
Information about Osprey Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: 9h-14h
- monday: 8:30-20:30
- tuesday: 9h-21h
- wednesday: 8:30-20:30
- thursday: 9h-20:30
- friday: 9h-20h
- saturday: 7:45-14h
Our comment from FitFit UK about Osprey Leisure Centre:
Osprey Leisure Centre, located in Portland, United Kingdom, offers a fantastic range of facilities for fitness enthusiasts and families alike. Users praise the friendly and professional staff who provide excellent service and support. The clean and well-maintained pool is often highlighted as one of the best in the area, boasting a comfortable temperature and plenty of lanes for swimming.
Members appreciate the affordable gym membership options, which include access to a variety of classes and equipment. The centre is considered a great community hub, where patrons feel welcomed and valued. The on-site café is another highlight, offering reasonably priced meals and a pleasant atmosphere to relax and enjoy after workouts.
However, some users have mentioned that the changing rooms need renovation and can sometimes be less than ideal during busy family swim times. While Osprey Leisure Centre has areas that could benefit from updates, such as the infrastructure and facilities, the overall positive environment and value for money continue to attract visitors.
In summary, Osprey Leisure Centre is a great place for swimming, fitness classes, and community engagement, with friendly staff and good value facilities.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Osprey Leisure Centre: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Go here weekly to Aquafit classes. Great venu, friendly and professional staff, and the cafe is very reasonably priced. Their full gym membership is probably the most reasonably priced in the area covering many classes and the use of all gym equipment and specific times for use of the pool to.
Fantastic experience: The best all round leisure centre around with friendly knowledgeable staff
Positive experience: Brilliantly attended, helpful staff, very clean warm pool. Only criticism is the changing rooms. Saturday family swims invariably see the male changing rooms shared with young females which isn't ideal, yet there are no unisex ones. Having to get changed in the toilet to avoid getting undressed in front of a 12 year old girl is not great.
Positive experience: Nice pool
Fantastic experience: Pool and cafe both great
Fantastic experience: Beautiful area
Positive experience: Great community pool.
Fantastic experience: Staff so friendly and helpful, they gave my daughter and I a thorough induction to the gym and printed out sets for us to follow.. Spinning staff all really friendly and so supportive. Lovely place to go to and such value for value!
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities
Fantastic experience: Just how I remember it as a kid, which... really isn't a bad thing! Bought a pool and gym membership a month ago for a reasonable £30p/m, and I regret nothing! FOH, lifeguards and staff in general are incredibly personable and polite. Facilities itself are absolutely fantastic. While walking through the building will send you on a nostalgia trip straight into the 80s/90s (which I quite like), the pool is stunning, as is everything else. The pool is incredibly clean, a lovely temperature, with regular (multiple/day) public lanes sessions with lanes for all speed. The swimmers are just as lovely as the pool, making for a welcoming environment all-round. Even my somewhat-affluent girlfriend was very impressed when she came down from Bournemouth, and you'd expect Bournemouth to have something bigger/better. Something can be said for Osprey, and it's something the modern world lacks. It's not fancy, there's no selfie lighting, and there's no gimmicks. Just the best pool in the county, lovely staff, and a great environment. Job done.
Fantastic experience: Nice pool, Warm temperature, changing rooms a bit dated but clean and tidy, free hairdryers which work, communal changing area, plenty of lockers (£1 token or coin returned) mainly communal showers except for 1 separate private one. Free parking while using facilities.
Fantastic experience: Awesome location. Good facilities. Nice prices. Friendly staff! WMCYW
Positive experience: Water is perfect temperature for swimming. Great pool with lovely depth. And the pricing is very reasonable.
Fantastic experience: It's good to be back
Fantastic experience: What a great and friendly environment to work out in
Fantastic experience: Loved it
Positive experience: Has everything you need
Fantastic experience: One of the nicest and cleanest pools I have swam in. Clean spacious changing rooms, showers and lockers too. Staff communication well via email and in person.
