University of Liverpool Sports and Fitness Centre

I'm a regular pool user due to my back pain. Albeit its website describes this place as "one of the best swimming pools in Merseyside", I don't agree. Building is old and the lack of maintenance is clear: pool's filters look dirty and some lockers are faulty. Today I had a shower in darkness. Toilets are usually clean, but old, sure. Apart from this, some users don't know how to behave in the pool. Most of them don't wear sliders or take a shower before entering the water, as required. Besides, pool has 4 lanes, each for a different swimming level. Users join a lane randomly and sometimes block everyone's workout - this pool clearly needs more lane ropes to create extra lanes. Likewise, some users never step aside when they need resting or stand talking to each other at the end of the lane, hence rest of users have to dodge them to avoid crashing. In some other cases, you bump into someone who is voluntary floating in the middle of the lane (?) or practicing water polo (?). Yes, water polo. These behaviours can affect everyone's safety.

I'm a regular pool user due to my back pain. Albeit its website describes this place as "one of the best swimming pools in Merseyside", I don't agree. Building is old and the lack of maintenance is clear: pool's filters look dirty and some lockers are faulty. Today I had a shower in darkness. Toilets are usually clean, but old, sure. Apart from this, some users don't know how to behave in the pool. Most of them don't wear sliders or take a shower before entering the water, as required. Besides, pool has 4 lanes, each for a different swimming level. Users join a lane randomly and sometimes block everyone's workout - this pool clearly needs more lane ropes to create extra lanes. Likewise, some users never step aside when they need resting or stand talking to each other at the end of the lane, hence rest of users have to dodge them to avoid crashing. In some other cases, you bump into someone who is voluntary floating in the middle of the lane (?) or practicing water polo (?). Yes, water polo. These behaviours can affect everyone's safety.

This is a lovely place to swim with slow, medium or fast pace lanes. Plenty of changing rooms, showers are nice and not cold ( sometimes warm, sometimes hot). There are a few hairdryers, although one of them doesn't work at the moment.Monday's at 6pm are very busy with some people just standing at the ends of the lanes talking which is very disrupting to people swimming. Mornings are the best time to go, it's less busy. I would very much recommend swimming here. Reception staff are very nice and helpful.