Published on March 17, 2011
Following our feedback over the closed season, it’s been agreed that there will be a choice of Season Tickets this year to allow greater flexibility for swimmers to choose which options suit them best. For those who want the choice of swimming in ALL the lane sessions, including the early morning sessions there is an all-inclusive ticket priced at £177.50 (£122.50 for Senior Citizens/PrimeTime members). The regular Season Ticket includes the Tues, Weds & Thurs lane sessions and is priced at £108.50 (£54.30 for Senior Citizens/PrimeTime members).
In addition there are Student and Family tickets available. Full details and an application form can be found at www.guildfordlido.co.uk
We are pleased that flexibility of pricing and sessions has been introduced and hope that the lane sessions will allow everyone to make the very best of the swimming facilities the lido offers throughout the entire season, even on those hot, busy days!
Published on March 17, 2011
Monday
7.30am – 10am Early Morning Swimming (Lane Swimming)
10.30am – 6.30pm Public Swimming
Tuesday
10.30am – 6.30pm Public Swimming
7pm – 8.40pm Adult Lane Swimming
Wednesday
7.30am – 10am Early Morning Swimming (Lane Swimming)
10.30am – 6.30pm Public Swimming
Thursday
10.30am – 6.30pm Public Swimming
7pm – 8.40pm Adult Lane Swimming
Friday
7.30am – 10am Early Morning Swimming (Lane Swimming)
10.30am – 6.30pm Public Swimming
Saturday
9am – 10am Lane Swimming
10.30am – 6.30pm Public Swimming
Sunday
9am – 10am Lane Swimming
10.30am – 6.30pm Public Swimming
Available for private functions Fri-Sun evenings.
Published on January 28, 2011
The 2011 Season will start on 30 April and run for 20 weeks. The Mayor will attend the Opening Ceremony at 9am and the 2Swim4Life, 24 hour swimming challenge will begin at 9.30 and at the same time Season Ticket holders will be invited to be the first to enjoy the pristine waters of the Lido before the pool opens to the general public an hour or so later.
FOGL are delighted to be helping with the Opening Day and especially hope to offer as much support as we can to the swimmers undertaking the challenging 24hour swim. No other 50m pool in the UK was willing to host this event, we are pleased our Lido was able to say “yes”!
We look forward to hearing from any FOGL members who are willing to offer time on the day (and night) to count lengths, serve drinks, make a few cakes and snacks for swimmers and generally give all round support in any way they can. Do get in touch if you can offer any help.
Published on December 12, 2010
The 2011 Lido season will get off to a flying start by us hosting a fantastically challenging swimming event over the weekend of 30 April.
2Swim4Life
Each competitor is going to attempt to swim 1 mile on the hour, every hour, for 24 consecutive hours! Yep, they are going to be swimming through the night! The event was originally founded by Stewart Rush in 2008 as a charity fundraising event to raise money for Action Duchenne which exclusively funds research for a cure and promotes campaigns for better medical care for Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy.
The Guildford Lido 2Swim4Life’11 event will be in aid of Help for Heroes and is being organised by Lesley Zimmerman with lots of support from local swimmers and supporters as well as those coming in from further afield. The event is expected to attract swimmers from around the country. Burning between 8000 and 11500 calories each, equivalent to 15 roast dinners hence sustaining food intake and keeping it down is going to be a further essential challenge!
Details are being finalised right now and we will post more information here over the coming weeks. In the meantime, if this is something that you would like to be involved with, either swimming or supporting the swimmers – they’ll need lots of it – please get in touch with us now.
Come along and support us. It should be a great day!
Published on October 8, 2010
One of the Lido’s lifeguards, Catherine has set herself a pretty arduous challenge over the winter months in aid of 4 charities. She’ll be aiming to live off £10 per week until next June.
To read more about Catherine’s challenge visit her blog:
http://www.10poundpom.blogspot.com/
Published on September 18, 2010
The last day of swimming this year is Sunday 19th September.
The Lido management wish to know what everyone wants to see next year at the Lido, so take this opportunity to email now with your ideas and comments:
http://www.guildfordspectrum.co.uk/content/view/476/325/
Published on September 16, 2010
One of our 2010 FOGL recruits, Hugh Thacker unfortunately didn’t succeed in his Channel attempt earlier this month, despite a truly valiant effort.
We are sorry Hugh didn’t achieve the “Mount Everest” of swimming, but really pleased for him that his fundraising has been remarkable and he’s enjoyed the experience….and redicovered our lovely Lido.
We look forward to seeing you in the Lido enjoying it purely for pleasure next year Hugh and well done on all your achievements this year.
Published on September 14, 2010
Yep, that time of year’s upon us when sadly the pool closes for the winter, so make sure you make the most of the final swims, whatever the weather has in store for us this week.
We hope to have the final newsletter of the season out as soon as we can. As ever the FOGL Committee are all pretty busy with day-jobs and haven’t had much spare time to get pen to paper the last few weeks, but we’ll do our very best to remedy that!
Happy swimming.
Published on September 5, 2010
Oh dear it’s that time of year already when we’re in count-down to the pool closing for the season. Just a quick heads-up that we have 2 weeks left to get in and swim as many times as we can to stock ourselves up on Lido memories for the winter.
Enjoy!
Published on September 5, 2010
We’ve had notification that due to the poor light in the evenings, the evening sessions are at an end for this season.
Here’s looking forward to next year!
