Swimming is one of the most effective ways to exercise or if you just want to unwind and have some fun. Our pools offer a balanced mix of everything from casual public swimming to competitive swimming/diving for our clubs, swimming lessons and water aerobics and for those who want to have fun come and try out our waterslides and inflatables.
All our poolside staff are fully qualified lifeguards, providing a safe and secure environment for all our customers.
The Dolphin Centre offers an outstanding pool complex that includes:
25m Swimming Pool, Training Pool, Interactive Toddler Pool, 1m, 3m and 5m Board Diving Pool and two Waterslides.
Darlington Masters and Darlington Amateur Swimming Club both train at the Dolphin Centre. Please visit the partner links to find out more information
Inflatables
Lunar 2 our 18-metre pool inflatable, combined with music provided by our guest DJ make these sessions very popular and packed with fun.
Thursday 16:00 - 18:00
Saturday 14:00 - 16:00
Waterslides
The waterslides are open during the following times:
Monday and Wednesday 16:00 - 19:15
Tuesday 16:00 - 17:45
Thursday 16:00 - 19:30
Friday 16:00 - 20:00
Saturday and Sunday 10:00 - 16:00
Please note that due to some small adjustments in our swimming programme, these times differ slightly to our swimming opening times leaflet.
Please note below opening/closing times during the school holidays
School Holidays
During school holidays our inflatables operate on weekday afternoons 14:00 - 16:00. Please contact our Reception on 01325 388406 for further details.
During the school holiday our water slides open during the following hours:
Monday 10:00 -11:45 13:00 - 19:15
Tuesday 10:00 - 11:45 13:00 - 17:45
Thursday 10:00 - 11:45 13:00 - 19:30
Friday 10:00 - 11:45 13:00 - 20:00
Saturday and Sunday 10:00 - 16:00
Within our wet changing village we have provided ‘access for all’, offering a much improved modern changing environment.
Our facilities include:
- Separate male and female toilet areas – each of which has a private shower cubicle.
- 19 showers in total, 7 of which are fully private showers.
- 57 changing cubicles in total, 16 of which are the larger family changing cubicles and 8 have baby-changing beds.
- 3 salon style hairdryers, these are free of charge.
- The space within the changing village complies with all DDA and Health and Safety regulations.
- This means that there is enough room for a wheelchair and a double pushchair to manoeuvre and also provides enough space for a safe evacuation of customers in the event of a fire alarm.
Prams and pushchairs cannot be taken onto the poolside. Please make use of the buggy park provided, where they can be locked away safely.
Within our accessible change there is a shower that is thermostatically controlled, thus enabling customers to have a cooler shower if so desired.