The Valley Pool

We've only been here for swim meets so may it be a fair" review but I love the old building facade but a gorgeous crystal clear pool behind the gates. Great grandstand and close anything you may have forgotten and not available from the shop on-site."

I only go there because it is close to my place but I really did not like it. I paid for a single entry the other day and I was shoved to a different lane as it turned out a PT booked 4 lanes for training. Then few minutes later they claimed the 5th lane. It was also annoying to swim with the fast ones in the same lane. The other lanes were cut in half which I would not use. There was no warning before hand about the training sessions taking place at that time.

As mentioned by some people, this pool is slowly going from being 'public' to 'private'. The last couple of weekends I've turned up and half the pool was reserved for water polo or other private groups. This was despite checking the official lane availability schedule on the website which claimed all lanes were available. When I mentioned this to the person at reception, he gave no explanation or apology. Some weeks half the time is reserved for water polo, carnivals or squad training.While most staff are nice and friendly, I have had the one or two who are not.

Best place to swim close to Brisbane CBD. clear water and friendly staff. Make sure you check Lane availability before going as the pool host school carnivals and water polo games.

Great pool (long and clean) with nice staff, the place to be in Brisbane on a hot sunday afternoon where there's no plan to go to the beach! The entrance costs a few dollars only, you can book a voucher if you are planning to go often.

Great spot in the heart of the valley to escape the heat. They sell coffee, smoothies, cold drinks, goodies and even have a bar! The only flaw personally, is there isn't much room, if any, dedicated for people who aren't swimming laps. You try and cool off and there's always someone able to swim laps right next to you no matter where you get in.

I love this pool. As a lover of outdoor swimming all year around the Valley Pool is my favourite Brisbane pool when I'm visiting. It's clean, has choices of 25 and 50m lanes, the swimmers have great lane etiquette and the after swim coffee is excellent.The staff are also always very friendly.

I am a regular at the Valley Pool, and have been for many years, i have noticed a disturbing trend over the last year whereby regularly the public are relegated to a few lanes and the rest of this ‘public pool’ is handed over to clubs, squads and other swim lesson companies charging for their services. This is fairly outrageous- a public pool built with public money now ‘selling off’ this community asset so as to make public access severely restricted and allow lanes to be profitable is not acceptable. The amount of lanes consistently utilised as non-public ensures the public use of this pool continues to decline. Coupling this with the fact that the ‘lane availability’ information on the website is not up to date, means a compete lack of confidence regarding the quality of the swim at this pool. So, so disappointing that this beautiful public pool has ceased to be for the public.

Wonderful 50m swimming pool in the middle of Fortitude Valley in Brisbane. One of Australia's most famous pools, that over the years has seen many Olympic medallists and international swimmers use it as their training base. Recently, the Scottish Swimming team used this venue to prepare for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Venue is clean and has good surrounding space for sitting or sunbathing. Small coffee shop on site as well as a swim shop and fitness gym. Easily accessible on foot but probably difficult to find good nearby car parking space.