Calling all swimming afficionados......

[annie0000]

Looking for a really good swimming/leisure pool in the UK i.e. the one with best water slides etc. Trying to plan our holidays for next year - don't want to go abroad again, kids love waterslides so we will go where the best pool is - anyone any ideas? Best we have seen so far would be Center Parcs @ whinfell but been there loads of times.

[stokemaveric]

the best place to go is waterworld here in good old stoke on trent.................

[annie0000]

Just looked at the website, it looks a good pool, just the kind of thing we are looking for - so what is there to do in the stoke area for a family holiday when I drag them out of the pool stokemaverick? Mind you, they would happily spend 4 hours a day in there.

[happyjo]

half an hour from Alton Towers!!!!!! awesome day out.. albeit a tad expensive.. check out the 2 for 1 deals tho next summer. Walkers crisps ran a great 2 for 1 this year...

Alton towers also has a water park xx

[stokemaveric]

annie we have alton towers that is half an hour drive away,drayton manor park that is a bit farther about an hours drive away in south staffordshire,you wont regret coming to stoke on trent,we are the friendliest people on gods earth.........................

[annie0000]

Thanks for the answers guys - just off to have a wee look at the alton towers site.....

[hau kola]

Waterworld is fab, i went there a few months ago.
Also, there is a water park at Goodrington sands near Paignton..

[stokemaveric]

annie alton towers is a kids paradise.........who needs disneyworld????..lol

[puddicat]

annie you really liked the pool at whinfell last week, i thought it needed a face lift very dated and very hot arrrrgh!!!

[annie0000]

hi puddicat - the last time we were there was October last year and I still thought in terms of the facilities it is a good pool - my boys are 8 and 7 now and swim really well, we have gone probably at least once a year since they were babies and we have always found that it has been great for their stage of swimming every time. Maybe they will have outgrown it by next year though, as they could go on all the rides last year. You are right that it probably looks a bit dated now, but to me (well them really - I hate slides!) it's the facilities that win every time. Starting to feel the need for change......

[annie0000]

Hey kola - long time no speak! the pool at goodrington looks good - do you know if you could manage without a car down there? The 4 and half hours to stoke is about manageable - god knows how long it would take to drive to devon. Can probably get a reasonable flight to Exeter though.