Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner — Wall Climbing Capability — Top Load Filters for Easy Maintenance — Ideal for Above/In-Ground Pools up to 50 FT in Length

The thing I hated the most was the chore of pulling out the. We bought a house with a 16′ x 36′ pool in 2013. This was a new experience for us, and we tried to become pool people… water analysis, filter operation, chemical addition, etc. The thing I hated the most was the chore of pulling out the big coil of hose and setting up the vacuum head on the 16′ pole and then spending an hour plus TRYING to vacuum the pool. The 8′ deep end was the worst…. All of this to no avail, as every season we ended up with yellow algae problems, frustrated with our efforts, and put off by the appearance of our water. I was beginning to try to calculate how many dump truck loads of dirt it would take to fill the pool in!! I began to get interested in a pool cleaning robot every time we went in to buy even more chemicals to fix our current pool problem, and finally I decided to take the plunge and buy a robot. This was to be my last effort to make our pool work. We ordered the Nautilus Plus by Dolphin/Maytronics, in March and when it arrived I was not sure this was the way to go. The Dolphin set in our house for a few more weeks until we opened our pool (after all the “helicopter” things were through falling from the Maple trees…) Finally, the day of our pool opening arrived… and we gently placed our Dolphin in the pool, and pushed the start button on the control box….At this point we should cue the music and have a bright spot-light shine on the Dolphin!!! This little monster took off with a vengeance! I was immediately impressed with the amount of water it was moving, and the pristine clear trail it left as it made it’s way across the bottom of our pool to the deep end! Maybe 2 to 2 and a half hours later we took it out of our now clean pool, somewhat stunned by it’s initial performance! Every one in my family was in awe of it’s performance, and we realized that we had, perhaps, turned a corner in our battle to have a clean and inviting pool!Three months in, June 2016, and the Dolphin continues to do an excellent job, and our pool water looks like liquid glass! The Dolphin has become an important part of our pool maintenance regimen, and we use it normally about twice a week to clean the pool. I stress that this is a part of our overall effort to keep out pool in the best shape possible. We still do water analysis and add chemicals… but no where near the same amount as before our Dolphin! We back wash our filter once a week now, so we are saving lots of water, AND most important to me, I no longer have to break my back and take my time to manually vacuum the pool, just let the Dolphin do that thing it does sooooo very well!!!Let me address some of the negative things I have read in the reviews of this pool cleaner…Warranty problems: We have had NO problems with our Dolphin. Right out of the box it has worked like a champion, so I have no comments on the help, support and warranty problems others have posted.Instructions: Yes, the ‘bot comes with very little in the way of operation instructions. There is really only one sheet of instructions with drawings on it, that tell how to use the Dolphin… but, if you have even a basic understanding of mechanical things, you should have no problems in making the Dolphin work. Every thing snaps together with ease. Pay attention to how it comes apart and then reverse the process after you clean it… nooooo problems! I guess that Maytronics could do a much better job with the instructions- better drawings and expanded written directions, but I can say I honestly have not had any problems understanding how this critter works. It is very straight forward in construction and operation.Filters: Our Dolphin came with 2 sets of filter cartridges. They are made out of some very sturdy plastic type material and require only a good rinse with the hose to clean. We used the “coarse” set of filters the first time we cleaned the pool, to help get out a few leaves, but from then on, we used the “fine” filter cartridges with great success. We ALWAYS take the time to disassemble the filter cartridges after each use and clean them. We then hose out the inside of the Dolphin to complete the process. Like all things electro-mechanical, normal maintenance and cleaning determine the life of the machine. The filter cartridges are held on the filter frames with 2 rotating snap clips. I think that these could be problematic in the future, but look like they would be easily replaced with a screwdriver if replacement is ever required.Steps and Walls: Yep, try as hard as it might, the little Dolphin is just too big to clean our steps. We just use a brush on an 8’ pole to sweep any debris on the steps into the bottom of the pool prior to starting the Dolphin… problem solved. I can gladly spend the minute to sweep the steps vs. the hours plus of time to manually vacuum the pool any day! Our Dolphin climbs right up the walls and runs partially out of the water to clean the pool walls…. it’s like it’s maaaagic! LOL!Carrier: Our Dolphin Nautilus Plus did not come with a carrier. It does have a very sturdy built in handle that makes carrying it, and getting it out of the pool pretty easy. If you have health problems or back problems, etc. this could be a concern, but we have had no problems here. Also, I have never seen any debris fall out of the unit as I remove it from the pool.That’s about all I can think of for right now. Maybe at the end of this pool season, I will follow up with my first season Dolphin results…. stay tuned!I hope this is of help to all thinking about buying a Dolphin. I think this is one of the best purchases I have made in years!!!! We now no longer say we are going to clean the pool with the Dolphin… we now say that we are “RELEASING THE KRACKEN!!!!” LOL! Thank you Maytronics, for allowing me to now enjoy my pool, not just spend hours and $$$ trying to keep it clean!

