The Embassy Swimming Pool has an indoor heated pool and a traditional seaside outdoor heated swimming pool.
Both of the Embassy Swimming Pools are basic rectangular pools, there are no bells or whistles to this East Lindsey County Council run swimming pool in that it doesn’t have fancy flumes, sprinklers or jacuzzi , but the Embassy Swimming pool in Skeg is a nice pool to have a swim.
The Embassy Swimming Pool can be found on Grand parade next to the Embassy Theatre
PRICES: £3.25 adults, over 60’s free and children under 16 free
Session vary so call ahead on: Tel: 01754 610675 or look online for basic info
Skegness Embassy Outdoor Swimming Pool
The outdoor swimming pool is an OK Skegness attraction for those brave enough to use it on the two days a year when it’s warm enough to swim outside in Skegness :-)
The Embassy outdoor pool can get crowded in the summer holidays being used the most in July and August there is usually sessions on busy days which means limited time, but if you holiday in Skeg earlier in the year you can stay longer in the outdoor pool and it’s not as crowded. the pool is heated, but on a cold or miserable summers day no one uses it much.
The outdoor pool is open from June-September the rest of the year it’s closed. The Embassy outdoor pool is modern looking and better than some old pools that are used in other seaside resorts, and you can relax at the pool side in the relaxation area, which is grass and deck chairs to the rest of us :-) good for mum’s if they don’t want to get wet to watch the kids.
Activities are run at the Embassy swimming pool like giant inflatable islands and the water walker. The giant inflatable can be used by children who can swim 50m and the water walker can be used by anyone that includes mum’s and dad’s. It’s best to phone and get full details of the activities on offer before you go to the Embassy swimming pool to get the best out of your visit (each day/week varies) and the Embassy Swimming Pools website is useless for information on extras activities and special sessions that take place at the pool.
I’ve had a go at the water walkers with my kids and there lots of fun I’d recommend giving them a go. Water Walkers are hollow inflated balls that you stand in, I spent all my time on my backside, I didn’t get to walk on water once, but my kids managed to crack it and they where running in the balls in no time, although I spent most of my time flat on my back I did enjoy myself a lot :-) The Water Walkers might not be good for people who suffer from claustrophobia although you only spend 2-3 mins each turn in the ball it does get hot and stuffy since your shut up tight, but for anyone else it’ll be the best time you’d ever spend falling down.
The life guards have an hold of the ball at all times so theres no risk of getting stranded the life guards did a great job when we tried water walking, we were well looked after.
The outdoor pool suites toddlers well as the shallow end of the pool is a steady decline that you walk into until you are at the depth you feel comfortable with.
Skegness Embassy Indoor Swimming Pool
The indoor pool is a basic rectangle and is a much older design.
Unlike the outdoor pool that declines at the shallow end the indoor pool has hook on steps to get into the pool, there is a small Dolphin slide in the shallow end for little kids to slide down.
Most of the Embassy Indoor Pool is open with usually one lane marked of for good swimmers.
One thing I have to warn people about is the temperature of the water, it’s not that warm.
Every time I go I look at the cardboard clock at the front deck and on average it says the tempertature of the water is between 27-29 degrees, but it feels cold particularly when you first get in.
We’ve found the best way to warm up is to have a brave quick dip in the water, get out then get back in again, sounds crazy and a lot of trouble to go to but it seems to work. The temperature of the water gives my son an asthma attack and his lips turn blue when he doesn’t warm up quickly :(.
This is a real problem with the indoor Embassy pool, the water is way to cold particularly in winter. My husband who has a back complaint can’t go to the Embassy to swim because the cold water makes his muscles tense up making the pain in his back worse :-(
The showers are warm though and are situated next to the swimming pool, were both male and females shower together, takes a bit of getting used to showering and soaping yourself down in front of a pool full of people, I’ve never been in a swimming pool that has this strange setup before going to the Embassy Pool and it’s not very pleasant being on display while showering.
The Embassy indoor pool has a medium sized log flume which is fun and brakes the monotony of swimming backwards and forwards. It’s separate from the pool and is accessed by steps. The flume twists and turns above the main pool and finishes in it’s own mini pool.
‘Be warned!’ though Kids push on the stairs and ever time I’ve taken our son to the Embassy Pool their has never been a memeber of staff at the top of the slide, since the steps are steep I would recommend going up the slide with your children
One of the good points about the Embassy Indoor Swimming Pool is it’s cleanliness, the floors in the changing rooms are always being mopped either by a member of staff or a cleaner, which is excellent (big thumbs up to the cleaners).
The toilets on the other hand although clean-ish (they look old) the floors always drenched which isn’t that great, I don’t know about the men’s toilets but in the ladies the doors are too close to the toilet basin which means to close the door you have to squeeze up the side of the toilet, which always creeps me out. Us ladies usually hover as it is to avoid contact with the toilet, so banging your knees on a toilets rim so you can close the cubical door just makes me feel dirty :-(
There are plenty of changing rooms and lockers, lockers are a pound which you get back when you’ve finished your swim.
