Tags for Forum Posts: park road lido, swimming pools
I meant to post on this but my "smartphone" is kaput... :( Went there for my (probably annual) much-awaited trip to the Lido last Thursday (I think). Not many people around the centre but then it wasn't scorching and 5 pm isn't really peak time.
Paid my £4.50 - pricey, but you pay a premium to swim outdoors in north London. Then went "poolside".
I have never seen such a disgusting sight in a swimming pool before (not even in the Park Road changing rooms). Algae in the murky green water. Piles of sand on the bottom of the pool. And thousands of big, black, wriggling flies and flying ants floating on the surface. Meanwhile the solitary attendant sat, board, her net pole happily unemployed and lying on the ground some feet away, while a local character chatted colourfully away to her.
I walked around the pool - there were perhaps 3 or 4 swimmers, and a similar number of sunbathers - hoping one corner of the pool would be relatively clean - but in vain.
So I collected my things and went back inside where I spoke to a young chap on the counter and told him the lido was disgusting. I asked "Can I swim inside instead?" He waved me through.
Of course, what happened in consequence was that I got a swim in the dark for the same price as a swim outside, which is supposed to cost more (for those who don't know Park Road, for some reason the house style is to swim in near-pitch blackness, presumably to add some sort of ambience; it surely can't be a reluctance to use greater wattage bulbs).
I did a few perfunctory laps, avoiding the young dudes spilling over with their beach ball, then headed glumly for the changing "village", enjoying a cool dribble of water from the communal showers on the way.
If my trip has provided one benefit it is to show me that this is a "leisure" venue entirely free of pleasure and, as a result, I will be saving my money in future and visiting Highbury or Tottenham Green instead.
Happy swimming!
Well it's funny you say that because at Tottenham Green they regularly blow up to stop unruly or dangerous play and I am forever being told "you have to keep an eye on your kids".... which is good and bad...!
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