Information about St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool

Esplanade
9012, Dunedin
+6434719780

St Clair Pool is an outdoor hot salt water pool built on a beautiful site at the southern end of St Clair beach. It is the only surviving salt water pool of several in Dunedin from the late 1800s.

St Clair Pool is an outdoor hot salt water pool built on a beautiful site at the southern end of St Clair beach. It is the only surviving salt water pool of several in Dunedin from the late 1800s.

Its wonderful location on the beachfront makes it a highly pleasurable swimming experience. It is particularly suitable for those who love swimming in salt water, but may not wish to venture into the brisk ocean water. The pool is heated to 28 degrees Celsius and is a mixture of salt and chlorinated water.

The pool was upgraded in 2000/2001 and now features a paddling pool for toddlers, new changing facilities, a disabled change area and an office building providing shelter from the weather. A cafe operates year round at the facility. It is open from 7.30am-4pm daily.

If you have a current Community Services card, Tertiary Student ID or a current Super Gold Card you are entitled to the concession rate. The card must be shown at reception in order to get the discounted rate.

Our comment from FitFit New Zealand about St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool:

St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool is a fantastic destination for swimming enthusiasts and families alike, situated in a stunning location by the beach in Dunedin, New Zealand. The friendly staff and delicious cafe add to the charm of this underappreciated gem. Visitors rave about the great views of the ocean, the warm temperature of the water, and the overall relaxing atmosphere.

Some highlights include:

  • Beautiful seaside location with picturesque views and a family-friendly environment.
  • Heated saltwater pool perfect for both lane swimming and casual play.
  • Amazing cafe offering a range of delightful food and beverages, ideal for enjoying after a swim.
  • Friendly and helpful staff who enhance the overall experience.
  • Affordable prices make it accessible for everyone.

While most visitors have had wonderful experiences, some have noted the desire for extended opening hours and additional facilities, such as hot pools or a sauna. Additionally, the children's area could use a bit of updating. However, the inviting environment and attentive service keep many coming back.

St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool: Opinions

4.5/5 (164 Opinions)
Kris tina 4 months ago

Fantastic experience: Can’t wait for it to open

Eliza 4 months ago

Positive experience: Great position by the beach. Friendly staff. Nice cafe. Pool should be open for much longer season from September till end of April - or year round ! Could be made way better with some new facilities, hots pools and sauna & steam with view of the sea.

Sean Fordham 6 months ago

Fantastic experience: Dog with a long tail,great food, great spot.

Hanaho MOON 9 months ago

Fantastic experience: 아름다운 바다를 감상하며 수영을 할 수 있다. 세상에서 가장 아름다운 수영장 중 하나이지 않을까 싶다.

alison nicholls 9 months ago

Fantastic experience: Spent a few days here in Jan & Feb loved it such a great place to swim. Also the cafe is amazing

Leighton “Interactile Learning” Jones 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: An underappreciated gem in our city. Great views, warm water and coffee nearby.

Grant Hall 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Nice tempered water, lane swimming or just to splash around. Cafe on board. Nice spot - great day

Peter Strang 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Coffee & delightful food even in the rain under umbrellas! Staff very helpful in sorting out a place for us at a very busy time. Views stunning over pool, surfers to watch & excellent toilets.

Jane Jones 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Had a wonderful time with grandchildren. Very affordable

Keryn Goodsir 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: A fantastic place for all, great Cafe right next door!

Johannes Stein 1 year ago

Negative experience: Place is decent but the creepy dude working there this morning prefers young attractive women and gives them discounts. My Girlfriend had to pay 4,40 for a shower whereas I had to pay 7,60 just 10 minutes later because I had to find a parking spot for our car.

Peter Fowlie 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Perfect spot for evening swim. Pity cafe shuts late afternoon.

Dan Armstrong 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Warm swimming pool, warmer kiddie pool. 25m, wide lanes, gorgeous views of sea and surfers. Hot showers feel exquisite. Snack bar was a gourmet experience. Highlight of our day.

Marley de Fatima Lima 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Piscina aquecida de água salgada. Vista muito bonita para o mar. Adorei!

Miller Scott 1 year ago

Positive experience: Water 28.5 today

Shane Goodwin 1 year ago

Positive experience: Pretty sweet spot for a swim!!

Helen Tonnon 1 year ago

Positive experience: Don't know but the Cafe was good

Sandra Scoles 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to go. Staff are lovely and yummy food afterwards.

karen tytsma 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great pool for swimming and general swim play, and has a separate toddler pool. Staff friendly and helpful.

