Information about Oakengates Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: 8h-21h
- monday: 6:30-22h
- tuesday: 6:30-22h
- wednesday: 6:30-22h
- thursday: 6:30-22h
- friday: 6:30-22h
- saturday: 7h-20h
Our comment from FitFit UK about Oakengates Leisure Centre:
Oakengates Leisure Centre in Telford is a comprehensive sports facility offering a variety of activities for all ages. The centre is widely appreciated for its friendly and helpful staff, who consistently receive commendations from visitors. Users have expressed satisfaction with the cleanliness of most facilities, including the gym and changing rooms.
While many enjoy the swimming facilities, especially the variety of swimming classes available for all skill levels, some feedback indicates the need for improvements in areas such as the steam room and health suite, which have faced criticism for cleanliness. Additionally, some users mentioned that the pool can get quite busy, especially during peak times.
Despite these concerns, the centre offers a good range of sporting options including badminton, football, and a well-equipped gym. Customers have highlighted the spacious viewing areas and accessibility for families as significant advantages. Overall, Oakengates Leisure Centre remains a valuable community resource with ample opportunities for fitness and recreation.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Oakengates Leisure Centre: Opinions
Positive experience: Alas the Tennis Centre needs some TLC and easier route through by phone would be nice.
Positive experience: It's okay, pool is always crazy busy. And showers are not cleaned regularly enough
Positive experience: Small pool compared to other leisure centres locally
Positive experience: Went along to use the steam room today. Was quite disappointed by the cleanliness of the steam room. The floor felt grimy there were stains up the door. I’ve used the pool and other facilities before this visit & found everything to be clean but was very disappointed by the overall cleanliness of this particular facility.
Negative experience: Steam room is always dirty, was going to wellington leisure centre because of refurbishment and in wellington is always clean,
Positive experience: The gym lately is full of kids playing on their phones and not really doing anything, quite annoying when you’re waiting to use a piece of equipment and they’re just sat there!
Fantastic experience: ✊
Positive experience: Good gym, although the equipment before the refurbishment was better and more functional. The steam room and sauna are always dirty or damaged but it doesn't detract much from the experience. Nice staff
Positive experience: Only fault with the place is the state of the health suite /steam room area the gym is good and enough equipment to train the whole body. the steam room looks and smells like it's never been cleaned and smells like a sewer I've never experienced a health suite so grim ... After complaining to management on my next visit I have to commend the team on duty 01/04/24 for promptly acting on my complaint,the health suit was closed down and received a deep clean whilst I trained . I was able to use the health suite after a good work out without complaint I have amended my review from 2 stars to 4 stars .please keep the standards up
Fantastic experience: All you would expect from leisure centre is there. No issues
Negative experience: Staff seem nice. Only used the health and centre and changing rooms. Pool is closed but I wasn’t aware. The health centre is a rusty old small place and to be honest was really gross. I’m sure it’s cleaned but I think just with age it looks really gross. Stayed about 15 mins then left.
Negative experience: The swimming pool is closed until July 2024 no information telling you this, no signs up nothing on website, and no-one picked up the phone when I called.. so I drove to the lesson not realising
Positive experience: Good establishment, good staff
Fantastic experience: Makes my family in telford enjoy the community.
Fantastic experience: Great staff good facilities
Fantastic experience: Staff are lovely and helpful
Negative experience: Changing rooms constantly being left with peoples belongings in them(not centres fault) but no where unless i rob peoples things can my daughter get changed and im sorry but why doesnt it have air con upstairs it is ridiculously hot so much so that i dnt watch my daughter swim i stand outside centre
Fantastic experience: First time using pool. Facilities were clean and staff friendly
Fantastic experience: 5 stars for the lovely and friendly reception staff. Came for Aquafit and joined for a membership and they were so helpful and as a newbie explained everything to me
Negative experience: I didn’t go. I don't know why my phone is asking.
Fantastic experience: Like
Positive experience: Pool and indoors were not warm enough for a 2 year old. Wellington leisure center has better temperature control. Otherwise for me temperature and everything was fantastic.
