Information about RiversMeet Active

Harding's Ln
SP8 4HX, Gillingham
+441747834013

Opening hours

  • sunday: 7:30-16h
  • monday: 6:30-22h
  • tuesday: 6:30-22h
  • wednesday: 6:30-22h
  • thursday: 6:30-22h
  • friday: 6:30-21h
  • saturday: 7:30-16h
A warm welcome to RiversMeet - the only community owned not for profit charity and managed sports and leisure facility within Dorset. We are dedicated to making your visit a quality experience enjoyed within the welcoming environment of our modern, spacious facilities and supported by our enthusiastic and committed team.

Our comment from FitFit UK about RiversMeet Active:

RiversMeet Active is a welcoming leisure centre located in Gillingham, United Kingdom, offering a range of excellent facilities for fitness enthusiasts and families alike.

Positive Aspects:

  • Fantastic facilities including a well-equipped gym and a lovely pool that's perfect for swimming lessons.
  • Friendly and helpful staff that create a welcoming atmosphere and are dedicated to helping you achieve your fitness goals.
  • Offers various fitness classes, including spin, yoga, and pilates, led by knowledgeable instructors.
  • A great choice for families, with children's swimming lessons and a large soft play area available.
  • Reasonably priced memberships with no contracts, making it accessible for everyone.
  • A good café that serves quality food and beverages, providing a comfortable place to relax.

Areas for Improvement:

  • Some users have noted that the opening hours could be more accommodating, especially for those who work.
  • The changing rooms and showers have received some criticism regarding cleanliness and temperature.
  • A few users have mentioned that the space in the gym can be quite congested during peak times.

Overall, RiversMeet Active is a community-focused centre that offers numerous activities and classes, making it a great option for all ages. Despite minor issues, the positive experiences shared by many users highlight its reputation as a beloved local venue.

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RiversMeet Active: Opinions

4.5/5 (119 Opinions)
Jenny Siwan 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely leisure centre, great facilities

marion lawrence 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Perfect

Lynn 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly place and the staff are fantastic, great place to meet and make new friends

Tilly Murray 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Hi what time does the gental aqua on Wednesdays start please

kyle budd 1 year ago

Negative experience: Facilities are good enough. The opening times are utterly idiotic though. They open after you leave for work and then won’t let you in by the time you get there (as early as 45 minutes before signed closing time) all local competition gyms are open 24/7. They are also only open till 4pm on weekends which is again - utterly mind boggling. What’s the point?!?!

Mandy Flower 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent

Teresa Wilding 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Well equipped gym. Very friendly staff and helpful instructors. Membership reasonably priced and no contract.

Julie Hillier 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Joined Angie's spin class this morning (Sunday 9.15 am) - no flashing lights or booming music, just a really good, calm workout - perfect for a Sunday morning! Then straight into her Yogalates class after at 10.30 which is a great combination, thoroughly recommend!!

Paul Cook 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Good gym, staff are great. Really helpful and equipment is up to date

Julian Hammersley 1 year ago

Negative experience: Should be a 4 at least maybe 5. Great centre well run ,clean, great pool and excellent facilities and classes. Why 2? The ridicolous "Unisex" changing rooms. Individual shower cubicles where obviously you have to keep swimwear on and then squeeze your self into tiny cubicles with wet trunks and try and put dry clothes on . Appreciated that ladies like more private facilities but men just want an open shower facility and benches with hooks to hang clothes. And of course lock up storage.

Jane Randall 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Always friendly staff and the pool was at a really good temperature today

Carol Buck 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent staff. Good facilities. There post surgery rehabilitation programme is tailored for your individual needs.

Georgina Andrew 1 year ago

Positive experience: Good but basic soft play. Little grubby. But it has a nice café

Jane Burke 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I recently joined this gym and I love it. A good range of equipment, very friendly and helpful staff. Convenient opening hours, great family place with lots to do for kids. Plus it's a locally run business which, is great

Jenny Osborne 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely pool, and very friendly staff.x

Peter Hutton 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities...friendly staff. If you're a user of cardio fitness equipment take responsibility yourself for its cleanliness. Its a community resource so ensure you wipe and spray after use. Staff try their best to keep up with cleanliness but do YOUR bit.

Lisa Crabb 2 years ago

Negative experience: Not impressed, think it's really gone down hill, very unclean and dirty

Tom 2 years ago

Positive experience: The gym is reasonably equipped allowing for a variety of workouts, you have to on the other hand time your gym entries at the right time of day. As the gym floor space can quickly become quite congested, other than that it will meet most people's needs.

