Aqualink Nunawading - Forest Hill (VIC)

2 /5 Jo Connor: Lap lane availability in the morning is limited. The swim club gets exclusive use of half the pool till 7am (sometimes later) most weekday mornings, and sometimes another group books a lane too - resulting in only a couple of lanes available for casual lap swimmers. As a result lanes can be crowded, and I find I frequently have to wait at each end so faster swimmers can pass me, or slower swimmers can get far enough ahead. Ive also had people swim into me in the lanes. Recently Ive experienced micro agressions from men using the aquatics area, making it uncomfortable to use the facility. Pity, as its been a valued community facility for many years.

5 /5 Khush: Huge pool. Great for recreation as well as learning swimming. Lot of parking space available. Spa, steam and sauna are $13.20 where just the pool access is $8.20. You can buy swim suit and other gear at the reception as well. Cafeteria inside.

3 /5 R S: Great facilities with great pools. Has a small cafe with small amount of eats and drinks. Also there was 2 types of bins (recycle and garbage) in the cafe and other points around the centre. With residential there is 3 types of bins with 1 bin for food scraps. Why is there a difference between residential and the swim centre? If its an issue, it needs to be raised with the council. Also swimming is a healthy activity and the cafe food and drinks items need to support that. Having chips, muffins and other sugary and salty items doesnt support the activity. Also have some background music playing which assists the activity of swimming and improving performance. Please do some research on what type of music helps this. Also the women swimming instructors were dragging the platforms out of the pool at the end of the day. It looked like back breaking and hard work for the petite swimming instructors. Surely in this day and age, there has to be a easier way of getting the platform out of the water using the buoyancy of water.

1 /5 Garry Britavsky: Been a member for over 6 months. Had to cancel my aquatic membership due to extreme lack of maintenance of the facilities. Spa runs cold for months now, steam room either completely shut or running cold, sauna is not even close to where it should be and always over crowded. Stick that broke a camels back for me was the fact that 1 of life guards had asked me to remove my flip flops whilst I was in the sauna. According to him it was in line with Aqualinks hygiene requirements. I had questioned this "policy" at the reception and been advised that ban of wearing flip flops to the sauna does not exist. So life guards making up own rules on the go for some reason. Definitely do not recommend joining Aqualink. Shop around and you will find much better aquatic centres nearby.

4 /5 Belinda Dealy: The family pool is great, heated to warm enough for babies and sloped from nothing to about 1m so kids can Wade and paddle as well as swim. School holidays inflatables are fun for the kids, but on a busy day they get bored waiting in the long line.