
Information about Crosby Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: 8h-16h
- monday: 6h-22h
- tuesday: 6h-22h
- wednesday: 6h-22h
- thursday: 6h-22h
- friday: 6h-22h
- saturday: 8h-16h
Our comment from FitFit UK about Crosby Leisure Centre:
Welcome to Crosby Leisure Centre, a vibrant community hub located in Bootle, United Kingdom. Our centre is popular for its exceptional swimming lessons, led by a fantastic team of instructors who are praised for their friendliness and dedication. Users enjoy a well-equipped gym, clean facilities, and a lovely café offering seasonal hot chocolates and coffee that overlooks the pool area.
Many visitors appreciate our attentive staff, who are ready to assist and provide excellent customer service. The centre is conveniently located near Crosby Beach, making it a great spot for various outdoor activities. Many review take pride in the beautiful coastal walks provided nearby, as well as the stunning views of the Anthony Gormley statues.
While most enjoy the amenities we offer, some feedback points to areas for improvement. A few users have mentioned that the pool can become crowded during peak times, and there have been occasional concerns regarding cleanliness in certain facilities. Additionally, some guests noted that parking can be chaotic on sunny days.
Overall, Crosby Leisure Centre is a beloved destination that offers a wide range of recreational activities, friendly service, and a welcoming atmosphere for families and individuals alike. We invite you to experience the benefits of our centre and become part of our growing community!
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Crosby Leisure Centre: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing place to swim for lessons especially the fantastic instructor staff at crosby leisure centre
Hi Lee, thank you for your positive review about our swimming lessons. We hope you continue to enjoy our lessons in the future. Kind Regards
Positive experience: If you are going to visit the Gormley iron men on Cosby beach you need a cafe. Cafe in sports centre did nice range of seasonal hot chocolates and coffees Warm seating area overlooking pool. Friendly staff. Car parking available here too
Fantastic experience: Such a beautiful place
Fantastic experience: My daughter had a first swimming lesson today (4pmish) and I hadn't been here before. The 2 ladies behind the front desk couldn't be more helpful with directions and what goggles I should buy for my daughter. Both literally burst with 5* customer service! And the lady in the cafe was the same she was so friendly, polite, chatty and brilliant with my 2 kids! Brilliant first impression xx
Thank you for your positive feedback and we are glad your daughter had a brilliant first experience at our swimming lessons. Our customer service is important to us and we appreciate your kind words. Kindest Regards
Positive experience: Staff are really friendly and it’s got everything you need without the posing
Positive experience: Good clean facilities but higher price compared to other gyms in the area
Fantastic experience: Brilliant place lovely pool great cafe serving lovely coffees
Negative experience: Dirty, not enough space for swimming . To many children. Smells disgusting. Water is not clear.
Hi Jurate We thank you for taking the time to provide us with some feedback. We offer adult lane swimming sessions where children won't be present in the pool if this would be a more desired swim for you. We would like to learn more about your experience visiting our centre, we invite you to call us on 0151 705 7071 where we can discuss further. Kind Regards
Positive experience: Well equipped and clean gym,
Positive experience: The classes are fab.
Fantastic experience: We were only visiting to make use of the cafeteria inside. The tea and food purchased were enjoyed. The centre seemed clean and well cared for.
Positive experience: Convenient place for toilets and refreshments.
Fantastic experience: Nice place to walk. Long walk and swimming area
Fantastic experience: Toilet, food and drink not bad prices
Negative experience: Extremely rude staff.
Negative experience: Neglected polluted beach, rubbish, plastic, black oil etc potentially can be amazing if invested in it.. Recreational center is with a very small pool. Miserably no view there to see the sea . Not very good to be in the beach coffee shops abd can't see water. Just closed area.. Needs a visionary thinking in the brilliant promising area. A lot can be done..
Negative experience: Went last Saturday got stuck behind all traffic on the way in and unable to park at the Centre. it was madness, pure madness, I won't be back
Fantastic experience: Best beach in crosby I have visited yesterday best place I went to this month Very clean place and peace and fresh air And the safest place
Positive experience: So complicated if you need a normal swim three weeks on Thursday 10 pm if youre and adult
Fantastic experience: Fab afternoon session for the kids on huge inflatable
Fantastic experience: Nice place and enjoy the leisure facilities
Fantastic experience: Good toilet facilities,nice place to visit. Parking can be a bit chaotic on a sunny day. Best use the long stay park further up and walk to it along the prom.