Yanabrazhnik Yana 2 years ago

Fantastic experience:

neil salter 2 years ago

Positive experience: The pool is cold on a cold day and so are the showers. The staff are lovely

F Webber 2 years ago

Negative experience: Josh wasn't happy

Rogue - 流氓 2 years ago

Positive experience: Comprehensive range of equipment and machinery, just an inadequacy in space, capacity and quantity of equipment etc.

Sarah V. Williams 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, good coffee and great pool. Many thanks

lisa “loopyloo” thomson 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Had nothing to do with the gym but took the time to help me in a horrible time of my life

Thomas Powell 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: great place lewis was amazing and very supporting

Shirley Webb 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Extremely friendly and helpful staff.

Dean Logan 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good place to swim very friendly staff and have a good cafe for afterwards

Alison Parry 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place

Ben Bazzard 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great for swimming lessons.

Steve Harrow 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great local leisure centre. Good swimming pool there. Helpful staff.

Catherine Campbell 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Kids love the soft play and weekend swim session. Friendly, helpful team!

Samantha Buck 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: We are at riversmeet alot during the week as they provide so many awesome and well planned activities and clubs for the kids. It's always a welcoming and friendly place to be with very knowledgeable instructors and swim teachers. Five stars is not enough to give the place the true rating they deserve of 10/10 and more!

Pat Cahill 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: All good

Bea Wienand 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: A well-equipped gym. Well run. Clean and affordable.

jack langley 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good soft play facilitie for the kids nice to have something like that in gillingham dorset.

Lynn Brown 3 years ago

Positive experience: We go here for the children's swimming classes. Plenty of teachers and small classes so each child gets attention. Classes are run very well with no overcrowding of changing rooms. Very helpful staff.

Starman19571 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best facilities for miles, fair price for what you get.

IBO PGCE 3 years ago

Positive experience: We’ll run swimming lessons. Very crowded.

Owen Tiltman 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice and quiet gym, bit busier around school start/finish. Clean facilities and nice range of equipment

Rob Tulk 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always excellent facility with great staff. Cafe excellent as well. Beware carpark is presently closed due to resurfacing.

Femi Giwa 3 years ago

Positive experience: A very nice leisure center. Well maintained, pleasant staff, lots of parking space, wide variety of exercises and gym equipment suitable for your everyday person.

Gerry Johns 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place. Jules is a Brilliant receptionist

Katie Stanley 4 years ago

Positive experience: If you have kids this has good facilities and good swimming lessons for kids. There is also a good area to watch your child in the pool, only downside is the seating is uncomfortable. There is also a cafe onsite and park outside!

Ben Clissold 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Go to the gym here nearly everyday, very lovely place.

Paul Peace 4 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly and good facilities

Lynn Page 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic family day out

Paul Stapley 4 years ago

Positive experience: Nice people

Nannie 63 Dearlove (Nannie63) 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant place. Great variety of classes

Aiden Jones 4 years ago

Positive experience: A quality gym and a great pool. The cafe is nice sells some food and drinks all taste good.

Artemus Bill 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly and helpful staff. Great range of classes to join. Kept clean.

Piotr Sulecki 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good

Jan Perry 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent sports centre. Well run, nice staff and very Covid aware. Very good cafe when allowed to open fully.

Jane Whitehouse Sharpe 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love the swimming pool. Clean changing rooms make such a difference as well as friendly staff.

Stephanie Haughey 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love this place. I go swimming here. And have done pilates too. Plenty of parking outside. There is also a play area for children. They have a café too.

Tom Shaftoe 4 years ago

Positive experience: A decent recreation area for kids, some of the older children at busy times could congregate around the younger children’s play equipment and some of the language used is not great. but the kids at the skate park were very accommodating of a 2 and 5yr old trying out there scooters on the skatepark. Equipment is all generally in good order.

Ruth Drewett 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, very organised. Lovely salt water swimming pool. Pool is perfect temperature for long distance swimming . Warm air temperature. Warm and powerful showers.

Kirsty Northover 5 years ago

Positive experience: Good very welcoming social distancing in place

Doug Mead 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Gillingham

Ruth Hughes 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well organised with friendly, helpful staff. My grandsons love their swimming lessons here.

Danny senior 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to take the kids.

Lee Charlton 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: It's great to be able to get back to improving fitness after lockdown. RiversMeet have put a lot of effort into improving the facilities, not only did the gym get a face lift, but a remodel of upstairs has provided for two studios. All the fitness classes are back to full capacity and running regularly.

mark jago 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great staff. Huge asset to the community

Emma 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Offers so much for a great price

Jeanette Bowyer 5 years ago

Positive experience: The team are super, friendly and helpful. Being over 60 I do not get a concession in admission as I do in other establishments. Handle on door to gym is very difficult to open, possible contravening safety laws. I have reported it but nothing done.

