War Memorial Pool in Cambridge

This is a great pool... BUT...since after Covid, they've been progressively reducing the hours available for adult lap swims to the point where it is no longer workable, now, barely more than an hour/day, or à couple of hours on week-ends. So sad. It had been a great community health resource.

My kids have learned a lot about how to swim I recommend this place

When I was a kid about 5 or 6 years old I was learning how to tread water in the deep end and the instructor was a male instructor and when I was having trouble with it I hung on to his back to support and he just removed my hands off his back and into the water and I went deep and I thought I was gonna drown but luckily I was able to surface back up but I was pissed at him for doing that to me that is not ok and shouldn't be allowed for instructors to do that to kids I yelled at him and told him he was fired and left the pool when I came back though a nice female instructor took over and things were better but still it traumatized me for life and now because of him and that experience I have trust issues with men and are very cautious around all of them and it's all his fault!!! I hope he is still fired today.

Highly recommend War Memorial Pool. Every single member of the staff we encountered - from the management, to the front desk, to the life guards - was so welcoming and helpful. The life guards were attentive and approachable, and supported the young children in my group in taking the swim test so they could try out the awesome diving board. There are three beautiful pools that the kids loved.

There always naked men in the boy locker room while there kids and the grown man are fully naked in the either very hot or cold shower.

Grimy public pool. The showers are very difficult to use. Water in showers is either boiling lava hot or cold. Would not recommend children’s swim lessons, taught by untrained/uninterested high school students. There’s very little instruction. In a recent level 2 class, for example, my kid got to swim twice. The rest of the time he was holding onto the side of the pool, shivering. He now dislikes swim lessons (he loved them when we went to another location). They also end the lessons early, so your “half hour” lesson ends up being 20 mins at most.

A child almost drown the day we were here for a birthday party. Paramedics and police came rushing through our party room to perform CPR. The lifeguards are not very attentive to say the least.

Beautiful pool, but they don't publish their schedule regularly which means that more than once I've driven across town only to be met by a handwritten sign proclaiming "Closed Today"