Information about Saltash Leisure Centre

Callington Rd
PL12 6DJ, Saltash
+441752840940

Opening hours

  • sunday: 9h-15:30
  • monday: 6:30-20:30
  • tuesday: 6:30-21h
  • wednesday: 6:30-20:30
  • thursday: 6:30-21h
  • friday: 6:30-21:30
  • saturday: 7:30-15:30
Saltash Leisure Centre offers quality, affordable fitness facilities and leisure activities to help keep you active and lead a healthy lifestyle. Our refurbished Gym holds 45 top of the range Technogym, equipment stations, alongside a weekly programme of 18 Fitness Classes ranging from Circuits to Yoga as well as popular Les Mills, classes such as BODYCOMBAT, and BODYPUMP, all taking place in our professional studio. The Cafe located on site will treat you to soft drinks and food after your activity, whilst offering you the perfect space to watch the fun unfold in our 25m swimming pool and adjoining fun pool with water features, slides and a Bubble Pool. The popular and successful Better Swim School caters for children of all age here

Our comment from FitFit UK about Saltash Leisure Centre:

Saltash Leisure Centre offers a range of facilities that cater to families and fitness enthusiasts alike, making it a great destination in Saltash, United Kingdom. The centre features a lovely pool, including a baby pool and a main swimming area with slides and fountains, perfect for children. Many users praise the friendly and helpful staff who create a welcoming atmosphere.

Highlights from visitor feedback include:

  • Delicious cafe: The poolside cafe serves fantastic meals, particularly notable are the Sunday roasts at an unbeatable price.
  • Family-friendly activities: Parents appreciate the swimming lessons for kids and the family-friendly environment, providing great opportunities for fun.
  • Convenient access: Visitors have noted that the centre is easy to access with good parking facilities, including free and disabled parking.

While most feedback is positive, a few users have raised concerns about the changing facilities and general upkeep:

  • Some mentioned that the changing rooms are tired and could use refurbishment, particularly for parents with toddlers.
  • A few reviews highlighted cleanliness issues, particularly around the changing areas and showers.

Despite these concerns, many visitors continue to return to Saltash Leisure Centre, appreciating the community feel and the variety of activities available.

Services, Machines and Guided Classes

Fit
Pump
Combat
Les Mills
Swimming
Yoga
Swimming pool

Saltash Leisure Centre: Opinions

4.1/5 (176 Opinions)
John McManus 9 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to get for well done all and after a nice canteen to enjoy xxx

Jennifer Henderson 9 months ago

Negative experience: Swimming pool and changing facilities are filthy, rusty and falling apart. I’ve not been here since a child and visited recently with my children to find it looks to have received no maintenance and is disgustingly. Black mould and grime around the pool, won’t be returning again.

Rob Cullum 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Leisure Centre is great, despite the awful changing rooms. Poolside café serves fantastic meals and the best roast in Saltash!

kath dunning 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Good honest food Sunday lunch fresh hot n delicious n £7 can’t beat it

Sue Mason 10 months ago

Negative experience: Not been there.

Natalie Cannon 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Helpful service from friendly staff

Richard Rowe 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Go here for swimming lessons for kids, we have been very pleased with them

Angela Carr 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Haven't been swimming for ages choose to go at Friday lunchtime had a lovely time and quiet will definitely be going again see you soon

Janet Carter 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Easy access to building and pool

Sophie Kirkham 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: We took our kids swimming and in half term holidays it was so good. I love that there’s a baby pool moving into a lanes swimming pool. Also, the lifeguards are on it - by that I mean they are very professional and taking good care of everybody in the pool. I was really impressed by that Team

Adam Butcher 1 year ago

Positive experience: Getting a bit old and could do with a bit of a spruce up but overall a lovely place and friendly staff with a great cafe too

sue jenkin 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Always a great experience

Clare Barber 1 year ago

Positive experience: I love the classes, but never a staff member on gym floor, alot of machinery is rusty, leaking ceiling and water cooler is by a machine that means you have to interrupt someone's workout to access. Disabled hand bike isn't accessible for anyone wheelchair bound that needs to transfer onto the seat. Pool is good, hard to access i.e booking for a normal 9-5 working hours, can only attend very early morning slots.

Paul Doyle 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Kids go in dry full of energy...they come out wet but ready for bed so win win for parents

Mark Squire 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great parking easy yo find

Martina Onions 1 year ago

Positive experience: Has great facilities, free car parking, plus disabled parking and access to the building. Good range of activities there including a cafe, serving drinks and hot/cold food cooked to order, good seating area with views of the swimming pool.

