
Information about Moana Pool
Opening hours
- sunday: 7h-19h
- monday: 5:30-21:30
- tuesday: 5:30-21:30
- wednesday: 5:30-21:30
- thursday: 5:30-21:30
- friday: 5:30-21:30
- saturday: 7h-19h
Our comment from FitFit New Zealand about Moana Pool:
Moana Pool in Dunedin is a fantastic sports center that offers a wide range of aquatic and fitness facilities, making it a popular destination for families and individuals alike. The center boasts a large lap pool, exciting water slides, a wave pool, and a relaxing spa, ensuring there's something for everyone to enjoy. Many visitors have praised the friendly and helpful staff, particularly highlighting a staff member named Tanya for her positive attitude and extensive knowledge.
Key features of Moana Pool include:
- Spacious family-friendly changing areas
- A variety of pools including a diving pool and smaller kids’ pool
- A well-equipped on-site gym with reasonable pricing for students
- Multiple water activities such as aqua jogging and swimming lessons
- Excellent temperature for lap swimming
While the facilities are generally well-received, some guests have noted that the venue could benefit from various upgrades and improvements. Concerns have been raised about cleanliness in certain areas, including the family changing rooms, and some visitors expressed disappointment over the diving tower's availability. Additionally, there have been reports of issues with parking availability and customer service experiences. Despite these critiques, the overall experience remains positive, making it a wonderful spot for a fun day out.
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Moana Pool: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Love this gym
Positive experience: Great urban city pool complex. Large pool for laps, diving areas, smaller kids pool, whirl pool, water slides. Gym on site. Family changing areas near kids pool. Offers lessions and water activities such as aqua jogging.
Positive experience: Nice place , very busy but can do with an upgrade or the facilities
Fantastic experience: Best place in dunedin
Negative experience: Today I went with my two-year-old child to the pool and one of the employees was very rude. She did not allow me to take a picture of my child in the pool. There was no one around me except my only son. He was very sad. There should be something for the children to take pictures in the water to be happy.
Positive experience: Not bad gym but not sure it's a good idea to mix sanitizer spray bottles and school kids. If everyone's wearing a shirt and using a towel, are the spray bottles really necessary?
Fantastic experience: Great space and nice staff friendly and helpful
Fantastic experience: I really love this place, have a gym, swimming and lots of fun !
Fantastic experience: Good work
Fantastic experience: Excellent, perfect temperature water for lap swimming.
Positive experience: Excellent facilities, however the diving tower is almost never open to the public. If it was, I'd rate 5 stars instead of 4.
Negative experience: My two granddaughters, aged 11 and 12, were being bullied by a ten year old boy directly under the lifeguard, which did nothing. Even the dad was sitting watching and did nothing until I came over and told him to stop. The son of a local politician at that. We left.
Fantastic experience: Amazing pool facilities.. Busy
Fantastic experience: Saw this cute guy named josh there working as a life guard
Negative experience: The only place where you can get a hot shower in Dunedin atm. Whereas this is really appreciated, paying the full entry price for a shower, which literally takes 15min door to door, feels like a scam.. She didn't even gave us the student price..making it the most expensive shower in NZ. Do you really need to take out the backpackers' ?
Fantastic experience: Good size pool for practicing! Recommend going late (after 6.30ish) or after 8.30 am as fewer people. Reasonable price for university students and lovely staffs.
Fantastic experience: Great family fun, also good just to have a soak in the spa
Fantastic experience: Had a fun time aqua jogging swimming . Spa. And having fun .they have showers nice and hot. Excellent facilities highly recommend.
Fantastic experience: The best hydroslides I've been on in the country for one reason - the (lack of) lines! There's no annoying traffic light system/1 minute delay at the top of the tower holding up the queue. Because of this, it flows freely and you get so many slides compared to almost every other pool. Both slides are also long and quite forceful. We will definitely be back!