Sally Tan 1 year ago

Positive experience: There is a very nice coffee ☕️ but you need to buy tickets to go to the pool ‍♀️

karen Bonney 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic pool, and friendly family atmosphere. Only open in warmer months, roll on October.

paper girlterri 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: My favorite swimming pool, friendly staff, good price and lovely hot shower after

Maria Laura Cambiaggi Holzmann 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great coffee, brownie was delicious, view of the ocean is amazing, and the staff super friendly! Highly recommended!

Warren Hurley 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely low key Dunedin experience. Hot salt water pool right next to the southern ocean waves. The vibe is chill but the water is not. Recommended.

Valentina Concha Vargas 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Hot is an exaggeration, unless you've just come out of the ocean. However the temperature is just right for swimming in the lanes, and the small pool is much warmer to relax in afterwards

Richard Surkus 1 year ago

Positive experience: Really nice area and friendly staff. I do like that pool toys are supplied. The toddler pool deffs needs an update and was almost too hot for adults.

S W 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: 25 m heated saltwater pool with fast, medium, slow and play swimming lanes..don’t miss the wonderful cafe after your swim: „Long Dog“, next to the pool

Ana Hristić 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff, a great salt water pool, and a delicious Cafe!

alyssa barbieri 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best pool in NZ.

Sione Manulea 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Got a coffee from here loved it

Jo Scott-weir 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent swimming experience.Friendly helpful staff. One of Dunedins treasures.

Rebecca Hughes 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great on a hot day to play along with whanau. Provides lane swimming for serious swim training. Long dog Cafe on site too

Mike Grabner 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place for a swim even on a cold day

Hannah Ward 2 years ago

Negative experience: As a travelling point of view, this place was no good. The pool was set up for lane swimming only and the kids tiny pool thing was empty, I wouldn’t call it a “hot pools”. Toilets and showers were dirty and smelly. The cafe looked very busy and food looked good, but this is 2 starts for the swimming pool.

Jo Rhodes 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: It was a cold day. But the water was warm. Fantastic pricing. I have wanted to go for ages so glad we went . Was fabulous.. clean and tidy facilities. Just beautiful

John F Verry 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic asset open until 31 March

Neal Croft 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing spot. Like Bondi but better!

K&S Mannix 2 years ago

Negative experience: Went with great grandchildren as a treat but it was an absolute disappointment. , We found a shady spot at a table where we could watch them and get to them quickly if necessary but despite the website making no mention of a requirement to sit/stand in the beating sun with no shelter whatsoever we were told that you have to be right at the poolside to supervise under 10s. Our under 10 was only a week off 10. The "lifeguards" were rude, lazy and obnoxious. There is no point in their being there if caregivers must be ready to "offer immediate assistance". If we hadn't been honest we could have sat at the cafe table, which I am sure plenty of people do.

Mark Gerring 3 years ago

Positive experience: Nice coffee by the sea

Craig Gentle 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Cafe was great

John Fitzgibbon 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good walk

Andrew Just 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Wonderful place to swim!

Southy 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great fun place to visit

Belinda Skelton 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: A beautiful place to go for a swim on a hot day,

Abby T-H 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful views, good facilities

Leroy Choo 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome staff super friendly

Oonagh McGirr 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: An iconic spot! Lane swimming in a fabulous location

Faye 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful location, great facilities, lovely staff

Grant Falconer 3 years ago

Positive experience: Cheap is good but not as warm as I was expecting. "Bali but colder"is true. Nice location.

Terry Monga 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Another Otepoti treasure and there's also the yummy cafe their too. My new favourite place to go..

Marwa Othman 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Kids super enjoyed it

Laetitia Berten 3 years ago

Positive experience: Nice outside pool, with a cute à friendly little cafe. Definitely a must do!

Colin Creeks 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Just warm enough to make you actually swim, in a visually arresting piece of coast complete with Surfers carving up waves. Heated Salt water outdoor pool. No other frills.

Andy 3 years ago

Negative experience: The food was ok, but the way they bought the food was odd, first my smoothie, 10 mins later both of our slices, my friend asked if they remembered her coffee, about 5 min later her coffee and lunch came out, and a good 10 mins later my lunch arrived. I realise because we were outside we couldn't have proper crockery, glasses etc by the pools, but our drinks came out in old enamel cups that were incredibly chipped and I cant imagine that would be very hygienic. Probably the reason I have awarded two stars from me is because they were lucky I had a great friend there to chat to.

Tat Sch 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing pool near the beachfront. Water temperature was 28 degrees, for me as a lane swimmer just right. Not many other swimmers there. I can highly recommend the cafe for a refreshing meal afterwards

Allison Dodds 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love swimming here! A bit trickier than usual because of COVID restrictions, but the water is warm and the setting is perfect. Friendly staff, and a wonderful start to the day.

