The Olympic Pools & Fitness Centre

Our family use the crèche which is excellent and so affordable including your gym membership. I wish I could say I use the gym and pool but honestly I go here for the crèche facilities and the absolutely brilliant yoga classes with Wendy. I have been doing yoga for 15 yrs on and off and she is the greatest teacher I have every found. Her classes get 10 stars.

This pool is amazing! Really!!! I certainly took the pool for granted when I lived in Auckland!
I am from New York, but lived in Auckland for two years while getting my Masters degree. In those two years I adopted swimming as my preferred fitness activity. I went to the pool whenever I was stressed or sad or bored, and within minutes of entering the pool, I was as happy as I could ever be.
This pool has soooo many things you can’t find in New York:
— As a student, it only cost me $ 5 or so to pop by for a swim. Almost every pool (aside from the dingy pools) in New York require membership just to be able to walk into the facility. And even the dingy pools require membership outside of Summer.
— It’s a 50 meter pool. You would be surprised how rare that is.
— It has a kiddie pool, hot tub, jacuzzi, steam room, TWO saunas, a café, a gym, fitness classes, SCUBA CLASSES (!!!) an incredible locker room with curtains AND hot water… really just incredible facilities. Nothing in New York comes close to that. Not even remotely.
— The price is absolutely insane. Again, I only paid $ 5 to swim, and they don’t force you to get a membership or anything. The only establishment that I’ve been to that comes close to this pool is Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. But a day pass is $ 50 USD (So maybe $ 60 NZD… just for the day). Yearly membership for the pool alone is over $ 600.
I would do anything to be able to go back to this pool. Count your lucky stars, Aucklanders!!! ;)

All the facilities that you need for all your fitness and leisure requirements. A 50m pool– hard to find! Great gym, a range of classes, a kids pool, spa and sauna. There is also a crèche and café on site.
The staff and friendly and helpful if you have any questions. When signing up the the gym you get free assessment and program.
Parking is usually pretty good but if you can’t find any parks on the street you get a discount at the parking building next door or there is also a paid parking area across the road by The Warehouse.

Dad dicks. Dad dicks everywhere. I remember the first time I went to the olympic pools with a couple of my friends in form 2, and the supressed giggles we had to hold back as old asian men walked past, salami swinging between their legs. Nowadays, I too stride freely through the changing room, although this can get a bit unhygenic as I tend to drag on the ground. not really.
The pool itself is quite good, olympic sized with a very deep end that is used for diving practice. It’s quite fun to try get to the bottom and hold yourself there — although I always have flashbacks of Chuck Palahniuk’s short story «Guts.» Look it up if you want — but a warning, it is rather… graphic.
There is a gym, for the people who like that kind of thing, and two different temperature saunas as well as a steam room. The Olympic pools probably believe they are Auckland’s première pool destination, but I’m not so sure.

Sometimes if we have kid-​free time at the weekend and are feeling righteous we use the gym here before having a swim. I like it when gyms aren’t painful about casual visitors and the ones run by Auckland City Council are really a bargain.
We had a good time here as we usually work out without machines so each time we’re in a new gym it’s all new and exciting. Which is a really helpful feeling to have about exercise. Don’t come here though if you’re a complete novice; the staff are more interested in posing than assisting the clients. Which is fine with us.
There’s probably more cardio machines here than I’ve seen anywhere else along with everything else you might need; weights, kettle bells, Swiss balls, stretching mats… This place is the ideal set-​up because it really has everything; there’s a café, crèche, sauna, group fitness and personal trainers, nutritionist and physio all on site. And what’s left of the original building’s character is beautiful.
Aucklanders of my vintage will remember when the Newmarket Pool was the place to go in summer and hang out on the concrete terraces in the sunshine. It’s now of course covered in but they did the best job they could retaining the building’s Deco character.
It’s a pretty busy pool and there’s no dedicated «frolicking» area so you need to avoid the serious swimmers if you’re just in for a dip. The curved spa at the end gets crazy crowded which is less than relaxing but that’s what you get in the populated areas.
The changing rooms here have some interesting features, particularly the strips of clear glass at strategic height in the showers. So you can have a moderate level of privacy but not for the body parts where you really it. My husband has a hilarious story about one of our visits involving a clearly very body-​confident man hoisting his leg up on a bench to blowdry his nether regions — yes with the hairdryer. Personal space being at a premium when it’s busy it was apparently quite an eyeful. Not sure this is a selling point but it’s certainly bloody funny.

We come to these pools at least once a week, and I probably wouldn’t bother going anywhere else. It’s clean, the changing rooms are nice enough (and there’s plenty of hair dryers). I do find the changing room exhibitionists rather intriguing though…
There’s a huge spa, with an adults section and a kids section.
Also a huge lane pool, and a kids pool.
Tips: there’s a café near the spas, and my best tip is for parking — you can get your parking ticket from the Davis Cres carpark validated for cheaper parking (approx half price).

I came here as part of my scuba diving course — it was the site of our first ever pool dives. We learned the ropes here, how to stay calm and breathe underwater, how to descend and ascend, and basic regulator skills. The pools were clean, not too busy (perhaps this is because we went in the middle of the day), the changing rooms were spacious and also pleasantly clean, with large mirrors and larger-​than-​normal showers too. The pools are the site of many swimmers — professional and recreational alike, and they also have a spa pool which was a treat after the long day we had. Although it costs to get in, I do believe the advanced facilities and cleanliness are well worth the cost.

The Olympic pools, with their Olympic sized swimming pool, is a great place for fitness bunnies. They offer a gym, a steam room, a sauna, personal trainers and a café so you’re forced back into the gym.
Sadly, this is not focused toward recreational pool splashers, though you don’t need a membership to swim for the day. The pool is roped off into different swimming lane speeds and the warm «spa» pool is filled with children and floating paraphernalia. It’s not hard to miss on Newmarket’s Broadway as the crossing outside usually creates a small traffic jam during the week and can create a problem with parking.
Not exactly the place for a summer’s day cool-​down, but hey, the men’s bathroom has hairdryers?