6 Best Swimming Pools In Leicestershire

Not automatically. Leisure centre reviews cluster around lockers, queues, changing rooms and the state of the ceiling, all of which are worth knowing about and none of which stop a child learning to swim. A score in the low threes usually describes a tired building rather than an unusable pool. If it is the one you can reach easily and the alternative is a long journey with a small child in a wet swimsuit, the convenient pool wins that argument comfortably.

An outdoor swim, and the difference between that and an indoor one is bigger than it sounds. Children treat open-air water as an event and indoor water as a routine, so the same family can have a completely different afternoon at the same site depending on which half they use. The catch is the obvious one: an outdoor pool depends on weather and season, and our records carry nothing about when it runs. It wants settling first and gets settled last, every time.

It is listed among the six and flagged for both indoor and outdoor space, but the name is telling you that swimming is one of several things happening on the site. That can work in your favour with a mixed group who want different activities in one place, and against you if the pool turns out to be the smaller part of the operation. Read what is actually on offer there before building a swimming trip around it.

Whichever runs the session that suits your children's ages, rather than whichever tops this table. A leisure centre lives or dies on its timetable: the same pool is a happy splash at ten and a lane-swimming operation at noon, and no rating captures that. Lutterworth Leisure Centre and Ashby Leisure Centre and Lido lead on score, but the timetable question outranks the score question for every one of the six.