Samantha P 2 years ago

Positive experience: I really like the saltah leisure centre, I used to visit the life centre but it was very impersonal and felt a bit like you were a number rather than a person. The staff at saltash make this place worth a try, happy and friendly, always on hand for help. I've been to a few aqua aerobics classes, I especially enjoyed the HIIT aqua class last Thursday evening, the normal classes are good, but I need something with a little higher intensity, this class had it while still keeping it low impact for my injured leg and hip. The place is clean and tidy for the most part. If you're looking for a smaller, community feel, intimate gym or leisure centre, it's absolutely worth a try. Not sure what will happen to my visits if the bridge toll is raised though, it will make it far more expensive than visiting a gym in Plymouth, so time will tell.

John Mitchelmore 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: My 8 year old went to a friends birthday party swim here with all her classmates whilst I relaxed in the cafe.

Emma Davies 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very kind staff , decent showers. Only £2 if your in need of one on your travels.

Josh Jackson 2 years ago

Positive experience: Pool abit cold for younger children but pool is a good depth for kids. A lot of lockers have damaged wristbands but the cafe had good variety for reasonable price

Sharon 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Kids loved swimming here. The staff are all so lovely

Leticia Blight 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: lovely atmosphere and not many people

Paul Cort 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good swim staff very helpful and friend

Susan Horne 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love meeting here for saltash strikers running club and then enjoying a drink after.

David Lockwood 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent place for a workout and wind down with bar and restaurant facilities available with all the necessary leisure activities from golf to swimming all available.

D Luck 2 years ago

Negative experience: Took my granddaughter swimming there for the first time. Needs some attention, grime tiles floor and walls, cubicles for really small people no good if you have a couple of kids. Shame it could be much better.

V Baker 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely pool. Kids slide and fountains

SkipRat 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely class instructors ie Nicky, Jack and Annalisa. Poolside changing rooms leave a lot to desired as does the music played during public swim sessions.

Somewhere Else 2 years ago

Positive experience: Great place, great people. Actually they are very helpful. 4 stars not 5 due to having to wait a considerable time at reception to be dealt with. This has happened on two occasions now and I realise its probably only 6 or 7 mins but when you're stood there, seems longer! I also recognise it probably due to team levels so it's not that much of a complaint, as I say 4 stars not 5

Sarah Redford 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are amazing, facilities are great. As well as gym and swim there are lots of classes to choose from.

bruce vowler 2 years ago

Positive experience: Only went for a coffee so cannot talk about gym or pool

Aaron Smith 3 years ago

Negative experience: Changing facilities are tired and in need of refurbishment and not really suitable for anybody with a toddler. Good sized pool but not warm enough for a toddler/baby.

Rowe-NET Electrical & Home Automation 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Haven’t been here in many years but good to see with the support of the community it’s still open after the risk of it being closed. First time taking my little girl swimming and she loved it. Decent little shallow area with some fountains which by the look of it a lot of local pools don’t have, especially since the pavilions swimming pool has been closed for years.

molly poppy 3 years ago

Negative experience: Nice pool but freezing cold, changing rooms are very small.

amanda len 3 years ago

Positive experience: We go swimming the pool is great but shower and changing rooms are disgusting. Really needs to be looked at.

Carl Tonge 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: All of the staff here are extremely friendly and proffesional

Gemimia Louisana (Monkeymadness) 3 years ago

Positive experience: Nice pool with slide for kids and smaller shallow pool. Temperature was okay. Changing rooms on the other hand, very small cubicles. And toilets were vile, think public toilets but worse. Which is why I knocked off a star. Kids enjoyed it so that's the main thing. Large free carpark which was a bonus.

Della Penny 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I love the pools here for the grandchildren. Staff are always lovely. Locker and changing rooms in need of an update. Very dated. Not always clean .not many family changing rooms.

Donna Calam 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely pool, very clean and friendly safe.

Robert Searle 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great for swimming, Aquafit, kids, lovely cafe selling home made cakes, breakfast and lunches, even an OAP'S lunch on Mondays

Megan Daniel 3 years ago

Positive experience: Pool is good for families but I swim with a club (Caradon) and they let us use it. The water temperature is unbelievably hot. It feels like you can't breath because the air is hot too. The Gym and sports hall has good facilities and would definitely recommend. They provide changing rooms, showers, lockers and toilets that are in good condition. And has a nice cafe.

joanne butters 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic food and atmosphere

Allotment mummy & bug hunting son 3 years ago

Positive experience: Staff are lovely and friendly however the only downside to this place are the toilets the ladies loos smell like urinals in a nightclub even my 6 year old couldnt stand the smell . The pool is lovely temp but tiles near the surface could do with a good old scrub. I didnt use the gym so I cant comment on those facilities.

Cilla Finemore 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Had a lovly coffee and tea and a wedge potatoes covered in cheese and bacon and side salad it was delicious. A very friendly place and clean thankyou Dawn and staff

Sally Ann West 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great little pool and kids had a wonderful time!

