Nowra Aquatic Park 20 Scenic Drive, Nowra, New South Wales 2541

"I only have time at the weekends and yet the opening times on the weekends are reduced from 11am to 3pm instead of the usual Mon-Fri 6am to 6pm. Wonder what's the logic behind the reduced opening hours on weekends."

"Wonderful memories of the Nowra pool back in the late 50’s / 60’s. Dave Don’t managed the pool back then. I was a member of the swimming club during my childhood spending most of my summer days enjoying the pool. The 3 metre tower and the 1 metre spring board holds many a fabulous time. Special mention to the kiosk lady so many fabulous times."

"The Kids play area and the pool itself are pretty good. But here is a word of advice - bring your own lunch - don’t plan on getting food from the “Slow motion cafe”. Waited an hour for the food. Luckily the kids playground is right in front of the cafe - so at least the kids were entertained. But even their attention span was wearing thin long before the food was ready. Because standing in front of a cafe waiting for your food for an hour leaves you with little else to do - you end up watching the staff in there and you learn a lot from the way they are working. You pretty much end up imagining owning a cafe yourself and figuring out exactly how NOT to run the cafe. Here’s what I learnt from watching - * When you place your order - they write everything down on a piece of paper. * They then have the first 6 orders hanging up to look at. All the rest of the orders (and there is a lot of them) won’t even be hung up to look at for at least half an hour. * Instead of cooking a bunch of food in bulk to cover a bunch of orders - they work on each order one at a time. “Slow motion Sam” will sit there measuring how many chips to put in the fryer for one order (when you can see that the fryer would have fit enough chips to cover 6 orders) - but instead - he’s waiting for the chips of one order to finish cooking before he puts in the chips for the next order. * The same goes for “Betty the burger maker” - because not every order has a burger - she’s literally standing around chatting while she waits for “slow motion Sam” to let her know that the current order he’s cooking even requires her to toast a bun and fill it with lettuce and mayo in anticipation for the snitzel he is frying to be ready. * One person with me ordered a ham and cheese toasty. The sandwich is already made and just needs to be unwrapped and put in the sandwich toaster. Because of their method of doing “one order at a time” - the sandwich sat there for an hour (the sandwich toaster being empty for that whole hour) before “Betty the burger maker” even toasted it. And guess what? Every part of the meal was horrible. Especially the frozen drinks. Frozen cola somehow had less flavour than water."

"My favourite pool in Sydney and Melbourne! Big call, but here’s why. - outdoors - plenty of shade - lovely kept grass - deck chairs - water slides - cafe - fun kids pool - overlooks the river We always have a great day here. Waterslide is pay for an unlimited 1 hour session. Lovely hot chips at the cafe!"

"What a treat in a hot day.. Perfect for families and reasonably priced.. Even the food"