Olympia

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, really clean swimming pool and other areas. Reasonable price. Fun for the whole family. We will definitely be back!

Fantastic experience: Amazing swimming and water activity place. Children's slides, wave pool, lazy river, diving boards... even a 50m swimming pool

Positive experience: First time swimming here and definitely won’t be our last! The swimming pool has a variety of different areas you can go to and is huge in size! You are given a colour when you enter to change at and when it’s called it’s your time to leave (ideal when you’ve got kids as they can’t argue they don’t want to leave) Kids pool is really good, nothing like that where we live! Only let down was there a few showers not working and same with the hair dryers but that’s not the reason you go to the pool so can’t really complain!

Fantastic experience: Always have a nice time

Fantastic experience: Quality. Pity aberdeen has nothing like this.

Fantastic experience: Very nice. Glad I came

Fantastic experience: Diving boards, wave pools and flumes! So much fun

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and friendly staff. Couldn’t recommend more!

Fantastic experience: Amazing family friendly pool and great value for money

Positive experience: Lovely pool with great slides. They do sessions although this wasn't told to me or described on the website. Also it was a shame that the cafe wasn't open. Was kept clean though with plenty of cubical and family changes

Fantastic experience: An outstanding swimming pool, well maintained, clean and a great set of flumes as well as rapids and a wave machine. The best pool I have been to in Scotland since the Magnum in Irvine and I have been to the Time Capsule. This place is much cleaner and better in price.

Fantastic experience: This was our first visit, and it won't be our last. We prefer lane swimming, but when we arrived there was only the leisure pool available. The lanes pool did open before we were leaving so we got 15 minutes in it. We'll adjust the time we visit to coincide with the lane swimming times. Staff were helpful and friendly, and the whole place was very clean. It was a very pleasant experience.

Negative experience: I went swimming 3 weeks ago and haven’t been able to hear at all out my left ear since I was there and my ear is very very sore. I am very mad at this and u have a dirty musty pool and it’s needing done up again.

Fantastic experience: We visited the swimming pools a lot over a two week holiday. It’s a great facility for the city. The different pools and slides are great for children. It’s very good value. It gets very busy on weekends. Highly recommend.

Positive experience: Miss the Old Olympia, the showers are better but the Changing Rooms are always manky. The pools are adequate but the venue is very small, when busy hardly any space to move. Keeps my Daughter entertained enough though.

Fantastic experience: Best water park ever in Scotland

Fantastic experience: Great fun..spotlessly clean, amazing value (£20 family ticket for 5 of us)..flumes are brilliant..

Positive experience: Plenty park altho if your spending the day in Dundee I'd maybe look somewhere else as it can be pricey but it is multi story, decent size family changing rooms, wave machine is noisey and did scare some younger childelren like my son but it was fun to see, flumes I'd recommend as there is 4 to pick from, didn't go on dive boards but looked fun, kids pool overall is small but a decent depth altho the kids shoot water blaster is a bit cold and a bit fast at coming out. There is lane swimming for anyone that wants to do lengths and a decwnt virweing area whwre peolel can sit, cafe is closed for unknown reason Overall it was an okay day out

Negative experience: Nice pool, warm water and decent showers and changing rooms. But two visits over the summer holidays and both times the flumes were not working which made it boring and poor value for money. Won’t be back.

Fantastic experience: Such good fun! Everything in the pool was great. Slides, waves, bubbles, rapids, spraying water. We will definitely be going again when we're back in Scotland! Loads of staff everywhere too, which is great

Fantastic experience: The boys love it here

Positive experience: Great pool for the kids with the dive boards ,waves ,and flumes plenty to keep adults and kids occupied . Downside was the Cafe is closed and no vending machines either . The cafe was always busy so I do not understand the closure

Positive experience: Great fun with the family. Really good value (£20 family ticket for 1hr 30mins). The cannonball slide is amazing!

Fantastic experience: Kind of reliving my youth tbh but weĺl worth it. The kids like the lazy river and I certainly enjoyed the wave machine. Facilities are all good too.

