Went there on a hot summer’s day with my boyfriend (yeah mad I know but we love hot pools!!). Thoroughly enjoyed it. The facilities are clean, the water sparkling and the lifeguards are vigilant in not letting parents slack off in supervising their kids so all were well behaved. The only beef I had was there was very little shade over by the hot pool apart from a small umbrella. And that other bathers though that the seat was there to put their bags on, rather than for others to sit. But minor quibbles. Te Aroha hot pools are set in a beautiful park, well worth doing some of the bush walks while you are there.