Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre

Melbourne Metropolitan Area, VIC, AUSTRALIA

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Updated April 14, 2020.

Facility Overview

Facility Name
Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre
Address
30 Aughtie Drive, Albert Park
Melbourne Metropolitan Area, VIC 3206
AUSTRALIA
Telephone
(03) 9926 1555

Adult Admission Price & Policy

Drop-in/Casual
AUD 8.50; concessions AUD 5.80. [June, 2020]
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Full-Size, Year-Round Pools & Boards

Pool 1
50m, 10 lanes, indoors, 27ºC (81ºF).
Pool 2
50m, 10 lanes, outdoors but completely covered, 28ºC (82ºF).
Pool 3
25m, 5 lanes, 1.2m - 1.4m depth, indoors, 29.5ºC (85.1ºF).
Diving
Six 1m diving boards, four 3m diving boards, 1m, 3m, 5m, 7.5m, and 10m platforms, in an indoor diving pool with a separate 25m, 5 lane (roped but unstriped), 27ºC (81ºF) swimming section.

Location

Location
At the perimeter of Albert Park Lake.
GPS
-37.841652, 144.960908

Teams That Use This Facility

Masters Swim
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Masters Swim
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Youth Swim
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Facility Notes

The first pool listed above is actually 75m long with three bulkheads or booms that allow for a tremendous variety of configurations. For 15m of its length, the depth is adjustable.
There is also a 32ºC (90ºF) indoor multi-purpose pool and a 34ºC (93ºF) hydrotherapy pool.
The facility was the aquatics venue for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Facility Reviews

Rating: 7 on a scale of 10. Crowded busy centre. Laps somewhere usually possible. The focus for organized swimming in Victoria. Hence lots of people. Change rooms are too small.
The changing rooms are too small and the lockers are too far away from the outdoor pool, but the pool itself is fine and not at all crowded when I visited (I had a lane to myself for an hour).
[October, 2014]
Beautiful pools in a beautiful setting. I swam in the indoor and outdoor long course pools with about two swimmers in each lane. The facility sits on the edge of Albert Park, which is great for a post-swim walk.
[April, 2020]