Sportiom AquaFun

AquaFun is the recreational bath of Sportfondsen Sportiom, a multi-sport complex at Victorialaan 10 in ’s-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) run by Koninklijke Sportfondsen, which also houses an ice rink, bowling, minigolf and a fitness club. AquaFun is the bath rather than the whole complex: the operator presents it as “ons zwembad”, a themed swimming paradise. The water is plain heated pool water; the operator makes no thermal, mineral or spring-water claim for the bath or its wellness area.

The bath is themed throughout. The operator names fast slides, a wave pool (“het golfslagbad”), and a tyre slide ridden in a ring, with a terrace and a restaurant for breaks between sessions and, for small children, a toddler pool and a water playground. Sportfondsen Sportiom states that it has five slides in total, one of them inside a spray park, a separate area for small children to play with water; the other four are named individually as the Adventure Slide, the Speed Slide, the Wildriver and the Duo Racer, each with a minimum age of 8 for unaccompanied riding. An outdoor pool with a sunbathing lawn adjoins the hall and is open in good weather and with enough supervisors on duty, always from the May school holiday to the end of August, though the operator says it cannot announce in advance whether it will be open on a given day. Children without an A swimming certificate must wear armbands and stay under the direct supervision of an adult in swimwear who holds a certificate.

AquaFun is open for recreational swimming on Wednesday and Thursday 14:30–19:00, Friday 14:30–21:00 and Saturday and Sunday 10:00–17:30, and closed to recreational swimming on Monday and Tuesday. Every Friday evening from 18:00 to 21:00, outside school holidays, the bath runs a disco swim.