Reviews Thames Lido

What a great place!!! Reading’s, not so hidden, best kept secret. I was taken here as a birthday treat by my girlfriend and discovered a beautifully crafted venue centred around the old Victorian open air swimming pool which has been fully refurbished and improved. The whole place has been beautifully decorated and is extremely stylish. We went in the evening for a meal. I didn’t know what to expect or, when it came to it, what to order. So we decided to opt for the bird-food menu, which is a taster menu of five courses of whatever is best that night. The quality and variety of food was simply fantastic and I have to be honest I thought being a taster menu the portions would be tiny...they weren’t. The food was so good to look at that my partner was photographing them and putting them out on social media, with someone from the Lido commenting whenever she did...I loved that personal touch, just brilliant! All the food was well cooked, beautifully presented and fully explained by the waiting staff. The fish stew was simply divine and stole the show for me! All of the staff were fantastic, making us feel very welcome and were very knowledgeable of their venue and their menu. They are all a credit to the place and deserve a big thank because they helped to make our night a very special one!!! All in all a great experience and one which we will be repeating, hopefully regularly.

This is a nice place for a different kind of lunch. The food is quite fancy, but the whole feel very friendly and relaxed. I was bought a swim and lunch voucher, but decided to just take the lunch. This included two courses, and we opted for main and pudding. Very limited vegetarian options and the one main didn't hit the spot for me, but my friend had the seafood dish, which she said was delicious.

We weren't sure what to expect... but what a fabulous experience! The food was excellent, we had great service, and the atmosphere was so fun! The bocarones were absolutely delicious -- a must-try.

This Lido is a complete vibe. Expensive but a vibe. We got a package deal of swimming and lunch and it was amazing. The swimming pool is a bit cold but nice to do some length, the sauna is fantastic and the steam room is great. Changing rooms are good, a bit wet but good and the service at reception are great but due to the amount of people at the restaurant the service was a bit slow with food. When the food did come omg fantastic.

We came to swim as visitors rather than to eat, through clearly eating and drinking is a big thing as there were lots of people from the bar area milling around. We loved swimming here and politely had all of the facilities pointed out to us when we arrived. There’s outdoor and indoor changing, a lovely 25m pool which is gently heated (it feels cold when you get in but soon warms up). They say it’s only gently chlorinated and it felt like it - the water was lovely. Although we didn’t go into the steam room, we went between the pool and the sauna, both of which were a pleasure to use and neither felt too busy at any point. The (deliberately) cold showers and bucket available after coming out of the sauna were screamingly cold! We had two hours so after some swimming sat next to the pool and had a coffee and a beer, which again was lovely. The whole place has a lovely vibe: friendly, welcoming and everything ‘just right’. I came out feeling as light as a feather and would certainly return - what a treat.

We did the swim-spa-tapas package. The package was great value for money. My sister and I are notoriously hard to please, we enjoy things..... with a "but". And we had no "buts" on Tuesday. When we came out of the massage, we both said how we usually always say we like a firm massage and worried with how light this one was, within minutes it was the best massage we'd ever had and we'd never felt so relaxed. I had Carolina and she was so lovely. The tapas was really filling and so nice. They show the before and after shots- and it is an amazing refurbishment We will be back again