Love this lido so much!!!! On a summers day it is just blissful. Does not feel like you are in a big city at all. It does get busy though but the lanes are wide and long. A pleasure!

Friendly staff, 50m, usually not too busy. The only issue is the weather 😂 Outdoor and indoor changing facilities. Just don't expect the showers to be too strong.

Awesome lido, my new fave in London. Heated, so it’s not too intensely cold. Lovely people, nice wide swimming lanes. It was divided into 4 lanes when I was there; slow, medium x2 and fast. Toilets and changing rooms available poolside. Lockers that take coins. 4 poolside showers. Cafe onsite. Car park outside which was around £2.20 for 2 hours. They were also very smooth with the Covid-adaptations, it all felt very safe 👌 Download the ‘Better’ app to book your swim slot

Beautiful big pool with wide lanes. £11.50 though?? Too expensive to swim regularly

Super clean, super big, super awesome lido! Cheap parking outside (£1 an hour), contactless payment for locker tokens (30p each) and easy booking online. Can’t wait to go back!

This is a great outdoor pool, with great facilities all round. The current Covid-19 situation is being well managed with pre-booking only, no cash transactions, a one-way system of separate entrance & exit routes and various restrictions on physical distancing. There's a turnstile to exit and I was quite happy to get through it with my folded Brompton bike!😆 It felt great to be swimming again since before the lockdown😎

I visited for the first time with my partner and grandchildren aged 4 and 22 maths. We had booked toddler splash and the toddler pool was very good as all shallow. We found all the machines eg for parking and getting a locker token worked very smoothly and a helpful member of staff explained everything to us. We found the pool area and changing rooms all spacious enough and a good relaxed atmosphere.

Super rude staff - we dropped by Better complex reception after playing tennis on a +26 heat for two hours and asked for tap water, they said they don’t have it but offered to buy bottled one. And after buying 6 bottles they asked us to leave the premises as apparently we were crowding the hall. Like what?!

Lovely open-air, heated Lido with changing rooms. Swimming in lanes unless "Swimming for All" is open and there is a separate, shallow child's pool. Access through Better Gym membership or around £11 to enter if not a member. The gym has a car park.

Payed a lot for membership. Lack of staff to do induction. Had to rebook more than 3 times now still have not done induction yet. Told me to come next day at a certain time when rebooking. When I came on time either the person inducting me home went early or sick. Friendly service is not the only thing we customers we need. We need customers to be satisfied by giving us what we need instead if excises and delaying a simple induction. You will spend more time trying to arrange and induction than spend time working out at the gym.

A wonderful outdoor Olympic (50m) size lido in south-east London. Extremely clean and heated year round making winter swimming possible, even without a wetsuit. Inside and outdoor changing facilities. Friendly staff and a nice mix of local leisure bathers and a friendly swimming community make for a very nice relaxed atmosphere. Some swimming and triathlon clubs train here too. There's a full Better gym on-site (which can be used for an extra fee) and something quite unique, an outdoor spin studio overlooking the pools. Some of the spin instructors are very entertaining as they motivate their classes :). You will definitely leave feeling refreshed and happier than when you arrived.

Be prepared for the outside pool, its obvious but even heated to 25degrees it's very bracing in the winter. Took our two children and even in their wetsuits it was too cold to play and practise for long. Also, a note for parents: even though it says free swim, we definitely got some angry looks from other pool users for not swimming laps even though we were in the 1/4 of the pool designated the free swim area. We were trying to teach some basic swimming technique but it became a bit awkward with others in the free swim area so we left.

Spacious 50m heated outdoor pool with deep and shallow ends. Usually split into 4 wide lanes allowing plenty of space for all speeds and strokes. The water is clean. The lack of surrounding high buildings means that you can quite quickly feel as if you are open water swimming with the changing weather reflected on the water's surface. I have achieved some of my personal best distance speeds in this pool purely down to the sheer exhilaration of the setting.

Doesn’t even deserve a star 37£ for a gym that’s closed half of time lack of actual good gym equipment, they lie about opening and close time all the time whilst still being able to book on their website. It’s ridiculous and I’m a regular but I’ve had enough constantly wasting pre workout because they never inform anybody on their closing times. Not worth a penny should be ashamed

First time visiting this place. We availed of the 1 hr swim for all. The pool was clean and there were life guards. The changing room and toilet were great as well. My daughter enjoyed it a lot. I would have given it a 5 stars if the pool was heated as said in the website. But the water is iced cold. Despite this, definitely going back.

50 metre outdoor heated pool. Love this place. Much easier to rack up big distances in a pool this large. Swim doctor is also worth a visit.

Lovely lido, with friendly lifeguards and clean changing cubicles and toilets. I was a little late due to traffic and paying for parking (didn't realise I could use ringo) as a result I couldn't scan my barcode to enter...had to wait for people being served at reception to be helped which delayed entry even further but reception were helpful and let me in. I'll know next time I visit to allow a little more time.

I went to the swim for all with my 1 year old and my 13 year old niece for the first time. The swimming pool area is great however there was a VERYYY strong smell of wee in the changing rooms. Really spoiled the whole look of the centre. Not as clean as other reviews stated.

They have gender-neutral single cabin changing rooms outdoors right by the pool, which is very practical. The outdoor showers are also gender-neutral, but have no cubicles. I don't remember if there were any gender-neutral toilets. The outdoor pool is beautiful! I visited on a hot summer weekend and did need to book in advance, but found that it was still possible to find a slot to book the day before (unlike many other London lidos!). On the downside, it's pretty expensive, it does cost noticeably more than other lidos, such as Brockwell lido. The indoor changing rooms & showers are also not as clean or well-kept as the outdoor ones.

I am member here and try and go 2-3 times a week. It is a beautiful lido, heated, outdoor 50M pool, what's not to love. There is a nice community atmosphere, everything is well maintained. Wholeheartedly recommend. (Just not when I'm there as I don't like too much lane traffic)😂

Great outdoor swimming pool & , the gym equipment is quite new and the overall centre is well maintained and very clean!

Nice, smallish gym. Never usually too busy. The pool is great too, Olympic size. The pool and poolside changing rooms have seen better days and could do with a spruce up but they're perfectly fine. In order to upgrade they would have to shut the pool for a while and that would not go down well with the swimmers

A wonderful Better Lifestyle Club with a spacious swimming pool, gym, outdoor and indoor group classes. I am teaching traditional Hatha Yoga classes and I love this place, the students and staff.

A nice pool and great atmosphere, but quite cold in September, keep swimming to stay warm ! Lockers take tokens which you can get from a machine using debit card. There is parking which is pay & display. Quite expensive at £11 a go unless you are a member. The pool is quite wide and 50m long with a deep and shallow end.

Charlton lido is good! It was easy to book, and all I had to do was show the receptionist my booking confirmation to get in. The pool is okay. I’d say it’s probably better for a fun summers day relaxing by the pool than actually swimming in for fitness as there seems to be a huge swimming area and wide lanes but not enough specific lanes for slow swimming, fast swimming etc so it’s kind of like a free for all, and it gets quite busy. But I think that could be due to time of booking as I believe you can book a slot for leisure at a different time to swimming for fitness. The pool is cold, which is ideal for swimming in the summer, but in the winter I think I’d die as the showers are lukewarm. Other than that great! Nice big pool but it is quite expensive for the amount of time you get!