Bo'ness Recreation Centre
Information about Bo'ness Recreation Centre
Our comment from FitFit UK about Bo'ness Recreation Centre:
Bo'ness Recreation Centre is a well-loved community hub in Bo'ness, UK, offering a variety of activities suitable for all ages. The centre boasts:
- 25m Swimming Pool: A local favorite, the pool features a very deep end (3m) utilized by the local sub aqua club for training. It is ideal for both serious swimmers and families.
- Welcoming Atmosphere: Visitors appreciate the friendly staff who create a welcoming environment for all. Many have praised the reception team for their helpfulness.
- Variety of Facilities: In addition to the swimming pool, the centre offers a gym with good equipment, fitness classes, outdoor astroturf pitches, and a café.
- Community Involvement: The centre hosts various events and activities, making it a vital part of the community.
However, some users have noted areas for improvement, including:
- Maintenance Concerns: A few visitors expressed the need for upgrades and better building maintenance.
- Closing Times: Some have suggested that extending operating hours would enhance the experience.
- Changing Facilities: While generally fine, some changing areas have received mixed reviews regarding cleanliness and temperature.
Despite these minor issues, Bo'ness Recreation Centre is highly regarded as a top choice for swimming and fitness activities in the area, making it a valuable asset to the community.
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Bo'ness Recreation Centre: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Good for scuba practice
Fantastic experience: Great local pool with mix of laned and open swimming
Fantastic experience: Love the place. Best indoor hall in area.
Fantastic experience: Only used the Swimming Pool which is 25m long and has a very deep deep end (3metres?) So deep it is used by the local sub aqua club for training. Pool was busy but not so busy that I couldn't swim lengths. Changing facilities were as expected and staff friendly and helpful. Has a large car park with ample spaces. Other facilities include a bar and outdoor astroturf 5 a side pitches. The centre is large so will have other facilities I am not aware of as I am not local to Bo'Ness. Rumours that the council want to close the centre to save money. Hope it can be kept open as it seems a well used public facility with plenty to do.
Fantastic experience: Our local swimming pool which we use every week. The staff, especially the reception team are always welcoming and friendly. Falkirk council in their infinite wisdom, want to close it. Sheer madness, as it is, by far, the best pool in the area with a 3m deep end.
Fantastic experience: Friendly environment.. good facilities AND within walking distance = available to all of Bo'ness..
Positive experience: Good place for families .
Fantastic experience: Great variety of activity’s go there all the time staff are very kind
Positive experience: The one and only establishment in town where you can do all sorts of activities under one roof.
Positive experience: We went to watch my niece play in the sports hall. The cafe was fine and had a good viewing area of the hall. The staff were very helpful. Their baby changing facilities could be a lot better as we struggled to find any. We ended up using the bench in the disabled toilet. They also have a swimming pool and a gym but we did not use them.
Fantastic experience: First time visiting the Centre and it's well loked after, nice warm pool. Perfect for my dive training. Hopefully it stays open. Sign the petition to keep it open people.
Fantastic experience: Great pool, lovely and warm. Showers warm too.
Positive experience: Really good gym and swimming pool. It is always quite busy, and it is used by a lot of sports clubs. Hopefully, falkirk Council won't close this venue as a cost cutting exercise as has been discussed.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities, though building maintenance would be nice to see from the council for this vital community centre.
Fantastic experience: The gym and the swimming pool with the 3 dedicated swimming lanes make this centre brilliant. Only issue is that it closes just a bit too early. 9pm should really be 9.30pm or 10pm even.
Positive experience: Good sized venue for events
Fantastic experience: A great Christmas craft fayre. Well done Nikki! For organising this event. Bobby
Fantastic experience: My son had a fab time here. The staff were very courteous.
Fantastic experience: Birthday party for my grandson with a visit from Spidey and Spin. Great fun
Fantastic experience: Great new kit in the refurb of the gym. All staff really pleasant, enthusiastic and helpful. Excellent upgraded gym for bo'ness.
Fantastic experience: Great room with bouncy castle for my granddaughters birthday party. All the children had a ball. They loved the wall to wall mirror.
Fantastic experience: Very much needed facility in the town! Good facilities, though seems to be the last to receive any upgrades in kit! Very good fitness classes
Fantastic experience: Brilliant wee pub/cocktail bar. Great atmosphere and entertainment. Would recommend! Thanks Ed Sheeran
Positive experience: Staff very helpful and friendly.
Fantastic experience: Banging bar!
Positive experience: I went with my friend (we can both swim well) and one of the staff members came up to us and told us she doesnt believe we can swim so we cant go to the deep end, this was when we first got in so we wer stuck at the shallow end the full time. we tried to tell her we can swim but she didnt believe us we come here quite often and its only happened once
Fantastic experience: Brilliant. As usual.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic place to go for a proper swim in a nice clean, warm environment
Fantastic experience: Really enjoyed the pool you get a good cup of coffee and a Scone on butter and jam for £2 in the cafe.
Negative experience: A great community asset that's been allowed to decay for decades. Past new equipment used to be hand me downs from Grangemouth Centre, that is far older than the Bo'ness Centre but continually refurbished.
Positive experience: Council charging 25p per kilowatthour
Positive experience: Facilities are OK pool a bit dirty and kids were allowed to scream and dive
Negative experience: Non swimmers have a very small area of a large pool in which they are allowed to swim. This allocation could easily be increased. Shame reallt!
