Paddling Pools

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We have one of those non-inflatable collapsible paddling pools. Okay so they are great in the fact that they do not puncture but they are very difficult to fill up with water. I have just been out in the garden putting it up now and had to stand with it so it filled up enough that the water could hold it up to fill it up further. Don't bother getting one if you're thinking about it. Not the best I've come across.

Would you leave the big inflatable pools up for a number of days or drain them every night?

Well I'm in the market for a new padddling pool because I have taken the house apart (even gone in the loft) and I can't find ours. How can you lose a paddling pool?

Very envious of all those who have a garden big enough for those massive pools.

I've got a 10feet blow up one - and it comes with a bottom and top solar cover. We haven't set it up yet - may not this year and just get a small one for ds from argos.
I think the big ones you fill once and leave it all summer.

Can you do a link please TracyK?

we discussed this last night, the emptying thing - our takes up alot of garden so I think while it's hot it will stay and when the weather breaks as it will no doubt soon it will go away.

You can buy purification stuff for the pool if you leave it filled. Not sure where though.

we've just bought this ELC castle paddling pool which came with a free dragon squirter . It's quite a small pool but my ds and dd think it's great. And I like it because of the built in shade.

got the same one as blossom hill. Takes a bit of putting up etc. also got a diddy one from woolworths complete with balls so it can be used with water balls or both!

marthamoo - exactly the same thing happened here. Two yeasr ago we bought a brand new pool, went to get it out last summer and it was gone. Completely vanished. Have no idea where it went. Had to buy another one. Maybe there's a pile of missing paddling pools next to that pole of missing odd socks somewhere?

We got given the baby inflatable paddling pool as a present - the starfish one with the canopy. Super for tiny tots and comes with los of interesting inflatable bits...fish etc. DD loves it and it doesn't take much puff to blow up!

forgot to say - baby "starfish" pool from ELC

Used to have to buy a new paddling pool every year as they always seem to get punctured. Now have one with rigid sides - got it from Argos 3 or 4 years ago and it seems indestructible - even the dog goes in it! No faffing around with blowing up either.

I bought one of those giant swim centre pools last Friday from Woolworths. Took me 2 hours to blow it up with footpump but boys have been swimming in it every day. DS1 even has his mask and snorkel on and has been diving for coins in it. Worth every penny

link please

the Woolies one is fab. Comes with a cover and a filter. You need to get the purification tablets, but it lasts all summer! Fantastic! DT2's godparents have one and they get in with their kids at the moment cos it's so hot! Must put DT2 in his polyotter and send him round.

do you gtet he woman in ti too?

The godparents got it for £49.99

Well the paddling pool I bought seems to be a disaster - Argos colour whirl pool.

All was going swimmingly (haha) until the sides with the air started filling up with water so it bowed outwards.

Took it back to Argos where the assistant told me that there was a recall on this item last year due to the same problem!

Chanced another one - blew it up yesterday in the vain hope that the sun might actually shine -this one is split at one of the seams. So we blew it up, filled it up, went inside for a bit more Live8, came out, it was flat, garden waterlogged!! GRRRRRRRR

So, devastated DD (sun's out too!) - got to try to find another one similar. Which is where you come in.

It's 8ft, 56cm deep, circular and was £20. These are my criteria - don't want to pay loads for it really. Anyone got something similar?

I'm glad I looked at this - was just about to buy it!!!

What about the other 8ft one Argos do? The family swim centre or whatever it it?

I've just bought a lovely one from Waitrose in Salisbury (Fish - p'raps your boys are two old for it?). It's a dragon themed one, is rather spectacular and colourful to look at (in a kitsch kind of way) with an integral inflatable slide, some inflatable toys and you can connect it to a hosepipe so that it sprays water onto the slide to keep it slippery. It cost circa £35.

I would do a link but when I tried the link it just took you to the John Lewis on line home page rather than to the specific product (which can be found under Toys)

Snap Cupcakes...isn't it great? DS loves it!

Superdrug have an inflatable 9' pool at £9.99 at the moment, or the Intex 8' diameter pool for £34.99. We got the £9.99 one - bargain!

hmc - I can't find it. ON waitrose or john lewis or ocado site?

I have just bought a 60 quid one from TP toys in a moment of madness

now I have to try and put it up - it has a metal frame and looks reallllllllly complicated

why????????????????

I brought one form Asda today and now wish i'd waited and shopped around.

It was £12 and it's large enough for 3 kids but has a slide which collapses as soon as anyone steps on it, and a rainbow arch which keeps deflating.

Shall i take it back ?? Or are they all pretty crap

dh has finished it off and it is FAB!!