Science Center for Education Banana Pool

They require a medical certificate even if you're a foreigner - and the place is as dirty as it can get! No thank you

5 months ago

Visited on 15/3/2024 I’m reviewing specifically the swimming pool not the science centre. All in all a pretty underwhelming experience. Firstly if you want to swim here you need to become a member which requires a copy of your passport, photo, recent health certificate and 600 baht for membership and your card all of which I provided but the staff were extremely unhelpful and rude. I handed over all the items and was eventually told I could collect my membership card and documents before I left. When I went back after the swim they refused to give me back my health certificate in spite of me explaining that this was my original copy which I needed. It seems the digital age hasn’t arrived yet at the Science Centre pool(kinda ironic) they still keep everything in hard copy. They took a photo copy and tried to give me that instead. In the end I had to storm into the office and take it back myself as they were still refusing. The pool surroundings themselves are in a poor state of repair, paint peeling, broken tiles etc. There are no changing rooms to speak of, just a storage room with no benches or lockers, a couple of toilets and showers. There were two other people swimming at the same time as me. They simply changed on the poolside with towels wrapped around their waist. The pool itself is poorly maintained. Water clarity was not good and the water level was about 10cm too low. There are no lane ropes plus there is a breeze as it’s an outdoor pool which means it’s an extremely ‘slow’ pool as it’s very wavy. My advice would be don’t bother. There are other much nicer pools in the area that are far better maintained than this one.

2 years ago