Adrian Welch 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely staff, left my wallet by mistake and they kept it behind. Trustworthy, will be coming back

Roge 40 5 years ago

Negative experience: Cafe man was sat on his phone and eating ignoring me right next to him, stood up after I prompted him. I asked for some food and he said he wasn't doing any incase he gets busy!?!?!, I pointed out he was sat eating and there was nobody here which he replied he was entitled to a break and would not serve any food, to the only customer...me!

Tim The29er 5 years ago

Positive experience: Warmer than average pool temp, so better for young children

Tomasz Skop 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good for a community run fitness centre. Good choice of classes and new equipment in the gym is fantastic. Shame they didn't go for smart version of Stages spinning bikes.

Adam Drewry 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great centre

Tessa Blades 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean changing rooms and polite staff

Katherine Bending 5 years ago

Positive experience: Great snacks and coffee while the kids swim and service is always with a smile

Leon Wojcik 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Only went to swim and it was like another pool so not.much to comment.

Max Pinder 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: In the cafe Jess is Very welcoming and Nice. 5 stars would recommend!

Louise Halford 6 years ago

Positive experience: Pleasant centre with lots of leisure facilities. Friendly staff.

Graham Miller 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good swimming classes and play area. Coffee shop is decent too

Kate Davey 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic new gym and friendly staff. Home of Dorset Lau Gar kickboxing

Simon Maidment 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for a family swim and more. Reasonably priced and nice staff

cale mills 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good food

Rose Fitz-avon 7 years ago

Negative experience: As a member of Riversmeet for over 5 years, sadly I have cancelled my membership due to the swimming facilities. The showers have been cold since June, the changing rooms are Baltic and now the pool temperature is too cold for me to swim, as the old joints seize up. PLEASE SORT it before you have no more swimmers leaving.

Ibolya Blanka Burdulea 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely breakfast, good coffees and very friendly staff. We go there swimming too and we enjoying it.

Sophie D'Silva 7 years ago

Positive experience: Good

Simone 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great centre with fab facilities

Joseph Maphosa 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great venue and even better staff

xXxKU5HT3DDYxXx's Channel 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent physiotherapy here!

Emma Attwell 7 years ago

Positive experience: Lots on offer here, staff are friendly and very helpful.

Iker Banales 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for all ages, and many diferent sports to choose from. I really don't mind taking my shoes of to go in to a swiming changing room, but don't like that others don't follow same rules. Many times there is a lack of shoes nets available expecially Saturdays, probably busiest day in the pool. Please send an email to all parents on swiming school reminding of the important of having clean floors in a wet changing rooms, I know staff only use shoes inside the building however I believe in leading by example, and if there meets available staff should coment to people withouy them on.

Sarah Talbot 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice leisure centre. Has everything you would expect, pool, gym, very large soft play and very decent coffee. Also a kids play park outside if they haven't used up enough energy. The best thing is the really talented team of swimming instructors. Can't believe the progress my children have made in such a short time

Rob Woods 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Not pushy, better facilities than other local fitness places. Excellent customer service - and reasonable prices. Also very nice coffee shop.

Slawomir Sulecki 7 years ago

Positive experience: Polecam

Geoffrey Bellinger 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great Tai Chi Classes on Mondays 10.30

Pat Heddon 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: I have recently, last August, moved to the area from Worthing, West Sussex and since joining the centre I have definitely got fitter and I think this is all down to the group fit classes with Lyndsay, she motivates everyone but at the same time does not over stretch you. I would recommend these classes if you want to get fit but you have to put some effort into it yourself. Thank you Lyndsay.

Ms Phillips 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Community run centre with super friendly staff. Pool, gym and classes make it a great choice to join with various memberships.

MM Mrozik 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great sport Center, I’m glad we have it

ian cooper 7 years ago

Positive experience: The coffee shop lady was fantastic

Tas J 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great team, amazing swim school and very friendly atmosphere.

Simon Harris 7 years ago

Positive experience: Nice cafe, good food but didn't use the other other facilitlies

Jonny MacBean 7 years ago

Positive experience: nice cafe

Sammie Peckover 8 years ago

Positive experience: Entertainment is great. People watching the gate so the children don't escape not so great. Would be better if you can have coffee in there too

Michelle Ambrose 8 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly, helpful staff.

Joanne James 8 years ago

Negative experience: Had to wait for 45minutes for very basic food, when you have two hungry 1 1/2 ur olds you don't want to be waiting that long. They were not busy and said they were short of staff and that was their excuse. The lady serving was very rude when we asked how much longer it would be and said it wasn't her problem as she had no staff. When we received the food it was hard and clearly over cooked. No wonder it took nearly an hour. A great disappointment and we will not be returning to what looked like a well managed cafe at the time!!!!! Very disappointed

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