The standard lane is where most swimmers start. A standard Oodles of Noodles pool noodle is a hollow foam tube roughly 48 inch long and about 2.5 inch in diameter — light enough for a five-year-old to carry three at once, long enough to tuck under both arms.
Packs here run from a pair up to fifty. A small pack suits one family; the 25-pack and 50-pack are what swim schools, camps and church pools buy, because the savings per tube are what make a whole-class order possible. Colours are mixed or single depending on the listing.
Hollow core keeps the weight down and lets you thread rope through the middle for rafts and lane dividers. If you want foam that will not squash at all, read the solid core lane instead.
Sorted by the price showing on the listing, cheapest first.
Every listing in the lane, with the figure it is showing right now.
White $24.99
Red $25.99
Orange $25.99
Pink $25.99
Blue $25.99
Black $25.99
multicolor $29.99
Purple $29.99
Yellow $29.99
Red $29.99
Green $29.99
Blue $29.99
White $29.99
Black $29.99
Orange $29.99
Brown $29.99
Lime Green $29.99
Pink $29.99
multicolored $31.69
Blue $31.69
Purple $31.69
White $31.69
Green $31.69
Orange $31.69
Red $31.69
Yellow $31.69
A pack of ten standard tubes takes about the same boot space as one folded garden chair. If you are buying for a class, order one spare per six children — foam goes missing before it wears out.
Hollow tubes nest inside each other for storage: slide three together and a fifty-pack takes a corner of the shed rather than half of it.
Every standard Oodles of Noodles pool noodle is extruded from premium closed-cell polyethylene, which is a long way of saying the foam tube keeps its air and its shape. Quality here is density: a cheap tube squashes under a thumb, this one does not.
White is the classic colour and the one that shows a chlorine film first; red, blue, green, yellow and the rainbow mixes all run through the season. None of them changes how the noodle floats.
Check the piece count and the approx. diameter in inch on the listing itself, because pack sizes rotate between seasons and foam sells fast once the weather turns. If you have questions about one family rather than the lane, the card for that pack carries its own figures.
Buyers who order the big pack of standard pool noodles once rarely go back to the small one. It is an unglamorous experience and an incredible return: a favorite tube costs less than a coffee and lasts longer than the swimsuit bought with it, and the survivors end up in classroom crafts by September.
Approx. 48 inch long and 2.5 inch in diameter. That is the size people picture when they say noodle, and it is the size the big packs come in.
One tube per swimmer plus a spare per six. For a class of twenty that is the 25-pack; for a camp the 50-pack is the cheaper route per noodle.
Some listings are single colour and some are a rainbow mix. The colour chips above show exactly which, pack by pack.
How to choose a pool noodleDiameter, length, core and pack size: the four numbers that decide whether an Oodles of Noodles pool noodle works for you.
Solid core versus hollow foam pool noodlesWhy one Oodles of Noodles tube costs more than another that looks identical from the end of the pool.Pool noodle sizes in inchesA plain table of the lengths and diameters sold under the Oodles of Noodles name, in inch and in feet.
Jumbo & XL Pool NoodlesThicker foam that holds an adult
Solid Core Pool NoodlesDense foam all the way through
Clamp Noodles & Edge ProtectionPre-slit tubes that grip an edge
Craft FoamFoam sold by the foot for projects
Construction FoamBacker rod, rope and pipe covers
Speciality NoodlesOdd shapes with one clear jobOpen the listing for the pack you want and check the price before it changes.