Information about Halo Ross Swimming Pool
Opening hours
- Monday: 06:00–21:00
- Tuesday: 06:00–21:00
- Wednesday: 06:00–21:00
- Thursday: 06:00–21:00
- Friday: 06:00–21:00
- Saturday: 08:00–13:00
- Sunday: 08:00–13:00
Located in the heart of Ross-on-Wye, **Halo Ross Swimming Pool** is more than just a leisure facility; it is a community hub dedicated to fostering physical health, mental wellbeing, and social connection for people of all ages and abilities. As part of the not-for-profit **Halo Leisure** charity, this center reinvests its profits directly back into improving local health and fitness resources, ensuring affordable and high-quality access to exercise and recreation.
At the core of the center is a fully equipped **gym**, featuring modern cardio machines, resistance equipment, and free weights. Whether you are a beginner taking your first steps or an experienced athlete looking to break personal records, the gym provides a supportive environment to achieve your specific fitness goals. The center also offers a **sauna and steam room**, providing the perfect opportunity for relaxation and recovery after a workout. Please note that pool-based activities take priority, so availability may vary.
For those who enjoy movement in water, the facility boasts a **25-meter, four-lane pool** ideal for lap swimming and aqua-based fitness. The center hosts a variety of **aqua group exercise classes** suitable for all levels, allowing you to build strength and flexibility while enjoying the low-impact benefits of water exercise. The pool area is also equipped with accessible features, including a pool pod for wheelchair access, ensuring inclusive participation for everyone.
Physical activity extends beyond the gym and pool with a dynamic schedule of **group exercise classes** held in the exercise studio. From high-energy interval training to gentle, low-impact sessions, there is something for every preference. These classes are designed to promote both physical health and social wellbeing, bringing the community together in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Expert instructors provide one-to-one support and guidance to help you improve your overall health and activity levels.
Family-friendly services are a key priority. The center is renowned for its expert-led **swimming lessons**, which have helped thousands of babies, children, and adults become confident and capable swimmers. Instructors consider all access needs to ensure a safe learning environment for all abilities. To encourage early engagement with water, children under the age of 3 can attend public swimming sessions for **free**. Additionally, the facility offers engaging **children’s holiday activities** and **birthday party packages**, providing a safe, supervised arena for kids to climb, splash, and play, giving parents a relaxing break.
Halo Ross Swimming Pool is committed to accessibility, featuring automatic doors, accessible toilets, changing rooms, showers, and a lift to the first floor. The center is open Monday to Friday from 06:00 to 21:00, and weekends from 08:00 to 13:00. With flexible membership options and pay-as-you-go basis availability, it is easy to join and start your wellness journey today.
What customers highlight most
- Outstanding staff make everyone feel welcome and valued
- Clean gym and pool areas provide a safe environment
- Sauna, steam room and lessons for all ages available
Our comment from FitFit UK about Halo Ross Swimming Pool:
Welcome to the Halo Ross Swimming Pool, located in Ross-On-Wye, UK, a premier destination for fitness and leisure activities.
Our center is known for its:
- Outstanding Staff: Visitors frequently praise our friendly and helpful team, making everyone feel welcome and valued.
- Clean and Well-Maintained Facilities: The gym and pool area are noted for their cleanliness, providing a safe environment for all our guests.
- Great Atmosphere: Many users appreciate the friendly ambiance both in the swimming pool and gym areas, which fosters a community spirit among visitors.
- Variety of Services: Enjoy our sauna and steam room, alongside excellent gym facilities and swimming lessons for all ages.
- Convenient Location: The center is easily accessible with ample parking space, making your visit hassle-free.
While we have received overwhelming positive feedback, we are also aware of some areas for improvement:
- Membership Pricing: Some users mentioned that membership fees are higher compared to other local centers.
- Facilities Under Maintenance: Occasionally, some facilities like the steam room may be out of order, and users would appreciate discounts during such times.
- Gym Equipment: Some visitors have noted a desire for more gym machines and equipment to enhance their workout experience.
Overall, the Halo Ross Swimming Pool offers an inviting experience with dedicated staff, a commitment to cleanliness, and great facilities for everyone. Come and join us for a refreshing swim or a workout!