Fantastic experience: What makes the place good is the people, Tanya is absolutely amazing, she puts a smile on your face before a work out and swimming activities. We need more people like Tanya in the world who is full of positivity. Tanya is also very knowledgeable with all aspects of the venue and will go above and beyond to make your experience 10/10
Fantastic experience: Great gym, plenty swim lanes and very helpful instructors. Compared to private gyms this is very good value
Positive experience: Great fun. Has hydroslides, a wave pool, diving pool and lap pool. Hydroslides could do with a fresh coat of paint, looking a bit tired.
Fantastic experience: Excellent swimming complex. Lovely warm pools in the family area,, 2 great slides and two quality swimming polsl for more serious swimmers.
Positive experience: Would be better than all competitors if it had a sauna
Fantastic experience: The Hydra slides are greatboth fast and slow are spectacular
Fantastic experience: Excellent customer service Gym always tidy and staff friendly Spa is awesome
Positive experience: Súper bien, es muy grande, cómoda, buenas instalaciones y el personal muy amable.
Fantastic experience: 非常全面的游泳馆,新西兰难得一见的室内五十米泳道,滑梯,跳水,spa
Fantastic experience: Best hydroslides in the South Island
Fantastic experience: Aqua jogging is where it's at. Very cool going during the day.
Fantastic experience: Great pool, great slides, plenty of diving, gym the works!
Positive experience: Good price for what you get. Just sad that the pool is 2x 25m instead of 50m.
Positive experience: Kids loved the waves and slides, and the short river ride, we did too.
Fantastic experience: Very helpful staff seats seam to have got smaller since last time we were there
Negative experience: Please clean the family changing rooms with showers. They smell of urine. I am disappointed. I have been with the pool community for many years but lately the standards have lowered.
Positive experience: Nice pool, good hot showers. Didn't like the stairs to get from changing room to pool tho.
Negative experience: Unfortunately due to lack of life guards pools shutting early and unable to take kids there as a result which is a shame and another demonstration of rate payers not getting the services we pay for yet where is our discount o rates for lack of service provision
Fantastic experience: Awesome swim facilities. The have plenty of pools to cater for everyone. They also have a physio and gym.
Fantastic experience: My own mistake which I've never made before, but i won't be back. Lifeguard saved my toddlers life. I'll remember you forever
Negative experience: Can't believe how dirty everything looks black gludge looking stuff in the kids pool around the inside of the water, white staining on the mushroom, even the floor in the changing rooms are black, otherwise good pool
Negative experience: The receptionist are very discriminating : they checked the ID cards from whom they want. Once harassed by a middle-aged man and a woman swimming there.
Positive experience: The pool itself is great but the car park is a disaster. I have paid for swimming lessons for my baby and we missed this weeks one due to me having to drive around for 15 minutes looking for a car park and not finding one
Positive experience: Facilities getting dated. Very expensive now. Men's changing rooms need to have something for privacy when changing kids. When the main door is open you can see in from the reception area, and people changing are in full view. Long waits for family change rooms. Work is underway to address issues.
Negative experience: It's now an all too frequent occurrence where casual swimmers have minimal space despite having paid for their access to the facilities. There needs to be an urgent review of lane allocations to ensure the lane swimmers are given a fair go. The front-line staff including reception, cleaners & life guards etc continue to be very helpful and polite.
Fantastic experience: Son and his dad went. We were looking for a pool so our son cod have some swimming fun. We are from Wellington, driving down south and basically exploring. Have a wave pool which ive neva seen before, real groovy. Different areas to swim. Hydro slide. Picnic table areas outsyd
Positive experience: Fantastic choice of pools and activities. It is a bit of a maze but well signposted. Friendly and attentive staff. It would benefit from a cafe for parents that are just spectators (though it is possible I just didn't spot it).
Negative experience: Considering this is one of the expensive swims I’ve had in NZ, I was surprised how old and grotty this facility is. Looks like it hasn’t seen a lick of paint anywhere for decades. A good scrub wouldn’t do any harm either.
Fantastic experience: Probably one of Dunedins best places to go for a fun day out, there is a variety of different pools for the children and adults with the hydro slide to keep everyone entertained. The gym is very well structured with good equipment and different exercise classes at specific times. They have good fitness trainers with a wealth of knowledge and experience.
