Porvoo swimming hall

Today I wanted to try a new swimming hall, and ended up driving all the way to Porvoo, an hour away from where I live. Porvoo is of course a wonderful historic city with wooden houses alongside the river banks. Their swimming hall was constructed in the 1970s probably, but then more recently expanded.

The hall as two different sides, the new (lower level dressing rooms) and old (2nd floor dressing rooms). Both sides have saunas, in the new there's a Finnish sauna and a steam sauna, and in the old one there's two smaller Finnish saunas and a steam sauna.

Their main pool is a 25-meter one, but there's also:

• A jumping pool
• Two kiddie pools
• A fun pool with a wave machine, water slide, and a swimming channel
• A large Jacuzzi on top of the fun pool
• A cold pool

The official home page of the swimming hall is here.

Much recommended!

I just have outside pictures:

Then the entrance (at the top of this article, and below):

For more sauna and swimming stories, check out planetswimmer.com and saunablogger.cool websites! And of course the Planetcaver, and Planetskier blogs for other stories in Blogspot and TGR! The photos and text (c) 2024 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. I never take recognisable photos of other saunagoers or swimmers, and the facility was only booked for me.