Shobnall Leisure Complex

Fantastic experience: Very good place for families and sports activities especially in summer!

Fantastic experience: Visited for an NHS event regarding having a check up on an ECG, blood pressure, diabetes, height, weight. Stands were available for more information on the above. Also NHS help to get on the NHS app. I can highly recommend anyone book when they next have the event. Plenty of people to guide you round, lovely and friendly, the place was immaculate too.

Fantastic experience: Lovely place to walk your dog or catch a tan

Fantastic experience: Lots of things to do

Fantastic experience: Kids always have a wonderful time at the park. Although it really could do with more seating for tired parents feet!!!!

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Fantastic experience: Walked the dog

Fantastic experience: Had a great time

Fantastic experience: Excellent staff and amenities

Fantastic experience: Nice here

Positive experience: One staff member spoiling the day with their superior attitude. Otherwise fine.

Fantastic experience: Nice place & space

Fantastic experience: Nice view

Fantastic experience: Always great to go here

Positive experience: Good facilities. It's a credit to the council that it's still open!

Fantastic experience: I've been to see the parks' refurbishment today . My son was very pleased and really enjoyed playing on the new equipment

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Positive experience: very nice facility

Positive experience: Only short visit but good facilities

Positive experience: Nice large open space with enough to keep the kids amused

Fantastic experience: Great place, brilliant facilities

Positive experience: Lots of parking and decent facilities The gym looks a bit tired but there are hockey, tennis, skate, athletics and other facilities here.

Negative experience: I Walked My Pet Snail Here This Week Last Afternoon and Then The Wind Blew an Empty Pain Au Chocolat At My Pet Marmalade Yesterday Tomorrow :( I’m Sad Now.

Fantastic experience: Fabulous sports centre with activities for all ages and abilities. The staff are great and very friendly and knowledgeable too.

Fantastic experience: OK

Fantastic experience: This is my local gym, for what I want to do it's equipped well and staff are very friendly and as I've been going a while they remember me witch is very good. Very well priced.

Fantastic experience: Great venue when working with the local college and delivering wheelchair basketball

Fantastic experience: Took a couple of 11 year olds to the big bounce. They really enjoyed themselves. The complex is lovely and clean, staff always pleasant and helpful. Play area suits all ages. We usually walk our dogs out around the fields, staff always happy to provide the boys with water.

Positive experience: Decent modern facilities

Negative experience: Hello, I want to play in a football team

Positive experience: Good park for the kids

Fantastic experience: Peaceful place and also for sport practice

Fantastic experience: Kids love it on a sunny day

Positive experience: Nice facilities. Shame there isn't a 4g football pitch.

Positive experience: Excellent facilities available watching Grandson play footbal

Fantastic experience: Great local sports complex and park for the kids

Fantastic experience: Nice little place with plenty of outdoor facilities too

Fantastic experience: Lovely place to go to. Great staff there

Fantastic experience: Good facilities and friendly, helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: Nice place plenty of parking and very good sports facilities

Fantastic experience: The park is absolutely fantastic for the children and for adults.

Positive experience: Did the Hatton 10k. So I only used the toilets and track. Look good

Fantastic experience: Good place, have a paddling pool for kids in the summer

Negative experience: Very rude Reception stuff usually when I enter. Sue Welsh and one guy with the beard, who was very sarcastic with me .

Positive experience: Great place for doing a bit of track work. Loses a star due to car parking being a nightmare. The fact parking is a nightmare is due to how popular the place is testament to what a good venue it is.

Fantastic experience: Went to the push bike event where every Monday you can go over to shobnall join the club and do a few laps on ya bike on the track. I really enjoyed it

Fantastic experience: Lovely place to exercise on your own or with friends. Haven't been inside of the complex. But with a variety of options you can choose from inside or outside (for free) it's definitely one of the best in the area. A free car park is an absolute bonus. As it's becoming quite common to make parking paid for. If you are into sports or just thinking about moving out of the house and start doing something it's a good place to start your journey of a healthier lifestyle

Fantastic experience: Visited the skate park and children’s park. All pretty good. Quite busy. Fairly priced ice cream from the leisure centre. Didn’t go into the leisure centre. Good amount of activities. Kills a good couple of hours.