Fantastic experience: I play badminton on a weekly basis with my partner, the staff are very friendly and have good facilities.
Positive experience: I usually go swimming for either the adult or women's only sessions. The water is lovely, good clean facilities. Polite & friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: Brilliant swimming pool
Fantastic experience: Both of my children have had swimming lessons here, no issues at all. Clean and lots of space. Good place to watch if needed upstairs too.
Positive experience: Good
Fantastic experience: Very good place
Fantastic experience: My boy got into trouble in the water this morning in his lesson and Alex the lifeguard saved him after my boy took on too much water The quick reaction of Alex saved my boy and I'll forever be grateful Thank you so much!
Positive experience: But dated now need some new equipment
Negative experience: The pool was cold. Shared male and female changing rooms with not much privacy. Old rooms left to rust.
Fantastic experience: Great facilities! Always clean and friendly helpful staff
Positive experience: Clean and fairly well organised except referees having to use the access toilet.
Positive experience: A good pool although a little cold.
Positive experience: Very good badminton courts
Negative experience: Very expensive and not a lot of time swimming not impressed at all
Fantastic experience: Lovely family swim this evening
Fantastic experience: Reception were very helpful and friendly. Swimming session attended and everywhere looked clean.
Fantastic experience: Three great football pitch
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, good variety of great classes, Brill opening hours. ♀️ Both Monday and Thursday Aquafit classes are brilliant. Clean facilities (99.9% of the time) Decent size pool Locker availability
Positive experience: Good local gym. Lots of equipment choices and not too busy.
Fantastic experience: Great lace
Fantastic experience: Hi I honestly couldn’t thank the swimming instructors for helping my daughter this week during the swimming lessons. She started Tuesday and she was so nervous and by today Friday she didn’t want the lessons to end. The staff really looked after her, helped her and we’re so very patient with her and I honestly can’t thank them enough.
Positive experience: They need to put 2 staff on reception as we missed out on 15 minutes of our swimming session Sunday morning because of que
Positive experience: I use the gym, good equipment only problem is some people use the same piece of equipment for an hour + without any thought to people who might want to use that machine, I'm sure I'm not the only person who has experienced this
Fantastic experience: Great.
Positive experience: Staff are very friendly
Negative experience: Unfortunately changing room floors filthy. Obviously not cleaned between sessions
Fantastic experience: Everything you need to keep fit. Clean and tidy
Fantastic experience: Clean, modern facilities and friendly staff. Love doing the classes here, the instructors are fab and explain how certain moves impact the body, which is really informative! This will always be my number 1 choice of gym and fitness class.
Fantastic experience: Lovely big pool, look forward to swimming in it soon
Fantastic experience: Great place and friendly helpful staff on reception
Fantastic experience: Great variety of things to do
Fantastic experience: Nice places ,
Fantastic experience: Great pitch Telford academy are an excellent young side
Positive experience: A little dated. The lady on reception was lovely
Fantastic experience: Very good staff always with a smile
Fantastic experience: Ideal for all sport activities
Positive experience: Good Friendly place, good facilities
Positive experience: Lots going on at the leisure centre and the classes and services all a good standard. The changing rooms are a better quality than my paid for gym. The building could use a little curb appeal and some seating for those waiting for example for children in classes. There are basic vending machines but no juice bar, fresh food or coffee or hang outs.
Fantastic experience: Took youngest for swim lessons. She really enjoyed it. Lovely staff and clean. Pool is a good size, about half the size of wellingtons but big enough for what we went for.
Positive experience: After hearing about this I was contacted by the Centre and they helped me resolve the situation they created. They also offered me a discount which is nice, but unfortunately I moved away, if your looking for a dynamic centre with lots too offer. Go check it out, just pay as you go!!!! Thank-you
Positive experience: Very good facility have been playing football here for years now, very good facility’s and friendly staff the pricing is a little on the pricey side but I suppose you pay for what you get and is one of the better leisure’s centres in the area so I can’t really grumble about that. More than enough parking to which makes life a lot easier. Situated in an easy to get to area aswell, easily found via sat nav to
Positive experience: Quick call here, seem clean, pleasant staff
Fantastic experience: Really clean since lockdown. Well done all.
