Information about Canolfan Hamdden Plascrug Leisure Centre


SY23 1HL, Aberystwyth
+441970624579

Opening hours

  • sunday: 10h-13:45
  • monday: 7:15-21h
  • tuesday: 7:15-21h
  • wednesday: 7:15-21h
  • thursday: 7:15-21h
  • friday: 7:15-21h
  • saturday: 10h-15:45
A 25-metre pool, fitness suites and squash courts at a council-run, community sports centre.

Our comment from FitFit UK about Canolfan Hamdden Plascrug Leisure Centre:

Canolfan Hamdden Plascrug Leisure Centre in Aberystwyth offers a variety of facilities suited for all age groups. The centre is appreciated for its cleanliness and friendly staff who consistently provide a warm welcome to visitors. Users have highlighted the helpful staff and the well-maintained gym, making it a go-to spot for fitness enthusiasts.

Families enjoy visiting for swimming, with both a children's pool and a larger pool available. However, it is important to note that swimming sessions are limited to 45 minutes and must be booked in advance, which some users found inconvenient. Despite the center's strengths, several reviews indicate a need for improvements, particularly regarding the changing rooms and the absence of a café.

Overall, Canolfan Hamdden Plascrug offers a great experience for exercise and leisure, but visitors can benefit from being aware of its limitations, such as limited swimming times and dated facilities.

Services, Machines and Guided Classes

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Squash court

Canolfan Hamdden Plascrug Leisure Centre: Opinions

4.1/5 (71 Opinions)
Finlay Woodland 7 months ago

Positive experience: Good basic facilities, lovely staff, clean. No doors on showers in men's or locks on the ladies.

Geoff Evans 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: Good gym helpful staff & members

Menna Jones 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: The staff are very friendly and helpful.

Linda Griffiths 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great workout friendly staff

Sarah Middleton 1 year ago

Negative experience: Be aware that swimming sessions are limited to 45mins (despite being very quiet) and entry is timed accordingly so you cannot turn up and enter any time, phone to check (Be prepared to be put on hold for long periods). No café, only 2 vending machines. Spectator area is no longer open.

Sue Crossley 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great place to take kids for a swim, although the pool is a bit cool and the showers are a bit hot. Shame there's no cafe.

Geoff Oz Evans 2 years ago

Positive experience: Good experience

Esmé Haird 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Saturday afternoon with a three year old could not be easier. One hour swim followed with some soft play. I paid for the swim, and the little one went in for free, and the Soft play was only a pound.

Mrs Jones 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I go to the classes for the over 60s they are very good and very well attended, keeping us fit and out of the doctors

Naomi Goodridge 2 years ago

Positive experience: Very clean, friendly staff and well equipped.Just a shame the fitness suite isn't open until 12 on Mondays and Fridays.

Hester Smith 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Archery every Wednesday evening 20:15 to 21:30 Training and equipment provided :)

John Davies 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great softplay area, needs better signs inside though

KAD 2 years ago

Positive experience: Decent and we'll maintained facilities with polite and professional staff.

Michelle Mansell 2 years ago

Positive experience: Only reason I haven't given 5 stars is because the outside is looking rather grim. They've spruced the place up inside during their closure through covid, and they provide great classes etc, but the face of the build really does need a lift!

Karen Sadler 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I mainly use the pool on a weekly basis. Very clean and changing rooms are spotless. Staff are lovely and always get a lovely welcome. Thank you x

Hannah Davies 2 years ago

Positive experience: No one ever answers the phone which makes it difficult to book.

Trish Robins 2 years ago

Positive experience: Only 45mins swimming per session. Tired changing rooms with no means of keeping the 3 changing cubicles shut. I had the embarrassment of having to change in the open area. Was only £3 though.

Eifion Smith 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good facilities and not too busy

swiss cheese 3 years ago

Positive experience: Need a nice cold water dispenser to fill bottles for the gym etc, nice staff

Ghofran H 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best place for gym and swimming pool, very helpful staff

mandylloyd13 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Loved it

mads harries 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Free shower

Hazel Sturt 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Loving the January 2 for 1, Instructors are nice!

Ben Freeman 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: great time, hardworking , thoughtful , knowledgeable staff . good prices, easy ( free) parking ( except around school pickup time!!) .

