Auchenharvie Leisure Centre
Information about Auchenharvie Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: 8h-17h
- monday: 6h-21h
- tuesday: 6h-21h
- wednesday: 6h-21h
- thursday: 6h-21h
- friday: 6h-21h
- saturday: 8h-16h
KA Leisure manages the following leisure facilities in North Ayrshire: Auchenharvie Leisure Centre, Garnock Community Campus, Portal and Vikingar!
Established in 2000, KA Leisure is a registered charity committed to creating opportunities, inspiring people and changing lives using sport and physical activity.
Everyone can benefit from being more active and there is a lot going at KA Leisure to get you moving. It’s not just gym and sports – There is something for everyone.
We also deliver physical activity programmes in collaboration with a range of partners including North Ayrshire HSCP which cover a range of health conditions including weight management, long term conditions, mental health and falls prevention.
Our comment from FitFit UK about Auchenharvie Leisure Centre:
Auchenharvie Leisure Centre, located in Saltcoats, offers a variety of facilities perfect for family outings and fitness enthusiasts alike. The centre features an ice rink recognized for its vibrant atmosphere, making it a great spot for ice hockey and figure skating.
Visitors appreciate the friendly and helpful staff, with many commenting on their positive experiences during swimming and skating sessions. The facilities include a standard 25m swimming pool and a youth-friendly teaching pool, alongside a well-equipped gym. The café provides affordable options for guests, adding convenience to your visit.
While some users highlight the need for renovations and minor improvements to cleanliness—especially in the changing rooms—the welcoming environment and accessibility of the amenities are frequently praised.
Key features:
- Ice rink available for hockey and figure skating
- Family-friendly swimming facilities
- Helpful and friendly staff
- Affordable café options
- Conveniently located with good transport links
Despite a few concerns regarding maintenance, Auchenharvie Leisure Centre remains a beloved establishment in North Ayrshire, known for community engagement and providing enjoyable activities for all ages.
Auchenharvie Leisure Centre: Opinions
Positive experience: Know someone who plays ice hockey here been a couple of times the ice arena is old and cold (as it should be) the facilities are old and disgusting the seats are not that comfortable but bearable. The cafe is very cheep (card or cash)
Fantastic experience: Took my kids ice skating and they enjoyed it. The stewards were too busy practicing there own skating and talking to each other than actually do their jobs and stopping idiots from hurting others.
Positive experience: Bit dated now. Classic leisure centre..which have no doubt, will shut soon. Once pool is transferred to new Acedemy. Never seems to ever be busy, but staff are very helpful
Fantastic experience: Great rink for hockey
Positive experience: A rather ageing center with basic amenities. A standard 25m swimming pool, 3 feet to 8 feet deep. An ice rink, which isn't really anything exciting, and outside is a skatepark which is probably the best part of the place. Good bus and rail links nearby and a short walk from the seafront.
Fantastic experience: Great rink
Fantastic experience: Helpful and frendly
Fantastic experience: Excellent venue
Fantastic experience: Good facilities
Positive experience: Was a nice experience
Negative experience: Didn't help me on my first day when I cried bad staff fire them but the guy who gave the skates was very kind give him a raise today
Fantastic experience: Fantastic ice centre. Plenty of kids using it as well as ice hockey figure skaters.
Fantastic experience: Visited with my Son for swimming. Teaching pool is a great set up with the steps and lots of toys and floats to use. Free entry for under 5's was great. Pool warm and accessible with plenty of space. Changing room and shower area has plenty space and not freezing, so there's no dread getting out the pool and getting changed doesn't feel rushed. Staff were great and all greeted us with a smile. Able to view the ice skating practise afterwards which was an added bonus for the wee one. Will be back for sure!
Fantastic experience: Great fun
Fantastic experience: Brilliant everything you need to keep fit
Positive experience: Not open a great amount of hours. Limited public skating times
Positive experience: Lovely place to ice skate but almost never answer the phone
Fantastic experience: Great rink. Decent ice, good facilities.
Fantastic experience: Still a good venue The one and only in North Ayrshire As the photo proves : age don't matter.
Positive experience: Quite a nice pool with a alright viewing area, the gym and ice rink is very nice and it definitely seems like KA Leisure have put a lot of time and effort into making the place as nice as it is, would recommend.
