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Beckenham Place Park Swimming lake by PTP Coaching
Address: Beckenham Hill Rd, London BR3 1SY, UK
Phone: 07736 930823
State: Greater London
City: London
Zip Code: BR3 1SY

opening times

Monday: 6:15 AM – 8:00 PM
Tuesday: 6:15 AM – 8:00 PM
Wednesday: 6:15 AM – 8:00 PM
Thursday: 6:15 AM – 8:00 PM
Friday: 6:15 AM – 8:00 PM
Saturday: 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday: 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Reviews
A wonderful park. Very spacious, plenty to see and do. Lots of activities for families. Highly recommended.
The lake is a friendly and inclusive place to swim and the PTP team and 'beckenham bobbers' are a welcoming bunch. In winter you need to have done an induction. Changing is on the lakeside. There is a cafe in the park for tea or coffee and food post swim. There is also paddleboarding and sup yoga to try. Give outdoor swimming a try, you might get hooked!
Beautiful grounds with lots of small garden areas, like the mounded garden. Lovely to stand at the top and look over the park. The lake is lovely, and there is plenty of places to sit. There's a pub in the park so you can have a drink too and look out.nnAnd there's a car park on site which is free in the evening! Beautiful park and very clean grounds. Compliments to the groundsmen that keeps it tidy and the public.
You definitely need to buy tickets in advance to swim here, it's £6 but I think it's worth it since there's not many places like this in and around London to open swim like this. The staff are really good and it's a really clean pond with a sandy bottom to enter the pond at. One warning, there's no changing facilities here so make sure you wear clothes that are easy to change in to from swim suits. Very relaxed atmosphere here though.
Having paid £16.50 for a 45-minute induction to cold water swimming, I was expecting to receive a 45-minute induction. What I got was a surly greeting presumably because I’d arrived ten minutes early, followed by 15 minutes of unhelpful and, in some cases, inaccurate information.nnI could have done without all the background information on the so-called instructor, and would have appreciated more on the health benefits of cold water swimming, such as combatting inflammation and fatigue. These are medically proven, whereas the potential for slowing dementia mentioned by the instructor is currently no more than ‘a promising line of research’.nnMore worryingly, he told us that a minute per degree is a good guide as to how long you should stay in the water when you’re a newbie. Experienced cold water swimmers have since told me that this is nonsense. The only reliable guide is how you feel. When you feel comfortable in the water, that’s the time to leave.nnThe lake was clean, the staff monitor your activities so you feel safe, and the other swimmers are a sociable bunch. However, the facilities are either non-existent or Spartan, and the induction session - as I experienced it - was a rip-off.
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Beckenham Hill Station 370 meters
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