ARRIBA Erlebnisbad

The ARRIBA Erlebnisbad in Norderstedt is a leisure bath with an indoor hall, a year-round outdoor bathing area, a summer open-air section and a separate sauna area; the bath is linked to the municipal Stadtwerke Norderstedt. One pool is presented by the operator under the heading "Therme mit Whirlpool" and described as a "Thermalbecken"; it is warm water at 33 °C, and the operator names no spring, well or mineral analysis. The one pool whose water genuinely differs is the open-air Solebad, which the operator states is salt water with 3 % brine. Everything else is plain heated water.

Indoors and in the year-round outdoor area there are a 25 m sports pool with six lanes at 28.0 °C and 1.80 m deep; a diving pool at 25.0 °C and 3.80 m deep with 1 m and 3 m boards, the tower opening daily at 11:00 while the pool is used for lane swimming before that; the 33.0 °C warm-water pool with floor bubblers, bubble loungers, cascade showers and a whirlpool, 1.10 m deep; the open-air Solebad at 30.0 °C and 1.10 m deep with 3 % brine, open all year; an indoor adventure pool at 31.0 °C and 1.10 m deep with a water mushroom, a climbing net, a waterfall with a steep-wall slide and climbing ladders, a bubbling mound and a current channel; a heated open-air adventure pool at 30.0 °C and 1.10 m deep with cascade showers, bubble loungers and massage jets; a wave pool at 29.5 °C running from 0.00 to 1.35 m deep, with waves on the hour; a baby pool at 33.0 °C and 0.20–0.40 m deep with small slides and water-spouting animals; and a non-swimmers' pool at 33.0 °C and 0.70–1.10 m deep. A 50 m outdoor sports pool at 24.0 °C and 1.80 m deep runs only in the season from 1 June to 31 August.

The slide set is summed up by the operator as six slides and 370 metres. Named individually they are the tyre slide at 115 m (from age 6), the Turborutsche at 48 m (from age 10, advertised as a six-second ride), the Wildwasserbach at 124 m (from age 10), which starts indoors, runs in the open air and lands back inside, the Panoramarutsche at 75 m, which passes under a transparent dome, and the Familienrutschen at 10 m; non-swimmers may use the last two only accompanied by a swimmer.

The sauna area holds six saunas plus a steam bath, arranged around a sauna garden with a year-round heated whirlpool, a small swimming pool, two quiet rooms, loungers, parasols and hooded beach chairs. The cabins are the Vitalsauna at 90.0 °C, the Panoramasauna at 70 °C with dimmed light and a dune mural, the Kräutersauna at 95 °C with herbs and essential oils, the Meditationssauna at 55.0 °C with coloured light, the Erlebnissauna at 80 °C in the sauna garden for show infusions, and the Klönschnacksauna at 65.0 °C, where conversation is expressly allowed. The oriental steam bath runs at 40.0–45.0 °C with 100 % humidity, and the Gletscherhöhle ice cave at −9.0 °C provides the cool-down. Infusions run to a published timetable, and on the first Tuesday of the month the sauna is split by sex, men 11:00–15:00 and women 15:30–22:00.

The sports, toddler and adventure pools with the panorama slide open Monday to Thursday 06:30–22:00, Friday 06:30–23:00, Saturday 09:00–23:00 and Sunday and public holidays 09:00–22:00. The slide and wave area and the sauna both open at 11:00 on Monday to Thursday and Friday, and at 09:00 at the weekend; during the Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein school holidays the slide and wave area also opens at 09:00. No opening year is published.