Tom Daley led the praise as the Royal Commonwealth Pool met with almost unanimous approval following its first major diving competition in Edinburgh this weekend.
Daley last night claimed platform gold at the World Series in his first major competition since the Olympics.
Afterwards the 18-year-old was impressed by the A-listed Midlothian venue, which will host diving at the Commonwealth Games next year, following a recently completed £37.2million refurbishment.
"The diving pool is great and the dry land training area is really good too," he said.
"Everything is really nice. When it is kitted out for the Commonwealth Games it will look good - it's exciting.
"It's great to be here practising in the Commonwealth pool."
Daley enjoyed the full support of a mostly teenage, and often hysteric, sell-out crowd as they roared him on to his success.
It proved diving's unlikely rise to prominence, led by Daley and projects such as the ITV show Splash!, has reached the Scottish capital ahead of next year's Games.
"The atmosphere in here is great and if we can get anything like this for the Commonwealth Games it will be incredible," he said.
"It was like a mini London."
Daley's team-mates were similarly impressed with the facilities, which took two and a half years to complete, and which hosted Team GB in a pre-Olympic training camp following the pool's re-opening last March.
"The boards are pretty good and the spotting is all right," Olympic springboard finalist Chris Mears said.
"That's all I really care about because that's all I need to worry about when I'm up there.
"This is the Commonwealth pool and we've all got that in the back of our minds - us, Canada, Australia and Malaysia especially. It's a good pool."
Mears laughed off suggestions from some other divers that the spiral staircases leading to the boards were a problem.
"If you're worried about that you're a little fussy," he said.
"You're just about to do three and a half twists anyway, so what are you complaining about? I don't see why that would be a problem."
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