Doug Ellis Sports Centre

Positive experience: Difficult to find and looks like it’s in the middle of a building site. Not enough parking to accommodate events. Staff helpful and friendly and reasonable facilities though

Fantastic experience: We use the badminton courts regularly there. Friendly staff and great amenities. Ample parking on site.

Fantastic experience: Went to volunteer at olympictrials really good facility

Fantastic experience: Clean courts lovely service

Positive experience: First time attendee for a charity badminton competition in aid of Palestine. The event was well organised, Ample venue parking. Staff were pheasant and helpful. Light and airy venue. Good playing surface for badminton although could do with a bit of cleaning

Positive experience: Good for the price decent gym but don't like way some staff rush you 20 mins before closing. Also a big problem is they hardly top up the tissues it's not nice when you leave a sweaty machine. Most of the time nobody is in the gym to see I'm talking about staff.

Fantastic experience: Indoor sports or outdoor sports this place has it all.

Fantastic experience: Lovely Basketball Court

Negative experience: Run down needs some major investment...

Fantastic experience: Amazing atmosphere

Positive experience: Nice

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities. Only criticism wish there was an app to book courts. Reception staff are great. Clean. Easy to get to. Love badminton there.

Fantastic experience: Lovely hockey pitch. It would be nice if the spectators could sit nicely, but the walk up and down then field helped keep us warm from the cold wind.

Fantastic experience: Had an amazing time playing basketball ball, the facility is huge and the amenities provided are world class

Fantastic experience: Great venue. Staff were very friendly. Unfortunately, the car park wasn't wheelchair friendly lots of pot holes made it awkward while driving over them.

Positive experience: I'll give 5 stars if the car park is not that broken. Loads of facilities. Clean and nice changing room with good showers. However, hundred of very big potholes all over the car park. Basically, it's a broken construction site. It's disaster to drive there specially in the dark and in a rainny night.

Fantastic experience: First day at Doug Ellis sports, enjoyed

Fantastic experience: Great place almost always has availability for badminton courts. Although the lighting isn’t ideal for more competitive playing since they tend to be right at the hitting angle

Negative experience: No drink facilities or food.

Positive experience: Decent place. Used for training. Would be good for a multitude of sports

Fantastic experience: A very good gym, with modern, decent facilities. The only element which detracts from the overall experience, is the somewhat early closing times. 9.15 pm on a weekday is too early to close.

Positive experience: Great facilities here friendly staff, easily accessible for wheelchair parking with ease too.

Fantastic experience: Best place to keep fit

Fantastic experience: Nice and clean place to for a gym or play badminton Hall is big and spacious Floor is very clean . Only thing on badminton court is that some nets are ripped

Negative experience: For an event, accommodating.

Fantastic experience: Nice sports hall and well maintained. Can here to do a level 1 basketball coaching qualification. They have a large sports hall and had disabled soccer on at the same time, which was nice too see. Parking is a pain as they have building work going on but I’m sure once it’s completed it’ll be easier. They also have ice for injuries available from reception.

Positive experience: Need to provide better parking facilities

Positive experience: An excellent gym spotlessly clean. And for the price you will struggle to better it. However since they have been forced to move their car park. Due to construction site. The car park they have been provided with, is barely fit for purpose. With it resembling no man's land of the Somme in the first world war!!! It really needs urgent pot hole repairs.

Positive experience: Football pitch isn't the best ball kept going on to the next pitch nothing to stop it really but still good enough and cheap.

Fantastic experience: Recently joined and I'm impressed with the gym. The good: - Price, for £15 you get access to wide range of cardio and strength equipment - Car park, plenty of space whenever I've been and always managed to get a spot near the front - Cleanliness, believe it or not my last gym looked and smelt terrible, this gym looks and smells normal - Ambience, it's pleasant to work out, no loud music, no loud members and plenty of happy people The bad: - Unfortunately they still operate a card system, no app or code for entry like some other gyms - It would be better if they had a sit-up/hyper-extension bench. Conclusion: A great gym fr the price. I haven't used any of the sports facilities...yet so can't comment on them.

Fantastic experience: Nice quiet gym

Fantastic experience: Great Sport facilities for own University students, from Badminton to Table Tennis to Football. They’ve got amazing tutors too. You’ll love it here. Good range of Gym facilities too

Positive experience: This is for young people who want to learn how to dance, which involves stretching as well. and a monthly payment of less than £40. you might get a discount if you have two or more kids to join. The coach is good, and she's teaching the kids beautifully how to dance. It's highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: It was beautiful

Fantastic experience: Cheapest badminton court at the weekend. Always a free timeslot

Positive experience: Great service and facilities..

Fantastic experience: Staff are always polite , helpful and accomodating

Positive experience: Hot inside and carpark under level

Negative experience: Stupid rules when holding events. No parking structure. Poor signage.

Positive experience: Centre clean, staff friendly. Car park a mess, just a dirt patch with loads of potholes thats not marked out.

Positive experience: Good size sports centre with plenty of facilities, a bit awkward to get to at the moment due to massive redevelopment of the roads around Perry barr .

Fantastic experience: Always come back to this gym

Positive experience: best football team there is

Positive experience: The location was good, parking was easy. The actual pitch is the sand based AstroTurf pitches of old. This was an issue as found we would slide more and couldn't trust our footing. The place is great and is almost half the price of power league or goals which are the other two local places but, for us personally, we'd rather play on the newer AstroTurf pitches witch just feel safer. I can also imagine people getting injured on this.

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, run by a great bunch.

Positive experience: Came here for a badminton match last week and as the away team we were treated well by all staff and they provided us with changing rooms too. I ended up getting badly injured and couldn't walk, however the staff went above and beyond trying to help, and getting me to the taxi etc.