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT IF YOU ARE IN THE UK. Purchased Dolphin Nautilus Pool Vacuum Cleaner and after less than 1 year of use the blue power cable started to erode. I contacted the company through Amazon to be told that as the pool cleaner is a US model, the warranty was invalid once it left the US. Nowhere in any description does it say this in fact the description states “The Nautilus Plus with CleverClean is also backed with a 24 month warranty leaving you worry free”. The pool cleaner is now unsafe to use and a complete waste of money.

After reading quite a few negative reviews, I had few major concerns when I purchased this expensive item. People reported that eero extenders could be a problem, robot stuck in the middle of the cycle etc. However, in my case I had no problem connecting to an eero router even without turning off 5GHz (eero offers such an option via application) It quickly connected and started cleaning the pool. It got stuck at 23% the first time, but was able to complete the cycle the next time. To be honest, after opening the pool it’s not in the best shape, so I did anticipate it will take multiple rounds to clean it up. I did anticipate that after the first pass it would be 80-90% clean, but in reality it’s about 60%, so I assume it will take 3-4 rounds to clean it up completely. Still much better than doing it manually. The length of the cable is more than adequate. I was surprised to learn that the control block is not waterproof, but water-resistant, so it should not be exposed to water (i.e. rain will be a problem) Well, it’s a minor issue to me. Also, wall climbing seems to be exaggerated. So far, I have not witnessed waterline scrubbing (still learning) It does climb the walls, but stops short below the surface without reaching the waterline. Maybe some other routine does that – still learning. I did not see the software issues one of the reviewers described (cut the schedule line), though the need for the cloud connection is concerning (cloud connection did not stop the robot from moving though) Lack of notification on the phone when the robot is stuck or cycle complete is also slightly annoying. Simple thing to do and would save a lot of hassle. Cleaning the filters is a super easy process. Bottom line – so far so good. I’ll see how it works in a long run, but it’s definitely a huge time and energy saver compared to the manual cleaning.Update 3 days later. The pool is not sparkly clean after 5th cycle (1 is thorough, others are regular as I do not see much difference to be honest) Those disconnects from “cloud” are getting annoying. Usually, the connection restores rather quickly, but I had once to disconnect power to restore the connection. It seems wifi functionality of Dolphin can be improved. Also, I cannot get the robot to get to the waterline. The video shows nice waterline scrubbing, but in my case it stops on the first angle between floor and vertical wall rather than climbing to the waterline. Furthermore, I am totally puzzled by the sentence in the manual that the handle must be adjusted diagonally. What does it mean? How? Instructions are not provided. The handle can be adjusted, no doubt, but what is the right position? And what’s the difference does it make? I guess I’ll have to experiment or call Dolphin to figure out.

