Chełmski Park Wodny

Chełmski Park Wodny is the indoor water park of Chełm, at ul. Lubelska 133A. The operator calls the building Chełmski Park Wodny and trades as Chełmski Park Wodny i Targowiska Miejskie Sp. z o.o., a municipal company. The water is plain treated pool water: the operator names no geothermal or mineral source, and the only brine in the building is in the graduation tower, where a salt solution trickles over blackthorn twigs to make an inhalation aerosol rather than filling a pool.

The operator dates the project from a 2012 survey of residents, a February 2013 design contract with Schick Architekci, a construction contract with Skanska signed on 12 March 2015, and an occupancy permit on 6 October 2016; the park opened on 26 November 2016. The operator lists one recreation pool, two swimming pools, two children's paddling pools, three squash courts, four six-person jacuzzis, five slides, six saunarium rooms, a maximum pool depth of 1.8 m, a shallowest paddling depth of 15 cm and a capacity of 427 people. The sports zone holds a warm-up and learners' pool of about 100 m² at 1 m depth and a six-lane 25 m by 12.5 m sports pool with starting blocks. The recreation hall runs over two levels with walkways, islands and a sun terrace; its listed attractions include a figure-of-eight rapid river with slow and fast currents, an underwater geyser, a climbing wall bearing the town arms, water lounger jets, one internal tube slide, one internal multi-person family slide and two external tube slides.

The operator counts six saunarium rooms and describes a complex of four saunas – a biosauna, a Russian banya, a Finnish sauna and a steam sauna – plus two rest rooms, an ice grotto and foot basins. The graduation tower opens daily at 09:00 in 45-minute sessions; the operator gives two closing times, 15:00 and 16:00. Opening hours are daily 09:00–22:00 for the recreation zone and 17:30–21:45 for the saunarium; the park runs year-round.