This pool is a little bigger than typical. I'm about 6' tall, and can easily fit side to side. It is ten feet long. You could fit ten smaller kids in there, if you dared. The pool is easy to inflate with a small electric pump. It has two chambers, and well-designed valves that open wide to let the inflation nozzle in, and then seal with an inner valve to prevent rapid air release. There is a drain valve at the bottom of the pool on one side, be sure to put that side downhill! The pool bulged a little when I overfilled it, but didn't seem to be straining. The transparent blue sides are cool- they makes the pool look bigger, especially from the inside.