Diving boards at hotel swimming pools have been outlawed – with ‘elf and safety fears ruining kids’ holiday fun

As a youngster, and an oldster too, I have always enjoyed a good hotel diving board – by which I mean springboard.

I’m not talking about the ones you see at the Olympics that are three metres high – and certainly not the terrifying ten-metre platforms of Tom Daley and co.

The ones I have always had a penchant for are the one-metre springboards or lower that catapult you a short distance through the air.

There is something pleasingly liberating about this brief period of ‘flight’, knowing a soft watery landing awaits.

Your choice of dive, of course, depends on your level of acrobatic

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