Positive experience: Cleaning lady got mad at me for using a public toilet.
Fantastic experience: Brilliant place if you like sand
Negative experience: Unprecedented food which was expensive at till. Disappointing as was rest of town
Fantastic experience: Love it here when the sun shines.
Fantastic experience: Every week day morning, 5 times per week...
Fantastic experience: Very pictures place, friendly staff. Time spent well.
Fantastic experience: Crosby beach - Well worth visiting the statues. Very quiet
Positive experience: Just popped into cafe, nice centre, staff seemed friendly and happy
Fantastic experience: Always love this place.
Positive experience: Great place for a pleasant walk
Fantastic experience: Great beach with views across to Wales and of course the Antony Gormley figures are a great novelty attraction.
Fantastic experience: Nice and busy on the beach today,I feel so lucky to have it on my doorstep.
Fantastic experience: Go there for indoor bowling only
Fantastic experience: I like this place a lot, it's clean, the personnel very friendly and helpful, people that come here are good, I been in other gyms in town and its less civilised over there. The sunset and the walk to the beach it's a plus, it's a lovely place overall with tons of activities, classes, and things to keep you healthy and strong.
Positive experience: Great place and staff very helpful
Fantastic experience: Fantastic place, great staff, and the cafe is fabulous. Well worth a visit.
Positive experience: I love this place and the instructors are amazing. My only problem is that the classes are usually all fully booked the whole week or so in advance
Fantastic experience: Good parking near leisure center fab coastal walk and cycle and on a sunny bright day a fabulous place to watch the world go by
Fantastic experience: It's a great gym, massive pool and access to the beach.
Fantastic experience: Veri nice place to visit. We where also luck to have good weather.
Fantastic experience: Went to the physio, they have a bar with some snacks and drinks, friendly reception and great pools and gym
Fantastic experience: Perfect beach volleyball home
Fantastic experience: Free public toilet that gets well used and so shows this in it's condition. Very glad to have access to this when I've been on the beach for a few hours. Thank you to those who manage it for us all!
Fantastic experience: Always a pleasure to engage and interact with all staff from cafe to cleaner, receptionists front desk, life guards in pool, gym staff and managers
Positive experience: Lovely weather beach is relatively clean free parking
Positive experience: Great gym with good aircon, Lots of equipment and all new. Though it does get busy at peak times. Helpful instructors. Good choice of classes. Pool is a decent size. Very handy for warm up or cool down walk on the beach. They also have a cafe here as well as vending machines and water stations.
Fantastic experience: Went to the cafe. Really good food available. Reasonable prices. Staff are wonderful
Fantastic experience: Lovely beach ⛱️ weather was beautiful and the iron men was great to see .
Positive experience: It's a clean and safe environment to take your children to
Negative experience: Place needs updating, everything looks and feels unloved, unclean. Using the pool area is not nice, water in the pool is freezing, the family pool was covered on my visit so couldn't be used. As a new swimmer I wanted to stay by the side where I feel safer which I explained but I was forced to move more into the middle as they had some sort of lessons on, but they stayed down the deep end where I was avoiding anyway?! Mixed changing area with cubicles but kids were trying to climb up to look over, no private showers to wash off properly after swimming, one working hairdryer but so weak as to be useless. 20p for the lockers, would be better if you could use your own padlock. Have joined another gym in the area instead, much fresher, nicer and stuff works!
Fantastic experience: What a great place, the beach is clean and seems to go on forever and the leisure centre has everything that you could want, they've even thought about putting very clean portable toilets outside for when the centre is closed and it's all free including the parking. I'll be going there every weekend from now on even in the winter.
Negative experience: Should be dog friendly for well behaved dogs as many people visit the beach and take their dogs. They often travel from afar there. The leisure centre cafe are missing custom from dog owners.
Negative experience: This place is a joke. It used to be a public swimming baths, but now general swim times are only 10 till 12. The council has sold yet another of our amenities off to the lowest bidder. It's impossible to book a swim with your kids on the website and the ill educated 'customer service' staff are trained to keep non members out. Disgusting place run by a disgusting company.
