Cally Pool

Nothing great to look at outside or inside. Pool is a good temperature and for me I’m encouraged to swim that little bit more.
Sauna is good despite the ‘cooling or chilling /​shower’ area which really needs a total redo as it’s well beyond it’s best and has seen too many facelifts leaving it look like it was put together by school kids who were forced to do it as detention…
Steam room is tiny, which I don’t care about as I prefer saunas anyway.

So they refurbished and remodelled the changing rooms recently — definitely an improvement but not enough for another star… the reception area remains functional and basic… guess the budget didn’t stretch that far…

A typical swimming area for all age groups with a pool that has lanes and so you can really get a good swim. Avoid the school holidays though as impossible to have a good swim unless you arrive early.

This pool is only 5 minutes away from my work so recently I have started doing one swim in the morning and one swim in the evening each week.
If you’re an adult I definitely recommend going in the morning as the whole pool is lanes and there is plenty of space to swim. In the evening there are a lot more swimmers and if you want to really get your pace up it’s difficult as you are constantly having to slow down so as not to hit the person in front of you!
Good lockers (the ones where you get your £1 back) and its only £4 to swim which is really decent. Staff are friendly, changing rooms are clean and the pool itself serves its purpose very well!
If you have really high standard for your swimming pools I wouldn’t recommend this one as it really is just a basic, functional public swimming pool but if you literally just one to get in for a quick half an hour exercise before work then it’s a big thumbs up!

This is a leisure centre in the fully unreconstructed, unrenovated eighties sense of the word and this pool hasn’t been touched since it was built, or so it seems. Fairly rundown on a grimy stretch of Caledonian Road but family-​friendly and with a nice welcoming atmosphere, what this pool lacks in style it makes up for in substance. Swimming lessons for children are well-​pitched and unintimidating.

A large warm pool for children which is quite shallow and a cold large pool for adults dedicated mainly to lane swimming. In school holidays large inflatables are brought out for kids sessions. It is run by aqua terra, a charity and costs £3.70 for an adult to swim and £1.70 for a child although discounts are available for familys.