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Halo Ross Swimming Pool: Reviews
Reviews are the opinions of their authors. We do not verify that the author was a customer.
Fantastic experience: Very good staffs
Negative experience: Just looked up prices for membership and Ross is nearly twice the price of Gloucester memberships. Get in line with reality!
Fantastic experience: Good staff
Positive experience: Full membership. Very friendly and helpful staff. Excellent gym facitity
Hi Gerry, Thank you for your recent 4 review. We appreciate your positive feedback. King Regards, Ross Halo Team
Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere Great prices
Negative experience: Visited to use the sauna and steam room facilities, when we arrived we were told the steam room was out of order as it had broken again, we could only use the sauna and not the pool as there was a swimming session on. The sauna was lovely so was the showers however if only one thing is working it should be at a discounted price.
Fantastic experience: Great staff, very helpful and friendly.
Fantastic experience: Nice place easy parking, great staff
Fantastic experience: Good crowd of regular swimmers
Hi Tony Thank you for your recent 4 star review. We hope to gain that extra star at some point and appreciate your feedback. Kind regards Ross Halo Team
Fantastic experience: Extremely clean - Staff so polite. Very well run .
Hi Anthony Thank you for the recent 5 star review. We are pleased that you are enjoying the facility and hope it continues. Kind regards Ross Halo Team
Fantastic experience: Amazing swimming pool!
Positive experience: Good little pool with the added bonus of a sauna and steam room. On a time limit entry so you need to have a set time to swim if you want a sauna too
Hi Andrew, We appreciate the lovely feedback and the four star review, we hope you continue to enjoy using the facilities. Thank you. Ross Halo Team.
Fantastic experience: I went there today for the first time and all the instructors were very kind, every space was very clean and well kept. The gym was very well made and spacious. Would Recommend!
Fantastic experience: My daughter is learing to swim. Special mention to Peter her instructor, he is a gifted guy, the kids love him.
Negative experience: Gym is incredibly limited with their machines. Could use a fair few more
Hi Ben Thank you for your recent review. kind regards Ross Halo Team
Fantastic experience: Very helpful and polite staff. Only visited the swimming pool which is great.
Hi Veronie Thanks for the 5 star review. It's really lovely when our customers enjoy their experiences with us. Kind Regards Ross Halo Team
Fantastic experience:
Fantastic experience: Awesome gym, plenty of space and machines to use alway welcome and friendly.
Negative experience: Ordered tickets to this leisure centre for swimming by accident meant to be a different leisure centre and they don’t even answer the phone so I can get a refund!!
Positive experience: A nice swimming pool.
Fantastic experience: Great place the swimming pool always clean, not busy the gym fantastic friendly ambience
Positive experience: The staff are very good at teaching children in their swimming lessons even when they are not very confident. Would of given a higher rating but the pool is very basic and the changing rooms could be cleaned a little more often.
Positive experience: Great!! In my point of view, really good, friendly ambience, I'm swim every day, the gym is great, clean, and many other activities, good price the add more classes
Fantastic experience: Loved getting back into swimming after a few years and the staff were great, very helpful and friendly
Fantastic experience: Very good place..
Fantastic experience: Lovely staff and a good pool.
Fantastic experience: Man with the glasses on the reception is brilliant, very helpful!
Fantastic experience: Great service by all the team
Fantastic experience: I love my swim every Monday Wednesday and Friday's staff are so friendly as are the other swimmers
Fantastic experience: Friendly and helpful staff. Lovely venue with Gym, pool, steam room and sauna. Also run a variety of exercise classes, but book before turning up.
Fantastic experience: Good
Fantastic experience: First time being at the pool. Welcoming, clean and the pool was warm.
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and a well run centre.
Fantastic experience: Nice helpful staff, clean, sauna is nice and hot! Pool a good temp. Bit busy on a 9am swim.
Positive experience: Too cold. My granddaughter only lasted 20 minutes and wanted to get out. Even the swimming coach commented on how cold it was.
Fantastic experience: Friendly environment, observing cleaning regimes.
Positive experience: Odd times.. good lessons so hot
Fantastic experience: Excellent loxal pool. Water not too cold, not crowded because you need to book. Lane swimming or family time sessions.