Fantastic experience: Nice pool
Fantastic experience: Excellent training session. Thank you, Osprey Leisure Centre. Kev
Fantastic experience: I attended water polo so didn't really pay or use facilities.... Outdoor place to sit and eat. Staff were friendly and helpful. Centre looked good. Pool was ok Parking was difficult. Centre park was full. Limited Street parking. Expensive pay car park. We found last Street parking spot.
Fantastic experience: Good pool, many lanes for different speed swimmers, relaxed atmosphere usually not too crowded.
Positive experience: Pools the best in the area. Deepest, longest and cheapest.
Fantastic experience: I recently joined this pool, it's quite a hike from Weymouth as I don't drive and have to catch a bus, but it's totally worth it, best pool in area without a doubt. Friendly staff and clients too love lane swimming
Fantastic experience: Always find the staff very helpful and friendly and make you feel welcome at the centre,great facilities and lots of classes to choose from
Fantastic experience: Freindly, clean a fantastic asset for Portland
Fantastic experience: Great swimming ♀️ pool and gym
Fantastic experience: I enjoy adult lane swimming here. Good parking on site, friendly staff and not to pricey.
Negative experience: False advertising, poor customer service.
Positive experience: Great venue with fantastic facilities.
Fantastic experience: A fantastic pool with a proper deep end. No frills but good.
Fantastic experience: Absolutely love swimming here.staff all lovely and have been using Leisure centre for many years.now a member.
Positive experience: Good facilities, staff friendly, the infrastructure needs updating.
Fantastic experience: The pool is always clear and inviting. The staff are helpful, friendly and cheerful. Other users and members are really friendly. What a great place to exercise. Xx
Fantastic experience: Brilliant
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, easy to book the sports hall
Positive experience: Pool was a perfect temperature, friendly staff, clean place. Will go again
Positive experience: Great gym, staff helpful and when visiting Weymouth again will definitely use the facilities again. Pool looks nice, going to use tomorrow. Times slots great and very clean areas !!
Fantastic experience: Very friendly staff and the kids love going for their swimming lessons there
Positive experience: Not a bad swimming pool.
Fantastic experience: This swimming pool is excellent, clean, friendly staff, who are always keeping watch on us oldies. I love going to the adults sessions. I feel very at ease here. Terri
Fantastic experience: Location magic! Staff really helpful! Great facilities:)
Fantastic experience: Great gym and good friendly staff
Fantastic experience:
Positive experience: Fair facilities but prices are too high.
Fantastic experience: Great swimming lessons, very pleased with service and facilities are fine
Positive experience: Gym and classes are good but swimming poorly supervised
Fantastic experience: Great gym for weight and interval training, as well as a solid setup for callisthenics. Well managed by friendly staff who know their stuff. Manages to balance between respect for Covid 19 etiquette, without wrapping the place in so much red tape it becomes difficult to access or stressful. Very reasonable monthly membership.
Fantastic experience: Nice to get back for a swim and the pool was nice and quiet, booked by phone and temperature check on arrival :)
Fantastic experience: Taken the covid precautions seriously. Due to space gives room for many people to train without an issue.
Fantastic experience: Used to love coming swimming here, personally I really like the pool. I used to swim here when it was known as Bosqowen (probably butchered the spelling) and used to be a member. To be honest I don't know how it is for anyone with a disability though as I don't remember it being the most disable friendly though I could be mistaken. The gym is alright, though there are better places on Portland to go, but if it's your local or if you didn't know it had a gym then pop on down, it isn't bad by a long shot and it has a fair amount of equipment. The major plus to this gym is that you can go for a shower and swim after which is a lifesaver and super relaxing if you have had a big session. They have different sports that they also do here, but I've never actually given them a go, but it's good to know if you are looking on taking up a new sport, so I'd look into it if you're interested.
Negative experience: Very disappointed with the service received from the General Manager last night. We booked a court for volleyball and the net was not put up for us, so by the time we managed to sort by having to go and get tools from home as the staff could not help, we were told to take it down! Don’t offer a service you cannot provide please in future. Thank you for refund but also understand we had to pay petrol costs and some of us don’t live locally. Other venues have been very good with assisting and making sure net up before we start.