Fantastic experience: Great pool and facilities, we were a party of 8 visiting with an age range from 6/7 to 40

Fantastic experience: Leisure swimming pool is good for the families..

Positive experience: Friendly man at reception so felt inviting. The pools were great and my children had fun and the flumes were fun also. Some of the showers weren't working and didn't like the band system. But over all was good . I will be back

Fantastic experience: Best place to go swimming

Positive experience: We had a fun visit but really, being able to walk in off the street in your shoes, straight into the wet changing rooms is gross beyond words. Who came up with that? Hygiene didn’t feel like a priority here..

Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool for all ages!! Nice and warm too which is a must for my raynauds

Fantastic experience: Great fun. Wish I went here twice instead of science museum

Fantastic experience: Great fun with the kid but it can be a bit overcrowded and means waitn on flumes etc apart from that its a great place to go with the kids and have fun

Positive experience: Looks good but can do more deep cleaning

Positive experience: Nice enough pool and flumes. Health and safety has gone mad though soon you won't be allowed to swim. Just bob up and down

Negative experience: Some rudely mannered worker today told me and my partner to leave rudely as it was closing time but in a very rude manner telling us to F off etc, I fully understand that she doesn’t want to be kept waiting but this was all a shock because we hadn’t even provoked her and she completely blew up at us making my partner very upset and ruined her day. Hope this brat gets hit with karma one day as there was absolutely no need to speak to us like that and there are more polite ways to communicate your frustration. Worker description: Female Dark brown hair Tanned 5’6 roughly We went there on Sunday 30th June I’m really not happy with this and hope they get a good telling on how to treat people especially when they are working in a social job. Hope this gets back to a manger or boss of some sort. Apart from this one woman all the staff are very nice and helpful. Giving cheery smiles and small conversations.

Fantastic experience: Perfect place for kids .almost going every weekend with my kids. They love it

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, place was relativity clean throughout. Visited at "off-peak" swimming time, staff explained what this was and where helpful. Would recommend and will be back at "peak-time" for full swim experience.

Fantastic experience: Very good quality swimming pools

Positive experience: Well heated. Good full-size olympic pool. Good facilities and changing space. Lost a star because the ceiling doesn't line up with the pool lanes so backstroke is more difficult.

Negative experience: The level of security is simply disgusting, there is such a large traffic of guests, and yet they cannot allocate one employee who will constantly monitor the area for the little ones, very large children push the kids and literally ignore the rules. This is a pool, this is water, one of the employees is simply obliged keep the babies in order!!!

Fantastic experience: Such good value for money, plenty to do and clean. Good size, not overcrowded. Just surprised at how reasonably priced it is and went peak time

Fantastic experience: Pay £20 monthly for off peak. Well worth it. Staff friendly

Negative experience: I have been using this gym/pool for a few months now and generally think it is good value for money. However I do have one issue that is ruining the overall experience- when I go swimming there is one life guard on who is always (and I mean always!) biting his nails while on duty at the pool. He bites he nails and I can see him dropping them at the poolside- quite frankly this is poor hygiene and a member of management NEEDS to speak to this individual ASAP. If this is resolved I would be changing to a 5 star review!

Fantastic experience: We rolled up last Saturday and although we didn't have a booking, they were very kind to let my daughter and I in for a swim. Staff are always friendly and life guards are very switched on. Always great fun to go to Olympia, facilities are well kept. Make sure if you want to go that you call in and make a booking (I think bookings are the way until June). Thank you Olympia team!

Fantastic experience: Like the new pools, and the gym is well equipped.

Negative experience: The leisure and toddler pools are currently unavailable, absolutely shocking!!! after 3 years closure? disappointed !!!

Positive experience: This place is amazing it's incredibly fun I had a grate time last time I went but this time I drove an hour to find out everything but one pool was open, they put nothing on the website so definitely phone them I might as well of went to Cardenden

Negative experience: Far to busy, very long queues, kids get very agitated, nowhere particularly to swim as the pool deep enough to swim was not available as this is where one of the flumes exits, and the main pool is far to busy and every 10 minutes has waves on so swimming not possible, not great for people who are not confident of there abilities.

