Gainesville City Swimming Pool

"Lifeguards were inattentive to children. They spent time talking to one another and flirting with each other. They applied rules inconsistently, making up some in retaliation when our group asked them to pay attention to children’s safety."

"This is the nicest public pool I've ever been to! I love how you can walk in without using steps and it gently slopes. The splash area was a huge hit. The lounge chairs in the water were very nice, and the older kids loved the slides and diving board!"

"Life guards were rude to multiple kids. The lifeguards also make their own rules as they go. Kids are allowed to do back flips and front flips but kids in arm floats aren’t Able to even jump off. Also the big yellow slide my daughter went on over 10 times with her arm floats on and then 1 lifeguard makes her take them off to get on it. Then she was swimming between the kiddie part and the 3 feet where she can reach and the 1 life guard decides she has to stay in the kiddie part after we’ve already been swimming back and forth for an hour, yet there are older kids being rowdy playing basket ball in the water and doing whatever they want. Only good thing about this place was the water is pretty clean. Unless you have older kids that can swim on their own it’s not good for small kids."

"Wonderful community pool. Lifeguards on duty are sweet and knowledgeable. Price to get in is cheap and so is the concession. Love the small kid area. Great long slide, cool basketball area. Nice diving board. Next door to a really cool park and train ride while also next to a great small zoo. Was the perfect traveling stop for us."

"Great compact play area with well maintained equipment. Reasonable price. Very attentive life guards."