Penyrheol Leisure Centre

Information about Penyrheol Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: 8h-20h
- monday: 6h-21h
- tuesday: 6h-21h
- wednesday: 6h-21h
- thursday: 6h-21h
- friday: 6h-21h
- saturday: 8h-18h
Our comment from FitFit UK about Penyrheol Leisure Centre:
Penyrheol Leisure Centre in Swansea offers a wide range of activities suitable for everyone, including swimming, football, and various fitness classes. Users appreciate the clean facilities and the friendly staff who consistently provide excellent service. Many families enjoy swimming lessons for their children, noting the professionalism and supportive atmosphere.
Visitors often highlight the great swimming pool and the well-maintained facilities, making it a popular spot for both casual swims and organized events, such as birthday parties. The centre is well-equipped for various sports, including a decent gym, swimming pool, and astroturf pitches.
However, some guests have raised issues such as overflowing rubbish bins and insufficient parking space during busy events. Others noted that improvements are needed in specific areas, such as the children's supervision in the gym and the overall cleanliness around the outdoor pitches.
Despite these minor complaints, Penyrheol Leisure Centre remains a highly recommended destination for community recreation, thanks to its wide selection of classes, friendly atmosphere, and the enjoyable experience many families have had here.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Penyrheol Leisure Centre: Opinions
Positive experience: Decent selection of classes and sporting activities.
Positive experience: Rubbish bins overflowing
Positive experience: They need to sort there parking issue out
Positive experience: Great for swimming, well maintained facility and generally clean and tidy with friendly staff. I only gave 4 stars instead of 5 because I personally preferred the online booking for lane swimming as it felt more organised and you knew if it was likely to be busy or not, but this was recently abolished.
Fantastic experience: Birthday Party fantastic day
Fantastic experience: Great pool not to busy able to have fun and enjoy
Fantastic experience: Absolutely love the public swim at the swimming pool?! We had very good time together there as a family event, my kids enjoyed swimming in the 3m deep end too ! The only problem is no toilet roll nor soap available any time we went...
Fantastic experience: Something for everyone.
Positive experience: Easily accessible. Only came to use football pitch. Seems a tidy set up
Thanks for your review Chris
Fantastic experience: Took my son there for Judo class
Thanks for your review Guy
Positive experience: Visited the 3g football pitch. Lovely pitch, but nowhere to stand for spectators. Pitch fence surrounded by mud. Need to install paths along length of the pitches. Everyone left covered in mud. Highly recommended wellies.
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Fantastic experience: I learnt to swim here. My son learnt to swim here. And now my daughter is. They've never been anything but friendly, professional and offered great service
What a lovely review - thank you so much Jonny
Fantastic experience: Clean pool and changing rooms. Single sex with shower cubicles so you can have a proper shower after swimming. Lovely staff, very friendly and helpful. Take a padlock for the ladies, I think the men's lockers use £1 coins.
Thanks for your lovely review Sue
Positive experience: Astro pitch used for children football game. Not the best venue for supporters because where situated on a hill & muddy. No solid path to stand.
Thanks for your review, I have passed your feedback on to our centre manager
Fantastic experience: Staff are great
Thanks for your 5* rating Kevin
Fantastic experience: Really good only 2.30 to get in and lovely facility also room to play football for however long you want
Thank you for your great review
Positive experience: Loved the panto, jack in the bean stalk, well worth it
It is great to hear you loved the panto - we hope to see you back again
Negative experience: Dire and depressing. Avoid
Naturally we are disappointed to see your review - if you would like to give us any more feedback of detail please do not hesitate to get in touch
Fantastic experience: Went to see granddaughter Darcy in her school production of The Sound of Music. Excellent production at a great venue - thoroughly enjoyed and recommend
What a lovely review - thanks for the review Jane
Positive experience: Squash courts are pricey and could do with a make over, holes in the ceiling!☹️
Stuart - I have passed your comments on to the team at Penyrheol to investigate - many thanks
Positive experience: Great swimming lessons for kids and very friendly staff with clean facilities
Fantastic experience: Great pool.
Fantastic experience: My son has started to learn to swim here and its fantastic staff are really friendly and polite and my son really gets on well with his teacher
Positive experience: Pretty standard leisure centre. I know it's part of freedom leisure so a pass here works in the majority of leisure centres in the swansea area. I use it for the gym only and it doesn't have tons of equipment but enough for s decent workout and it's not been too busy yet.
