Alhóndiga Bilbao Kiroldegia | Polideportivo Alhóndiga Bilbao
Adult Admission Price & Policy
€7.05. [February, 2022]
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Full-Size, Year-Round Pools & Boards
25m x 21.2m, 9 lanes, 1.35m depth, indoors,
27.7ºC (81.9ºF).
Location
At the corner of Alameda de Urquijo and Alameda Recalde.
Biscay (Bizkaia / Vizcaya) Province
43.259970, -2.936496
Teams That Use This Facility
We have no web links or contact information for teams that train at this facility.
Facility Notes
The unique pillars that support the pool structure and other architectural features of this amazing facility that are mentioned in the November, 2018, Review, below, can be seen in the photos associated with the Targeted Google Map link, above. (When we added this note, there were 193 photographs shown, many of them repetitive and in need of a good culling; the first four or five, however, give a good idea of the features the reviewer was writing about.)
Facility Reviews
It’s a giant facility and the ground floor door is not well marked. There are several indoor pools on the roof, brand-new with good light. It is an amazing scene of kids, seniors, classes with euro-disco music. It appears that lap swim is available almost all day and night. Check the website that has updated PDFs. Clean water and refundable €1 lockers. Footwear and caps are required, but the rule appears not to be well enforced.
This is a great lap pool with convenient hours and a central location. Perfect.
[July, 2015]
[July, 2015]
Many come to Bilbao for the Guggenheim, but do not come without visiting this most spectacular municipal pool anywhere. Located in a new building built inside an old shell, you enter at the corner and walk straight through the huge lobby to the ticket desk marked by red and blue lights. One the way, notice the unique pillars, each designed by a different artist/architect. Up to the third floor vestuarios (changing rooms), which are a vision in slate and wood. Deposit a Euro coin to release key to a locker and retrieve the coin when you return the key. The keys come attached to a plastic bracelet designed to fit your wrist; mine slipped off so I secreted it elsewhere. Then, find the separate stairs/lift up to the stunning fourth floor pools. On a November weekday, there were two or three swimmers per lane, but all politely waited at ends for me to pass. The water's a good temperature for distance swimming. Note windows in the bottom of the warm pool to let light down to third floor.
[November, 2018]
[November, 2018]