need of some love. They’re quite small and you’d have to pry my flip flops off of my feet for me to step on that floor barefoot. Ick. I know it’s a pool and it seems like, as a result, everything in the locker room gets wet, but I’ve visited nicer pool locker rooms.

The Cobb County Aquatic Center has become a staple in my workout plan, mostly due to proximity from where I live, and partially because swimming has helped me to lose a ridiculous amount of weight.
Thankfully, the center here always appears clean, has very reasonable prices (we do the annual membership plan, but you can swim as few as one times for about $ 3), has cardio and weight equipment, and 10 virtually kid-​free lanes for adults to swim in. Hallelujah for not having to dodge the nearest game of «Marco Polo!»
The one downside is that every once in a while, they’ll make an adjustment to the schedule late and it won’t get appropriately published and thus you’ll plan to swim and think there will be plenty of lanes available, only to find a triathlon training group taking up five lanes and swim lessons in another three, leaving you to fight it out with the other ten people who had the same plan as you for the last two lanes.
The facility is indoor, has lanes available year-​round, has open swim in the non-​lap pool for kids and families and lots of class options for those who are learning to swim too.