Trinity College Sports Centre

The adjustable depth floor of the pool is broken so that 30% of the pool is so shallow you cannot take a full stroke or easily do a flip turn. Apparently, the parts for repair are unavailable and there’s no current plan to repair.

I was here 10 AM on a Thursday in early December and there were only four of us in the pool; by 11 AM there were about ten people. It's a very clean facility with a sauna and steam room. I only tried sauna and it wasn’t very hot but had just been cleaned, so maybe there hadn't been enough time for it to reheat. The Sports Centre website has a video worth watching for some of the ins and outs of the facility. Locks are required for the lockers but combination locks available for purchase at front desk at €11. There are plenty of lockers and lots of room in the change rooms.

Agree, this pool is excellent! We swam at 10:00 AM on a Sunday and either had a lane to ourselves, or swam with only one other person. Important note: the locker rooms are European “village” style (common area with changing cabins and lockers), and the showers are common and in view of the pool deck, so showering is done with swimsuit on.

This is an excellent pool. Very clean changing area as you are required to take your shoes off before entering. Bring your own lock. Swimming caps are required, but I was able to borrow one from the lifeguard. There were six lanes with anti-turbulence lane dividers at lunchtime; two or three people per lane, separated into fast, medium, and slow.

The pool seems to be a low chlorine one, which is great. Swimmers were all swimming in the correct speed lanes and courteous if you needed to pass them. The pool has a moveable floor and for some reason the shallow end was very shallow when I was in - too shallow to tumble turn at that end.

While I didn't actually swim here I did call in. The pool looked good - proper lane ropes with, slow, medium, and fast lanes. Mornings from 7 to 10 AM sounded like good times, as all six lanes were reserved for lane swimming, and I was told that on average there might be 15 people in the pool, sometimes up to 20. Twenty people in six lanes is still pretty good! The only bad thing is that there is no parking. Check the timetable online for when lane swimming is available.