Information about Queen's Sport

Botanic Park, Stranmillis Embankment
BT9 5EX, Belfast
+442890977070

Opening hours

  • sunday: 9h-18h
  • monday: 6:30-22h
  • tuesday: 6:30-22h
  • wednesday: 6:30-22h
  • thursday: 6:30-22h
  • friday: 6:30-22h
  • saturday: 9h-18h
Queen's Sport, serving all Queen's university Belfast students, staff and wider community

Our comment from FitFit UK about Queen's Sport:

Welcome to Queen's Sport, a premier sports center located in Belfast, United Kingdom. This facility is a haven for sports enthusiasts, offering a wealth of amenities designed to meet the needs of athletes and casual visitors alike.

Here are some key highlights:

  • Extensive range of equipment, including free weights, cardio machines, and specialized areas for activities like deadlifting.
  • Multiple sports facilities including swimming pools, a climbing wall, badminton courts, and indoor/outdoor pitches.
  • A vibrant community atmosphere, making it not just a gym, but a social hub for health and wellness.
  • A friendly and helpful staff dedicated to enhancing your experience.
  • Great classes available for various interests such as yoga, dance, and spin.
  • Convenient on-site cafe for refreshments before or after your workout.

While the center enjoys many advantages, some users have shared feedback regarding certain areas for improvement:

  • Occasionally overcrowded, especially during peak hours, leading to limited access to certain machines.
  • The mobile app can be confusing for new users, particularly when booking courts or classes.
  • Weakness in overall maintenance and some wait times for equipment and staff availability.
  • Changing facilities require more frequent cleaning and upkeep.

Despite these minor concerns, Queen's Sport is celebrated for its excellent value, modernized equipment, and comprehensive community offerings, making it a fantastic place for fitness and enjoyment.

Queen's Sport: Opinions

4.3/5 (121 Opinions)
Simon Hunter 10 months ago

Positive experience: Very good place. Lots of facilities. Good location. The sauna is too cold. Needs fixed to be much warmer. As it's so cold people sit in it for 30mins+ to warm up so it's always rammed. Heat it up! The weights machines are a bit old fashioned and could do with some new stuff/updates. There are winter memberships listed on the website that you can't actually sign up to on the website. It's confusing. You need to go in and do it at reception. No-one ever answers the membership phone line. A physical membership card in 2024 isn't great. Add it to the app. And generally make the app more modern.

Monika Duddy 1 year ago

Negative experience: Equipment is great esp the deadlift area etc but now with the amount of members it’s simply too busy to even get a machine now. Same with the weights room. I believe with the demand the gym needs another room full of weights especially benches and not just treadmills.

Reuben K George 1 year ago

Negative experience: The app is very confusing, especially for new students who are unaware as to which option to book for a casual game. Tried booking badminton once and some guys came up to us and basically made us leave cause apparently we aren't in the "club". If we actually weren't in the "club" why did they even allow us to book it in the first place. Plus this apparent "club" isn't even handled by queens as when we went to the reception to ask they didn't have any solution to offer. Also about badminton, when we asked the reception they said that badminton is currently under high demand, if you guys already know the fact that badminton is under high demand then stop allowing other sports to be played on the badminton courts, like on most nights there's only 2 courts available in the minor halls while the rest 3 is used for some sword fighting sport which only like 10-12 people are entirely involved in while the ones who want to play badminton (who in fact is a huge number of students) have to make use of the other 2 courts. The pec is such a huge building, atleast dedicate some spots just for badminton. In general the courts are all right, it's sort of a makeshift basketball area too which I hope wouldn't get used for basketball anytime soon, and since the area was made in mind for basketball, the ceiling isn't that high and it's clearly seen as tons of shuttlecocks are stuck up in the railings above.

Dan 1 year ago

Negative experience: Very poorly staffed with awful opening hours, would wholeheartedly advise against a membership at this gym

Denis V 1 year ago

Positive experience: The venue is great for sports enthusiasts, offering plenty of space and facilities. However, the rule prohibiting sauna for children is quite strange and puzzling. It’s unclear why such a restriction exists, and it can cause confusion for families. Despite this odd policy, the overall atmosphere remains good for sporting activities, though the management might need to clarify or adjust certain rules to better accommodate all visitors.