Fantastic experience: Nice place, been there for a birthday celebration. Great for kids
Positive experience: Good swim
Positive experience: Good place to meet others with similar needs. C-fit is excellent
Positive experience: Really good Leisure Centre
Positive experience: Friendly staff who are quick to help you.
Positive experience: Very busy and very friendly place
Fantastic experience: This is my favourite place.
Positive experience: Very friendly and helpful staff great atmosphere.
Fantastic experience: Gym /pool / cafe / big sports hall. Great community leisure centre
Fantastic experience: One of the best Poole in Dorset and many other activities too or just go in the cafe
Thank you Harry. Hope to see you again in the centre soon
Fantastic experience: Really good gym and swimming pool
Thanks Jamie, We are working really hard listening to customers and improving the offer
Positive experience: Cheap gym with plenty of facilities, not all cutting edge but has everything you need, pool is deep so not good for small children
Positive experience: Nice little place for a swim also do lots of different activities for all the family
Fantastic experience: Brilliant place to go for swimming. My 5 year old and I go whenever we can. The staff are friendly. The pool and changing rooms are always clean. The cafe is great for lunch my son loves a bacon roll after swimming....hoping to find some time to myself and enjoy some of the other activities they have there.
Negative experience: Badly in need of repair and smartening up. If it wasn't for the swimming teacher I would not visit here again.
We are are aware that the centre has areas that need revamping. We are carrying out the work gradually. Our pool filters were a huge project that had to be done as an urgent piece of work which has meant other projects have slipped down the list. We are a charity that receives no regular support or income apart from the user fees and any funds we can raise ourselves. We have also just replaced the old entrance doors with new automatic ones. This money was raised through a sponsored cycle ride by the Chairman, a grant from a Trust and another donation from the Freemasons.
Fantastic experience: Nice cheap breakfast
Positive experience: Great staff and reasonable price. Getting tired though
Thank you Thomas. We have done a lot of work since we took over the building but we do know lots more to do. We are a registered charity and all the money that is surplus is being reinvested in the centre. I am sure you will agree the pool water quality is second to none.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful.
Fantastic experience: Went there for the Bustinskin osprey sprint triathlon. Considering there were hundreds of contestants with families it was clean with a friendly atmosphere.. Looking forward to the next Bustinskin triathlon
Fantastic experience: Lifeguards are friendly and helpful
Fantastic experience: Good, small, local sports centre right by the harbour.
Positive experience: Good all round leisure centre
Fantastic experience: great pool and facilities
Fantastic experience: Nice leisure centre. Friendly staff and good equipment set up overall
Positive experience: Cafe inside the leisure centre with toilets, open 8am-6pm mon-fri, not sure about weekends. There is a gym and swimming pool here. Nice friendly vibe from staff. The Osprey leisure centre is a charity with profits going back into the business. Very good value for money. Lunch menu includes lasagne, soup, quiches, and breakfast
Positive experience: Fantastic fascility lots you going on and friendly helpful staff
Fantastic experience: Good gyms, squash courts, sport hall and swimming pool.
Fantastic experience: Great leisure center and the café is really nice
Fantastic experience: can only rate the kids club. they have never come home unhappy
Fantastic experience: Good for a swim or a workout
Fantastic experience: Friendly
Fantastic experience: Love the staff here. Daughter loved the swim lesson here
Positive experience: Local community sports complex with pool. SCUBA instructors use the pool on Tuesday evenings 20:30-21:30 for beginners. Experienced divers join them to test new equipment. The state of the facilities is "tired" I only give it a 4 because it is the only available pool in the area.
Positive experience: Exercise
Positive experience: Great staff, polite and friendly. Facilities are good, although the changing rooms could do with an update.
Positive experience: Interesting
Positive experience: Ok not sure about facilities as only enquired staff didn't offer to help
Negative experience: Opening times/closing times poor.dont expect to use the equipment you want when any classes are on.
Positive experience: I have not used all the facilities here. The company I work for used an office space for a staff meeting and I had lunch in the cafe after. Everyone is polite and it's a clean and tidy place
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