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While on my week long vacay here in Phoenix (to stay with The Boyfriend), I have been searching long and hard for places to exercise at. I tried the Valley of the Sun Jewish Center (awesome!) and then I tried this place yesterday.
More specifically, I went to their pool, which is open from 1-4pm in the summer for open swim. "Open swim" times basically means the pool is divided into 3 sections: 1 for the water slide, 1 for the kiddies to run around in, and 1 for lap swimmers (2 lanes are devoted to this).
The pool itself is a decent size, clean, and busy (who blames them?! the heat here is almost unbearable!!). It's $3/adults and $1/kids and there are plenty of lifeguards roaming around just in case you start drowning (knock on wood).
While I appreciate the 2 lanes for lap swim, it's near impossible to actually lap swim because the kids just float around between the lanes and the play area and there's no type of regulation. I swear, if I hadnt double checked a few times I wouldve run into a handful of kids during my 40minute stint there.
So while it's a nice pool, I don't think I'll be going back. I believe I was the only person over 16 years of age that was not a parent of some sort.
I've made a list of Reasons to go to this Pool:
- you have child(ren)
- you have a couple hours to kill... and youre on a budget... and you have child(ren)
- your child(ren) are annoying and complaining about heat
- your child(ren) are out of school for the summer and you need to entertain them somehow
- its your kid(s) birthday and youre on a budget
- youre teaching your child(ren) how to swim
Reasons you SHOULDNT go to this pool:
- youre over 16, single, and without kids
- you want to get actual exercise done
- you want to lay out at a pool
- you hate kids
- you dont wanna get sunburned
- you wanna experience a "pool party" (this is not an adult pool party scene)
That said, happy pool-ing!
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