Lane Cove Aquatic

Lane Cove Aquatic Centre is a fantastic community facility with something for everyone. The pools are clean and well maintained, with great options for both lap swimming and family fun. The staff are friendly, professional, and always happy to help. The gym is well equipped, the classes are motivating, and the atmosphere is welcoming for all ages and fitness levels. It’s a great place to stay active, unwind, and enjoy a healthy lifestyle right in the heart of Lane Cove.

Lane Cove Aquatic Centre is a fantastic community facility with something for everyone. The pools are clean and well maintained, with great options for both lap swimming and family fun. The staff are friendly, professional, and always happy to help. The gym is well equipped, the classes are motivating, and the atmosphere is welcoming for all ages and fitness levels. It’s a great place to stay active, unwind, and enjoy a healthy lifestyle right in the heart of Lane Cove.

There’s been a 50 metre pool here at Lane Cove since 1961, but the flash new Lane Cove Aquatic Leisure Centre bears no trace of the original at all. There have been so many upgrades: the biggest in 1998 and 2014 that added all the indoor pools, water play areas, spa, sauna, steam room and most importantly accessibility; culminating in the 2020 replacement of the Olympic pool with the shiny new one we experienced today for the first time. All those facilities don’t come cheap. Adult entry is $9.70, but the quality of all the architecture, design and fitout is definitely superior to most. We particularly liked the row of outdoor sun showers complete with a wooden bench to keep your towel dry. Fortunately some of the original grassed area and trees have been retained, making it a pleasant place in the middle of an increasingly built-up Lane Cove. Its Achilles Heel is an all-too familiar one: seven of the lanes were dedicated to lappies, with only one left over for everyone else. We’re so over this trend. Here of all places it seemed particularly inappropriate, as most of the people attending on a Sunday were families and kids, who would’ve had much more fun with some more room to move and play and, you know, recreate.