Thank you for taking the time to post your views, we do regularly review our timetables and often change sessions and timings depending on attendance levels. During the school holidays we have added additional public swimming as well as inflatable fun sessions. In regards to bookings this is only needed for lane swimming to ensure numbers are capped and people can have a more enjoyable swim without lanes becoming overcrowded. All public swims are available for anybody to turn up on the day. Kind Regards
Fantastic experience: Parkrun at Crosby beach this morning... Gorgeous!
Fantastic experience: Didn't actually go in the leasure Centre. But it looked good from outside. Just went for a walk along the beach watching a battle ship sail by (The Portland). Meet some lovely locals who were very friendly and full of info.
Positive experience: We visit here a few times a week, midway through our 7 mile coastal walk. Very friendly, chatty staff. They make a good brew, also plenty of snacks if hungry.
Fantastic experience: Joined several months back, really good gym with plenty of new equipment. Can't comment for the classes and pool yet but the place is always busy so must he equally as good as the gym itself. Busy at peak times as you'd expect but never a problem finding equipment to use.
Fantastic experience: Ugly, rainy, day. Lovely friendly caff staff. Great cake. All good.
Positive experience: Only went to the café - we were out and about and by the beach and it was warm and dry with ground coffee and toilets. The accessible toilet was locked the whole time we were there which made my life a lot harder as I didn't know that before drinking a coffee! The other toilets were much harder for me to use but at least possible for me on crutches: others would not have managed. Predictably as it's by the dunes, the other toilets were not very clean. A coat hook to keep bags and coats off the wet sandy floor would be a useful addition. The cafe overlooks the swimming pool where some kids were obviously enjoying their swimming lessons and both pools look fab. The coffee was a little bit weak for us - probably a bit too much water in the americano, or not a double shot, but probably as the machine makes it. It was warm and welcome though. The lady serving was friendly and helpful.
Fantastic experience: Great coffee. Good service very polite and helpful.
Fantastic experience: Only went to beach to see the iron men ,did not disappoint
Fantastic experience: Recently joined the gym.. You have to pre book for lane swimming and classes. But it works out well, I think as it makes you go, as you have booked. Lots of different classes available from circuit to spinning, yoga and dance classes. You can use the gym anytime too!
Negative experience: The swimming changing facilities are disgusting really unclean and tired needs updating. Pool is freezing and avoid the swimming lessons for children they are poor quality and way too many children in the lessons impossible to provide good teaching for them .
Fantastic experience: Nice cup of tea and toilet break mid-walk.
Fantastic experience: Amazing swimming lessons for kids, they look forward to their lessons every week and instructors always friendly. Clean and well equipped leisure centre
Positive experience: Great for a swim membership. Rarely have problems. Although take the lane speeds with a pinch of salt as they're never enforced. Never been to any of the classes either in the pool or out but people look like they enjoy them. Was a member of the gym for a while. Not great. Even with the new equipment still very cramped. Quite cliquey and doesn't feel very inclusive, especially in the free weights sections Staff usually very friendly and helpful. Front desk quite often not covered, especially when it's not as busy
Positive experience:
Fantastic experience: I do archery every Sunday in the courts there is also a pool small cafe there is a lot to do and you are right next to the beach a Crosby good for dog walkers .
Positive experience: I love this walk. The Merseyside estuary coast is a alluring combination of history,industrial docklands, sand dunes And modern art. On a day with bright blue autumnal sky's it's a wonderful place to walk.
Fantastic experience: Staff so friendly, great facilities
Fantastic experience: Lady in cafe was so friendly & helpfull
Fantastic experience: Great walk on the beach, and then a lovely snack in the leisure centre, great service from the staff
Fantastic experience: Great for summer,loads of spaces to park your car, lovely wild beach
Positive experience: Used the cafe on a recent trip to Cosby beach. Good place to get refreshments/snacks if needed.
Fantastic experience: Had coffee from the cafe and sat watching our grandson swimming today.
Fantastic experience: Back for the 2nd time, I spent the day on a Social Impact Day cleaning the beach with work colleagues. We had bags, gloves, and litter pickers collecting lots of rubbish. Receiving appreciation and the thank you's from passing people was so rewarding.