Positive experience: Visited as a spectator to watch my grandson practice on the ice rink. This was my first visit here and the place seems popular with the locals. There is the ice rink, a fitness studio and a dance studio in the building. Seems to be well organised and prices are as to be expected for this type of establishment. As a visitor to the area I would return if in that neck of the woods again. Might be interesting to see if I can still stand up on ice skates!!!.
Fantastic experience: Great pool as you can sit close & watch your kids baby pool also The environment here is clean & staff friendly.
Fantastic experience: Good pool, fantastic gym staff. Clean and friendly venue
Negative experience: even though I paid for a membership for July, I can not use the facilities due to cancellation to pay direct debit for the next calendar month, which is August. I can not use any facilities for the remaining 10 days of July, which it has been paid for.
Fantastic experience: Went swimming with grandkids. Great facilities helpful and friendly staff.
Positive experience: The pool I pretty basic. Small pool for children and big pool for confident swimmers. I attended the public swimming sessions. On the few occasions--they were well overcrowded. On Saturday part of the big pool was sectioned off for a swimming lesson for 3 children. The water in the rest of the area was filled with big number of youngsters, who ignored the rules on display (jumping in the water, diving, etc) they all seemed to stick to the shallower waters. How many people can be let in the pool? Today at one point there was only two lifeguards. One for each overcrowded pool. Dangerous, yep. Cleanliness of the place leaves a lot to desire, specially toilets and changing rooms. I hope that maybe the management of the pool will start managing the place better, after all that's what they are paid for big bucks from taxpayer's money.
Positive experience: Does all it says on the tin
Negative experience: I was awaiting being assessed for Cardiac Rehab classes. Twice it has been cancelled on the day of my assessment. Each time I am told they text and emailed me the week before which they did not do. I have no texts or emails from them. Always due to staffing issues. If they have that bad a staffing problem then perhaps not offer the classes in the first place. I finished my hospital Cardiac Rehab in February 2023 and was advised I should be able to start at Auchenharvie KA Leisure in approx two weeks. Today 17/5/23 it has been cancelled for a second time and that is just the assessment not the class. I have just said not to bother now. Doesn't seem any point in booking another appointment as Laura is never available.
Fantastic experience: Loved it, great for the family
Fantastic experience: Really good pool sometimes it can get a bit crowded especially in the teaching pool
Fantastic experience: Block man
Positive experience: Staff helpful
Fantastic experience: Still good after all these years
Fantastic experience: Fantastic venue.
Fantastic experience: Great facility
Fantastic experience: Great facility, clean, tidy and great staff.....
Fantastic experience: A great place for the kids for swimming and ice skating
Fantastic experience: On holiday from England, staff and members are lovely. Place nice and clean. Great facilities
Positive experience: Great place for my niece's for summer holidays
Fantastic experience: Love Auchenharvie, it's a bit dated but the staff are the best and it is a real asset to the area
Positive experience: Does exactly what it says on the tin. The changing rooms could be cleaner.
Positive experience: Great swimming pool
Fantastic experience: Use the gym here, staff are very friendly
Fantastic experience: Fab place and good value for money
Fantastic experience: Good swim
Negative experience: It says on the website it’s open later however when we get there it’s shut has happened 3 times now not happy.
Negative experience: Gym is good Service is rubbish
Positive experience: A bit cold in the pool and changing rooms but nice and quiet to take the wee man for s swim with the steps into the pool madevit much easier for him
Negative experience: Terrible customer service
Negative experience: My daughter was there today with her friends she said staff hardly spoke to them she was charged ,£5 to start with shes 14 she went out to change her skates and was charged again over £3 this is disgusting and unacceptable for a child to be treated she won't be back and I will be telling all her friends parents what happened her friend who is 14 was also charged adult price is this how they make there money by over charging children my daughter is very shy and felt she had to pay again as she didn't want to cause a scene but am disgusted that this is what happens to children they should not be working there with there attitude auchenharvie should be ashamed of there staff
Sorry for the experience, please email [email protected] and a relevant member of the team can respond.
Fantastic experience: A great venue full of nostalgia. Staff are hardworking, diligent and really care about the community they serve. A delight.
Fantastic experience: just enjoyable... its my medicine... gym time
Fantastic experience: Great Day out Ice Skating. Had to book due to the Pandemic. Although it was easy enough, and the staff were very helpful. Grateful for it being so close, a good day for all.