Ajith Prabhu 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Best bang for the buck

Margaret Beggs 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Was up for phisio and very pleased with the staff and treatment

Abul Hassan Ali Quddusi 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Queen Sports is an exceptional fitness center that truly stands out in the area. The facility is fully equipped with a wide range of exercise machines catering to all fitness levels. Additionally, it boasts an array of recreational facilities including a swimming pool, squash court, table tennis, and an exciting wall climbing area. The surrounding greenery enhances the beauty of the location, creating a serene and inviting atmosphere. The center also features a vast parking area, which is extremely convenient. Families will appreciate the dedicated playground for kids, making it a family-friendly venue. A unique aspect of Queen Sports is its accommodation for community activities, such as the special arrangements for Eid prayers during Eid-ul-Adha, making it a culturally inclusive space. Queen Sports also offers a variety of classes such as dance, yoga, and cycling, catering to different interests and fitness goals. Whether you're a fitness enthusiast or looking for a fun and supportive place to start your fitness journey, Queen Sports is highly recommended. It’s not just a gym, it’s a community hub for health, enjoyment, and well-being.

Tom 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I love it :3

Rait Metsamaa 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Create place to teach your child to swim!

Chris M 1 year ago

Negative experience: Decent , but often busy gym, with a good coffee shop Classes are good and well run, and the staff are great. Facilities are clean and the environment is good. Parking is easy and free for up to 3hrs. Pool hours on Saturdays are limited to 1-5pm for lane swimming (open for family swim, more like a leisure centre pool), which is not good value for money if you're paying for peak times membership. In the gym, people often sit idly looking at their phones on the weight machines, making it difficult to get on, and the staff make no effort to discuss this or provide signage encouraging good etiquette. Climbing wall is unavailable for booking up on Saturdays, and Mon, Wed, and Fri evenings.

Tenssy John 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place for sports.

Shubham Baviskar 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Membership is best for student staff and general. Good amenities All inclusive is good package membership

Jake Paul 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great for karate

Luke 2 years ago

Positive experience: Great gym/facilities but some gym machines remain "broken" for months, no sign of them getting fixed, bit annoying. Other than that its cool

wanktime12345 2 years ago

Negative experience: Music is far too loud. Forget bringing your headphones cause it’s so loud you won’t be able to hear your own music

Anas Hamza 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place , spacious car parking facilities

Laura 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excelente centro deportivo justo al lado del jardín botánico de Belfast. Las instalaciones son enormes y para gran cantidad de deportes. Tiene piscinas, paredes de escalar, canchas de diferentes deportes de raquetas, salones para clases de gimnasia y demás modalidades de zumba, fitness y aeróbicos. Cuenta con gym y numerosas actividades a lo largo del día y la semana. Muy recomendable!!

Ricky 2 years ago

Positive experience: Plenty of equipment, easy to get workout done. Changing facilities are absolutely filthy, dirt and spills in changing room on Thursday night still there on Monday night, walls and floor covered in dirt.

Jamesy Mac 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility, great gym and also outdoor areas. Good for 5 a side football

Jo Johnston 2 years ago

Positive experience: Good venue for varied sports, Clements coffee shop in foyer is good for coffee and snacks

First Surename 2 years ago

Positive experience: Precovid I loved this gym. With off-peak membership you can go up to 3pm or after 8pm... which was fine before covid as they always had classes at 8pm. Since covid they've cancelled them, now the last class is 7.30pm which means for off-peak you can't attend any evening classes! If you work 9am - 5pm as most people do, then you only have the option of 1 class in the mornings at 6.45/7am. I don't see why they won't reinstate 8pm classes, off-peak members are being penalised.

Isaac Guo 2 years ago

Negative experience: Some of the staffs attitudes toward foreigners aren’t very good.

Eleanor Street 2 years ago

Positive experience: Lots of facilities and provision for sports. It has two pools and a sauna with the timetable posted online each week. A little bit of a maze that could benefit from some maps up and a lack of water fountains (that are not broken).

Daire N 2 years ago

Negative experience: It's a good gym but it is way too packed, they should stop taking members if there is not enough room for everyone, also way too warm in the weight room downstairs and the fans are often broken for weeks at a time.

Generic Emo Rap 2 years ago

Positive experience: The music they play is far too loud

Yijing Wang 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: 有游泳馆 学生和外部人员都可以进入 需要办理会员卡或者次卡

Conor Brown 2 years ago

Positive experience: Good gym & plenty of space. The new equipment is a great addition . Would be brilliant if they added plate loaded equipment & brought back booking times in weight areas. Too busy at peak times *the renovated weight area upstairs and down is great. New racks, equipment, & flooring is a nice update.

