Piscine Jean Boiteux ex Reuilly

Reviews

• Chris B.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 17 May 2026

  Piscine Jean Boiteux (formerly Piscine Reuilly), in the 12th Arrondissement should have a lot of things going for it. Situated on the edge of a green-corridor with huge windows on 3 of 4 Sides, two basins and a outside area to take in some sun. But as so often, what sounds good on paper, isn't necessarily good when you're there.
  Stepping down into the changing rooms (men and women are separated) I was greeted by the nasty smell of canalization. And that alone can ruin the visit to a swimming pool for me.
  I´m pretty sure the smell was coming from the showers, up in the pool area the smell is a lot less strong. Speaking of the showers, they are not in good shape as paint is coming off the the walls there. Changing cabins are decent in size and relatively new, but (in the men-section at least) marked with a lot of graffiti.
  
  Inside the actual pool-area there are two basins, one 15 Meters long, the other 25. The basins are in good shape, sadly the floor of the longer basin was quite dirty on the deep end. I guess nobody goes down there to pick up the dirt once in a while or the pool vacuum cleaner doesn't reach that depth. Speaking of the deep end, underneath the starting blocks, there are quite a lot of chewing-gums and the screws used in the starting block are rusting.
  Why anyone would even use normal screws instead of stainless steel screws in a swimming-pool, is beyond me.
  Under water it is also remarkably dark. Even though I was there on a sunny day and with the floodlights turned on. I recon it is the (quite) dark ceiling of the pool and lack of underwater lights that are responsible for this.
  The one side of the pool without windows is also not in good shape, the strange tiles used on that wall have seen better days and are screaming for replacement.
  Concerning the lanes, there are not the usual signs at the lanes themselves designating them for certain types of swimming, but a random whiteboard on the side where you are supposed to read which lane is for what sort of swimming (and other things like when you are supposed to leave the basin before they close, etc). Sadly the text on the whiteboard was smudged and completely unreadable when I was there. I didn´t have a problem figuring this out myself, but  IMO this just shows a lack of general care.
  
  With the exception of the basin itself, it was generally quite clean at Piscine Jean Boiteux. But that´s more or less the only good thing I can report.