Positive experience: Fun for the kids
Great to hear your kids had fun with us - thank you for your review
Positive experience: Love the swimming pool, not too busy so when lane swimming you can often have a lane to yourself. I was disappointed at how small the gym is, especially as the time I booked a solo gym session coincided with a gym circuit class so I ended up tucked in the corner with limited equipment available. I feel like they should just close the gym to solo sessions when these classes are running. The treadmill touch screen was also not working properly.
Positive experience: whilst the facility and staff are great they let children run around the gym using some of the potentially dangerous equipment with no super vision, the children would laugh at other paying members trying to work out, very off putting especially to those with self esteem issues.
Fantastic experience: I went to the Gym here whilst I was staying down in Dunvant on Holiday. I booked the session online the night before (£6.75 for a walk on session) and the staff were very friendly and helpful on arrival. The Gym is well kitted out and there is a lot of space which is really nice. There are dedicated areas, from Cardio to Free Weights/Resistance, and there is a separate room upstairs (over 16s only) with extra equipment. It was also really clean, and it is air conditioned so it was a good temperature for working out. I would highly recommend this.
Fantastic experience: Good local amenity
Positive experience: U11s football. Cold night, good supporters.
Fantastic experience: It's always amazing!
Fantastic experience: Really enjoyed. The staff and facilities were great
Positive experience: Great customer service. We had our daughter's birthday party here and the staff were extremely helpful and friendly. Recommended.
Fantastic experience: What amazing facilities at the Leisure Centre and Gym. Friendly and very helpful staff, Alice very encouraging and supportive. Well done all.
Fantastic experience: Had a great pool party. Always have a great time. 2nd year in a row otis lost a balloon... this time on the way to the car. Spotted it in penyrheol fields @ 4.15 after the staff had finished and we swung back around and asked if they would let us in to get it. Cameron and the front staff were great AGAIN. Opened it up in the pouring rain for us to run over the fields to get a number 7 balloon. Of all the things he remembered this was a highlight. Thanks all xx
Positive experience: Clean facilities pool is awesome, abit busy but that's expected.
Fantastic experience: Staff are always lovely helpful and friendly and the swim teachers are exceptional helped me overcome my lifetime fear of the water!
Positive experience: Recently refurbished and looking great. Booking system is frustrating though.
Fantastic experience: Great 3g pitch for academy training.
Fantastic experience: Always a pleasure for a swim.
Positive experience: Fair quantity of parking. Busy popular place. Cafe which is not large enough, and has little choice.
Fantastic experience: Great visit, centre is clean and tidy.
Fantastic experience: Very nice pool
Fantastic experience: I swim regularly at this pool. It is always clean. The staff are lovely, especially Susan, Nadine and Fion, they are smashing girls. They are all very helpful, accommodating and friendly. The changing rooms and reception have been updated, and the facilities are excellent. It can get busy sometimes, as do all pools, but that is a small price to pay for such a lovely pleasant venue. Nothing to complain about here.
Positive experience: Come here for kids football. Good pitch, there is a lot of rubbish around the car park but generally very good
Thanks Gary - I have passed your comments on to the team at Penyrheol
Negative experience: If I could give this place a 0 star review I would staff are really rude place needs updated looks like a 1990 leisure centre pool full of dirt needs cleaned and also lots of crime around the leisure centre !!!
Fantastic experience: Daughter loves her swimming lessons
Fantastic experience: A very clean leisure centre with lots of classes and activities as well as an excellent gym.
Positive experience: Nice astroturf pitch and decent sized car park
Positive experience: The pool is decent enough and the staff are very good but it's too small for the numbers that use it, Penlan is better swim
Fantastic experience: Excelent.
Positive experience: Watching grandson swimming lessons nice clean well managed pool several safety attendants
Fantastic experience: Our grandchild is enjoying her swimming lessons.
Fantastic experience: Great gym , friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Very goot
Positive experience: Swimming with grandchildren. I was very impressed with the improvements in the changing rooms, lovely and clean. Showers were great, and hairdryers provided! Staff helpful and friendly.
Fantastic experience: I was taking a service user for the first time a young man was very helpful and all staff helpful and friendly. Clean and safe. Service user wants to go again.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facility with lots of activities. Very help staff.
Fantastic experience: I enjoy using the swimming pool regularly, very friendly staff. I am hoping to get back to the gym very soon.