Erika Ramos 3 years ago

Positive experience: We went to the toddler splash group we had a good time. Pool temperature wise better than expected. We will definetely come back again

Keith Legg 3 years ago

Positive experience: Very good

Pauline Wagon 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely leisure centre, great facilities, needs a little tlc.

Poppy Ainslie 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Such a lovely team. Karen went above and beyond for us today. Always welcoming and just a lovely place to come swimming! Thank you!

twinpinesmall85 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great little kid's pool and friendly, courteous staff.

Connor Loton 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Epic

Jersey Turner 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: One of the best pools, so warm.

Sian Russell 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely clean pool, warm changing rooms and lovely staff. The pool itself is a bit chilly.

Tor Lawley 3 years ago

Positive experience: Really lovely place to take my daughter swimming. Staff were really lovely and helpful, the changing rooms and pool a little outdated but very clean, warm and somewhere I’d definitely recommend to new mums!

Martin Staley 3 years ago

Negative experience: Dirty changing rooms , life guards not paying attention. Not the best

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Hi Martin. We would like to apologise for the service you received yesterday. Unfortunately the team were short staffed and continued to be busy through out the day. We will investigate the lifeguarding standards as health and safety is critical for us and for our customers to feel safe. If you would like to provide any further info please email the Saltash team on [email protected]

Mum 3 years ago

Positive experience: Clean tidy and not too crowded friendly staff

Farrah Goodbody 3 years ago

Negative experience: Visited the pool today for the first time. Changing rooms were very tired, lots of lockers broken. Whole place seemed out of date. Disappointed, as cornwall charges 80 quid for fish and chips, buy the pools are severely under funded.

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Thank you for your feedback and we are sorry your visit didn’t meet expectations. The information has been sent onto the centre team and they will investigate and action some of the comments which you have made.

David Bogatko 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always clean and tidy. Helpful friendly staff. Well equiped gym. A pleasure to attend.

Adam Oats 3 years ago

Positive experience: It's good here. Much better than the over crowded life center. Staff are always friendly and I find the life guards arnt whistle happy! I'm happy to pay the price they charge and they seem to have increased the temperature of the water compared to pre covid times. I just wish they would update the changing rooms, lockers and showers. That's my only complaint, they are tiny and not really fit for purpose anymore. 5 stars if that happens.

Daniel Strike 3 years ago

Positive experience: Ugly exterior is made up with the brilliant facilities inside.

Lesley 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great prices for gym membership/ swimming and offers various exercise classes too. It is a bit dated inside and the pool can be on the chilly side. Apart from this, it offers a children's pool containing a small slide and fountain, plus a main pool suitable for competent swimmers. There is free parking and a cafe which is priced reasonably!

John Dawe 3 years ago

Positive experience: Only visited for virus update

Peter Braunton 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great swimming pool plenty of room in the kids pool with slide. Staff freindly.

Kim Loveridge 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I love this place. So much more family friendly than the Life Centre. Great for all ages and abilities. Relaxed, happy and fun place to be with good facilities. Extremely friendly and helpful staff. I highly recommend this place.

Jodyann Ratchford 3 years ago

Positive experience: Good swim but costs to much.

katie “Katiekins” turner 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always nice and clean

Martin Worth 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent staff and a great place to improve your fitness

David Travers 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good fun

Iain Agnew 3 years ago

Positive experience: Nice place . Nice pool

Rachel Jones 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very friendly staff. Everything you need for work out/swim. Pool is the right temperature for exercising

tracey wade 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: The pool was warm, thourally enjoyed the aqua fit class, the instructor is fab.

chris scarratt 4 years ago

Positive experience: Only been swimming here but it seems clean and the staff are friendly.

Jackie Lowrie 4 years ago

Positive experience: Great facilities esprit our toddler unfortunately the water is cold

Sarah Hitchcock 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Visited with a ten and five year old whilst visiting family. Great pool as it has a small slide and fountain area. The slide is short but it's fast and my 10 year old enjoyed it too. Not very busy at all.

Lisa Anderson 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Went to the swimming pool today first time nice swimming pool took my 4 year old daughter and grand daughter and son got into to baby pool it was cold my daughters teeth were chatting even mine. kept moving around as iam teaching my daughter to swim but my god in the end warmed up but then it was time to get out. I will definitely will be back it was just the cold water

Chris Pooley 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love this place, we only use the swimming facilities, for lessons and free swimming, the location great, the pool and changing rooms are always clean, staff are really friendly and helpful, the centre is cashless so bear that in mind although parking is free

Susan Bickford 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good disabled access, changing room only has a folding chair but accessible shower room is better equipped. There are shallow steps into the children's pool which connects to the main pool. They have a hoist but no transit chair.