Jaap Jacob Knegtmans 3 years ago

Positive experience: Although it is advertised as a “hot pool” it’s more like a lane pool and a warm paddling pool. Good for lane swimming but you don’t get a view of the sea when you’re in the pool.

Dee NZ 3 years ago

Positive experience: The location is fantastic. It's also great that it's heated. And the cafe is well stocked with treats. Only suggestion I would like to make is to have some times where the pool is for adults only eg 6pm onwards. And perhaps take away one swimming lane to create some more space when it's really busy.

Goh Victor 4 years ago

Positive experience: 바닷물이 있는 야외수영장, 애가 있으면 추천할만함

Edward L. Fox (Ted) 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Cafe

Travis “Buckster” Buck 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good swim even on a rubbish day.

Shuja Rehman 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing to swim under open skies, just too salty :P

Toni Johnston 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely food, stunning views even on an average day

Ben Smith 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to come for a swim or to view the surfers. Entry price is reasonable.

Trevor bond 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: This is a great place to be on a hot day and definitely take sunscreen when you go here

Michelle Cave 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful views, great food and very dog friendly.

sam lilley 4 years ago

Positive experience: Great day

Paul Davies 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great pool with incredible views of the sea. Reasonably priced and there is a popular cafe there as well

Caryn Bouton 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Relaxing swimming. Friendly pool staff and delicious food at the cafe with amazing staff! One lifeguard saw I was a bit upset and found a sentimental earring that I’d dropped and gave it to me when I was having a coffee!

Liam Farley 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing spot, friendly and helpful staff, perfect temp!

Jeremy Wells 4 years ago

Negative experience: The pool was very sweet but our experience there was really bad. 10 minutes after we got to a fairly empty pool they let in a huge group of tourists. Well the pool seemed to have capacity so our family moved to the baby pool where our toddler was playing anyway. But this group of tourists got in the small pool and crowded us out, literally crammed in side by side until they were touching us. Our kid was crying. Staff did nothing! They refunded us and said there was nothing they could do, but they didn't even try. If you have a small pool with locals and kids and older people lane swimming and a massive tourist group turns up you need to tell them no, they should be renting the whole place.

Joy Taylor 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: I take my grandchildren to the pool and they enjoy it so much we stay for hours, they love using the flippers and the pool ' toys ' that are there to use and the sunscreen lotion that's also pool side for their use. and I can get a coffee and drink it pool side while still watching them, it's a great facility, Dunedin people are very fortunate. the salt water is beneficial for many suffering aches and pains also.

노정택 5 years ago

Positive experience: 가성비 좋네요 시간 여유 있을때 기대없이 가면 될것 같아요

Neill Matthews 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice café

James Wright 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely place to go to

paul Henderson 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Grear

Neil Sharma 5 years ago

Positive experience: Good

Donna Dobbinson 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always a great, so beautiful

Chris Griffiths 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Wonderful experience ... loved loved loved it

Mike Taane 5 years ago

Positive experience: Change rooms including showers not very clean

Christian Tucker 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love the warm water. Great service.

Stephanie Larsen 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome weather and awesome coffee at the pool.

mark quinn 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Coffee shop and service was great thank you

krissi Short 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: History, close to beach wonderful place , wonderful host

maia fern 5 years ago

Positive experience: Good service lovely baking choice.

Mark Murrell 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great little cafe perfect for breakfast and coffee

kimi Tina 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: This whole beach is fabulous. Love watching the surfies.

Harry Baxter 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility; top location, friendly and clean

Greg Dean 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fabulous hot salt water pool on the edge of the ocean with a great cafe.

Andy Langford 5 years ago

Positive experience: Ocean swimming in a public pool. A must do if you are visiting Dunedin between Labor Weekend and Easter Weekend.

David Murphy 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: This is my happy place all summer long, it refreshes my spirit and body.

Cheryl Beloe 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome hot water pool enjoyed it so much. It's a pity Christchurch dosnt do one

Gail Hyland 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Absolutely gorgeous. Sun out and view from the pool amazing

Peter Kirsopp 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: An absolute gem, a time warp to the 60s with a great cafe too.

Dave James 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Pool is heated. Lovely place for a swim in summer! Great cafe too!

Albert Warner 5 years ago

Positive experience: The best place to be on a hot summers day, safe and pleasant staff.

Marcus Hawkes 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for a relaxing and soothing soak over the summer months.

Megan Russell 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful day good service

Claire Turner 5 years ago

Positive experience: Dont recommend going on a cold day its freezing! Could be nice in hotter weather. Staff lovely and friendly

Chip Gamble 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great coffee and atmosphere. View outstanding as a local you forget this one

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