Meri Kirihimete – here are our opening times and hours for the Christmas and New Year period
Arena Aquatics is an indoor heated facility with a lane pool, leisure pool, toddlers' pool, lazy river, wave pool, hydroslide, spa pools, sauna, steam room and a café.
Lane pool
25-metre, 7-lane, classic swimming pool that's 1.2 metres at the shallow end and 2 metres at the deep end. Heated to 27 degrees.
Free-form wave and leisure pool
A pool with a sloped beach-style entrance that goes from 0 to 1.6 meters deep. Heated to 30 degrees. Click here to find out more about entry fees.
Toddlers' pool
Next to the leisure pool, the toddlers' pool is 0.4 meters deep and heated to 38 degrees. Click here to find out more about entry fees.
Small tunnel slide
This small slide goes directly into the leisure pool. Click here to find out more about entry fees.
Large hydroslide
There's a height restriction of 1.3 metres if going down alone, but no height restriction for kids accompanied by an adult. Click here to find out more about entry fees.
Wave machine
Operates when there’s sufficient demand (generally every 30–45 minutes at the weekends and school holidays), with an alarm sounding just before it starts. Click here to find out more about entry fees.
Inflatables
Available from 11am – 3pm during school holidays and weekends. Click here to find out more about entry fees.
Splish, splash, you love the water, Porirua. Did you know, 250,000 of you use the swimming pool each year?
The Arena Aquatic Centre caters for a wide variety of users including:
We use ozone treatment on our pools, which means we run lower levels of chlorine in both the lane and leisure pools.