Positive experience: Lovely relaxing time spent there, watching the children play in the park and in the outdoor paddling pool. The lady in the leisure centre was very polite and helpful.

Fantastic experience: Update: we are now gym members too (having joined a few months ago). The gym is great, quite small but it has all of the equipment we need. The staff at Shobnall are all great and it is a really friendly place. Still highly recommended. My son and I visited to play a round of foot golf on the course at Shobnall. We very much enjoyed it, the course was nicely setup, decently challenging and in good order. We found the staff in the centre to be very friendly, helpful and informative about other facilities at the centre. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: Me and my girls love going to Shobnall on a sunny day, we tend to ride our bikes down there, they make good use of the paddling pool which has not long reopened for the season, it's a decent enough depth, the park is an alright size too. Lots of fields around to play football and have a picnic. There is also a water fountain in the building which you can use to refill water bottles and toilets which again were clean enough when we've used them. They also sell slushies, ice lollies in there, I can't comment on price though as I've never bought them from there. It's also walking distance to the canal for a nice stroll to see the canal boats and feed the ducks.

Fantastic experience: This review is only for the football fields which our 6-year-old used for a football tournament. The football fields that offer a satisfactory playing experience. The quality of the playing surface is generally decent, ensuring a reasonably smooth and consistent game. The grass is adequately maintained, allowing for a predictable bounce of the ball. While it may not be the absolute best playing surface I have encountered, it is certainly acceptable for recreational matches. The layout of the football fields is functional, providing enough space for multiple games to be played simultaneously without significant interference. The presence of well-maintained goalposts is appreciated, as it simplifies the setup process and allows for a quick start to the games. The value also had lots of places to eat, toilets and there was even a bouncy castle for the children to use. So the facilities were great. However, one notable drawback of the venue is the parking availability. I think this only applicable during busy tournaments, but finding a parking spot on the day was quite challenging. In conclusion, while the football fields at Shobnall Leisure Complex offer a satisfactory playing experience with an adequately maintained surface and functional layout, the limited parking options can be an inconvenience. If you can overlook that, this venue is a great choice for children's football tournaments.

Positive experience: Extensive leisure and sports venue Running tracks, hockey pitch, date Park tennis courts football pitch etc. Also very nice children's play area with paddling pool busy but not crowded and seems well run. We tried the football golf which was fun for adults and grandchildren. This has definitely improved since I last visited a few years back. Highly recommended for outdoor entertainment.

Positive experience: I do love it here, I love the trees, I love that they have just planted some new trees and right now the wild flowers are beautiful and they smell amazing as you walk down the path. Parking is crazy on busy days, nobody cares and they just park anywhere! They wasted a great area for parking that they can't use most of the time cos of how muddy it is. A lot of the kids that visit have no respect, pulling flowers heads off, pushing bins over, etc. The paddling pool is nice, quite small and shallow but the park is terrible. I have been to so many smaller but better parks, this one is a waste of space.

Positive experience: Parking was chocka!

Positive experience: Good park for my child.

Positive experience: Nice sports complex with good facilities

Positive experience: Shame about the cafe closing but other boat services very good

Positive experience: Extremely busy car park come early or don't bother

Positive experience: I went to the gym at shobnall leisure centre today, not bad little gym.

Positive experience: Great place for sports but really hard to park

Positive experience: It's a nice place lots to do is really a good size

Positive experience: Lovely for toddlers, but a lot of older children going crazy in the paddling pool spoils it.

Positive experience: Nice park, only thing not lots for toddlers regarding frame structures but the pool is lovely

Negative experience: Management can improve. Cancelled our regular badminton sessions with out informing us.

Positive experience: Good facilities including a running track,athletics field, two astro turf pitches and an indoor multipurpose pitch.

Positive experience: Lovely place just wish the footballers who use the fields on a weekend could stop peeing in the hedges and take there rubbish home with them.

