Queen Anne Pool

I like th e water aerobics here. it i clean and nice. The locker rooms are mostly one which is not an issue for me, the showers and hot and good pressure. The sauna is nice too after swimming

We have loved kiddie lessons, free swim, and lap swim at this pool, but just got to enjoy a birthday party pool rental and can’t recommend it highly enough.
The staff were professional, friendly, and kept everyone safe while my daughter and all of her classmates/​friends had A BLAST swimming. The price is super reasonable and also allows you to have time in the lobby to feed the kids who have worked up such an appetite in the pool. This is a *great* place to have an older child’s birthday party if you want to invite a larger group of friends.

Ok, so, when you arrive from Europe and you are used to awesome yet very affordable public equipments such as great olympic size pools open all day for lap-swim…this sure kills your motivation… but after a bit of getting used to the schedule and seeing what else is available in Seattle, I am really glad to come here 2 – 3 times a week. It is a decent pool for laps, good temperature, there’s a sauna, you can borrow the equipment (it would end up stolen in Europe lol), the showers are clean and have hot water and so far I never had any concerns with leaving my belongings in the free lockers you can use if you bring your own lock (I would get a big one just to make sure). Oh and the staff is nice, check-​in and lifeguards. The only thing is lately I had the discomfort to share the changing room with what seemed to be a homeless man (shopping cart full of his belongings waiting outside the pool) and who smelled painfully strong… a mix of alcohol and very strong lack of hygiene… pants were covered with what looked and smelled like dry feces… he seemed to have come to shower… I am super tolerant and I guess I can shut my nose for a bit but this kind of thing would deter a lot of folks from visiting again.
What are your other options in Seattle anyway? Going to one of the few pricy gyms with a pool I guess… not for me!

This is an indoor neighborhood pool that’s open to the public for various classes, lap swim, high school practices, and open swim. The schedule is a bit odd with such a variety of things offered, but my husband and I try to make it work within our schedules.
We started out lap swimming for fun, even though we are not avid swimmers, and the Seattle Parks and Rec pass is easy to get once you have proof of WA residency. We bought a 10 pass and it worked out perfectly. Somebody suggested taking group lessons as a great way to learn proper techniques and because of the great instructors.
So, we signed up. 10 classes for $ 70, 30 minutes each class. Best idea ever! The student to instructor ratio is about 4 to 1. They split it up by beginner, intermediate, and advanced level. The instructors take their time to work with you individually and they also address group needs. They allowed us to practice the techniques at the shallow end of the pool.
The bathrooms, shower room, and locker area are nice. There’s only one curtained area for those who want to change in privacy. A lot of the coin-​operated lockers are out of order. There are personal locker spaces for use with your own locks. I love how there’s a cold shower function to the side of the showers b/​c I love taking cold water rinses.
The one thing that irritates me is the soap that’s dispensed from both the sink and the shower area. One of the rules of a pool is to rinse before entering, in order to rinse off «toxins», «fragrances», and other nasty body products yet the dispensed soap is full of these toxins and fragrances. I guess a fair warning is to bring your own products if you believe in a clean liver and mind. =)

I really like the pool size/​rope swing/​diving boards and the staff is wonderful.
my only problem with it is the scheduling. Public swim is only an hour and a half. However. that time is chopped up in 30 min increments. 30 high dive (can only swim in shallow or low dive section), 30 min low dive (swim shallow and high dive section), and then rope swing which takes the entirety of the deep end so you can only swim shallow.
They have the entire week scheduled at bad times for me. For others I’m sure it’s fine, but I don’t see why adult swim is usually during the work day and not at night when I like to go swimming at 7.
The staff is still amazing– the ‘regulars’ are sweet and nice. The sauna is small but perfect and the showers are kept fairly clean.

I’m picky about my pools. I like them to be a nice temperature so you don’t get the wet sweat. The wet sweat is really freaky, it creates this boundary layer when you swim that kind of feels like not washing your hands after cutting fatty raw chicken.
But QA pool is clean, and has a good temperature and has hot showers. The lap swim times are later at night so you can go after work or dinner and not have to rush. The life guards and other patrons are friendly and most of them are good at being courteous lane sharers.
Then again, it only takes one person doing kicks in the fast lane to mess up your workout. The whole point of having different speed lanes is so you can switch lanes as you progress through your swim set. But meh, there are usually around 3 per lane, and people are decently good at picking a lane that fits them.

This is a great neighborhood pool with a friendly staff, reasonable rates, and some interesting classes. Decent sized locker rooms with quite a few changing surfaces for kids.
This rating, however, is for the Parent/​Tot swim class Fall.
The pool is not super heated — perhaps at most room temperature. For an adult, it’s fine, but anyone under 3 is going to turn blue pretty quickly in this class. Even with layers and a thermal bodysuit for our toddler, we always had to leave early. Ultimately, we skipped the last few weeks.
It’s fun to splash around with your baby in this class, but don’t expect ‘serious’ teachings. Lots of songs, toys and splashing, but not too many techniques for getting toddlers comfortable with the basics of swimming. That seems to come in the next level class for kids.
Nice teacher, great bonding with child, just not everything we were looking for.

I came here during my food holiday for a quick swim and shower. It’s a great deal at $ 5.25, cheaper than at home. The shower was all I needed. As for the pool I skipped that part as it looked not to appetizing to be honest. There wasn’t much with the pool. Staff were really nice and friendly.

If you are a good swimmer and you are looking for a close by pool and you live on queen Anne this is the place to be it has lap swims, water running class and more! this is a great pool.

