What is Swimming Tourism and how this site approaches the topic?

Google “Swimming Tourism” and you’ll find extraordinarily beautiful, fascinating locations for open water swimming holidays. These adventures are with a group of other swimmers, swimming to explore beautiful coral reefs. I have not done one of these yet, but hope to someday. 

I suggest you research the one that seems the most appealing to you in great detail, as to the amount of area you will be swimming per day and the required swimming skill level etc. Also, research the area so you do not find later that the pictures did not represent what the area truly looks like.  

An example of a trip misrepresentation:

My husband and I had a misrepresentation of an area, on our honeymoon trip to Jamaica. The excursion adventure trip was touted as a lake in a cave. The site photos were enticingly beautiful, and it showed a boat ride on the lake. When we did the trip it was a small rowboat that they pushed off of shore about 5 feet to the middle of the body of water. The “lake” was the size of a swimming pool. Woo, were we let down, the photos made it look larger than its’ reality.

Posts this site will have under Swimming Tourism

These are the items we will be reviewing at indoor swimming pools we visit:

  • Water quality

  • If they will allow early swimming 5am to 9am for laps

  • Any adult only hours (or laps only hours)

  • Do they provide pool towels

  • Do they have changing rooms and showers (where they clean?)

  • Do they have an area to swim against a current

  • Pool room and water temperature monitors

  • Extra offers like hot tub, steam room, dry sauna, lazy river, preschooler area etc.

Last, but not least, we would like you to tell us about your swimming holiday tour/adventure visiting a coral reef or other fun time you had swimming, tell us the good, bad and the ugly details, it will be reviewed and posted if it is something we feel our readers would benefit from knowing.

We cannot pay for any stories because this site does not sell anything. We do this site because it is information we wish we knew before we traveled.