Fitzroy Swimming Pool

Fantastic experience: Yarra Leisure Centre Fitzroy is excellent. Trainers are knowledgeable and caring notably Michael who helped me with strength and cardio training after surgery and ongoing chronic pain. Henry on front reception/admin gives excellent service and nothing seems to be too much trouble. Highly recommend

Fantastic experience: One of my favourite places in the world!

Positive experience: While I was living in this neighborhood, I made sure to check out the Fitzroy Pools on a warm spring morning. It was a weekday and it was still packed! It's a 50m pool with lots of space to lounge on, including the bleachers. There are other pools in the area that I prefer to go to which has better upkeep and less crowded, but this one is definitely a must try.

Fantastic experience: lovely staff; beautiful sunrise and sunset views; highly amenable opening hours

Fantastic experience: Pretty good, have definitely seen better but it’s just a 50m outdoor pool. If that’s what you’re looking for it’s definitely worth the trip. Pool is not super heated so if you stay in one spot you’ll go cold. Plenty of clean changing facilities, I really enjoyed the outdoor hot shower to rinse off after the swim. Pool is on the old side, but relatively clean. Bits of debri and strange shapes on the bottom of the pool so not 100% clean. Went around 2pm on a Monday and it wasn’t that busy, managed to get a lane to myself. Parking is very annoying; you need to find a free spot on one of the one way streets around the place.

Fantastic experience: Amazing place. Everyone so friendly. Joined adult stroke lessons. Such a fun group. Shout out to the instructor Georgia who was brilliant. Teaching was excellent. Everything she said made so much sense and she was very patient too. Thank you.

Fantastic experience: Love popping down to the pool for some laps during the day... Practice practice practice

Fantastic experience: Groovy cool pool with all walks of life and DJs on weekends in summer. “Aqua profunda” indeed.

Positive experience: Nice pool, my dad died here though so only four stars.

Fantastic experience: One of the best outdoor heated 50m pools around! A real sense of community spirit, clean & friendly staff. Love it!

Fantastic experience: Super bassin de 50 m découvert avec transat. Bassin enfant à l'ombre. Petite pelouse. Très agréable par beau temps

Fantastic experience: The showers are clean and good. Hairdryer, Charging spots...top

Fantastic experience: Awesome outdoor pool, feelings of nostalgia while swimming laps

Positive experience: Obviously the place to be in summer. Can’t fault the vibe but atrocious provision of shade. They’re ok with squeezing as many bodies into the space on a scorching day but pretty much negligent about providing adequate shade. Simple suggestion: install more umbrellas on the north side of the pool (separate to the two that are dedicated for lifeguards).

Fantastic experience: Another great community asset for all ages. Love my swims there.

Negative experience: Always too busy due to the preference given to squad training, and so the other lanes are very busy with no oversight of the pace of the swimmers. Fine if you are a slow swimmer, but the fast and medium lanes are a bun fight. Squad happens during peak times each day, so public swimmers are treated as a necessary evil.

Fantastic experience: Love the morning swim squad!!

Fantastic experience: 리셉션의 남자 직원이 너무나도 친절했습니다 !! 너무 고마워서 리뷰 남겨요 수영장도 좋았어요 Thank you !!

Fantastic experience: This place is just gold

Fantastic experience: Great facilities

Fantastic experience: Great night swim with great friends at great swimming pool

Negative experience: Pool tiles were dirty & spa was closed.

Fantastic experience: Take your pick between wet, hot, steamy or swole.

Fantastic experience: Tranquil vibe at 6pm. As beautiful as it was 25 years ago when I visited frequently.

Negative experience: I saw cockroaches in the sauna and jacuzzi. Over all disgusting and old

Fantastic experience: Such a great summer swim! Lifeguards here are very attentive.

Fantastic experience: Great outdoor pool, kids area is shaded and has a nice grassy area for picnic

Fantastic experience: Awesome pool! Great amenities and change facilities.

Negative experience: The staff with nice the pool area and the crowd would good laying swimming with easy the change room for filthy dirty and the showers just terrible shutting off every 5 to 10 seconds really pathetic

Positive experience: The iconic Fitzroy Swimming Pool on this cloudy day was, as always, part of the fabric and history of Melbourne. A great pool.

Positive experience: The staff are great and the facilities are good. 2 main issues I have is that there is constantly a wait to get in as the seem to reach patron capacity no matter what time I go there. This morning, I was there at 9.30am and still they have reached max capacity. My assumption is that there was staffing issues in terms of the patrons vs lifeguard ratio, because when we eventually enter the pool, it was far from packed... we even got a sun deck chair each. But it seems to happen all the time. I don't remember a time where I could just walk straight in and have to wait.

