When the sea is too cold for most of the year, families here head indoors to swim. These picks cover both ends: public swimming halls with warm teaching pools and diving towers, and water parks with slides, tube rivers and wave pools. Here's what we checked, from the warm kids' pools at Mäkelänrinne to the 80-meter slide at Serena.
Serena is a water park in Lahnus, northern Espoo, with an indoor hall and an outdoor park that opens June to August. Slides include the Tornado, Black Hole, Hurricane, an 80-meter slide and a free fall, plus tube rivers and a wave pool.
Younger kids get their own kids' land with small slides, indoors and out, and adults have jacuzzies and saunas.
The waterpark at Flamingo Spa has four slides, from the Familia slide open to all ages to the Waterfall with a 135 cm height limit, plus a Wibit course, a diving pool with 3 m and 5 m platforms, and a counter-current pool.
Toddlers get a 30 cm paddling pool with a small slide and toys, set apart from the rest. The spa and sauna world is adults only.
A public swimming hall with a pool for every level. Younger kids get a warm teaching pool (0.3 to 1.3 m deep, 30°C) and a shallow children's pool (0.3 to 0.9 m). Stronger swimmers have the 50 m pool, up to 4 m deep, and a diving tower with 3 m and 5 m platforms. There is also a hot tub, a cold pool and a café.
Mäkelänrinne is a public swimming hall with a 50 m pool, a 5 m deep diving pool under a 10 m tower, and two warm pools for younger kids: a teaching pool 30 to 90 cm deep and a paddling pool 20 to 40 cm deep. Grown-ups also get a hydro massage pool, a cold water pool and saunas. Café Uppopulla upstairs serves lunch with a children's menu.
When the sea is too cold for most of the year, families here head indoors to swim. These picks cover both ends: public swimming halls with warm teaching pools and diving towers, and water parks with slides, tube rivers and wave pools. Here's what we checked, from the warm kids' pools at Mäkelänrinne to the 80-meter slide at Serena.
Serena is a water park in Lahnus, northern Espoo, with an indoor hall and an outdoor park that opens June to August. Slides include the Tornado, Black Hole, Hurricane, an 80-meter slide and a free fall, plus tube rivers and a wave pool.
Younger kids get their own kids' land with small slides, indoors and out, and adults have jacuzzies and saunas.
The waterpark at Flamingo Spa has four slides, from the Familia slide open to all ages to the Waterfall with a 135 cm height limit, plus a Wibit course, a diving pool with 3 m and 5 m platforms, and a counter-current pool.
Toddlers get a 30 cm paddling pool with a small slide and toys, set apart from the rest. The spa and sauna world is adults only.
A public swimming hall with a pool for every level. Younger kids get a warm teaching pool (0.3 to 1.3 m deep, 30°C) and a shallow children's pool (0.3 to 0.9 m). Stronger swimmers have the 50 m pool, up to 4 m deep, and a diving tower with 3 m and 5 m platforms. There is also a hot tub, a cold pool and a café.
Mäkelänrinne is a public swimming hall with a 50 m pool, a 5 m deep diving pool under a 10 m tower, and two warm pools for younger kids: a teaching pool 30 to 90 cm deep and a paddling pool 20 to 40 cm deep. Grown-ups also get a hydro massage pool, a cold water pool and saunas. Café Uppopulla upstairs serves lunch with a children's menu.
