The Oval Leisure Centre

Fantastic experience: great centre for many different activities

Fantastic experience: Great place for the kids

Fantastic experience: Perfect place for a family Great variety of classes, spacious studios Friendly professional staff

Positive experience: Pool is a great temperature, warm! Good powerful showers. Floors in pool changing rooms need some work.

Positive experience: Friendly staff, changing room unclean. Pool nice

Fantastic experience: Good facilities and availability.

Fantastic experience: Went for an induction to the gym. Very good upto date equipment. Patrick was a great help. Making my experience good and welcoming.

Positive experience: Great place for cheap sport activities. Gym. swim and squash.

Positive experience: We took our son for a swim changing area has large enough cubicles to get changed an get little one changed in

Negative experience: I have not been to the Oval for many years until today. The swimming was fine , but unisex changing rooms is not a good way to welcome the public in . Also the changing rooms are appalling , the floors are needing repairs , water on the floors as there is no drain in any of them . Your feet are wet before even changing , and difficult to get yourself dry after swimming . I have used many swimming facilities on the Wirral and beyond, but never have I seen the disgusting state of these rooms . COVID hasn’t made any difference to being clean / hygiene ! It’s not rocket science .. No swimming costume extractor either . It’s shameful the Council are not refurbing a well used leisure facility . Would like a response from the powers that be but I am sure I won’t receive one . I tried to find an email address to raise these points but there wasn’t one ?

Fantastic experience: Good gym with lots of equipment. Suitable for all types of workouts. The pool is also good, but can get a little busy at times. Otherwise, the invigor8 membership options are great and cheaper to other gyms I've found. They are open every day and also have many activity classes to join in with. Would definitely recommend.

Fantastic experience: Played 5 aside at back . Still great place the oval

Fantastic experience: Staff are friendly and welcoming. Changing rooms in desperate need of repairs, but my children love the swimming pool(s). Overall,we always have a great time.

Negative experience: Awful

Fantastic experience: Swimming 4 times a week...love it

Negative experience: My daughter had swimming lessons here, the changing rooms and toilets were always filthy every week.

Fantastic experience: Sent their by cardio rehab St Caths. Had induction to gym, me experience was great and staff very ecperienced.

Fantastic experience: Take my son to swimming lessons there staff are very helpful and friendly

Fantastic experience: It's a great community facility. Use it, and we won't lose it

Negative experience: The Gym toilets are unisex with no changing rooms. Hardly any room and with only a few lockers, most are faulty. If you go in the afternoon, the toilets are disgusting! Toilets seats all up, urine all over the seats, pubic hairs, urgh! It's impossible to use. They use the radio for music, so you mostly hear the news, people chatting, or the adverts and the same music on repeat. The water dispenser is extremely slow to fill water bottles. Not worth the price. I need girls only spacious, changing rooms with showers and working lockers. I need quick access to water and I need a cool workout track on, not the radio.The radio is on so loud that sometimes I can't even hear my own music

Fantastic experience: Brilliant value for money for swimming.

Fantastic experience: Great perfect place / comunity

Negative experience: Changing rooms a bit moldy tbh pools alri tho

Negative experience: You never know when the place is open or not ..take no notice of the opening times on the oval site everyone of them are wrong..A male staff member was very rude to my daughter, when she went for a swim yesterday 5/10/23.was more or less told were to go ...she was told to come back Sunday that they were open 11am till 6.30pm . Not what it says online...the pool is warm on one side and cold on the other. A lady the other week tryed to stand up in the shallow end of the large pool and she couldn't get her footing . I grabbed her to help her stand, it terrified her. She couldn't get out quick enough. But the only steps in the shallow end is blocked by the lane ropes , it's either you struggle getting under these or walk through the gap between pools. Then you come to the ramp. Again this ramp is not antislip. You have to hold on to the bar for dear life.. the changing rooms have a lot of work needed to be done ,to make them safe. You can't put your bags down when your getting dry or wet because there's puddles all over the floor and the grids that run between the cubicals at disgusting and dirty, with hairs and empty bottles in the drain. I've never seen anyone cleaning the area the whole time I've been going. And I only go there because the next closest to me is Birkenhead which isn't much better...there is few working locks on the lockers. In fact there's some that don't even have doors. On top of that the disabled showers and room are a disgrace... Now the funny thing. A few years ago it was shut down for a referb but what they refurbished, they took the cafeteria away and extended the gym but didn't touch anything else...Wirral council have a cheek to charge what they do..

