Anonymous
Gigantium is, as it sounds, simply gigantic. It's a gorgeous eight-lane competition pool, striped, with targets and non-turbulent lane lines (and all of them in!). So much white tile! The website says it’s 1.8m deep at the start end, but I was standing on a ledge and it went deeper than that—whatever, it doesn’t get much better than this.
It has great locker rooms, electronic locking lockers provided with entry fee (fees are higher on weekends/holidays). I went at about 8:45 AM on a weekday and had to split a lane for 30 minutes but then had the lane to myself and was able to click off 4,200 meters in just about an hour. Lane etiquette seemed very well understood and appreciated.
The aquatic complex houses five different pool options, If you want to do more than laps. There’s a warm water/thermal pool, which is quite large; if you want to have family fun, there’s a pool with water slide, plus a kiddie pool, and an infant pool, and your obligatory Danish sauna.
There is a full activity schedule for the pools on the website, and they say that they always have at least four lanes open for laps. This is one of four pools that the Aalborg Svømmeklub uses and, from what I can tell, that is mostly in the afternoon after school. My contact with the team didn’t yield much of a result, but I don’t believe they have a Masters team, just youth/club level.
The Gigantium complex also houses a basketball stadium, a hockey rink, a fitness center, a wellness/spa center. Everything that you would need to survive the endless cold and rain of Danish weather (not to mention four hours of daylight in winter) and not go crazy.
The center is a five minute walk from the Scandic Hotel, which is southeast of Aalborg proper, but it can’t be more than a five minute cab ride from city center. You buy your ticket at the small café just outside the pool entrance.
It has great locker rooms, electronic locking lockers provided with entry fee (fees are higher on weekends/holidays). I went at about 8:45 AM on a weekday and had to split a lane for 30 minutes but then had the lane to myself and was able to click off 4,200 meters in just about an hour. Lane etiquette seemed very well understood and appreciated.
The aquatic complex houses five different pool options, If you want to do more than laps. There’s a warm water/thermal pool, which is quite large; if you want to have family fun, there’s a pool with water slide, plus a kiddie pool, and an infant pool, and your obligatory Danish sauna.
There is a full activity schedule for the pools on the website, and they say that they always have at least four lanes open for laps. This is one of four pools that the Aalborg Svømmeklub uses and, from what I can tell, that is mostly in the afternoon after school. My contact with the team didn’t yield much of a result, but I don’t believe they have a Masters team, just youth/club level.
The Gigantium complex also houses a basketball stadium, a hockey rink, a fitness center, a wellness/spa center. Everything that you would need to survive the endless cold and rain of Danish weather (not to mention four hours of daylight in winter) and not go crazy.
The center is a five minute walk from the Scandic Hotel, which is southeast of Aalborg proper, but it can’t be more than a five minute cab ride from city center. You buy your ticket at the small café just outside the pool entrance.