Negative experience: What a pool membership gets you: - $100 joining fee. - $40+ less in your bank account each fortnight thereafter. - A pretty bracelet. - Additional fees every time their direct debit system fails. (Quite often). - Constant price increases despite the service getting steadily worse. - Spa access (if it's actually working) - Regret What a pool membership doesn't get you: - Entry. Despite having paid 3x the entry fee already, if it's over 22° don't bother, unless you want to line up for 30min+ with all the one off sun-bathers waiting to get in. - Room to swim. While the actual water is mostly empty on the days you can't get in, other times, half the lanes are reserved for 6 people to train while 40 others try to cram into the remaining lanes. - Functioning facility. Either the spa, sauna or steamroom is usually working, but never expect all three. At least one thing in the change rooms will also be broken and won't get fixed for several months. - Access to the gym, classes or other facilities besides the pool and spa area, unless you want to pay $120 a month. - Satisfaction

Fantastic experience: Do you have power in the changing room? I want to dry my hair after swimming.

Fantastic experience: Great outside swimming pool, very clean. There have two lanes for aqua exercises and beginners, free swimming board available there. The sauna room is small but neat and warm.

Negative experience: After waiting in line to get in for 20 minutes with a 7 month old, 10 minutes after entering we are told to vacate the toddlers pool as they are one lifeguard down and they will be shutting the toddlers pool section down(didn’t you know this before letting people in??). And why are you asking families with little kids to leave instead of sending people off from the main pool? Is it because kids don’t pay? It would have been great for the little ones to enjoy the water on a 30 degree day but I guess because of their poor management we’ll hit the road again.

Fantastic experience: This is the best swimming pool in Australia. Ten lanes of outdoor, all-year, heated bliss. Iconic design and history combine to create an ambience that seals the deal.

Negative experience: After 2 years of membership and attending this place almost daily I can safely say that most of the staff and management are negligent, rude and unhelpful. They don't care if you are a regular/member, will make a big deal if you forget your mask (despite having to give one by law) and generally make you feel uncomfortable. This didn't bother me much until I had an aggressive woman clearly on high on drugs and yet somehow admitted into the gym (???) confront me multiple times, dance behind me and make me feel physically under threat. Everyone else in the gym was shocked at her behaviour but the gym instructor saw it all and totally ignored it. This is not the first time this has happened at the place- I have been into the sauna after someone has clearly urinated in it (on at least 5 occasions!), I have seen people scoping open lockers to steal. Management cares little for safety of members, and when I complained, cancelled my membership and notified staff about these issues I had zero follow-up (despite being assured I would). Since Covid, the staffing choices have made this place an unsafe and uncomfortable environment to be in which is very sad as this used to be a Fitzroy institution.

Positive experience: Great place for a summer swim! But the gym and pricing structure is oddly greedy. It’s $26 for a casual visit which is both more than a single fitness class and more than their weekly fee for a membership! The gym itself is pretty good but quite daggy. Not a great layout if you do free weights. Go here for a swim but there’s much better options around for a gym.

Positive experience: Lush Friday lunch swim. Pool however is super dirty. The bottom is brown . Just don't look down And it's perfect

Fantastic experience: Love, love, love this beautiful 50 m swimming pool! Great location, friendly staff, decent change rooms, awesome prices!

Fantastic experience: Best pool in Melbourne! Can get quite busy during the day on hot days but it's a great place to hang out and cool off. For lap swimming it's excellent, lanes are never really too full unless there are squads on. Good clean changing rooms and showers. Always quiter in the winter months

Fantastic experience: Do you have power in the changing room? I want to dry my hair after swimming.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful blue water and great to spend a sunny afternoon there

Fantastic experience: Great facilities. Nice staff.

Fantastic experience: 50meter outdoor pool. Such a chill vibe. Everyone is really respectful of lap swimming and using the correct speed lanes. Decent price. Love it.

Fantastic experience: Another great MS 24hr swim hosted by Fitzroy Pool.

Fantastic experience: Great pool and clean facilities

Fantastic experience: Great 50m pool, helpful staff, not too much chlorine stinging your eyes!

Fantastic experience: 2022 Aqua only prices $7.40 Swim $14.20 Swim, spa and saunas. $33.70 Members per fortnight - Swim, spa, saunas and locker. Membership fee Free if locked in for 12 months. $99 Flexi. Cancel anytime. If you cancel, you’ll need to pay this again to rejoin. Lovely clean pool, spa, saunas and change rooms. It’s very popular, so you’ll almost always be sharing lanes with several people.

Fantastic experience: the shady grassy area by the toddlers pool will restore your serenity

Fantastic experience: Great outdoor pool in summer.

Fantastic experience: Great place for a swim

Fantastic experience: Love the lap swimming, best exercise ever

Fantastic experience: Have you ever wondered how does it feel to swim in heaven? It pretty much feels like swimming in Fitzroy on a summer morning.

Fantastic experience: Lovely spacious pool. It's really deep and always feels clean. The bathrooms have free hair dryers and good makeup light should you need it!

Positive experience: Busy. Hard to judge suitable swimming lane speed there wasn’t any guidance on the lane descriptions. Not a lot of shade/seating/lawn. Otherwise great. Pool was a good temperature still refreshing on a hot day. Not too chlorinated.

Fantastic experience: Have you ever wondered how does it feel to swim in heaven? It pretty much feels like swimming in Fitzroy on a summer morning.