Positive experience: Friendly sports venue

Fantastic experience: Great little gym...since the university was demolished it is rare to see more than 10 people at a time using the gym itself. And very reasonable at 25 quid a month. Although no swimming pool or sauna etc.

Fantastic experience: The prices are very fair and the facilities are great, nice lighting and atmosphere for badminton. It's a bit unfortunate that you can't make bookings online (maybe it will be implemented in the future), but they're always available on the phones, so it's ok

Fantastic experience: Love the basketball rims perfect for shooters and guards

Positive experience: Came, watched hockey at a building site, won, went to the pub! Re-open the bloody carpark!!!!

Fantastic experience: I was a competitive kickboxing and competed worldwide and never seen Aikido performed as I saw here by Sensi Eddie. BRILLIANT I will be joining the class.

Fantastic experience: Nice staff

Fantastic experience: It’s a nice sport centre, very good for indoor activities: badminton, football or basketball. Gym with many options of machines plus nice staff. It’s a very clean sport centre. I recommend it.

Positive experience: Astro. Access via car park awkward as poorly signposted as road and building works in area

Negative experience: Double booked us so we had 30 boys and no where to train. No point block booking if the cancel on a whim...

Positive experience: Good

Positive experience: Staff were very helpful and vigilant around covid rules

Negative experience: Reception person very ruduuuuude

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities, great adherence to the current COVID regulations. The astro turf takes some getting used to if you're playing hockey, it plays very slow.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place to swim and meet new freinds

Fantastic experience: This place was the venue for a Brazilian jujitsu tournament,it was buzzing lots of other things going on i.e. hockey. Car park a bit tight due to 2 events going on and some improvement works keep up the good work for our young sporting contestants .

Positive experience: A place to start playing Babington after twenty years..have a go

Fantastic experience: Well looked after centre lots of space clean , good facilities

Positive experience: Good reasonable gym facilities at an affordable price

Fantastic experience: Massive New Building, has gym, keep fit classes, Outdoor pitch for football and netball etc. Huge car park for about 50 cars and safe.

Fantastic experience: Facilities and staff first rate

Positive experience: Nice leisure centre centre, small issue to be aware of when parking every time I have been the sign has said full but every time there has been parking available.

Fantastic experience: I've been training here for just under a year and I have enjoyed every single workout. The staff are extremely friendly and helpful. The atmosphere is great and even though they have a small client base, everyone is aquatinted with one another and it's like a small gym family. Great place to train with competitive prices and has a huge range of equipment to utilise. Highly recommend this place

Fantastic experience: Great people good clean facilities

Fantastic experience: Had a good experience. It was nice and easy to book over the phone a court for badminton. The staff were nice and helpful.

Fantastic experience: Nice place. Watched my daughter do her sports here. Staff were helpful.

Positive experience: Its good however there is no cafe and looks relatively dull

Positive experience: Pleasant,busy centre

Positive experience: The Gymnasium Hall is neet n clean. Badminton courts are ok. The other facilities are ok.

Fantastic experience: The changing rooms and showers are nice, the gym is well equipped and the staff are friendly and helpful but if you are waiting for someone in the lobby area it would be good to get a snack and a choice of hot or cold drinks

Positive experience: Not much to say play badminton there every week. No issues with other users pleasant staff

Positive experience: Just using the facilities & it's ok.

Fantastic experience: I play badminton here. Only £3 per person for 2 hours (I go Wednesday evening/night). You might have too call and book in advance as a lot of people might show up. There are about 5 courts in all. Everyone is friendly and there are different levels of players, so don't.be afraid if you're a beginner. They provide shuttlecocks, but bring your own racket.

Fantastic experience: The basketball courts are really nice

Fantastic experience: Plenty parking.

Positive experience: Gr8 place

Positive experience: Decent place but sand pitch

Positive experience: A beautiful sports hall with excellent facilities.

Negative experience: It has a good spacious ground for football. However, the turf itself isn't exactly suitable for football if you're planning on wearing studs. Disappointed.

Negative experience: Used to be a really good gym a few years ago but now it seems to have really declined especially in terms of hygiene. I used to see staff constantly wiping down gym equipment but I haven't seen this happen for over a year. There are stains all over the carpet in the gym. The bathrooms are not cleaned on a regular basis probably about two or three times a week. Toilets are always blocked. The weekend hours are quite restrictive, it would be great if they stayed open later on Saturdays. Staff are friendly. There is a good range of equipment.

Fantastic experience: Premier Aikido Dojo in Birmingham. Head instructor McCalla Shihan. Training in Body Art, Jo Tori, Tachi Tori & more.

Fantastic experience: My first time visit was phenomenal. Loved the atmosphere.

Positive experience: He gym facilities are good and very reasonable prices

Fantastic experience: Sports, lots of them. All type of sport.

Positive experience: Decent gym that isn’t too busy and semi clean changing room

Fantastic experience: Good Sports Centre

Positive experience: The gym has everything you need, it's not too big but it's never really very busy so there is no waiting to use equipment.

Positive experience: Attended a basketball tournament yesterday great day for all pity about the lack of chairs though

Positive experience: Got wrong Doug Ellis building this is a gym sports centre in Perry Barr new centre staff were helpful, you have to pay to park but the centre validates

Fantastic experience: Big sports centre. Reasonably priced and kind staff. Lots to do.

Fantastic experience: Great facility. The manager Paul goes the extra mile to look after his customers/clients. There are slightly cheaper places but are they slightly better? A big massive NO!

Positive experience: Nice for workout.. I have been with them for 2 years. But a bit expensive. So I moved to more cheap one nearby

Positive experience: Simple gym. Nothing too fancy. Gets the job done

Fantastic experience: Lovely place