Thanks for your 5 star review! We take pride in being a community Swimming Pool.
Negative experience: Not the best gym to begin with; lack of machines, people stand around chatting rather than working out, basically the same size as a home gym but trying to cram loads of people in it. But trying to cancel your membership is a whole ordeal. I gave my one month's notice back in July and they confirmed my last payment would be in August. September comes and they try and take the money out of my account, so I get in touch with my bank to stop that from happening. I then get harassed by emails and letters saying that there was a direct debit failure and that they're charging me an additional amount for the said direct debit failure. I had already been in touch with the center explaining that my membership had been cancelled and the last payment was confirmed for August, but they then did nothing and I continued to receive emails and letters saying I need to pay for a membership. DO NOT RECOMMEND. I now travel from Ross to Gloucester for my gym and it's so much better. 100% worth the longer drive to go to a proper gym.
Fantastic experience: Took daughter for her first swim tonight and loved it, made feel welcome, pool spotless staff first class..
Thanks for our 5 stars and lovely comments - I will pass onto the team!
Fantastic experience: Wonderful staff. Excellent facilities
Thanks Sian for our 5 stars and your comment! I will pass on to the team.
Positive experience: Very good. Well maintained. Friendly staff too.
Fantastic experience: Lovely pool, clean, fun wall murals and friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff covid conscious
Thanks for our 5 star review!
Fantastic experience: Lovely clean pool.
Fantastic experience: very well organised clean and great covid measures in place, the swimming pool is manned by a lifeguard and was great to see people able to swim again deffo going to be going again and on a regular basis
Fantastic experience: Fantastic and friendly staff. Very helpful and excellent covid procedures.
Thank you so much for such wonderful feedback. The team works hard to make you feel safe and welcome and we are super pleased it is paying off.
Fantastic experience: We've been going to the open swim since it opened from the final lockdown, 2 of us and a 2 year old, it's brilliant, the staff have everything covid safe. The changing rooms are cleaned regularly, would reccomend going.
Wow - thank you so much for the great feedback
Fantastic experience: Great staff and great atmosphere. Nothing is to much trouble
Fantastic experience: Fantastic swimming pool. Good Covid system in place. Feel safe and happy swimming here. Staff are friendly and helpful. A great asset to Ross on Wye.
Positive experience: Great to have the pool open. Friendly staff, and very efficiently run in the current restrictions.
Fantastic experience: Doing all they can to keep everyone Covid safe. Excellent, helpful staff.
Fantastic experience: Tbh it's so much better with the new rules in place and max 4 people per lane. People are more polite now too. Long Mau it last.
Fantastic experience: Good place to have workout. Didn't have swim tho
Negative experience: The showers doesn't work for a few weeks, so going out of the gym you can't take a shower.
Fantastic experience: Can't fault the girls that are helping my children learn to swim there so friendly and patient highly recommended
Fantastic experience: Very well maintained. Staff friendly and helpful. All good.
Fantastic experience: Brilliant pool. I learnt to dive there. The staff are very welcoming and friendly
Negative experience: Don't bother with the free pass, they want an induction before! Waste of time. I'm sure people know how to workout without inductions. There are very good gyms out there don't expect an induction, il be going there!
Fantastic experience: Great gym, lovely staff. Amazing classes!!
Negative experience: Came for a 7 day trial, when i arrived was told i couldnt use the gym without an induction which i found insulting. Im an amateur athlete and have trained 6 days a week for the last 15 years i dont need to be shown how to use a cross trainer. I later found out i could of bought a day pass on hustle website which would of allowed me to use the gym without an induction...the staff did not inform me of this. I was allowed to use the pool, which was grotty and in need of repairs. Will join else where
Negative experience: Needs to fix the showers and lockers
Fantastic experience: Hadn't been here since I was 6yo now nearly 50 took my little 8yo and we had a fantastic time plus they got the gym and a sauna and do kids parts too
Fantastic experience: Reception girls very friendly and gave a warm welcome, gym instructor was very helpful and very welcoming as were all the people working out, first impression is that it's a very clean facility pool looked good and the changing rooms were very clean, would highly reccomend visiting to anyone who has never been
Positive experience: Great swim
Fantastic experience: Yes! This is where it's at guys. Swimming, sauna, showers, big gym, fit girls working there and some buff lads too. Very very happy customer.......for now.