I’m impressed. 18×36 inground poolI received my Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner a few days ago and finally got time to set it up and test it out. First off let me say that I’ve had a couple “automatic” pool vacuums in the past and hated them both. All they would do is get stuck in a corner and I’d end up cleaning the pool myself. But, with my wife’s insistence and having read many reviews here I decided to give it a go. Starting with packing, no complaints here, it was well package and had no shipping damage and unboxing was easy. Setup and instructions: no complaints here either. Setup was a snap, plug the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner into the control box, plug the control box into the outlet and put the Robot into the pool. Whoops, missed a step, uncoil and untangle the long cord which is also easy.Ok, so now that it’s in the pool it’s time to turn it on. I press the power button and rush over to the pool with full expectations of being disappointed. The Robot moved forward about 3 feet and stopped! Here we go I thought, another so called robot device I’ve wasted my money on. But then it started moving again so I calmed myself down and decided to be patient and watch.I drove across the bottom of the deep end and started going op the slanted side but slipped back down. Then it backed up and tried again, this time it went up the slanted side to the straight up wall where is failed to climb and slid back down. “SIGH”, On the third attempt it climbed all the way up and poked it’s front out of the water, all the while the scrubber wheels were spinning and scrubbing.I watched it for at least 20 minutes and it went back and forth at different angles until it finally found the long ramp up to the shallow end where it climbed up and down more walls before heading back to the deep end. WOW, I’m impressed, but I wanted to reserve my final opinion until after it had a chance to clean the pool, so I gave it an hour and went back to check.WOW, my pool is clean! Except for the very corners where it can’t quite get to but that’s not a problem. After all it hasn’t yet finished it’s first cycle of cleaning.I’m impressed, I’m no longer a “pool robot skeptic” I’m now a “pool robot believer”Yes this is only the first cleaning cycle, yes it’s the only experience I have with the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner but I’m still going to give it 5 stars. if anything notable changes I will update this review.Yes I would recommend the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum CleanerEDIT: 1 month Update:Just wanted to update on how the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner has been working so far. This morning was the first time I hade to vacuum the pool manually. There were 2 corners, 1 edge of the ramp to the dee[ end and the stairs that the robot missed…..that’s it. All told I spent 10 minutes cleaning up where the robot missed and my pool is spotless! This is awesome and not a complaint!How I use it: As per the instructions, I turn it on and set it to 1 which is the 7-day operation. But, I only run it on Monday through Saturday, then I pull it out of the pool until the next Monday and start the process over. So far this works great and I only have to clean the robots filter once a week and it gets a day to dry out and rest, lol!Cons, I guess, but not really:I’ve had to untangle the cable once, It doesn’t climb stairs and I still have to manually vacuum for about 10 minutes. Some will find it heavy when lift it out of the water but you don’t need to do that every day.Pros, IT CLEANS THE POOL!!! The filter is great and cleans up in minutes.My only concern is that is becomes self aware, climbs out of the pool and attacks, LoL!I still highly recommend the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner!

