点评:We brought our nearly 3 year old daughter here on a day on which her usual swimming pool in nearby Kirkby was closed.
The first thing to stress is that this is a very impressive swimming complex - good pools, lots of activities to help make swimming fun for young people, and it was all impressively clean, with good changing facilities.
I just found it too busy. You would think that there is a limit to how many people is enough to cram into a series of medium sized pools all at once, and it felt as though Water Meadows exceeded that by quite some way. It ended up looking like one of those dreadful spring break videos you see in America, where every fool and his dog is in the pool at once. To be clear, there were no dogs in this pool...
It didn't make it unsafe or anything, but it certainly made it less enjoyable. It is pretty much the only thing I really took away from my visit.
That being said though, we were , as I mentioned earlier, there for our young daughter, and she seemed oblivious to the fact that she was effectively swimming in Piccadilly Circus. She had a lot of fun, and it is that fact alone that secured this place a 3/5.
翻译:我们带着快3岁的女儿来这里,那天她常去的附近柯克比的游泳池关门了。
首先要强调的是,这是一个非常令人印象深刻的游泳中心——泳池很棒,活动丰富,让孩子们乐在其中,而且一切都干净整洁,更衣设施也很好。
我只是觉得这里太拥挤了。你可能会认为,一个个中型泳池同时容纳的人数是有上限的,但感觉Water Meadows远远超过了这个上限。最后它看起来就像你在美国看到的那些糟糕的春假视频一样,所有傻瓜和他的狗都挤在泳池里。需要说明的是,这个泳池里没有狗……
这并没有让它变得不安全或其他什么,但它确实降低了它的趣味性。这几乎是这次旅行我唯一真正没有体会到的东西。
话虽如此,正如我之前提到的,我们是为了小女儿而来的,她似乎完全没有意识到自己其实是在皮卡迪利广场游泳。她玩得很开心,正因如此,我们才给这里打了3/5分。