Positive experience: Even though Dunedin is fortunate to have a large array of pools. Maintenance has not been maintained and is due for a refurbishment. Also some of the life guards could be assertive in upholding rules
Fantastic experience: Worth more than 5 stars 10/10 With a big group of 21 pleasant point scouts and cubs swimming yesterday. Amazing customer service,Amazing caring staff and awesome facilities and pools. We all had a memorable experience and we will definitely all be back. Thankyou.
Fantastic experience: Special shout out to the lovely staff up front who were super helpful (even providing me with some hot tips. re. caring for your togs). This alongside the great aquaarobics classes makes for a lovely time (plus some excellent views).
Positive experience: My kid could spend there all day. It is a great place. I think fast stream was our favorite this time Only thing that could make things better - if there would be more family changing rooms available. We were quite cold while waiting in a line to get dressed
Fantastic experience: This is a fantastic complex. Generous family pool with wave section, lazy river and toddler areas. Multiple learn to swim and lane pools and diving pool plus the hydro slides are always a favourite. Facilities were clean and staff friendly. Plenty of life guards also. Relatively expensive for slide plus swim but you get what to pay for.
Fantastic experience: came here for a casual workout. What a cool gym! decisively cheaper than privately owned gyms. large and clean with a great window front overlooking the town. no lockers, though. small towels provided for training, not for showering. you can use the pool facilities with the gym pass as well.
Fantastic experience: Great place to depend time with friends or grandchildren
Positive experience: Such a great asset for Dunedin, looking a little tired nowadays and no suna or steam room and diving boards closed.
Positive experience: Good pool,kids always have a blast.lazy river is great.
Fantastic experience: Great for keeping big and little kids happy. Especially hydro slide & wave pool
Fantastic experience: I was here today with daughter and my granddaughter of 6 months. We had a fab time
Fantastic experience: Love me a good pool, and this one is up there! Slides, big diving boards, wave pool.....great pool!
Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool....several pools and a gym up top, friendly and awesome location.Organized and very clean.
Fantastic experience: Great facility. Especially enjoyed today while celebrating my grandchilds birthday with friends and cousins.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic pools. Such great facilities. Kids love the diving boards and hydro slides!
Negative experience: front staff was arrogant . she was not ready to listen me at all.. i was presenting my student iD but she said am not student. pathetic
Fantastic experience: Wonderful family friendly pool with plenty of space for doing laps, as well as a wave pool, water slides and a hot tub.
Fantastic experience: A very nice pool in dunedin from lessons to aqua jogging this is the place to go wither it's raining in the winter or a dunners stunna moana pool is where you want to go it's great for everybody from the five year old to grandma everybody can gave fun at moana pool
Fantastic experience: Lovely municipal gym and pool, different from the more gucci private gyms in the UK that I am used to and much better for it: I could just get on with exercising in this place.
Positive experience: Excellent exercise area, play area, plenty of room in changing rooms, lots of activities in the many pools.spa pool for adults, 2 hydroslides, excellent teaching lessons available, teachers very kind, wave pool, river, learners pool, main pool divided into lane swimming and public, dive/ aqua jog pool, and separate dive pool.
Negative experience: 1 star rating for the restrictions put in place while the South Island was at alert level 2, my daughter and I came up from Invercargill wanting a swim in the leisure pool and hydroslide only to find no facilities were operating except lane swimming due to the Covid alert level. Other pools in the South Island operated their facilities during alert level 2 with limits on numbers.
Negative experience: The pools are ok. The slide is fine but the ramp going to the slide is just bare concrete. The only facility with slides we visited that DOES NOT have mats on the walking ramp towards the slides. My son and a friend made serious blisters going barefoot on the ramp . NOT SAFE !
Fantastic experience: Big slay. nice waves, very clean very nice. pools are big and good temperature. Kinda unclear where I'm allowed to swim but idk its fun. THEY HAVE SLIDES. i may be an adult legally but twisty slides is an always kinda thing. love this place big slay 3/3
Fantastic experience: ممتازة جدا
Negative experience: No sauna
Negative experience: Turn off the light in lane 2 Need better blocks they are starting to get very ancient.