Nathan Whaley 2 years ago

Negative experience: Got told by a staff member that we cannot bring our own additional weights. This is a gym so I do not understand what the issue is with bringing your own equipment to assist with your workout. Will be looking for a new gym soon.

Mahnoor Arshad 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Queens sports was great place cleaning was good juct they need to do ask peoples to change their durty shoes

chuck mac 2 years ago

Negative experience: Hopeless in terms of customer service/care

Nelia G Gonçalves 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing facility, friendly professional staff. Clean organised

Ronnie bingham 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Just recently opened and it is a fantastic facility for the Students also open to the public,

Darren Jennings 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I went there to join and they couldn't be more helpful answering all my questions. Top class

Abdul Mannan 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I really want to play for queens University.

Az Sal 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely staff, big space and a lot of courses available

DIANA VELASCO 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Me encanto. Es enorme, con personal super amable, con todo tipo de deportes. Muy limpio, agradable y bien ubicado

Lynn SD 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Visited here for a show & was impressed at how well this venue suited it - good location, free parking, spacious hall

Rolandas Laurinavicius (Rolo) 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great price and always clean. But has too many treadmills that stand empty all of the time and everyone is waiting for weights and resistance machines because theres only a few there

Jennifer Mckeown 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: The new you @ Queens sports

Tony McCormack 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: U have to be a member to get in to use the swimming pools but it gets 10/10 great place

Gabriela Cava 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Swimming pool is great. Good attention. 100% recommend

Claire Scott 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic centre it's got everything

Tony Kylemacie 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good parking

MM 3 years ago

Positive experience: I have been going to this gym for a year and enjoying it. However, recently I have noticed that there is no staff member at the desk in the gym like their used to be to help with any problems. There is also a limited dumbbell weight in the upstairs gym, with their being barely anything in between 10kg - 20kg, which makes it hard to progressively overload effectively. Recently I have found there are only a few carbiners to go round between multiple cable machines, which is very annoying, as you are waiting for a long time when there are machines free! Im not posting this to be critical, because overall I really enjoy this gym, and I have experienced friendly staff. But I feel these are easy problems to fix, and it would just help everyone's gym experiences go more smoothly and you can get your work out done quicker! Please fix these problems Queens PEC!

cuhullen 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Helpful informative and helpful staff complying with covid regs. Great facilities.

Tristan 3 years ago

Positive experience: good facilities. you need to be a member or it's quite expensive - I think £9 entry with a member. app to book is adequate. be warned the pool and halls are preferentially given to bookings ie no protected member times. also many facilities unavailable during student exam times.

Mambo B 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for going to do your sporting discipline mine was basketball so enjoyed

S DM 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Uncountable activities great stuff

Colin 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best sports center in Belfast

Sika Wolf 4 years ago

Positive experience: Facilities are good but it always feels really complicated trying to book or organise anything. On the app prices for classes seem to be randomly assigned. Some days they are free, some days they cost £5.00 (regardless of time/ class/ demand/ membership type). In summary there are good facilities but it feels like things shouldn't be so difficult to book and there needs to be consistency with pricing.

Abishek V Ramesh 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Basketball Court

June Ferguson 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for a swim.Staff have everything under control...clean safe... Very organised.

H2 O2 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place

Robert Brown 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Had physio not long ago staff where very good would recommend a visit would check their website for prices etc

Carole Williamson 4 years ago

Positive experience: I used the carpark to go into Botanic Gardens

Sean Wynne 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best centre in Belfast!

MOHAMMAD SALMAN 5 years ago

Positive experience: Fantastic Facilities

Safwan Shaikh 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities for almost every sport imaginable.

Patrick Doyle 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best leisure centre in belfast. Queens university own it and have been going here for about 40 years,staff always very helpful and friendly,good banter with regulars too. Restricted to one hour sessions in the gym and cardio due to covid 19 but thats ok,nice and clean and pool opening in august,yea lol.

Gunjan Deshmukh 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: The PEC is operating in normal capacity now post Covid. Almost all the restrictions are removed. The Queen's sports is equipped with everything you need. Almost all gym equipment and indoor games 5 a side courts, badminton, squash, swimming, spin, and different exercise classes. All can be booked through the queen's University sports application. Amazing facilities under one roof.