Fantastic experience: Great community leisure centre, helpful and friendly staff. Love that we have a pool in the community
Fantastic experience: Use the swimming pool regularly
Fantastic experience: Gaz showed me around the gym as I was new to the gym very polite give me some tips thanks gaz
Fantastic experience: Excellent staff ..could not be more helpful
Fantastic experience: Great go out with the kids safely and huge too ☺️.
Fantastic experience: Always friendly helpful staff
Positive experience: My 1st booked appointment at the pool was cancelled with no explanation. It was nice to get in the pool when i finally did though and the staff were fab. I also love the new style changing rooms. The only issue is you can not book online you have to ring them to book all swimming sessions which i think is stupid.
Fantastic experience: Love this gym. I mainly use the classes which as hard as you want them to be! I always come out absolutely dripping
Fantastic experience: I come here a few times a week to use their Gym. The staff are always happy and willing to help. The App booking facility is handy to book in advance. The Covid measures put in place by the management and more importantly maintained by the staff, ensure that it is a safe environment to exercise in. The Technogym App allows me to see how I'm improving to get rid of the excess fat during lockdown. My Instructor can also see how I'm doing. I can't recommend this place too much. Thank you all!
Negative experience: This leisure centre mishandled a serious incident. I was treated by somebody who was providing a service like I was beneath them. I was talked down to and I was berated, it was so bad that I was even traumatised by the ordeal. When I reported it to the management they did not give a proper reprimand for it and they even turned a blind eye to it. This leisure centre does not brief the people who are providing a service on their premises of the conduct that is expected and they also do dot protect customers when misconduct occurs. Misconduct is putting it mildly, I would even call what happened abuse, the management responding as carelessly as they did is outrageous.
Positive experience: Lovely for what it is but poor compared to newer facilities.
Fantastic experience: Fab skating for the kids
Positive experience: It's a good leisure centre
Fantastic experience: Staff were friendly and very helpful
Positive experience: Good pool, fantastic refurbished changing rooms, good value for a simple swim
Fantastic experience: Here for the first time today and very surprised how well stocked the gym is if you are looking to get fit or increase strength you can't go for wrong
Fantastic experience: Great gym and staff
Fantastic experience: Great playing surface
Positive experience: There every sunday for football but lack of bins for ur coffee cups
Fantastic experience: Brilliant staff and facilities being updated all the time. New reception area in the pool, selling bathers and goggles
Fantastic experience: Excellent football ground
Positive experience: Really good 3G pitch but no hard area for us to watch, luckily it wasn't too muddy for us today! Leisure centre looks a little run down and not a bin in sight, probably the reason why there was so much rubbish around the outside of the enclosed pitch.
Positive experience: Good leisure Centre, nice people, parking can be tight when theres activities on the playing fields
Fantastic experience: Watch the speed bumps as you enter the car park. Slow your speed for safety
Fantastic experience: Swimming pool is great
Fantastic experience: A great gym
Positive experience: My daughter plays football here and the 3g pitch is great but why don't the designers of these things think about spectators?
Fantastic experience: I started going to the gym to help me lose weight. Love it here I wasn't judged for my size and all the staff who are friendly. There is also so much going for on everyone..
Positive experience: Great 3g pitch. Not sure why there is a fenced area which is overgrown with no access right next to pitch. Only way to get your football back is to climb the fence
Positive experience: Decent centre
Fantastic experience: Good place
Fantastic experience: Daughter loves her swimming there great for what she enjoys
Fantastic experience: Huge variety of activities
Positive experience: I like the bar here.
Fantastic experience: Long time since being hear when I was a teen. It hasn't changed much. Had a fantastic afternoon
Positive experience: I only use the pool so it only applies to that facility, pool is 25m long and 10m wide, it is a flat deck design with a 10ft deep end. Built in the late 70's; this pool is busy by Swansea standards. In the 1970/80's it was Swansea City Council policy that every comprehensive school had its own pool, the then County Council [West Glamorgan] supplied the facilities and the City Council paid for its staffing. Penyrheol being part of the defunct Lliw Valley Council was only added to Swansea's portfolio in the early 1990's. This pool and changing areas are always kept clean and staff are friendly and knowledgeable the pool temperature is always cool enough to swim hard. Check when its open though as it's used by schools and clubs as well as the public
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff here very polite
Fantastic experience: Great staff. Soon upgrading facilities. Best value in area
Fantastic experience: Fabulous dance Xmas concert
Positive experience: Nice place
Positive experience: Wasn't what they had last time not so accommodating
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