Fantastic experience: I love to go late in the evening when you can almost guarantee a lane to yourself!! Perfect water temperature and lovely staff. 10/10

Fantastic experience: Lovely spacious pool. It's really deep and always feels clean. The bathrooms have free hair dryers and good makeup light should you need it!

Fantastic experience: Such a lovely pool. 50 metres, outdoor, heated and open all year round

Fantastic experience: One of the best pools in Melbourne. Always clean. Two kids' pools with shading. A great vibe on hot summer days. Not too busy the rest of the time. Friendly staff. The only problem is the sauna usually sits at around 60 degrees. Edited to add: the sauna these days is decently hot. Not the hottest but hot enough.

Fantastic experience: Nice facilities and friendly staff, well maintained 10/10

Fantastic experience: Very nice experience,clean pool sauna,spa, very nice stuff!

Fantastic experience: My favourite pool in Melbourne. Good facilities and lovely staff. Outdoor, so don't forget your sun protection. Also heated, so you can enjoy a swim in winter as well.

Fantastic experience: Best pool in Melbourne? I can't think of many other places I would rather be on a hot and sunny afternoon.

Positive experience: Great value gym and pool

Fantastic experience: One of the best pools in Melbourne.

Negative experience: Online booking system doesn't work and when you call you just get passed from automated messages to being put on hold then the call ends.

Positive experience: Went for a free swim there and suddenly the stuff asked to get out from the pool for maintenance. At least they gave me a voucher for the next time! Anyway the pool is amazing

Fantastic experience: Though in need of a bit of a renovation, Fitzroy Swimming Pool continually updates its equipment so that it's often miles ahead of other gyms and pools. With lots of small group classes available, and an intimate gym, I absolutely love it! There are great discounts for healthcare and pension card holders, and a small discount for students. While it'd be nice to have a larger gym size, and more room for classes, it's rarely too crowded, and definitely has a family and friends vibe.

Fantastic experience: I love this pool and mist sauna and jet bath I was very moved really.

Fantastic experience: Great staff and 50m outdoor pool. Can get busy.

Fantastic experience: The most beautiful pool (apart from Seapoint in summer of course), fantastic facilities, peaceful and it really energies you to put in your best.

Positive experience: Liked it

Negative experience: Very dirty water

Fantastic experience: Awesome

Positive experience: Great scenery

Positive experience: Melbourne icon.

Positive experience: Loads of history and character

Fantastic experience: Great swim good facility

Fantastic experience: Great service! great location

Positive experience: A bit in need of a Reno as it’s a concrete jungle stuck in the 80s

Fantastic experience: One of my favorite places to swim laps.

Fantastic experience: one of the best swimming pools i have ever been to

Positive experience: good for swimming bad if you dont want to cut your feet

Positive experience: Took the kids here, its our local pool so im showing support.

Positive experience: Cool place, like to swim here. A bit crowded after 4 though

Positive experience: Great 50m outdoor pool but the spa and sauna cost extra

Positive experience: Great pool for laps. Outdoor shower is best in Fitzroy. Especially in winter!

Positive experience: Nice pool, only one of them but then again it is called Fitzroy swimming pool not Fitzroy swimming pools. Clean and convenient. 4 stars

Fantastic experience: Though in need of a bit of a renovation, Fitzroy Swimming Pool continually updates its equipment so that it's often miles ahead of other gyms and pools. With lots of small group classes available, and an intimate gym, I absolutely love it! There are great discounts for healthcare and pension card holders, and a small discount for students. While it'd be nice to have a larger gym size, and more room for classes, it's rarely too crowded, and definitely has a family and friends vibe.

Positive experience: Went for a swim recently and was pleasantly surprised with the clean pool. I'd say one of the best pools to do laps- good temperature on a 3 degree morning (although getting in and out of the pool was hard!). Change room is good and well equipped; was even surprised to see a centrifuge-type swimsuit dryer available- should be a must have in all swimming pool facilities! Shame I'm not a local around the area otherwise would seriously consider joining membership.

Fantastic experience: I love these pools. Great place to lay in sun and get melanoma. :) hot guys and gals. I wish they would fill the planters with bouganvillia, it would look amazing!!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic pool faces east/west no sun in your eyes when doing laps, wet/dry sauna, spa, gym, heated outdoor 50mtr pool.

Fantastic experience: Perfect swimming pool on hot days. It's big and swimming lane are well organized.

Fantastic experience: Teaching yoga abd pilates there. Nice ambiance and they are renovating so will be better soon.

Fantastic experience: Great pool. The system of bands for opening and closing your own locker without needing to get a key each time is great. Much more sophisticated than other pools around Melbourne. The quality of the water is also always great. Very clean and beautiful swimming pool.

Fantastic experience: The most funky pool I've ever been too. Crowded but like a huge summer party with good music and the everyone was so friendly. Great memories

Fantastic experience: Great 50m outdoor pool for swims. Sauna and steam room here too.

Fantastic experience: Great place, a little different to most pools but beautiful, relaxing and a good place for a tan. The place is very clean and staff are very friendly. See you again.