Jonathan 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Plenty for everyone with lots of cardio equipment, machines, free weights and a separate Strength & Conditioning suite with more free weights, plenty of squat racks, benches and 4 deadlift platforms and enough barbells for everything, including 2 Ohio Power Bars - and that's just the gyms; there's also swimming pools, a climbing wall and various indoor halls and outdoor pitches for the sport of your choice, as well as changing areas and shower facilities. My only personal downside is that there is no open area for the likes of weighted carries or weighted sled pulls (and indeed no sled), but considering the plethora of things available, this isn't really an issue.

Julie Heinz 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Only went in to use the toilets but saw the extensive list of facilities. Its got a climbing wall a cafe and a swimming pool!

Eliana Melanie 5 years ago

Negative experience: Great place for indoor games.

No-Mad Words 5 years ago

Positive experience: Great summer scheme for kids

R A 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym and facilities, lovely cafe

Allison Mcelhinney 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very clean, never encountered any staff. As we where a karate competition.

SueLyn Cheang 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for a workout. There's a pool and rock climbing wall (not that I've ever used it). Queen's Students and staff get a cheaper rate too!

Ashraf Aly 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very nice place and friendly staff

Conor Ward 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great classes and decent gym. Good range and for all levels. Can get busy sometimes but sure what gym doesn't. The clements is nice too for a quite bite/coffee

David Hazafy 6 years ago

Negative experience: Could be so much better if they try a bit.

Hala Al-Obaidi 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: This PE centre is perfect place for students who want to do gym, swimming ‍♂️and other physical activities‍♀️‍♀️. There is a cafe as well ☕

Amber 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Archery, swimming, zumba, this gym has it all!

A KY 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and a wide range of classes!

Clare Mccormack 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: The PEC has a great gym that spaced out over a large area. There is a good pool and diving pool. The changing facilities are good with lockers and private showers. The climbing wall is however on the small side. The staff are extremely helpful and friendly. The gym is priced reasonable.

Colin B 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: I was there for bubble football. Great time. Would definitely do it again

Gary Hill 7 years ago

Positive experience: Nice coffee shop and facilities in the gym are pretty good. Easy parking.

Game “Gaming videos” Runner 7 years ago

Positive experience: There is a nice cafe shop here but to use the cafe you need to be a member

Rab Buchanan 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good facilities

Nigel Williamson 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great sports centre

Milos Popovic 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool. You can also get swimming lessons, for kids and adults, at a reasonable price too.

amara amelia 7 years ago

Positive experience: Nice place

Danny Boy Blue 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place two great indoor gyms friendly staff

Denis Murphy 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: It is excellent and gooiest

Mark Muir 8 years ago

Positive experience: Great facilities and good prices for QUB students and alumni.

Didem Durak 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Is a great facility with warm vibes. The Clements cafe inside it is a great place to chill too.

Soo-Keun Lee 8 years ago

Positive experience: 운동하기 좋음.

Paul Curley 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very happy with facility and staff

Allistair Ferguson 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: First class multi-sports xomplex

Felix 8 years ago

Positive experience: They have memberships at a good price, especially for students. The facilities are great with two indoor gyms, one larger than the other however, I have found that even in off-peek times, the gym gets too stuffy and crowded with awful smells protruding the air.

Brendan Kerr 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Super gym

Liam Maguire 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love the gym at Queen's Sport. There is plenty of options here from the many cardio machines, free weights, olympic weight platforms, machine weights, rigs, 5-a-side pitches (indoor and outdoor), climbing walls, trampolining, table tennis, squash, classes such as spin class, studios, boxing equipment, swimming, sauna and more. Staff friendly and helpful.

Маркелов Zheng 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: very good place

Raffaele Bianchi 8 years ago

Positive experience: Buon centro sportivo

Paddy O'Neill 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great location with sweet equipment and facilities

Luke Holmes 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, all you could want in a gym. Range of cardio machines, weight machines, and great selection of free weights, benches and racks in the strength suite.

DjD 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great selection of activities

Andre Vieira K 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: I think is a lack of option for those students that work or study on queens, I`ve worked there and the only gym option was here, but well is an awesome place to go

Ciaran McKenna 8 years ago

Positive experience: Pros: Lots of space and great facilities on offer. Friendly staff. Very available. Very handy to have a cafe on site. Cons: No chalk bins available in free weights sections, weights are never racked back in appropriate positions, same playlist on repeat.

Lloyd Jones 8 years ago

Positive experience: Number and range of facilities is fantastic, clements coffee shop is great as well. Can be very busy at times though

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