Positive experience: What am I paying a membership fee for if it shuts at half 5 on a weekend, or the pool is shut??? Lochee shut at 4 Harris shut at half 12

Fantastic experience: Relatively new facility, nice and clean, a lot of fun for kids.

Positive experience: A nice place to enjoy water in family. Lot of fun: a pool with waves, one with rotating flux, one for diving from 3 hights, one for swimming and one for children. Plenty of water slides and games. Staff is super kind. The place is tidy and clean. Correct closets, lockers and bathroom. Short turns.

Fantastic experience: Really good pools to either take your family or to train. There is a fully equipped gym on site and a cafe. Staff are friendly and helpful.

Positive experience: Very good, but VERY busy! Will definitely go back but hopefully at a quieter time, 3pm.on a wet Sunday afternoon.....of course it was going to be busy!

Positive experience: Very fun took the nephew and he really enjoyed it, unfortunately there was an issue with the toddlers pool so 4 stars

Positive experience: At last, we have a functioning leisure pool!! Shame the cafe isn’t open yet

Fantastic experience: Glad to see it open again, it's been far too long.

Fantastic experience: Really pleased this venue is open again. We had a great time today and will visit again soon.

Positive experience: 2 years closed and not much changed. Chutes are worth a try along with a dive from the top platform

Positive experience: It’s a nice facility with friendly staff. The gym is good with modern equipment, I far prefer it to The Gym. The lack of Sauna and Steam Room does let it down however, particularly as it’s the councils flagship facility, leaving me considering alternatives.

Negative experience: Old olympia was far better layout with their pools, this replacement was built in wrong location and falling to bits with "cost cutting" measures by various contractors after winning their contracts. On the ball clerk of works from council should have checked the materials, workmanship properly as they are meant to do on any project they are to be managing. The clerks of works from the original build should be sacked.

Negative experience: Let's start a loaded brown envelope collection for the corrupt Dundee city councillors in the hopes the brain-dead parasites will sort it out.

Negative experience: My experience comes from my inability to access, even 2+ years on & no guarentee when it will open, i can't help but think 'if' it will open back up - poor show

Negative experience: Walked passed it. Still closed for swimming after 2 years. What a shambles. This has ruined swimming for a lot of young people. The council should be ashamed of themselves.

Negative experience: Bloody ridiculous that this has been closed. I want to try out my new dives. The triple rollover is my personal fave. Sort it out dundee city Council, like you sorted out my mother's assisted living flat in 2017. Bloody brilliant work with that one. She's still there and she loves it. Cheers

Negative experience: Disgrace been closed for over 2 years now. Cost over 30 million pounds tax payers money. Waste of money this place.

Negative experience: Absolute joke this was a brand new swimming and it’s been closed because it wasn’t built properly. Dundee city council at its best.

Fantastic experience: Our favourite pool in east of Scotland kids & adults love it !

Negative experience: Terrible. Its closed without any further notice. But what is the most frustrating is that they stopped swimming lessons for kids and didn’t even give us opportunity to transfer to a different council pool in Dundee. 2 years on waiting list and then back to square one. If I need to wait for years again my son will need beginner lessons for adults not for kids!

Fantastic experience: Definitely one of the best pools in Scotland I live 2 hours away but it’s alway worth the drive with the amazing flumes and the diving boards which seem scary at first but are now my favourite. If u get a chance definitely give Olympia a visit

Fantastic experience: Spend good time with my family the daughter was very happy.

Fantastic experience: Great leisure session with access to toddler pool and waves. Session lasted 1hr. Changing rooms were clean and accessible. Went with children ranging in age from 1 to 7 and a great time had by all, highly recommended for kids and adults alike.

Fantastic experience: Me the wife and kids had a nice time, it was a shame the flumes and rapids weren't open tho. The staff were well organised and running a tight ship.