I’m impressed. 18×36 inground poolI received my Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner a few days ago and finally got time to set it up and test it out. First off let me say that I’ve had a couple “automatic” pool vacuums in the past and hated them both. All they would do is get stuck in a corner and I’d end up cleaning the pool myself. But, with my wife’s insistence and having read many reviews here I decided to give it a go. Starting with packing, no complaints here, it was well package and had no shipping damage and unboxing was easy. Setup and instructions: no complaints here either. Setup was a snap, plug the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner into the control box, plug the control box into the outlet and put the Robot into the pool. Whoops, missed a step, uncoil and untangle the long cord which is also easy.Ok, so now that it’s in the pool it’s time to turn it on. I press the power button and rush over to the pool with full expectations of being disappointed. The Robot moved forward about 3 feet and stopped! Here we go I thought, another so called robot device I’ve wasted my money on. But then it started moving again so I calmed myself down and decided to be patient and watch.I drove across the bottom of the deep end and started going op the slanted side but slipped back down. Then it backed up and tried again, this time it went up the slanted side to the straight up wall where is failed to climb and slid back down. “SIGH”, On the third attempt it climbed all the way up and poked it’s front out of the water, all the while the scrubber wheels were spinning and scrubbing.I watched it for at least 20 minutes and it went back and forth at different angles until it finally found the long ramp up to the shallow end where it climbed up and down more walls before heading back to the deep end. WOW, I’m impressed, but I wanted to reserve my final opinion until after it had a chance to clean the pool, so I gave it an hour and went back to check.WOW, my pool is clean! Except for the very corners where it can’t quite get to but that’s not a problem. After all it hasn’t yet finished it’s first cycle of cleaning.I’m impressed, I’m no longer a “pool robot skeptic” I’m now a “pool robot believer”Yes this is only the first cleaning cycle, yes it’s the only experience I have with the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner but I’m still going to give it 5 stars. if anything notable changes I will update this review.Yes I would recommend the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum CleanerEDIT: 1 month Update:Just wanted to update on how the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner has been working so far. This morning was the first time I hade to vacuum the pool manually. There were 2 corners, 1 edge of the ramp to the dee[ end and the stairs that the robot missed…..that’s it. All told I spent 10 minutes cleaning up where the robot missed and my pool is spotless! This is awesome and not a complaint!How I use it: As per the instructions, I turn it on and set it to 1 which is the 7-day operation. But, I only run it on Monday through Saturday, then I pull it out of the pool until the next Monday and start the process over. So far this works great and I only have to clean the robots filter once a week and it gets a day to dry out and rest, lol!Cons, I guess, but not really:I’ve had to untangle the cable once, It doesn’t climb stairs and I still have to manually vacuum for about 10 minutes. Some will find it heavy when lift it out of the water but you don’t need to do that every day.Pros, IT CLEANS THE POOL!!! The filter is great and cleans up in minutes.My only concern is that is becomes self aware, climbs out of the pool and attacks, LoL!I still highly recommend the Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner!

I loved this pool cleaner. It did an amazing job when it worked. My concern is that two years and 2 weeks later it died. It was 2 weeks past product support. Living in Canada, that means that I used it for a total of 6 months. I stored it in my garage for the fall and winter months, and it was well maintained.

Unfortunately, my unit did not pick up the dirt in my pool. I’ve owned a Dolphin previously and it was great. Not sure if the unit was faulty as the supplier Chakra were awful to deal with and withheld £450 from my refund. They said the unit had been used as I said to them I had to use it to find out it didn’t work! Amazon’s A to Z refund ensured I received a full refund.

Packs power without a hard hitting price. I have to say I couldn’t be more mad at myself. The fact that I have gone without a vacuum for so long when I could have been swimming in crystal clear water everyday is such a crime!When we first purchased our very own IRL Money Pit, we were in love with the pool. Boy were we wearing our rose colored sunglasses! This pool was possessed and had a hunger for money. After we retrieved over 200 bags of leaves from the belly of the beast we bought a top of the line Dolphin vacuum. Picture any seaside surf shop style pullover nylon jacket of the 80’s and that was the color of our 1,700 dollar pool vacuum. More than a number of my vehicles! It worked. It was cumbersome to clean out but it was the early 2000’s and we were young first time pool owners.Cut to years later and the vacuum dies, we aren’t living the DINK lifestyle anymore. We thought we could eek through to the next time we had a service come out to check the water and clean it. This year had been the worst. From cottonwood trees to an abundance of whirlygigs, the countless leaves and the ultimate, a F2 tornado blew into our yard taking 80 hickories with in and deposited quite a serving to our voracious pool. Hours with the hot sun baking me more and more I broke down on Prime Day and got this midrange vacuum.I was fearful that I would be bringing a never able to be fully dried cumbersome shaped vacuum to the back of Kohl’s to be returned but to my SHOCK. This Dolphin is a powerhouse! Up and down the walls with ease. The pool is a 20 x 20 x 20 with roman corners and a 10 foot deep end. Not one time did it get stuck. No missed spots or problem areas. It was showcasing all the best qualities. Ease of cleaning, you betcha! The dual containment filters come in and out with no effort at all. Rinse all the ultra fine to bulky debris out with your hose and you’re ready to run again.With a heavy load, it cleared the bottom and sides nearly with only 3 cycles. The 4th one is running as I type. OH…(yep, the GenX ellipsis) you can even control it on an app. I was able to get it set up but still working on the WIFI perspective. A tornado side effect.I am blown away! I am not a sponsored review or benefiting in any way. Just an honest, down to Earth, rambling review. If I was a spunky tiktok influencer, I’d refer you to my links but just order one for yourself today. You’ll be the next to write a rambler!