Positive experience: I only went to the all weather hockey pitch, but plenty of parking and easy to get to. Covered seating available.

Positive experience: Good leisure complex. Swimming not available Badminton, table tennis, gym, lot more. Taekwondo classes regularly Only thing for booking in advance, they open slots for a week in ahead. If they can open for longer time ahead, can make it easy to book in advance.

Positive experience: Love this place as it's such a large and green space in our town. Multipurpose sports areas, lots of stuff going on. Paddling pool and play area. Foresty bits to hunt around in. Great.

Positive experience: I work in a school, and we hired out the complex for our school sports day. It's fantastic for the students to be able to use the equipment and the specialised pitches (like the high jump area and running track) The indoor space has also had an upgrade since we last visited in 2019, and it's looking smart and well-invested in. The playground and the outdoor paddling pool were also popular with our students as they were waiting for collection at the end of the day!

Positive experience: I did not use the indoor leisure centre, visited to watch my grandson play in a football cup final. It was very busy again, but I managed to get parked and watch the match. Nice facilities with regular services provided (restroom) football pitches looked well maintained.

Positive experience: I have visited the Shobnall Leisure Complex and I have been out for a cycle ride today with British Cycling. The East Staffordshire Lanes. The venue was a great starting point for the meeting place. Car park and toilets are good. The reception was helpful and friendly and helped me to fill up my water bottle. Thanks very much for that.

Fantastic experience: Staff was really helpful

Fantastic experience: Attended the funday fantastic entertainment and for free.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic

Fantastic experience: Seems well organised parking difficult at times.

Fantastic experience: Plenty of gym equipment to use so you're rarely stuck waiting to use a machine. The entire place is very clean and sanitising stations are available to wipe down equipment before & after use. The tennis courts have just been deep cleaned and the race track + pitches have been relayed & refurbished. Public toilets are available as well as water fountains, snacks & drinks. There is a large play area just outside the building with a built in paddling pool for kids in the summer. Plenty of open fields also around the complex to walk your dogs, have a picnic etc.

Fantastic experience: Brilliant Sports day Great Facilities

Fantastic experience: Worth the busy traffic to go to this park - free parking, lovely children's park with something for all ages and paddling pool - a favourite of ours on a sunny day.

Fantastic experience: Worth a visit if you have some spare time, or you wish to take up a sport, also good playground area for young children.

Fantastic experience: Lovely area to walk

Fantastic experience: Wide open space...

Fantastic experience: Needs rain shelters

Fantastic experience: Excellent service and advice

Fantastic experience: Great facility, especially for athletics and hockey. The play park is a favourite with the kids with its splash pool for warmer days. Recently a gym has been added.

Fantastic experience: Great facilities. Lots of football pitches for you kids matches plus various other activities available such a crazy golf, foot golf, gym, hockey, tennis. Parking can often be a nightmare if you arrive at the wrong time.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful and very well maintained grounds

Fantastic experience: I train here for football and it's so amazing it's layed out so good to

Positive experience: Been here first time to Play Volleyball. Very nice complex.

Fantastic experience: Perfect place to have a workout. Wide range of facilities to practice various sports. Friendly staff, premises clean and not overcrowded.

Fantastic experience: I train here for football and it's so amazing it's layed out so good to

Fantastic experience: Great place to tak children

Fantastic experience: My son and I visited to play a round of foot golf on the course at Shobnall. We very much enjoyed it, the course was nicely setup, decently challenging and in good order. We found the staff in the centre to be very friendly, helpful and informative about other facilities at the centre. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: Brilliant place that has many facility's for sporting activities also the inclusive bikes and track are phenomenal.

Fantastic experience: Very well maintained, Organized and Cosy place.

Fantastic experience: Excellant skate park with football fields, running track., indoor basket ball court

Fantastic experience: Helpful staff and lovely and clean facility. Highly recommended. Park and paddling pool is amazing!

Fantastic experience: This is a smashing outside area for walking the dog and the childrens play park with paddling pool the kids love

Fantastic experience: Nice place for kids. It has paddling pool