Negative experience: So let's get this right, yeh? The Gyms and Swimming Pools opened up on 26th April. But then what do we find at Olympia? You can use the swimming pool and the gym, but you can't have a shower. What scientific brainbox thought that one up? No showers BEFORE you go into the swimming pool is not Hygiene At Its Best by any stretch of the imagination. If the pool can only be opened up without showers, it would be better to keep it closed. The individual shower stations are at least a metre apart, so what's the problem? Who takes responsibility for these un-evidence based decisions and why are they still allowed to make them?

Fantastic experience: I live in Canada but my dad is from Scotland and we usually come here every summer ( Usually ) and it is a great facility. Love the system they have in place for admission

Positive experience: Easy access location in the city with public transport and parking close by. Always clean and plenty of helpful staff available. Cafe upstairs, wave pool, slides, play pool, toddler pool and lane swimming all available. Lockers and changing rooms perhaps a bit narrow

Fantastic experience: Fantastic swimming pool. Excellent staff. Great day out for me and my kids Thank you all

Negative experience: Went for the chutes for my kids. . Good wave machine. Changing rooms are grubby and 2 of the 4 chutes not in operation hence the 2 stars

Fantastic experience: Fluuuuuuuuuuuumes are so much fun. Up there with the best swimming pools I've been to

Fantastic experience: Great pool, gym and adult classes! Toddler pool is always a great temperature. Plenty of adult classes to choose from. One of the best gyms ran by the council!

Positive experience: Changing facilities a little dates and in need of some work. Pool and flumes were fun with the kids. Good cafe up stairs with a good choice of snacks and drinks

Fantastic experience: Great place to take small children and a good view area for people that don't swim

Fantastic experience: Amazing water slides, wave pool, rapid river and other fun activities for the kids!

Fantastic experience: Excellent parking facilities, great locker rooms (take a £coin), good choice of things to do whilst there from the choice of 4 flumes, rapids, wave pool, spring board and lane swimming. If you are going to give the yellow flume a go be prepared for the 4m drop into the diving pool at the end! It hurts unless you land properly so keep your arms tucked in across your chest! I speak from experience!!!

Positive experience: I’ve never seen a swimming pool where there would be NO FREE HAIRDRYERS or SOCKETS provided (only Dundee Leisure). So especially in winter please be mindful of that when coming to use this swimming pool. Also, if you think you’ll dry long hair with one coin of 20p then you’re wrong, the hairdryers are on timer. I think that especially for those who are members there should be some ways to dry hair for free? I think this is quite basic. The training pool itself is great though.

Negative experience: I recently indulged myself on a beans on toast from the greatest take away known as khan-tandoori but as i was in high spirits i felt a gurgle in my stomach i was going down the blue shoot i couldn't hold it in and shoot out the shoot but something new came with me it was remints of the beans on toast no one was there to clean it up and it tasted better than the chlorine infected water and sadly the boy agter me got a whole mouthful of the beans no one was there to clean it up so i tipped hium 50 euros to clean it the end

Fantastic experience: Great fun for the kids and the adults and that water slide , if you have been you will know if you haven't what you been doing, go

Positive experience: No flumes or wave machine on before noon, but had the pool to ourselves and kids enjoyed themselves anyways so all good

Positive experience: Nice new building with flumes, main swimming area and a small kids pool. Nice clean place with helpful staff. Things that are missing sauna, steam room and a jacuzzi. Good place to take kids.

Negative experience: A fab swimming poiiol, kids had a great time. Food was great and excellent value.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic facility, down to Dundee from Aberdeen with the family, went along with 11 year old daughter and her friend who had a great time. If on hols to Dundee and you have kids, it is worth a visit.

Negative experience: Olympia is a boring, small pool. Whoever designed it or signed off on the build has peas and chips every night because you would have to have no imagination to design something this claustrophobic. Perth swimming has a huge pool, lots of activities, a waterfall and never feels cramped. When Dundee had that as a benchmark, why did they go backwards? Missed opportunity, boring pool and the place struggles.

