Crystal Cove Aquatic Center

Love the discounted twilight swim and the kid time Saturday mornings! It is clean and affordable and has all the amenities you’d want for a community pool. Zero depth entry pool for kids, two big water slides, water walk, diving boards and plunge slide.
Swimming lessons are also great, with 10 classes over two weeks the kids learn fast!

Looks like a decent pool, but I had to leave with my 10 year-​old daughter about 15 minutes after we arrived, and find another pool to go to. Why the sudden departure, you ask? Because she couldn’t do a perfectly coordinated face-​in-​the-​water front crawl across the pool and back, which meant she wasn’t allowed on the water slide, the water walk, or the diving board. She can cruise along with a sidestroke, sure. Backstroke, no problem. Doggy paddle, she’d be there and back in a jiff. We spend every sunny Saturday out swimming somewhere. She’s passed deep water tests at every pool that has required them, and I have no doubts whatsoever about her ability to outswim half the adults in that pool. But without that perfectly executed front crawl, we were essentially restricted to the toddler pool.
Yes, I understand that safety comes first. Heck, I pulled somebody else’s half-​drowned 8 year-​old out of another pool just last week. But I’m bitter, I’m out $ 14, and I’d like to save anybody else the trouble of wasting their time here if their child is not either 53″ tall or the next Michael Phelps.