Negative experience: Got bit by 70000 mosquitos, lights were poor, surface poor too (3g)

Positive experience: Had a lovely swim

Fantastic experience: Great place we swim alot here staff are very friendly

Negative experience: We signed up for a swimming family pass ....spent £120 worst mistake of my life it's a dirty vile hovel and we were not told this prior to paying .....pics included are only some ....that's black mold on the sealing BTW Pieces of ceiling missing, loose wiring everywhere which is going to kill someone . floor ruined ..... and dirty with wee everywhere .....when i complained I was told they don't have funding for decorating and they won't be fixing any of it. Wouldn't even offer me a refund.

Fantastic experience: Variety of facilities, all seems clean and tidy

Negative experience: Me and my friends came here and a grumpy life guard who was very abrupt briefly told us the rules. No diving in a deep pool? Can only jump in feet first? When I slipped into the pool and didn’t jump feet first 2 of the life guards pounced on that immediately and threatened to bar me if I was to do it again. The pool is big but the rules are strict. Wouldn’t go there again even if there wasn’t another option.

Fantastic experience: Good gym

Positive experience: Pool and gym are great but the changing rooms are in need of some TLC. The leisure centre also has a big sports hall used for events and car boot sales.

Positive experience: Great gym facilities. Helpful staff. Changing room needs updating, and more lockers required, especially ones with working locks, and doors would be good too. Water dispensers works as and when it feels like. Swimming pool changing rooms are atrocious and smell. Lift is filthy inside... when I was last there it was obvious somebody had spat on the doors and left it to run down.... wasn't cleaned. As a disabled person, there is 1 disabled toilet with changing facilities... it is usually in use by able bodied people.

Positive experience: I had a fantastic introduction to the Oval and it's facilities... I'm so looking forward to enjoying my free time there.

Fantastic experience: Badminton table tennis tennis basketball football running track swimming all in one place brilliant and also a bit of knowledge the oval was used for filming some scenes in chariots of fire

Positive experience: Really nice staff nice only changing rooms badly need update pool temperature best on wirral

Fantastic experience: The best thing about this place so much big space to park car and beautiful park near to it

Positive experience: needs a good clean up. locker doors have been missing or hanging off since the Oval reopened. Side office, in reception member of staff sitting with feet up on the desk with dirty trainers on. parents blocking the stairs watching their childrens lessons in the small pool. cafe space empty, no where yo buy snacks/ drinksl

Fantastic experience: Loving the swimming pool. Great bunch of life guards too!

Fantastic experience: We take our children swimming here, changing rooms are adequate, lots of lockers about. Showers are warm

Positive experience: Nice staff but basic ok gym but in the busy times it's hard to get on certain machines and things in there .

Fantastic experience: Very friendly local leisure centre, gym, swimming pool, outdoor running track, exercise classes huge main hall, badminton..

Positive experience: The facilities eg. gym, studios and pool are very good. What lets this place down is the state of pool changing rooms. The floor is wet and muddy from footprints as it is like a huge wet room and the water doesnt drain away. Half the lockers either have no doors or locks that don't work. In need of urgent refurbishment!

Fantastic experience: Great pool, friendly staff, some great classes and hopefully more in the pipeline. (Zumba, aqua, tai chi yoga etc) Pool changing rooms could do with work, but otherwise all good

Positive experience: Love this pool and the facilities. My children attend swimming lessons twice a week. (Swim Wirral is a different story!) The pool is always comfortably warm. You can always find a locker and a changing room. Enough showers available. If the changing room is ever messy, the lifeguards and staff are always happy to take action.

Positive experience: I attend this pool regularly, the water is slightly warmer than other swimming pools. I love the Olympic sized pool as does my Granddaughter. Friendly staff too.