Positive experience: It's good place for Dundee, but one hour and half not enough time.

Fantastic experience: We can't rate the lifeguards & other staff highly enough.We had ten year old twins we were looking after.They went missing after their time was up in the pool & everyone helped to find them.The lifeguards were brilliant! The kids had sneaked back into the pool.I can't tell you how relieved my husband & I were when they were found.The pool is brilliant as well.

Positive experience: My girls loved it. One flume was out but overall this pool was worth travelling that bit further for. Better than any pool in Fife

Positive experience: Staff almost seem bored but a great place for a swim, not too expensive for what you get, when schools are on holiday can be really busy, Top diving board and yellow floom are on a rota so don't go expecting to be doing everything.

Fantastic experience: Came all the way from London to visit. What can I say. Staff were lovely, although very unhelpful. Slides were good, especially the green one which was closed. The practice pool was bright yellow in the slow lane and there was a creepy old man in the kids pool circling the whirl pool constantly. Other than that a great trip all round. Would recommend 10/10

Fantastic experience: We love olympia swimming pool. Have a good time with all family. Best wot I like is river around a bubble island.

Negative experience: The Olympia - what happened?!? Firstly, I'll cover what was good. At £17.60 for 3 children and 2 adults for between 60-90 minutes (depends on when you join during a session) it does represent good value for money. And that's it. That is all I have that is good to say about this place. Now the bad. And there is a lot of it to cover. Firstly, the volume of changing cubicles did not appear to match the volume of people using them. I appreciate however it was the last Saturday of the school holidays where weather has turned rather poor, but the volume of lockers in use did not seem to be proportional to the number of shut doors. The "fun" pool is small to say the least. It might be better when it's quieter but with around 40-50 people in this section alone, it felt very cramped. It also has no real "play" space that would involve swimming. The training pool is not for splashing about it and the splash pool is too small to have a proper muck about in. It's maximum depth is 1.6m when meant during the waves, I could literally stay standing in the deep end without any issues. Switching to the river rapids, it's at a depth of 1.0m, about I think that number was used for its width and length too! It's narrow, short and dull. The dive pool shares the exit of the "cannonball" flume ride which had the diving boards cordoned off from use. Speaking of the flumes: the green one is still taped off with yellow & black hazard tape mentioned a few weeks ago by another visitor review. Standing in a lengthy queue for the 2 remaining ones (very few kids go on the yellow cannonball) the one thing you will notice is for a place that has not been open long, it is absolutely disgusting. Remember that yellow & black hazard tape I mentioned? It seems to be the all-in-1 repair tape too! It's all over the last step to the flumes platform, which is missing the grip. The platform itself looks like it had the flooring fitting by "have a go Jimmy", something I would have done to save myself a few quid on my bathroom floor. It's in a terrible, disgusting state. Looking at the structure itself, it's painted a bright and airy white, then covered by the dripping orange stain of rust. Seriously, I doubt this place will have the same longevity of the old Olympia pool building. If I had privately paid for this place to be built, I'd be getting to contractor that built it back in to make rectifications to it! I really cant help but imagine 20 years from now, people standing on that platform and it being in the news that it has collapsed. Truthfully, the Olympia is an embarrassment. It's general maintenance is awful and it's facilities whilst well priced are poor. Scotland is crying out for a really good indoor water park. Think Sandcastle in Blackpool or waterworld in stoke: Dundee could have had it to match it's V&A museum and other tourist grabbers, but it has sorely missed out on a great opportunity. I seriously recommend getting up at 4:30 in the morning & driving to Blackpool instead of coming here.

Positive experience: Great pool, 4 flumes, diving boards, mini splash area for tots, main swimming pool, rapids and wave machine. However green slide was closed. Boo. We’re told when we bought our tickets :( also weren’t told until we paid in that the swim session had already started so got only 1hr15 in the pool. Although we maybe only missed out on 15 mins. We LOVED the red flume with its music and disco lights. BRILLIANT

Fantastic experience: Fantastic swimming pools and very good fun. Great for all ages and the water slides are excellent