Positive experience: Nice ice rink , but I booked for myself and my daughter, but when I got there they said I was on system but not booked so waited 30 minutes to be allowed in with no discount, as was the same with 3 other families, so not impressed with service, but I will probably return
Positive experience: The entire centre is tacky from horrible and smelly changing rooms, to broken and old equipment. I haven’t came in contact with all the staff that work there but the majority of them have a passive aggressive attitude and do not provide a friendly service. My advice is go to a Leisure centre that provides a friendly service and a clean environment
Fantastic experience: Great place
Fantastic experience: Love watching the wild play in here
Positive experience: It's alright. The changing rooms are always cold and soaking wet. The pool is always a bit murky. The staff always seem pretty miserable. Could definitely be doing with a lot of investment.
Fantastic experience: Excellent gym.
Fantastic experience: Great leisure centre got swimming pool /ice rink /gym/sauna ect reasonable prices good for family's good staff u personally use gym but did use swimming pool for years or went to aye baths which is shut down nowfar as I know so 5, ⭐from me for auchenharvice letvme
Negative experience: Staff are hostile , the pool is abysmal overall a bad choice to go to swim.
Negative experience: The staff were hostile to everyone and wouldn't let us in until 10 minutes past and only let us in for around 15 minutes. Never going here again
Fantastic experience: Great facility, good sized ice rink, very friendly
Positive experience: My gym ... always super friendly.
Fantastic experience: Went here for a covid test lol. Idk why they want me to review the establishment
Positive experience: Very good
Fantastic experience: Really good gym
Fantastic experience: I miss this place so much I can't wait till it opens the swimming pool again! Also loved the ice discos I use to go to when I was in school, every Friday night it was so fun! Love you auchenharvie
Fantastic experience: Bright, clean and staff are awesome.
Positive experience: Well used. Parking, disabled parking and on a bus route. Friendly, helpful staff. Toilets and showers available. Could do with some TLC as decor is quite tired, hence 4 star. Variety of activities available.
Fantastic experience: good Gym
Fantastic experience: Best swimming in Ayrshire. Wouldn't go anywhere else
Positive experience: Decent enough facility, could do with a wee refurb. Good gym, but struggle to get on cardio machines in the morning because of the pishy pensioners doing 1mph on them.
Fantastic experience: My family and I enjoyed swimming here. The water was warm and the staff were great.
Fantastic experience: Very good value for mony! Staff on the ball
Positive experience: This place it ok badly in need of refurbishment. But still great to have at least one ice rink still in North Ayrshire.
Negative experience: Ice rink is cool but the pool leaves a lot to be desired.
Fantastic experience: Great skating not expensive
Fantastic experience: Superb facilities .. staff are excellent
Positive experience: Ice rink was fab
Fantastic experience: Love it go 5 times a week I use the pool the gym I do kettles pilaties yoga aqua great place to go
Fantastic experience: Ice rink at at an affordable price. Well worth it
Fantastic experience: Granddaughters enjoyed their first skate.
Fantastic experience: Great for children
Fantastic experience: Great staff very helpful and lovely clean place
Fantastic experience: Went to join the gym
Negative experience: Front desk staff are extremely unhelpfull
Positive experience: Nice and central for Stevenston n Saltcoats. Needs upgrading, however, and lots of refurbishment to clean it up - sort tiles, new showers, etc. Difficult to know whether it should stay where it is - is it worth spending thousands and thousands on, or would it be better to have a brand new facility. Most staff OK.
Fantastic experience: Skated there when I was younger and it's still good
Positive experience: They have good facilities and keep them in quite good condition
Fantastic experience: Excellent
Positive experience: Great place to go for a day out, sauna is really nice
Positive experience: Could be a great place for the local community but it just seems to be getting more and more run down looking. Council needs to spend a bit of money on the place.
Positive experience: A little bit run down, compared to the Portal in Irvine. But it is a lot older.
Negative experience: It's filthy all around the pool. Not very warm either
Fantastic experience: Fantastic spotless and very polite xxx x Love it since I was a child xxxxx
Negative experience: Can't go swimming with kids after school as swimming lessons on every day after school I don't think it is fair f we took our kids after lessons would not get home till after 9 pm ģgggggŕrrrrrrrrrrr
Negative experience: this place needs a overhaul. staff are good but the building is so dated. please fix the sauna and Jacuzzi.
Fantastic experience: Not been here for a long time... Took my kids at the weekend and all those memories flooded back to me... Loved it ❤️
Fantastic experience: Great place to go and spend the day
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