Naomi Goldsworthy 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: I regularly take my children here for swimming during the family sessions. The pool is warm and there's a small flume that my children love. Staff are currently trying hard to space people out in the pool to maintain covid restrictions. Lockers are still usable but again spaced out. Staff have been polite every time I have visited. I've always been able to park (for free). My only ask would be more changing rooms that are larger in size, as when it's busy and I need to use a small cubicle, it's tricky to sort out my two children as the space is limited.

Maria Harty 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: I found it good I felt relaxed and was glad it wasn't busy

Vincent Harper 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely place and good for the kids.

Paula Lewis 4 years ago

Positive experience: Lifeguards need to help more when kids go in without parent/s

Rachael Harris 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Only used the pool to take my son swimming and we both enjoy it . The pool is always at a good temperature and it is never normally cold on getting out . The pool is at a good depth for him to be self Sufficient.

Heidi lucas 4 years ago

Negative experience: Didn't even want to give 1 star. It dont matter how many times you say anything the water is freezing. Not everyone swims lengths to keep warm some people are in with babys and after half hour and there lips are turning blue and shivering. I would rather drive to liskeard than swim there now not paying 16 quid to swim for half hour. Plus this morning there was a lot of black stuff floating around in both pools

Mark Treagust 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: A fantastic family friendly pool. There was plenty of disabled parking spaces and a wheelchair accessible entrance. The pool has wheelchair friendly changing areas and showers. The pool was easy to access with just a few steps into the junior pool. This pool links into the larger pool.

ethel cook 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Superb staff,and the place is always spotlessly clean

Lisa Heydon 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love this swimming pool, because the colleagues that work there are so friendly and make you feel very welcome.

Hayden Jones Jones 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well set up to ensure covid safe.

Coralie Barrow 4 years ago

Positive experience: A small leisure centre friendly and cafe serves food cooked on premises

Ryan Jakes 5 years ago

Negative experience: Absolute s*******. Hol Dirty changing rooms. Broken lockers. Wouldn't bother going again

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Thank you for your feedback and we are sorry your visit didn’t meet expectations. The information has been sent onto the centre team and they will investigate and action some of the comments which you have made.

Stephie MadFish 5 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly, clean

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Good morning Stephie. Thank you very much for the 4 stars and kind review :-)

Marta Grzych 5 years ago

Positive experience: We like going there with kids but the water could be a bit warmer.

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Hi Marta, Thank you very much for the 4 stars. We do monitor the water temperatures regularly so if you could let us know when you swam, we will be able to investigate this for you :-)

Arthur Ratcliffe 5 years ago

Positive experience: Not busy great for young children as the pool is good fun. However the pool area was quite cold. Cafe is very good too.

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Good morning Arthur. Thank you very much for your lovely comments and 4 stars. We have just invested in a new Air Handling Unit to control pool air temperatures so we will investigate why they were feeling cold as this shouldn't have been the case. We are glad that you enjoy the café as well :-)

Matthew Wilson 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love to take the daughter swimming there. Always a pleasure

John Lucas 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Plenty of activities there swimming and cafe

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Hi John. Thank you so much for the 5 stars. We are glad that you enjoy using Better, Saltash Leisure Centre :-)

Robert Taylor 5 years ago

Negative experience: Run down, needs refurbishment. Changing cubicles are ridiculouslu small.

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Morning Robert. Thank you for your review. We are sorry that you were not happy with your visit. We are currently looking to invest into the wet side toilets, vanity and shower areas as we appreciate these areas do need a uplift. All updates will be posted on our website better.org.uk/saltash or on our facebook page. Thank you and we really hope that you visit us again.

Ryan Boyle 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very clean

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Hi Ryan. Thank you very much for the 5 stars. We are pleased to know that you enjoy Better, Saltash Leisure Centre and that you find the centre clean on your visits :-)

MR S 5 years ago

Positive experience: Liked it, warm water and lots of things to do on a water with your kids.

Gemma Charman 5 years ago

Negative experience: Today was the first time I attended this Leisure Centre, and I was quite disappointed. For two adults and one child the cost was £15. For that price I would expect to have at least clean toilets, locker keys that aren’t broken, and the spa pool and large fountain to work. I also didn't expect to pay 20p to dry my hair !! The only positive thing I would say is one of the lifeguards was on the ball. The place needs a good clean and revamp

craig stuart 5 years ago

Negative experience: Got talked into coming back, expensive for a 20 Min swim then getting told the session is over. Will not be making a third mistake of coming back

Saltash Leisure Centre
Saltash Leisure Centre

Hi Craig. We are really sorry to hear that you had a bad experience at Saltash Leisure Centre. Would you be able to email [email protected] with the date and time that you visited so that we can look into this for you please? Please accept our apologies and we look forward to hearing from you. Thank you

Charlie Taylor 5 years ago

Positive experience: Really enjoyed splashing about with my daughter here, the pool was lovely and clean. Only down side is tiny spaces for changing.

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