Negative experience: has gone down hill its like sefton council don't give a dam foot path is blocked not disabled friendly at all
Fantastic experience: Excellent place to visit on your own or with family or friends, Excellent beach and good walks
Positive experience: Swimming lessons not great. Very slow to progress child sometimes seems like going backwards and the price increases all the time. There are a couple of good instructors and we have moved days several times in order to get one of them only for one of the younger more inexperienced instructors to take over. Very slow to assess. Mostly just the same swimming up and down each lesson not much teaching going on unfortunately.
Fantastic experience: Absolutely love this beach,since moving to Liverpool this had been my place of choice !
Positive experience: Great place ... weather was brilliant..... sea views with the cast iron men ..good beach prom walks... many visitors and lots of people with dogs on leads ...plus coffee bar in swimming baths .. Ice cream van adds to the flavour...
Fantastic experience: Brilliant local pool with an amazing new lifeguard Imogen. Been attending this pool and the previous pool since I was a child. I would highly recommend as a great pool in the area. Professionally staff who are dedicated to the cause.
Positive experience: Anthony Gormley's Another Place-wonderful , strange,serene, contemplative
Negative experience: The beach had quicksand and the lifeguard didn't warn us and my mom got stuck so I had to save her because they did nothing.
Positive experience: We were late getting there so we had a bite to eat think it closed about 3 pm nice clean friendly place staff brilliant .
Positive experience: Came here to the cafe after a long walk on the beach only to be told that I couldn't have a bowl of water for my dog because of covid. We bought three drinks and a packet of crisps which she happily handed over but said she couldn't give us a bowl of water for the dog because of covid. I thought that was very strange.
Positive experience: Only started going recently, amazing staff Jason was very friendly an helpful with us will be going there more often. Keep up the good work
Fantastic experience: The beach is a fun place. Parkrun held here on a Saturday, various exercising opportunities, yoga, boxercise etc
Fantastic experience: Like the fact you don't need a paid membership to access the centre. The pay per use option is fabulous.
Positive experience: Gym and public pool. Good variety of classes with fabulous instructors and well equipped gym. Could be cleaner.
Negative experience: Be VERY careful what you are signing up for. I only wanted a months membership but ended up being charged the following 2 months as well without even realising!! When I asked for them to cancel I had to give a further months payment in order to get out of it. So my one month ended up costing me over £120!!! I realize that I should have noticed these other payments going out but feel the centre could have used their discretion and allowed me to cancel without charging me another monthly fee,they could see surely i hadn't even been in since my first month because I assumed my months membership was done. Really couldn't afford to waste this money so felt sickened by this situation. Feel mislead by the website. Don't want other people to make same mistake.
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry you misunderstood our terms & conditions when joining as a member: https://www.leisurecentre.com/termsandconditions As a good will gesture we would like to offer you a month's free use of our facilities. If you would to call the centre on 0151 932 9080 and ask for our sales manager. Kind Regards
Fantastic experience: Nice cafe, nice staff, great beach location
Fantastic experience: Top marks for the spaghetti meatballs - highly recommended
Fantastic experience: Nice place for a variety of outdoor activities, dog walks Cycling and running ♂️
Negative experience: Cafe Vita - awful! This cafe used to be great but has gone totally downhill. It states on the website that it serves a wide variety of sandwiches, salads, pastas etc but is not true..they have a small selection of sandwiches and the last few times they haven't even has chips or ketchup etc! Hopeless! The lady who runs the cafe is totally unhelpful and uninterested. This cafe is a let down for an otherwise great centre and some massive improvements need to be made.
Positive experience: went for American Wrestling Event. kids loved it. great atmosphere friendly meet an greet would go again. staff in the centre itself let the place down closing the toilets whike event was still active making it difficult with disabled kid present
Fantastic experience: Pic is of the docks from the beach on a very blustry wet day as it was getting dark. The person you can see standing is a statue and when you get up close to them they are amazing to see. On a nice day this would be a nice place to visit for a beach day
Negative experience: Popped in for a coffee today and to use the toilets, no paper in the toilets, no hand-wash either. Another poor experience
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