Fantastic experience: Chariots of fire and wirral Council collide . Beautiful leisure centre

Positive experience: Swimming pool is good. Changing rooms are not. The facilities could be good but there are so many broken lockers and the showers and floor are always pretty grim which is annoying

Fantastic experience: Has a Gym and a swimming pool the staff are brilliant

Fantastic experience: It's been a long time since my last visit but it's come a long way since then. Great facilities

Positive experience: I sat in the car park waiting for my son. So can't comment really although they made me

Positive experience: £14.15 for 1hr of badminton without membership.. not sure is the best deal on planet

Positive experience: Came swimming with my 10 year old daughter saturday the 8th oct between 12 and 1:30. Felt uncomfortable as the lifeguard kept staring at us all the time and some customers, even my daughter noticed. We did nowt wrong

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Very good, staff friendly and helpful

Negative experience: shambles of a sport facility. hockey pitch useless, football cages have more protection than Alcatraz however the pitches themselves are not usable and not safe, staff members lazy and rude, my walk has been extended from a 5 minute walk to a 20 minute walk due to closing the gates too early, forcing walkers to walk on an unlit road with busy traffic. overall disastrous, if I could give it 0 stars I would

Fantastic experience: Brilliant swim clean changing rooms well recommended

Fantastic experience: Great gym and pool, nice people, all you need really!!

Positive experience: Staff are so friendly great place to train

Fantastic experience: Great place to start to lose weight .

Fantastic experience: Brilliant local sports centre

Positive experience: Nice clean swim with kids, always a bit confused as to times etc when it come to wbcouncil stuff

Fantastic experience: I walked past here the other day with my girlfriend, she's beautiful

Positive experience: Good sized pool. Could lane swim and leisure swim all during same session

Positive experience: Please can you turn off the fan is really cool is because people will problem

Fantastic experience: Great staff facilities excellent

Positive experience: When I went there it was being used as a covid vaccination centre.

Fantastic experience: Went there for covid booster jab. Well organised, fast efficient and friendly staff. A good experience.

Fantastic experience: Had my booster job - very well organised. Thanks to all there you did and are doing a great job.

Fantastic experience: Brilliant covid pcr test centre very friendly and helpful

Fantastic experience: The oval ski club is great value for money

Positive experience: Went for covid booster so can not rate the overall place

Positive experience: Think we have to count ourselves lucky we still have places like this

Fantastic experience: I came here for my Covid-19 vaccination! It went absolutely fine.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic sports centre with very helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Great place for all types of sports and some good clubs run from it.

Positive experience: The outside facilities such as the track and field and footy pitches are excellent! The inside however feels really back dated and cold do with an update. Large car park so there's always somewhere to park.

Fantastic experience: Covid Vaccination Centre. Excellent.

Fantastic experience: Good for covid vaccine

Fantastic experience: This is the wife & I went for covid jabs. Everything set up to keep everyone safe.

Fantastic experience: We went for our covid jab were everything was well organized.

Fantastic experience: The covid Vacs team were excellent!

Fantastic experience: Very very impressed with covid testing . Everyone was very helpful .the team booking us in were very helpful and clear to where we were to go .the cleaning team were excellent. The nurses / doctors were very reasuring to us as the needle was approaching us . And the time we had to spend afterwards was very reasuring too .

Positive experience: Very good swimming baths when open

Positive experience: Only went to get my second injection for coving, waiting time was about three quarters of an hour. But its done now, yippee!

Positive experience: For the vaccine well organized good parking and excellent staff

Fantastic experience: Went for covid jab. Very well organised. So easy. Well done.

Fantastic experience: Sports hall is being used for Covid vaccinations. Brilliantly staffed and run and fabulous service. Many many thanks to all NHS staff, council staff and volunteers. We are in your debt.

Positive experience: Only whent there for my COVID-19 Vacation , the parking was very good and the buildings are very well spaced .

Fantastic experience: This place was once beautiful, it had everything. It had a cafe area, with nice food, the venders worked and the music was great. The changing rooms were cleaned regular, all lockers had locks on them and the showers were clean. The pool areas were fantastic, warm, refreshing on a summers day. The guards back then were fantastic, always smiling. Then I met her... She broke my heart, I will never forget that faithful day in my life...

Fantastic experience: Been going here for 30+ years, reasonable prices and great facilities

Fantastic experience: Large sports hall with 8 bagminton courts

Positive experience: Good place nice people shame about the showers

Fantastic experience: Love the place keep you eyes open for the new roller disco coming soon

Negative experience: Good gym quite crowded, however the issue is that they don't warn ppl if the gym is closed on the internet so its quite annoying to few especially if you made the travel

Fantastic experience: My local gym! Good group of people!

Negative experience: Couldn't swim because it was summer term time, although the schools had been back for 2 weeks?

Positive experience: Our group used the outdoor all weather pitches. Great time had by all. Great facilities and a very large free car park.

Positive experience: Good gym but no more cafe sucks

Fantastic experience: One of the better council run gyms