Negative experience: Not tried the gym or lesiure facilites but if the cafe is anything to go by OMG never go in this place its less than basic and very grubby looking the food is almost thrown at you the ham for the toastie must be from the local farmfoods shop. AVOID., only reason i gave 1 star is because its the least i am allowed to give
Fantastic experience: Started going along to this venue, and I must say uts excellent in every way, staff a friendly, Gym has good equipment .
Fantastic experience: Best swimming pool in the area...staff great...gym small but perfectly formed
Fantastic experience: Found the young lad at the front desk very helpful
Fantastic experience: I attend the swim aerobics and the staff are absolutely fab they go out there way to help with stuff we need
Negative experience: Just in carpark for covid test
Fantastic experience: By far the best drive through PCR experience i have had. Well done. So good, i went back for another one
Fantastic experience: Był t na mobilnym teście PSR. Profesjonalna organizacja!
Fantastic experience: Good wee town recreation centre
Positive experience: In my opinion the best place to SWIM in Falkirk District (does Boness come under Falkirk District?). It is never as busy as Grangemouth which is good because you don't need to perfect your slalom techniques to reach the other side of the pool. The pool is deeper too which is good if you like to dive in....I don't but my kids do. I just enjoy being able to swim as many lengths as I desire without too many interruptions. Not a great pool for children as it is just a pool, there are no flumes or fancy slides or toys. Just a great pool for SWIMMING.
Positive experience: Was there for jab
Fantastic experience: Very efficient vaccination clinic, booster and flu jag done
Positive experience: It's great to be out socialising again
Fantastic experience: Staff and committee so friendly, great cocktail list, live entertainment was a little loud but fantastic. We will be back!
Negative experience: State
Fantastic experience: Great people bar staff excellent would recommend this place
Fantastic experience: Incredibly friendly staff. Very helpful.
Fantastic experience: Friendly atmosphere where you can enjoy your exercise. Great sports centre and pool!
Fantastic experience: Brilliant as always.
Fantastic experience: We always use Bo'ness. It is not our local pool but cleanliness is worth travelling for. Staff are lovely, very welcoming and helpful.
Positive experience: Went for covid testing..... had covid..... not leaving the house again for 10 days.
Fantastic experience: Really good place friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Best pool in West lothian
Positive experience: Was at a 5th birthday party and the hall is massive. It had a bouncy trampoline
Fantastic experience: Friendly welcome and all areas kept clean
Fantastic experience: The staff is amazing, kind friendly etc :) the gym is pretty small but well equipped for a full body training. Andrew is the best PT ever :D Bufe staff are also great funny and friendly, and the meal deal with a panini/fruit/can is just perfect for 2.80 :)
Positive experience: Great place for a kids party.
Positive experience: Entrance? Clean & well laid out. Staff? Always happy to help. Changing area? Clean bright with no problems. Toilets & shower area? Smelly Pool? Cold
Fantastic experience: Friendly place staff brilliant.
Positive experience: Trying to get fit
Positive experience: Exterior lacking but facilities good and staff friendly
Positive experience: Good place for all
Positive experience: Good swimming. Helpful staff. Reasonably priced
Positive experience: Good Place to stay healthy some staff are friendly some are not overall not bad place
Positive experience: A wide range of sports and fitness classes available. The gym is well equipped. Great pool too.
Fantastic experience: Grandson loved the diving course
Fantastic experience: Sporta zāle ar baseinu.
Fantastic experience: A proper 25 m pool
Fantastic experience: Great facility, had a good day at the dance competition
Fantastic experience: Great place ti go and staff are freindliy and plesent
Fantastic experience: Excellent choice of cocktails in the bar
Fantastic experience: Great
Positive experience: Changing rooms are a disgusting site, no ceiling, freezing in winter times when going for a shower, on the plus side the bar is good, excellent cocktails and good
Fantastic experience: Great facility as a member of the UKTC Taekwon-do group the facilities are first class
Fantastic experience: Great place for indoor football, badminton, table tennis, teampolines, baby and toddler groups etc
Fantastic experience: Great friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Nice staff, clean and good maintained
Positive experience: Good recreation centre but gym a bit limited
Fantastic experience: Great staff. Daughter loves swimming lessons.
Positive experience: Helpful staff
Fantastic experience: Great pool
Positive experience: Needs knocked down and built again outdated now
Positive experience: Great staff. Lots of activities to do.
Negative experience: Very cold with no food facilities
Negative experience: The staff are crabbit and annoy me
Fantastic experience: Another good night at Bo'ness Recreation Social and Cocktail Bar.
Fantastic experience: Good place
Fantastic experience: tiny wee gym, but woth the price, nice staff, good work out plans,
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and customers. Good equipment.
Positive experience: Decent pool for swimming, clean and tidy changing rooms. A few broken lockers, but generally a good, no frills pool.
Negative experience: Best swimming pool in the area,
Positive experience: Good
Fantastic experience: Good value for money.
Fantastic experience: I've been using this place for around five years now and have never had any problems. The staff are really friendly and couldn't do more to help.
Positive experience: Very helpful staff. Good facilities.
Positive experience: Nice place for sport activities
Positive experience: Gym is very small but good equipment and friendly staff.
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