Positive experience: Friendly staff
Positive experience: Great place, i did my lifegaurd qualification there, great staff and clean facilities
Positive experience: The complex here has many sports options, including swimming, tennis (indoors and out), courts for 5 a side football or badminton or whatever, a well-kitted gym, etc.
Negative experience: Tried numerous times to call Phone rings out for 10 seconds then you get cut off Very frustrating Maybe invest in a better phone system
Positive experience: This place is OK, my review only comes from a swim perspective. The changing rooms are always clean and tidy and the staff are always friendly and helpful, the only pain is that the adult only are very limited to either 630am or as late as 930pm some nights. It gets quite busy on some occasions and people don't stick to the rotation in swimming, the lifeguards in attendance seem reluctant to correct people to swim in the correct manner. You could go to the public swim but my 2 experiences of that has been teenagers messing about. The facilities are great for the price of £4.05 pay as you go with a TLC card but it's hit and miss if you get a busy session or a quiet one and if people swim in the correct manner.
Positive experience: The gym here has good equipment
Positive experience: Plenty of activities to do. Some good new equipment in the gym
Positive experience: New equipment but let down by lack of connectivity
Fantastic experience: Great place to go for sport
Positive experience: Very clean and tidy place.
Fantastic experience: Warm water swimming pool on K£1 on Sundays.
Positive experience: Ideal for sport. Showers need a clean unfortunately
Positive experience: Not enough disabled parking
Fantastic experience: The staff are always ready to help with any query. The facilities are good and clean.
Positive experience: Kids attend Youngstars football training on a Friday Absolutely Brilliant coach venue could do with a face lift
Positive experience: Great facility, spoiled by some members of staff not being interested in what I wanted or needed from them.
Fantastic experience: Used the pool, staff were excellent
Positive experience: Watching my son's swimming lessons, I think they really need to invest in some air-conditioning in the viewing area. I'm going to die on Monday with the other son's lesson.
Positive experience: They very good for sport and enjoy for all
Fantastic experience: Good venue for families
Positive experience: Oakengates Leisure Centre is an excellent place and means of enjoying exercise. There are excellent swimming facilities, the pool being first class to learn to swim. The classes available to learn to swim cater for all ages and levels of capability. Each class is run by a qualified instructor and the thing that really impressed was the fact that a lifeguard was continually patrolling the baths. The swimming lessons are usually 30 minutes duration. For parents bringing children to learn to swim there is a viewing gaiiery around two sides of the pool with seating with excellent views of the pool. There is also a separate sports hall where badminton, basketball and netball are available at relevant times and days. The viewing gallery also is available for the sports hall. There is available an exercise facility available under the name of Aspirations, with all of the exercise machines that make up a first class gym. In the foyer there are coffee and soft drink machines.
Fantastic experience: A tidy leisure centre. I only use now and again but the gym has got a good range of machines. The free weights don't go too heavy so for stronger people it may not be enough. The gym is very clean with air conditioning and had small lockers for phones and car keys. The sauna and steam room are good too.
Negative experience: Very bad experience. Do not recommend. When the 1 year contract finished and i wanted to cancel the direct debit they made my life a living hell, basically i couldn't get rid of them anymore.
Fantastic experience: Polite friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Have had a lovely refurb over the years
Negative experience: Could do with a good clean and a lil update
Fantastic experience: Great facilities
Fantastic experience: great facilities
Fantastic experience: Fab service
Fantastic experience: Awesome swimming teachers
Fantastic experience: Great place to go for a workout, always great service.
Fantastic experience: Helpful friendly staff, always greeted with a smile. great facilities and a great choice of classes.
Fantastic experience: Very nice!
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff. Very clean. Lovely pool. Changing room big with a baby changing room. Good for people with disabilities.
Fantastic experience: Very very very good and nice atmosphere !! Good price!! Helpful staff!!
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