Best Western White Horse Hotel

Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UNITED KINGDOM

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Updated April 14, 2020.

Facility Overview

Facility Name
Best Western White Horse Hotel
Address
68 Clooney Road, Maydown
Londonderry, Northern Ireland BT47 3PA
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone
(028) 7186 0606

Adult Admission Price & Policy

Drop-in/Casual
Non-guests £7.50. [December, 2023]
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Hotel Guests
Registered guests and day spa patrons: Free.

Full-Size, Year-Round Pools & Boards

Pool 1
20m x 8m, 3 lanes, indoors, 29ºC (84ºF).

Location

County/Region
County Londonderry
GPS
55.030154, -7.218827

Teams That Use This Facility

We have no web links or contact information for teams that train at this facility.

Facility Notes

The pool here is rectangular in shape and has two, large "lane stripes" on the bottom. You could count it as a two-lane pool, but it appears wide enough that three swimmers could be comfortably accommodated between the stripes. Note, however, that the stripes end at the end-walls, not in the customary "Ts" before reaching the wall, also, there are no "+" markers on the end-walls.

Facility Reviews

This is a nice 20m hotel pool that provides free lockers (a £1 coin deposit required is returned). There is no lifeguard. Although the listing shows a water temperature of 29ºC, it felt more like 27º or 28º to me. There are no backstroke flags, but ceiling markings serve that purpose. A “swim hat” is not required. Bring your own towel.

The pool has congenial open hours, being surrounded by municipal pools with extremely restricted lap/lane swimming hours. I was in the pool alone at noon, but the locker room was busy, presumably with people using the exercise equipment, steam room, sauna, etc.

Consider arriving hungry, as there is a restaurant serving tasty food at attractive prices on site.

An American, I felt as if I had passed through a quantum tunnel, as I found the English spoken in Northern Ireland to be even more difficult to understand than that spoken in Glasgow, Scotland.
[June, 2019]