Fantastic experience: Brilliant place, loads of pools, nice water temperature. Definitely will take kids hear again
Negative experience: Horrible stay got kicked out life guard kept telling us off for just swimming the supervisor i don't like kept picking on us but s worker that called i te something should definetly get a raise she was nice and understanding Sincerely zain kanafanj
Positive experience: Still a fabulous centre in Dunedin. First went there 50 years ago when it was new & so was I. Lots of additions but still a great place for all to enjoy.
Positive experience: Pretty clean changing rooms, sucks that the hydro slides are open on weekends and holidays. We only went for the spa anyway
Fantastic experience: Great place for families. Late in the day the changing rooms get a bit grubby, but otherwise it's an excellent facility.
Fantastic experience: The Moana pool gym is well-equipped. There are many options for free weights, machines, and cardio equipment. During busier times, there is need for a second squat rack and lifting platform.
Fantastic experience: Its a great place to take the family, or my clients that like lane swimming and aqua jogging. Just a shame you cant have showers at present time.
Positive experience: Nice place, but need to sort out the air conditioning to get more air flow through the building and a cafe with food and drinks when you have tournaments on would be great.......staff were amazing!
Fantastic experience: Heaps of fun, staff very alert and professional. Kids had a great time, loved the hydroslide, wave pool and floaties in the lap pool. Awesome affordable fun
Positive experience: Great place to have a swim and slide, just in need of the upcoming fixups and structural support fixes especially on the hydro slides (just look down at the beams as you go up and you'll see) but other than that you and your family will have a blast!
Fantastic experience: Fabulous place to tire the kids out on the hydroslide and the wave pool, although the waves seemed a lot tamer and ran shorter than they used to. Its long overdue to have a proper cafe though!
Fantastic experience: How lucky we are to have this recreational place in Dunedin! After a hard swimming ♂️ practice, relax in spa pool/jacuzzi will bring a nice end to your day. Can't wait to see $16 million renovation in effect!
Fantastic experience: Great set up for a full working gym facility and pool in one place
Positive experience: Moana pool is great. No line up for the water slides, the family pools are nice and warm. We had 4 kids with us age 7 to 11 and they didn't want to leave after 2 hours plus.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic! Great activity wave pool, waves start at 10.30am ( I think, definitely no earlier than 10.00am) massive lap pool split in half, old and new diving pools, guards more than happy to open diving boards up. Classic fast and slow water slides. Massive men’s and women’s changing rooms, heaps of family rooms with showers. Small spa? Also has a gym! Good parking and drop off area. Good work Dunedin!!
Fantastic experience: Really, really love it here. My daughter learns swimming with 'Just swim'. Small kids pool, separate learning pool, jumping pool, long lane pool, slides (I did not try yet). Staff is really friendly, Life Guards are changing positions often and are really focused. Great Family changing rooms with shower in different sizes. Go for it!
Positive experience: Fantastic facility available to just about everyone. Staff are great and while place looking a bit tired in places its always clean and cheerful. Appreciate clear covid19 rules and physical distancing. Website could use more timely updates so folks know what levels are in place before arriving. Still a local gem!
Fantastic experience: Pretty awesome facility. Warm, clean. Friendly and helpful staff, plenty of 2hr car parking.
Positive experience: Is a nice place for children but too much restrictions with regard what bracelets you need for certain swimming activities.
Positive experience: Moana Pool is a good pool though the building itself could do with a lick of paint and a clean. The staff are very helpful and friendly and the wave pool looks a lot of fun.
Fantastic experience: Super complexe, propre, beaucoup de bassins.
Fantastic experience: Excelente, disfruté con mis nietos e hijo
Positive experience: Great for my son. Very relaxed and at ease with staff.
Negative experience: Nice pools but very dirty. Especially the spa
Positive experience: Great place to swim, great for kids, has an indoor hydroslide.
Fantastic experience: Extremely clean, hydroslides, wave pool, lazy river. Reasonably priced.
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