In The Swim Pool Noodles (40-pack, 2 in.)
Best bulk buy — Forty EPE foam noodles, 50 × 2 in., for about $70 from the pool retailer's own Amazon store — the cheapest per noodle here and the highest owner rating (4.7★ across 890). Two inches is thin: read that before the price wins you over.
Specs
| Size | 50 × 2 in, 0.5-in centre hole (listing) |
| Pack | 40 (a 20-pack shares the listing) |
| Core | Hollow |
| Foam | EPE foam (listing) |
| Owner rating | 4.7★ / 890 |
| Capacity | Not stated |
| Weight | 8.1 lb per pack |
| Warranty | Not published |
Pros
- Under $2 a noodle, and the highest owner rating of any noodle we read — 4.7★ across 890, every visible review a US verified purchase
- Sold on Amazon by In The Swim itself, the pool-supply retailer, so the seller behind the listing is a real company with a catalogue behind it
- Fifty inches long — the longest here — which is what a lesson pool wants for pull-buoys and kickboard drills
Cons
- Two inches across is the skinniest foam here after the SKIP: owners who "assumed they were standard pool noodles" were disappointed by the diameter — this is not an adult float
- Counts and lengths slip in the box: "Listed as 20 quantity but only received 19", "Not all in the box were 50 inches long"
- Every noodle wears a sticky label that owners say is hard to remove, and one box arrived with a slippery coating
- The rating pools the 20-pack and the colour variants on one listing
- A toy, not a swim aid — it will not keep a child afloat and no safety body says otherwise
Size expectations and packaging, not failure. "Narrower than I thought — I guess I just assumed they were standard pool noodles"; "Pay attention to the size call-outs in the description"; "I was disappointed in the size." Then the box: "Listed as 20 quantity but only received 19" (twice), "Not all in the box were 50 inches long", and a label on every noodle that is "very difficult to remove". One 1-star: two boxes arrived with "a slippery coating and are unable to be used when wet".
10 critical read 2026-09-05 (the filtered page did not print a critical total; the histogram gives 3% two- and one-star of 890); diameter or size in 4, count or length shortfall in 3, labels in 1, slippery coating in 1, colour mix in 1; 10/10 Verified Purchase, 0 Vine. Nine of the ten are 3-star. · critical reviews read September 2026
FAQ
Who is the In The Swim Pool Noodles (40-pack, 2 in.) for?
You run a swim class, a camp or a very popular backyard and need forty noodles for $70 — under $2 each on the highest rating here, 4.7★ across 890 — and you have read the spec: 2 inches across, which is a kids' and lesson noodle, not one an adult sits on.
What do owners say about the In The Swim Pool Noodles (40-pack, 2 in.)?
4.7★ across 890 owner ratings (Amazon, read September 2026 · listing-wide base). What owners complain about: Size expectations and packaging, not failure. "Narrower than I thought — I guess I just assumed they were standard pool noodles"; "Pay attention to the size call-outs in the description"; "I was disappointed in the size." Then the box: "Listed as 20 quantity but only received 19" (twice), "Not all in the box were 50 inches long", and a label on every noodle that is "very difficult to remove". One 1-star: two boxes arrived with "a slippery coating and are unable to be used when wet".
What is the warranty on the In The Swim Pool Noodles (40-pack, 2 in.)?
In The Swim publishes no warranty term for the In The Swim Pool Noodles (40-pack, 2 in.) — we looked for one from the maker and record the absence rather than guess. Buy it somewhere with a return window you trust.
Record
- — Carded as the bulk buy when the pool-noodle roundup shipped: 4.7 stars across 890 on a listing that pools a 20-pack and colours; every visible review a US verified purchase. Carded with its diameter said plainly — two inches — because the critical tail is owners who assumed otherwise.
✓ Safety: no active recall — A pool noodle is a TOY, not a flotation device — the American Red Cross Aquatic Guidelines (re-read 2026-09-05): "floating toys, such as pool noodles and air-filled arm bands and rings, are not safety devices and should never be considered substitutes for U.S. Coast Guard-approved lifejackets"; the AAP (healthychildren.org, read 2026-09-05): "Avoid floaties, water wings or inflatable toys. These can deflate and do not prevent drowning." CPSC recall API checked 2026-09-05: ProductName=pool noodle → 0 records, ProductName=swim noodle → 0; the pool-toy recalls in the database are rigid dive sticks (a banned product class), not noodles. Foam noodles sold for children fall under ASTM F963 (16 CFR 1250) as toys.
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Data last verified: September 2026. Ratings are real, dated reads — never scraped or invented. Full methodology and monetization disclosure: how we test.