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El Cerrito Swim Center
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14 reviews for El Cerrito Swim Center
I've been playing water polo here with East Bay Masters since March, 2009. The facilities are clean, the staff is helpful, and the Center runs a number of programs of benefit to the community.
What I like specifically about this pool is that the lifeguards on duty are courteous, and are good at getting everyone out of the pool when other programs are about to begin. Additionally, staff recently assisted us in putting up and tearing down equipment for a recent tournament. Thanks!
The only downside I have noted is that the children's pool sometimes seems a bit too crowded. I guess that shows just how cool this pool is...
Two outdoor pools, both saltwater and warm, even at night. The rec pool has a waterslide. On sunny days you can lounge on resort-style chairs (or on towels on cement?) I don't remember now. I've never actually lounged there.
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I guess I'm a little biased - I learned how to swim there and then I worked there during high school. I recently went back and saw the remodeled pool - it's great.
I agree, it is a little pricey but to me a well kept, olympic sized pool is well worth the money. Plus, Emery (the old guard) never leaves and he's great. And loud.
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I have been taking my kids (now 6 and 9) here for a few years to learn to swim and as part of their summer activities. On Saturday they announced they wanted to go swimming. So I squeezed into my bathing suit and trucked up to this place only to find that they can swim on their own without me...this is why they get 5 stars cause I didn't want to go swimming and didn't have to...so, I sat and read my book while my babies had a grand time in the pool with the other children (and some adults) the lifeguards were attentive and enforced the rules regularly it is always clean and the community of people who use the pool are very nice.. I was very pleased.
My Sister Muffin and I used to frequent the El Cerrito Swim Center a few years ago for lap swim in the evenings a couple days a week. We had a great time, but with busy and sometimes conflicting schedules we fell out of our routine. The pool facilities are great, the locker room is newly remodeled and clean.
Now being an expectant mother, I have rediscovered the El Cerrito Plunge, not in the form of lap swim, but Water Aerobics. At first I was a little nervous starting out, but I soon discovered how fun water aerobics really is. Once you get moving and get over how nerdy you may look under the water, it's so fun!! I feel great after each class and the aerobics has helped me maintain somesort of figure during my pregnancy. Our teacher Angela is totally awesome! The music is loud and fun, especially during saturday morning class the past few weeks for Mama Mia sing-a-long!
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The pool's clean and so are the locker rooms; however, whenever I go the pool is crowded and people aren't in the right lane. The lifeguards recently put up slow, medium and fast signs, but don't seem to monitor the lanes very well.
They have recreational lap swims on weeknights 6-830PM and on weekends for $5.50/person. Great place to do your laps. They have long lap pools, which are heated and of different depths. There's also a kid's or family pool that are shallower and has mushroom miniature falls and water slides. Fun place for the family and people there are very friendly. Showers and lockers are available. Just bring in you own lock and soap.
Yes this will do.
I didn't think that El Cerrito had enough sunny or hot days to constitute an outdoor swim center but they have one.
It's nice.
The day I went it was for a birthday party for a bunch of 4th graders. They had a great time in the main pool. There is a seperate lap pool but no one was in that.
People were layed out all over the place. I think that because it was the only sunny day of the year all of El Cerrito came out.
I got a parking spot in front but the rest of the lot was full.
"Monkey, airplane, soldier.
Monkey, airplane, soldier.
Monkey, airplane, soldier."
"If you stop kicking, you stop moving."
"Go home and have a burrito and a beer."
Just some quotes from the fab folks at the El Cerrito Swim Center.
Thing 1 has been taking lessons there for ages and the great thing is they do them year-round, even in the rain and cold. Yes, it's an outdoor pool, but they keep it warm enough so your kid won't freeze off his cajones in January (OK, yeah, I know, this is California- not much freezing going on.) He loves it there and many of the teachers know him because it's the same young staff year after year (some of them are only there for the summer when they return home from college.) Summer classes are M-F for two weeks- a way for a kid to definitely get back into the swimming thing. They offer PeeWee classes for the little ones (3 and up) so that they can get accustomed to the pool. They also have Parent and Tot and summer camp for kids 7 and up.
Me, I swim too. (The last quote was from the Masters coach.) There are plenty of times available for me, and although I've gone only a few times, I love Masters swimming and the coaching I've received has been great.
Family and rec swim are fantastic too. A ton of fun, especially because they have a water slide. As a former kid who used to spend a lot of time at the pool, I know I've found the place for my kid to spend his summers.
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I had know idea the locker room tiles were heated--brilliant! I had noticed how there are never any puddles in the locker room but never knew why.
Great facility. Too expensive--$5.50 for non El Cerrito residents. something like $100 for an unlimited monthly pass. Thats $1200 a year--crazy. I pay the $5.50 and don't go often enough to break the bank. I used to pay $315/yr for the swim center on Long Island. The LI pool had a jacuzzi and sauna. This place has bubkas.
One of the older lifeguards always yells, "yeah!". Whenever anybody converses with him, 'yeah' comprises 50% of all his responses.
If El Cerrito Swim Center were cheaper, I'd go more often. My quest continues for a reasonably-priced pool.
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Beautiful pool in the great outdoors. No membership required, clean dry locker rooms, separate warmer kids recreation pool, water aerobics classes 6 days/week. Need I say more? Oh ok, I will. The microclimate in El Cerrito is milder than at Strawberry Canyon Pool (in the Berkeley Hills, the nearest outdoor family/lap pool I can think of ). Pool and deck are really clean, very well maintained at all times. If you ride your bike here you just park it in view of the pool, no need to lock it up.
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This is where I took my first swim lessons WAY back when. Later on in my swimming career I even joined the swim team here. Also, forever ago. My favorite stroke was the breast stroke. Alas, the swim team was not for me but I still have many fond memories wrinkling up in the water at this fine swim center.
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A terrific place to bring children for free swim time, and they have beautiful lap swim lanes as well. The setting is peaceful and during the summer it's my son's favorite pool to go to!