If its you’re first time with a baby use the locker room to change and prep. Large changing area. plus showers to wash you and a child afterwards.

i’ve been going on tues and thurs nights for about 5 months. and sometimes a saturday or sunday. it’s got easy parking. lap swimming isn’t too crowded most of the time you can get a quick card and pre-​purchase a bunch of entries so you don’t have to waste time paying each and every time. which i did for a few times and it takes an awful long long time to finish paying. everyone pretty much leaves you alone. always a lifeguard on duty.
the showers are very interesting. at least on the mens side.
picture a big room with shower heads along one wall. and a bunch of clothes hooks on the opposite side wall. that’s it. no barriers between the showers. no curtains. no privacy. just a huge huge room with a bunch of shower heads. yes — this is at the queen anne public swimming pool maintained by the city of seattle. i think prisons are also designed this way.
my college freshman year dorm was like this too. the whole building was all male. and each floor had a couple of these «prison showers». but after revisiting my old dorm building a few years ago, they installed privacy barriers. so not so much prison showers any more at NCSU.
but i think most of the city of seattle pools are still designed with this prison shower style. not gangnam style. prison shower style.

Clean, well-​maintained, well-​staffed. High dive & springboard, plus lane swimming blocks for swim teams. There are classes for young and old. The sauna is a nice touch on chilly Seattle winter evenings. I believe they do birthday parties as well.

This is my favorite area pool!
FRESH WATER!!! These guys really know how to balance the water nicely — good job!
Great exercise class too!!! Woot woot! Love that swinging rope by the way… And really like using that thing that squeezs the water out of my swim suit.

I swim laps here. There are times when it’s a little crowded, but then there are other when no one is there. I can’t seem to figure out when that will be cause it’s never consistent. But I do love this pool. The city is cutting back a lot of the funding so there are limited and strange hours for the lap swims, but I try my best to make it work.
The lady that works the front desk I think her name is Ruby, but I may be wrong is very friendly and helpful. She helped me get a pass and explained how the program worked. This was good because the cities website was not very clear to me.
I like this pool better then the gym pool at say a 24hr fitness type place because you have people the actually wear bathing suits and are here to actually swim. At QA pool they put up signs in each lane to let people know the pace of that lane so you don’t end up with a super slow person in a super fast persons lane.
Locker rooms were clean and spacious to get showered and changed in.
Downside is parking. They do have a small lot, but in the spring to late summer early fall there is a farmers market that uses the lot on Thursday afternoons. I’ve always been able to find a spot but I only go in the mid afternoons, not sure what it would be like after 5pm when people are back at home.

I swim laps at the QA Pool several times per week. It’s a great pool for the price of a swim. Staff are very professional and friendly. Wish they had lap swim hours in the morning (not counting the early swim, 6 — 7:30 am) but I know it’s a city pool and other pool activities compete for use.
I’ve tried the private pools at 24 hour fitness downtown and LA Fitness. Both have drawbacks. Parking and access at 24-​hour isn’t as good as the QA city pool and LA Fitness had too many lollygaggers and the serious lap swimmers had to wait for a lane.

nice little pool.
I went here from time to time when I was in a swimming streak and Greenlake Pool was closed for one thing or another.
I found parking a block or so away.
Why a 4 and not a 5? There were some misquotes about classes and schedules which at this point are moot, but to go all the way to QA Hill and then oops! GRRRRRRR

QA pool offers a wonderful array of classes and, as of last year, its pool is now nearly heated to room temp.
There is a small sauna inside the pool area itself; a fair amount of equipment is available in the pool free for use; and the showers are usually hot.
Lockers are available for a quarter or you may bring your own lock for one of the smaller lockers but must take it with you when you leave. It is best not to bring valuables with you into the locker room or pool. I’ve never had a problem, but there are enough signs posted warning of theft that being careful is recommended.
Parking is available, though limited in the pool’s own lot, as well as additional street parking (hard to get on days when there is the farmer’s market — Thursdays — or there is a game in the ball fields across the street).
Personally, I regularly attend the hydrofit classes throughout the week and they are a great work out. The facilities more than suffice and the staff is kind, friendly and thoughtful. All of the instructors are happy to answer questions and guide you through anything unfamiliar.
I highly recommend, not just the Queen Anne pool, but all of your local community pools — they offer great services at great prices and are wonderful places to use.

Much as I commend the city for running these swimming pools in the first place, this pool does NOT work for me.
The reasons are as follows, in order of importance: (1) limited hours for lap swimming, an approximate hour-​and-​a-​half twice a day; (2) the pool is only 25 yards long; (3) the pool is heavy used during the designated lap swim times; (4) plenty of kids use the pool, so it gets pretty noisy and somewhat chaotic (5) concrete floors in locker rooms, fluorescent lighting, and small lockers.
Pools that work for me would include the Seattle University and University of Washington pools (the former is open to the dues-​paying public); YMCA, downtown, Central Area (25-​yards), and West Seattle (25-​yards); the public pools at Greenlake and the one next to Garfield High School (limited hours but 25 meters); the Fauntleroy open-​air pool, open only during the summer.
There is a co-​ed sauna by the swimming pool.

This pool has lap swim and free swim hours, water aerobics, and a small sauna.
Like many pools, most of the people here will look like extras from the set of The Mummy Returns. If the horror of nakedness in the dressing rooms gets to you, you can use one of the couple changing rooms out in the lobby which are earmarked for disabled people. If you’re fast, and considerate to any disabled people who are around, no one should mind.
Lockable lockers are available for a quarter.

What can I say? When I do actually hit the swimming pool, this is where I like to go! There used to be this awesome lifeguard, Covey, who worked there. The staff is friendly and lap swims are offered frequently, although they do seem to be consistantly busy.