
Information about Rhayader Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: 9h-14:30
- monday: 9h-21h
- tuesday: 7h-21h
- wednesday: 7h-20:30
- thursday: 7h-20:30
- friday: 9h-20:30
- saturday: 9h-14:30
Our comment from FitFit UK about Rhayader Leisure Centre:
Welcome to Rhayader Leisure Centre, a fantastic local facility located in the heart of Rhayader, UK. This leisure centre is known for its clean and well-maintained environment, coupled with friendly and helpful staff who consistently receive praise from our visitors.
Rhayader Leisure Centre offers a variety of excellent facilities, including:
- A 20-meter swimming pool, perfect for casual swimming sessions and swimming lessons.
- A fully-equipped gym featuring modern equipment suitable for all fitness levels.
- Squash courts and a variety of activity rooms available for classes and events.
- Changing facilities that, while generally good, have been noted for needing some attention.
- A large car park nearby, although parking on the road can sometimes be challenging.
Visitors appreciate the variety of activities available for children, making it a great place for family enjoyment. However, some users have pointed out that the overall pricing can be on the expensive side for a council-run facility.
While the centre has received positive feedback for its friendly atmosphere and great management team, there have been comments about a few areas needing improvement, including communication about scheduled activities. Overall, Rhayader Leisure Centre remains a beloved amenity in the area, offering great service and facilities for the community.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Rhayader Leisure Centre: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Fab craft fayre held there today!
Thanks for your 5 star review!
Fantastic experience: Visited to watch an amateur production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and had a wonderful time. Nice clean venue with very helpful staff. Parking on road nearby isn't easy but there is a car park next to the location but you have to pay.
Thanks for your review and glad you enjoyed the show!
Positive experience: My wife swam here 9 times while on holiday , she would recommend
Thanks for your review Paul, we hope you had a great holiday!
Fantastic experience: Good facilities, excellent, helpful staff.only negative is it is a little pricey for a council run facility-- but nevertheless staff and facilities are as already stated Excellent.
Thanks for your 5 star review Tony.
Fantastic experience: Great Leisure Centre, Gym, Swimming Pool
Thank you for your kind words Gary, hope to see you again soon!
Fantastic experience: One of the many hearts of leisure and tourism in Rhayader, run by freedom leisure, supported by powys county council, the leisure centre offers many facilities, as well as swimming there are squash courts, gym, changing facilities, open upper area to watch swimming, wait, have a drink or snack, a large hall for many activities and a lower room that is used for many more activities, it's an amazing building with a great management team.
Thanks for your 5 star review, see you soon!
Fantastic experience: 20mtr pool and small gym
Thanks for your 5 star review!
Positive experience: Facilities are good. Changing rooms need some attention.
Thanks for your review Bryn, hope to see you again soon
Positive experience: Nice swimming pool and jacuzzi ...the showers were not very warn, but the swimming pool was warm.
Thanks for your review Pamela, look forward to seeing you again soon.
Fantastic experience: Great leisure centre
Thank you for your review David, hope to see you again soon!
Positive experience: Had a meeting in a room hired for the day - the place is looking a bit tired
Thank you for you review Aled and your comments have been taken on board.
Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff. I accidentally snuck in and they were really chill about it. All the best lads
Thank you for your 5 star review.
Fantastic experience: Great for swimming
Thank you for your review Hilary, look forward to seeing you again soon
Positive experience: Lots of sessions at the swimming pools for the kids. Good prices
Thank you for your review Johnnie, hope to see you again soon.
Fantastic experience: First class pool & facilities for the local area. We visit when on holiday & love the pool. Staff always pleasant too!
Thank you for your review, we look forward to seeing you again soon!
Fantastic experience: I don't like gyms, I react to them same way vampires react to sunlight but Julie was brilliant and sold it to me really well and offered to show me around - even though there must have only been a couple of staff members at most and she clearly had a thousand jobs going on. Bravo Julie, always friendly and helpful, and bravo Rhayader LC, will stay a member! ✌️
Thanks Craig, lovely to hear! Look forward to seeing how you get on and if you need anything just ask!
Positive experience: Gym very good equipment and good service
Thank you for your review. Hope to see you again soon.
Fantastic experience: Lovely friendly, helpful staff. Beautifully clean & maintained to a great standard.
Thank you for your 5* review!
Positive experience: Really nice centre and fairly large. Helpful and friendly staff too! Also a large car park.
Thank you for your review, look forward to seeing you again soon.
Positive experience: Helpful staff. There is a gym and a swimming pool, which is one of the biggest in the area.
Thank you for your review, we look forward to seeing you again soon!
Fantastic experience: So grateful to have Rhayader Leisure Centre on my doorstep. The staff are super friendly and helpful.
Thanks for your review Alan!
Fantastic experience: Lovely pool,not as warm as before, but not to bad.
Thank you for your review Maria, much appreciated.
Fantastic experience: Great local amenity, always friendly staff. Nice pool and gym. One of my happy places.
Thank you for your review Simon, look forward to seeing you soon
Fantastic experience: Great facility
Thank you for your 5* review!