Packs power without a hard hitting price. I have to say I couldn’t be more mad at myself. The fact that I have gone without a vacuum for so long when I could have been swimming in crystal clear water everyday is such a crime!When we first purchased our very own IRL Money Pit, we were in love with the pool. Boy were we wearing our rose colored sunglasses! This pool was possessed and had a hunger for money. After we retrieved over 200 bags of leaves from the belly of the beast we bought a top of the line Dolphin vacuum. Picture any seaside surf shop style pullover nylon jacket of the 80’s and that was the color of our 1,700 dollar pool vacuum. More than a number of my vehicles! It worked. It was cumbersome to clean out but it was the early 2000’s and we were young first time pool owners.Cut to years later and the vacuum dies, we aren’t living the DINK lifestyle anymore. We thought we could eek through to the next time we had a service come out to check the water and clean it. This year had been the worst. From cottonwood trees to an abundance of whirlygigs, the countless leaves and the ultimate, a F2 tornado blew into our yard taking 80 hickories with in and deposited quite a serving to our voracious pool. Hours with the hot sun baking me more and more I broke down on Prime Day and got this midrange vacuum.I was fearful that I would be bringing a never able to be fully dried cumbersome shaped vacuum to the back of Kohl’s to be returned but to my SHOCK. This Dolphin is a powerhouse! Up and down the walls with ease. The pool is a 20 x 20 x 20 with roman corners and a 10 foot deep end. Not one time did it get stuck. No missed spots or problem areas. It was showcasing all the best qualities. Ease of cleaning, you betcha! The dual containment filters come in and out with no effort at all. Rinse all the ultra fine to bulky debris out with your hose and you’re ready to run again.With a heavy load, it cleared the bottom and sides nearly with only 3 cycles. The 4th one is running as I type. OH…(yep, the GenX ellipsis) you can even control it on an app. I was able to get it set up but still working on the WIFI perspective. A tornado side effect.I am blown away! I am not a sponsored review or benefiting in any way. Just an honest, down to Earth, rambling review. If I was a spunky tiktok influencer, I’d refer you to my links but just order one for yourself today. You’ll be the next to write a rambler!

So glad we chose this Robotic Pool Cleaner. We had been searching and researching which robotic pool cleaner to purchase for more than a year now. We were thinking of going with a cordless; however, because they all had mixed reviews and seem to be new to the market, we were unsure it was a good investment. We decided to look at the Dolphin brand and were pleasantly surprised to find this gem.Yes it has a cord, but because it has a type of buoy on the cord close to the robot this helps the cord not get tangled. It picks up dirt, sand, leaves etc. with out any problems and it goes up and along my pool waterline (sideways). It has gotten stuck on my pool stairs twice now, but I don’t see that as a major issue. However, it will clean the bench area in the pool without getting stuck. The filters are easy to remove and clean, and you can eventually if interested upgrade them to ultra-fine filters. I like that you don’t have to wait for the robot to map your pool, it just starts cleaning as soon as you start it and even though it does not have the mapping option it cleans the whole pool in one cleaning. I have the model that connects to Wi-Fi, only because the option without Wi-Fi was unavailable. The application is nice, you can check to see if the robot is still cleaning, also if you still have it in the pool and want to start a cleaning or schedule one, you can do so on the App.Overall, this being my first robotic pool cleaner I believe it is a great product and value for the price; I would totally recommend.