Clasgow Club Gorbals Swimming Pool

Positives:
Entry prices are cheap, especially the £15 per month swim-only membership;
There are gender-neutral change facilities for everyone (shared showers & individual change cubicles);
The water temperature is perfect for lap swimming;
There is a very mixed crowd of people; and
People are generally friendly (except during school holidays when everyone seems angry about being jammed in one pool)

Negatives:
The leisure pool is has not reopened since 2020 and one-hour timed sessions that you need to book for are still in place;
The pool is very shallow and has no lane lines on the bottom, making it less-than-ideal for serious lap swimming;
It is chaotically busy during school holidays;
Very loud commercial radio is played throughout the pool complex making it hard to hear anyone over the speaker-distorting commercials and host’s inane gabble; and
The centre is quite old and a tad tired.

Make sure you take a few 20p coins with you for the lockers, as they are old and prone to stealing your coins.

The entrance to the pool is directly behind you as you face reception. The changing village is fresh and clean. The lockers take a returnable 20p. The pool is shallow but I found it pleasantly cool for swimming lengths. One of the three lunchtime lanes was removed as the pool was prepared for a session for children on an inflatable installation but there weren't many of us swimming and so it wasn't too crowded. The cafe is making a reasonable effort to produce healthy food.

Relatively new pool, with a couple of lanes occasionally available. Not particularly great for swimming though because of temperature, which might be a little hot for some, and the fact that the shallow end is a wee bit too shallow.If you like the crawl be prepared to crawl along the bottom when you reach the shallow end. That said it is not impossible and it's ok when you need somewhere to swim.