Fantastic experience: Wonderful pool xxx
Hiya Andrea, thank you for your review! So glad to hear that you enjoy our swimming facilities :) We hope to see you again soon.
Positive experience: Rhayader leisure centre is a great local centre. It's kept very clean and the staff are friendly and helpful. It has an excellently equipped gym, the only draw back is that it's a touch on the expensive side.
Hiya Ewen, thank you for your lovely review! So happy to hear that you have such a great experience at our centre :) Offering our customers excellent facilities and equipment is something that we are very proud of. We strongly advise any customer who uses our centre at least once a week to take out a membership as this gives you access to additional benefits, is more cost effective and offers great value for money.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful place
Thank you for your 5 star review!
Negative experience: Swimming lessons and staff are brilliant, but we booked and paid for a mermaid session, drove for 40 minutes only to be told on arrival that the staff member taking the class had gone for a day out to the show, staff were very apologetic, but my 8 year old was devastated, they had my phone number, a heads up would have been nice, very disappointing and unprofessional behaviour from the manager who was supposed to be taking the session.
Hiya Emma, thank you for your review. We are deeply sorry that you have had this experience with us and we understand you and your daughters frustrations and upset. We will have a member of our team get in contact with you about this.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities, equipment and staff.
Hiya Paul! Thank you for your review. We are so glad that you enjoyed our facilities and colleagues :)
Fantastic experience: Went for a lovely swim, pool and changing rooms were spotless! Very good facilities.
Thank you for your 5* review!
Fantastic experience: Everything you expect from a week run centre.
Thank you for your 5* review!
Fantastic experience: Loads to do great staff
Thank you for your 5* review!
Negative experience: Very basic pool, hasn't changed in 20 years. My son sliced his toe open there today on the sharp tiles underneath the water. The grout in between the tiles needs addressing as now the tiles are sharp and exposed. The on-call medic Julie was nice. I spoke to a guy in the changing rooms, whom also cut his hand in the pool. This is not acceptable when children use the facilities, you really need to look in to this as it's not safe...Thanks
Thank you for your review, please pop in or call the Operations Manager on 01597 810355 to discuss this further. Thank you
Positive experience: Good equipment but need to update there opening times
Thank you for your review!
Fantastic experience: Amazing swimming pool with friendly staff.
Thank you for your 5* review!
Fantastic experience: Good pool, squash courts pool table nice changing rooms
Thank you for your 5* review!
Fantastic experience: Lovely swimming pool
Thank you for your 5* review!
Fantastic experience: Friendly and clean.
Thank you for your 5* review!
Fantastic experience: Great local facility. Has everything you need from a gym and pool.
Thank you for your 5* review!
Positive experience: Could strive for more improvement!!!
Thank you for your review!
Fantastic experience: Love the gym
Thank you for your 5* review!
Fantastic experience: If this is a leisure centre, il eat my hat,its a picture of a cemetery on my phone, uhh
Thank you for your 5* review!
Positive experience: Great pool, perfect wet weather escape
Fantastic experience: Super
Negative experience: Ist das schön, nein ist es nicht
Positive experience: Busy place load music when sales on you can find a bargain
Fantastic experience: Great place to go for Gym or swim. Also my daughter used to attend Lee Taylor Karate class. Lovely sports centre. Us the gym is still fairly new since the refurb...
Fantastic experience: Great place to stay
Positive experience: Cheap
Positive experience: Sheep tied to a lamppost?
Positive experience: Offering everything you would expect in a leisure centre, nothing really innovative, ok though.
Fantastic experience: Rhayader really old world Market town a must for anyone x
Positive experience: Clean swimming pool
Fantastic experience: Great leisure centre, clean and plenty of parking too.
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, gym caters for all shapes, ages and abilities. Unfortunately I haven't tried any of the many classes available but worth a look
Hiya Roger! Thank you for your review :) We are so glad that you find our centre so inclusive. We definitely recommend trying out one of our classes - there's 26 to choose from per week!
Positive experience: How to get rid of all your change and more with the help of your grandchildren
Fantastic experience: Holy moly. What a place!!
Fantastic experience: Brilliant
Positive experience: With this place situated right by a massive car park and public toilets we hoped that it would have a cafe of some sort open to public much to ar disappointment when we found only 2 vending machines with a limited variety of drinks & snacks. So we had to walk to other end of village to find somewhere more convenient.
Thank you for your comment, we used to have a café facility in our leisure centre but due to the low number of people using the facility and with two main cafes in the town within walking distance of the car park it was not viable to continue with the service.
Negative experience: Could be cleaner. Communication needs to improve
Thank you very much for taking the time to comment on our facility, all feedback is vitally important to us in order to provide a high standard of service. I would like to apologise for the cleanliness and communication problems that you experienced. In order for us to identify the exact issue and rectify, l would be extremely grateful if you could elaborate on the specific area and communication problem. You can email us directly at [email protected]
Fantastic experience: Fantastic facility. Needs protecting
Fantastic experience: Small but big enough pool for swimming
Positive experience: Love it
Positive experience: Great facilities.
Fantastic experience: Great little gym and pool. Clean and tidy.
Positive experience: Good atmosphere, good service and nice people (gym)
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