Cubicals are not that big and taking children in with you is a squeeze, also the bottom of the cubicals don’t touch the floor and once we had a rude child keep pulling our stuff through the bottom of the cubical.
Embassy Swimming Pool Staff
The staff at the Embassy Swimming Pool are friendly at the front desk and give plenty of information to visitors. There are always 2 or 3 life guards on duty at the pool at all times. We try to go to the Embassy Swimming Pool at least once a week for 10 months of the year (we always avoid the school holidays :-)) and in all that time we have only experienced one incident with the life guards where they wasn’t paying attention in a very dangerous situation.
On this one occasion a female life guard decided to turn a blind eye for a full 40+ minutes to the troublesome kids by focusing all her attention on a 3 year old and her mother, (who really didn’t need help) while the rest of the swimmers in the Embassy Swimming Pool where left to defend for themselves as these children (8 of them) started to pull out and throw the heavy diving bricks in the shallow end from a fair distance while babies and disabled children tried to get out the way!
I think these particular life guards where out of their depth in dealing with these children.
We left that day when the kids started to sit on one another’s shoulders and throw themselves backwards just missing a small girls head as she swam by! Ruined our swim :(
All in all the Embassy Swimming Pool is OK, does what it says on the tin :) it’ll do for a quick swim and a bit of fun.
Skegness Attractions Star Rating for the Embassy Swimming Pool 7/10
Marie
We attempted to get in here 2 years ago during a very hot week. We queued in the morning right across the carpark and didnt get in. My friends daughter was very disapointed so we queued again for the afternoon session.There were a lot of people arguing with the staff who had not managed to get in for the morning session due to large crowds.We eventually managed to get in but couldnt find anywhere to sit.No deckchairs or sunbeds left. People were packed in. I went with my friend who is in a wheelchair. There were a lot of children with rubber rings etc messing around so not many adults were in. Stayed about an hour but it was too busy and the changing rooms when we went and wcs were disgusting – I have only ever been in peak season though and I daresay at other times of the year (June or very early July it would probably be different).
Thanks for this Joe, great comment.
It’s good to hear a first hand experience wether it be good or bad as it gives people a better idea of what to expect and ‘if’ anyone in charge of an attraction ever reads you comment it could make a difference to the way things are run.
I’ve heard of other accounts similar to yours. A holiday maker wrote to the Skegness Standard to complain about their treatment (I think last year) they unfortunately had a similarly bad experience to yours at the Outdoor Pool :(
Lets hope they start listening
Marie
I have lived in skeg vegas for the last seven years, and I assume when you say peak time you mean mid to late august when skegness is usually packed with holiday makers because June, July and the beginning of August are usually quite good time to access the embassy pools. having said that my family and i had no problems gaining access to the outdoor pool mid to late august last year.
Love to swim in our outdoor pool at Skegness if i could only get a chance, get very tired of tourist that lose there temper, not many public pools in Lincolnshire so the locals have only a limited choice of places and times.
Would wonder what these tourist would think if we turned up at Nottingham, Leicester or Derby pools and they could not get in their local pool because of people from outsite their council tax area had made it impossible to park (for free) or get in to their own area pool.
We now that you bring in money for the shop keepers and business, but don’t forget that we have to put up with a lot, when we are not shop keepers or business people.
Please don’t get cross, we all have to put up with an overpopulated island.
actually, there is a maximum bathing load for people to use each pool. you probably didn’t get in due to the fact it was full. also, the changing rooms are getting cleaned on a regular basis but its people that mess them up. the only reason the toilet floors are wet when you go in is because people who use the pool are wet and go to use the toilets. bit of a no brainer really.
it a very nice place BUT i would like to no what time the swimming pool is open i we would like to come swimming but we can’t cause we don’t no the times please will you let us no we want to go tomrrow but how can we when we don’t no thank you very much from angrey person
You perhaps haven’t noticed but this is a tourist page about Skegness, not the actual website for the swimming pool. You perhaps should find out a bit more, before posting a comment ending in ‘from angrey person’ – just because everything isn’t on this page.
If you were that desperate to go swimming I would have thought you could have Google’d the pool. You’d have found the website, a phone number, prices and opening times. It took me all of a few clicks to get to the correct website
You really do want it all on a plate don’t you, and then moan at the wrong people. Good grief.
Perhaps if your comment was also grammatically correct it might help matters too.
Hi There,
I’m just wondering if anybody could kindly tell me, weather there is any disabled access to get out of the indoor swimming pool please…
Kind Regards
Stevie James
No Adidas adverts, no people wear Adidas swimming costumes at the pool. shallow end needs to be at least 1.5m deep and the deep end 3m like Ponds Forge. 0/10