Open Water Swimming (Winter)

  • swimming

  • 1 hr

  • Max 20 people

Open Water Swimming

Description

Join us for our latest addition to getting you on the water.

Our brand new open water swimming sessions, are ideal for those who are wanting to learn, train or develop their open water swimming skills, or even just get in for the embrace of the cold water.


To join us for open water swimming this winter, you must join as a winter member, only £25 and this will enable you to access the booking system.




Requirements

All swimmers should have prebooked their Winter Swimming Membership to allow them to book on.

Participants should be able to swim 50 metres unaided and will be asked to demonstrate the first time they swim.

What to bring

All swimmers MUST have:


  1. A coloured swim hat.
  2. A tow float
  3. A wetsuit, for distance swimming, under 16 degrees water temperature.


Participants will have access to the inside changing rooms and showers.

Lockers are available for small items.


Itinerary

Swimmers can arrive 15 minutes before to get changed in the changing rooms.

Just before the swim the safety team will let you know where you will be swimming and how to get in and any safety information for the day.

  • house-outline

    Ardingly Activity Centre

    arrow-right
  • pin

    Haywards Heath, GB

    arrow-right
  • script
    star-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outline
    starstarstarstarstar
    4.7

    (96)

    arrow-right
From
£9.50
/ adult
£9.50
/ child
  • ticket

    This activity requires a membership

    View memberships and become a member

    arrow-right
  • calendar-edit

    Cancellation policy

    View the full cancellation details

    arrow-right

Upcoming availability

September

September 2025

October

October 2025

November

November 2025
star-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outline
starstarstarstarstar
4.7

(96)

arrow-right

See what people are saying about Ardingly Activity Centre.

star-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outline
starstarstarstarstar

Visited Ardingly Activity Centre near Ardingly Reservoir and had a really lovely time. It’s a great spot if you want to spend the day outdoors with family — you can rent kayaks or paddle boats and just enjoy the water in ...

Pramod Singh

Pramod Singh

star-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outline
starstarstarstarstar

Amazing place! We are a family and we had such a wonderful time there, the staff are very friendly and organised. We made the booking online in the same day and found availability! The kayak were in very good conditions. ...

Monica Dolci

Monica Dolci

star-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outline
starstarstarstarstar

We are a family of 2 adults and a 5 years old child, and rented a 2 seats kayak and a 1 seat kayak, and we had a wonderful time there! Was really nice everything and a perfect funny afternoon for my family. Friendly ...

Andre PG

Andre PG

star-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outline
starstarstarstarstar

Did Paddle Boarding here as a group activity; very affordable per person and really chill and friendly staff. Water was actually very refreshing after falling off into it, ahaha. Good bit of foot paths to walk about as ...

Rajeve Brooks

Rajeve Brooks

star-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outlinestar-outline
starstarstarstarstar

My daughters and I had a lovely time kayaking for the first time together. The service received was extremely kind and considerate. I would recommend it, especially for younger children.

Andrew Levy

Andrew Levy

See more arrow-right