Twenty-five metres, indoors, on Level 3

Pool

25 m, heated, indoor

Floor

Level 3 (site map)

Seating

Day beds

Service

Poolside refreshments

Gym

Split level

Gym access

Hotel guests, Crown Spa Club Members

The hotel page describes “one of the largest indoor swimming pools in Australia alongside a state-of-the-art gymnasium”, then gives the useful detail: a 25-metre heated pool with day beds and guest access to poolside refreshments. The superlative is Crown's; the length is what matters to anyone who swims laps.

Where it is

Crown's general map places “Crown Towers Pool & Gym” on Level 3, on the route signposted “To Towers Guest Rooms, Spa + Crystal Club”. In practice that puts the pool, the gym, the spa and the club lounge on one floor, between the lobby and the lowest published room band, which begins at level 5.

Who may use it

The gym is described as “available exclusively to hotel guests and Crown Spa Club Members”. The pool is part of the hotel's facilities; for visitors who are not staying, the spa menu sells an Aqua Retreat and pool access option from $140, and includes the pool for an hour before treatments of an hour or longer.

What is not published

• Opening hours of the pool and of the gym.
• Lane arrangements or lap-swimming times.
• An age rule for the pool. The under-16 rule printed by Crown applies to Crown Spa and its Aqua Retreat.

Each of these is a reasonable question to send with a request, and the desk will pass the hotel's answer on.

Fitting it into a stay

The Level 3 arrangement suits an early swim before breakfast in the club or at Conservatory, or a late swim after a day out. Guests heading from the pool to the Crystal Club should remember the club's dress code, which turns away robes, slippers and swimwear.