3 /5 Jo F: I swim there and as public swimming pools go, it is fine. My main feedback is that about the way that lanes are set up for swimming. Instead of one lane up and one down as is normal in other pools, they are set up with one up, one down and one for overtaking (?) This means there is only one lane for each speed (fast, medium, slow). This means it gets very busy with a big mixture of swimming abilities in each lane. So you are constantly having to check over your shoulder at the wall that someone isnt overtaking, or having to overtake someone yourself. Whereas in other pools where there is no overtaking lane, there are more lanes in general so you end up having (for example) a faster fast lane and a slower fast lane naturally. Why is it set up like this at the Windrush?
It is also quite expensive - at ÂŁ8.30, it is ÂŁ1.50 more per swim than the Better Leisure centre I used to use when I lived up north, and ÂŁ2.30 more than one of the other nearest public pools (Ferry centre in north Oxford).
