The Best Day to Visit the Blue Lagoon

by Alan Cole · Published Sunday, May 9th, 2010 · Updated Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Morgan’s school was closed on Thursday as it was being used as a polling station, so we decided to make the most of the opportunity and Anna and I took the day off too.

We decided that it would be the perfect day to head the the Blue Lagoon, a water-park on the edge of Pembrokeshire. We thought that as it was a school day in the middle of term and the middle of the week that it would be nice and quiet there. We arranged to meet Jackie, Cameron and Eva there and set off at 8.30am in order to arrive before 11am.

We had booked tickets in advance and had been given a time slot of between 11am and 2pm. Basically you get three hours in the pool timed from entering the turn-styles before you get changed and exiting them after you get changed.

The pool itself was nice. The water was a nice temperature and the air temperature was lovely and warm thanks to their biomass heating. As well as a wave-machine that was switched on for a couple for minutes every now and then (probably once an hour), there was a ‘lazy river’ which flowed out of the pool and around in a loop outside, there was also a few slides, two warm spas for over 12’s and a smaller kids pool. The slides were good and the children loved them. There was also another slide that went out into plunge pools outside, but this wasn’t switched on and operational until about 1.45pm. As we had to be changed and out by 2pm we didn’t get chance to have a go on this.

We did pick the perfect day as it was completely uncrowded. There were no queues at all and we had heard stories of people having to queue for 30 minutes just to use a slide. If that had been the case then it would have been disappointing. Picking a quiet day is definitely the way to go. It was a shame we didn’t get to use the other slide, and really on a day like that when it isn’t busy maybe they should be a little more generous with the time you can spend there. Afterall, we may have had lunch in the poolside cafe and stayed a little longer had we been able to and would therefore probably have spent more money there in the process.

The cafe wasn’t great mind you, but overall thanks to picking the right day it was a good day out.