Galashiels Academy Pool
Water Parks & Swimming · Galashiels, Scottish Borders
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Open now — closes 9pm
🏠 IndoorBooking requiredSwimmingEducational
What’s there
- Parking
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Relaxed / SEN sessions
- SEN friendly
Please note that, as of Friday 3rd July, there will be no parking available at the old swimming pool until late August due to construction works to create a new car park for the swimming pool. Accessible parking spaces are available at the new pool.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Galashiels Academy Pool is the new home of Galashiels' public swimming, part of the Live Borders leisure network. The modern facility offers lane swimming, family swim sessions and school-supported lessons, with changing facilities and easy access in the heart of Galashiels. A reliable indoor option for teaching kids to swim or burning off energy on chilly Borders days.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Swimming costume
- Towel
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Poncho towelGetting changed in a car park, solved.
- Bum bag
- Hand sanitiser
- Beach shoes
- Lunch boxes
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
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