Hillingdon Lido

In the summer for public swimming - Place perfect for loud and wild children, and for not well behaved adults, who don't know what the fitness swimming lanes are for and like to just chill there to make swimmers annoyed... Great for people who like to swim in dirty water and who don't mind not being able to shower themselves after the session due to very low water pressure. Place totally overcrowded in hot weather, not enough spaces at the car park... I didn't expect it will look like this on Monday evening, so I totally don't recommend visit in the summer for 'swim for fitness' session. Place is good for closed swimming events out of season (that is why I gave 2 stars not 1)

In the summer for public swimming - Place perfect for loud and wild children, and for not well behaved adults, who don't know what the fitness swimming lanes are for and like to just chill there to make swimmers annoyed... Great for people who like to swim in dirty water and who don't mind not being able to shower themselves after the session due to very low water pressure. Place totally overcrowded in hot weather, not enough spaces at the car park... I didn't expect it will look like this on Monday evening, so I totally don't recommend visit in the summer for 'swim for fitness' session. Place is good for closed swimming events out of season (that is why I gave 2 stars not 1)

This is will be hopefully read by management. This is the only outdoor swimming pool I hillingdon and should be managed differently. Why on hot summer days, especially weekends, half the pool is assigned for fitness, even the shallow part of it. We have been there today, temperature is 30c, and there are like 10 fitness swimmers, reserving the whole left side, and around 200 others all crowded in the other shallow corner of the pool. People kept trying to swim in the clearly less used area and life guards kept telling everyone off and asking them to leave the fitness side. There was one fast lane which was used by literally 2 swimmers. Clearly the priority in such days should be for people to have fun, and those "Olympic" swimmers could book the fast lane or book the indoor pool. You should needed to be there and see how stupid the management was. This needs to be rearranged as this summer is clearly warm and people deserve to have fun.