Fantastic experience: Friendly helpful staff. Brilliant place to get fit or unwind with a swim. The center is very clean and tidy.
Positive experience: Good gym really good staff/trainers really helpful and overall really nice people in my eyes not enough weights and benches and overall quite small therefore gets too crowded so have too spend longer in the gym than needed...
Fantastic experience: Love the pool, very good staff, helpful
Fantastic experience: Great pool,great facilities, welcoming and friendly staff..great experience all round
We are so pleased you love coming to our centre - thank you for the great feedback
Positive experience: OK for many
Negative experience: I went today to join but the young girls was working there I found but of unfriendly and not good customer service. So I decided not to go there again.
Fantastic experience: Nice place
Negative experience: Although nice new changing rooms and reception the pool was in dire need of attention. The tiles were old and cracked, there was a line of dirt round pool level, the pool itself was not very clean even my 12 year old granddaughter remarked on it. Cleaning had not been done for some time. I'll not be going again soon.
Fantastic experience: Clean and well equipped
Fantastic experience: Great to have you open again
Positive experience: Great friendly staff, good atmosphere and clean conditions. My only gripe is the selling of chocolate bars and fizzy, sugary drinks from the vending machines. It's a health centre and healthier snacks should be offered.
Fantastic experience: Brilliant facilities
Fantastic experience: Lovely pool with friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Clean, friendly and accommodating
Positive experience: Nice swimming pool. Good changing rooms. Friendly staff.
Positive experience: Place is acceptable, pool had way too much chlorine, showers were cold, didn't seem clean.
Fantastic experience: Very good to keep fit in
Negative experience: Absolutely freezing, my daughters mouth turned blue. We got out after no more than ten minutes
Fantastic experience: Very clean in the pool.. unisex changing rooms but still very private with the option of cubicals
Positive experience: Great facility. Recent refurb is great. Very modern and clean. Would love it if it had a jacuzzi :)
Fantastic experience: Friendly place
Positive experience: Tired and cold
Negative experience: Cold water
Positive experience: Nice clean pool that's not too busy.
Fantastic experience: Really lovely pool and venue, very impressed, will come back again. The change rooms are something that others should look to mirror.
Fantastic experience: Clean. Friendly.
Negative experience: Had to change my review as when I was a member they claimed that I didn't attend my pre-booked sessions and wouldn't let me book any more before I'd pay the fines. I'd attended all of the sessions I booked and when queried I suggested they look at the CCTV on the dates that I'd allegedly missed. They said they would, but they never did and so I cancelled my membership as it was deemed useless as I couldn't book any further sessions. A shame really as the member of staff who dealt with the issue seemed to have no intention of resolving it. I'm happy for a manager to contact me about this issue to clarify any aspect of this review.
Negative experience: Rather yellow tinge to the water and brown lumps floating around
Fantastic experience: 1st time of visiting this pool. Lady on reception was very welcoming, she explained the procedures and where everything was. Pool area was clean, showers were clean and hot. Plenty of lockers and lifeguards swopped on a regular basis. I saw a lady testing the water in the swimming pool and the area around the pool being scrubbed. We will definitely be returning.
Fantastic experience: Fab children's swimming lessons
Fantastic experience: My son goes swimming here every Sunday and the changing rooms are private booths with locking doors, there are hairdryers set up in front of mirrors for after swimming or after showering. The whole leisure centre is regularly cleaned and there are 2 cold drink vending machines and one hot drinks one in the viewing area upstairs with a huge selection of flavoured teas and different coffees and hot chocolate, you can even select how strong the hot chocolate is. There is also a spacious and well equipped gym that I'd love to try.
Fantastic experience: Helpful, friendly staff. Great classes and workout facilities.
Fantastic experience: Lovely friendly staff,felt relaxed,not intimidated once.. Very helpful and lovely facilities
Thanks for the great feedback Wayne!
Fantastic experience: Nice friendly staff, good installations, not crowded.
Thank you Fernando!
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