Carol Reid 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good size pools...and slide form the little ones

M M 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good facilities over all

neil davies 5 years ago

Positive experience: Great staff good squash courts

Sara Clark 5 years ago

Positive experience: Looks a lot better on the inside than out. Helpful staff. Clean facilities. Large pool is only 4 lanes but there is a smaller training pool too. We will use it again.

Carol Bradford 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool, clean,tidy place.friendly staff.

Hands 2 Voices 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place friendly staff

Stuart Whincup 6 years ago

Negative experience: Some unfriendly staff that are not very helpful, and particularly awkward when it come to swimming times.

Julie Boltwood 6 years ago

Positive experience: So good to have the pool open again, and with the booking system currently in place it's so much better

Crocdilo Gamer 6 years ago

Positive experience: Staff very good and helpful building needs work done. Modernising

Sally Tobin 6 years ago

Positive experience: Plascrug leisure centre has two pools a Small (10x10m) children's pool plus and a large pool (10x25m), four changing rooms, male, female, family (two rooms) and disabled. Small soft play, suitable for toddler - about 8 years. Large gym. Disabled access to every area, disabled toilets. Large free car park. Great leisure centre but sadly no cafe any more and pool opening hours are getting shorter each year.

jolanta przytulska 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Super pływalnia

Kevin Button 6 years ago

Negative experience: Needs knocking down and rebuilding and to have a time table that convenient for more people on weekends

E Evans 6 years ago

Positive experience:

Ivan Morozov 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Just love it

Karin Davies 6 years ago

Positive experience: Here on a weekly basis. Kids enjoy swimming and attending the soft play. Good for parties.

Emma Lloyd 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant leisure centre

Barry Mleczek 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good staff, good, clean pool

Ryan mclaughlin 6 years ago

Positive experience: Could do with some investment but a great facility.

carwyn daniel 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely

Samuel Grinsell 6 years ago

Positive experience: Really good value if you're a student, mainly just use the gym, I find some of the machines in there to be uncomfortable especially the leg curl machine, however they have everything you need and it normally doesn't get too busy, the classes can be disruptive cause you can't use one of the rooms but that's only fair, haven't been to any of the classes but they have a very good range. Overall would recommend

Dan Doano 6 years ago

Negative experience: Could be so much better!!

SianMarie George 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good swimming pool. Took the children. A smaller pool and larger pool available.

Morfydd Price 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Took my son swimming to this leisure centre. Very friendly staff and grateful for family changing rooms, where my autistic teen son and I could change together, much to the annoyance of other parents. Pool traditional shallow and deep ends. Viewing area available, but missing the cafe, which has been replaced with gym machines. Otherwise, great for a swim on a rainy day!

Robert Hopkins 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good for kids

Mark Dixon 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good gym and decent swimming pool

Dan Bliss 6 years ago

Positive experience: Needs a clean and update.

philip rees 7 years ago

Positive experience: Needs money spent on upgrading the changing rooms

Hazel Southgate 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good centre but needs the cafe back

Dev Acharya 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice swimming pool for kids.

R D 7 years ago

Negative experience: Pool was very cold and the showers only felt warm due to the pool being so cold.

Wandering Weddings UK 7 years ago

Positive experience: Good atmosphere in the gym, some good equipment, the old gym is very dated and the equipment isn't especially well maintained. But they seem to be inmproving. My favourite gym in Aber for the price

Janet Nicholls 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great staff and amenities

Ck T 7 years ago

Positive experience: New gym equipment installed, plenty of choices of exercise classes, friendly staff but failed to offer places for people who need ACTIF even being suggested by the physiotherapist. The music being played during the circult session can reach 90 db so bring your ear plugs to protect your hearing.

Charlie Kenobi 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: They do a lot with what they have. Really liked the accessable play where they naturally involved my younger disabled son with one of the instructors getting in a sports wheelchair to play chase.

Tim Beckett 7 years ago

Positive experience: It's ok

Christopher Jones 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place with friendly staff and clean facilities

Neal Munro Forrester 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always a great place to go swimming or gym the best thing is lifeguards unlike clarach bay

Jason Evans 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great staff and descent facilities, but it's tired and needs modernising to reach its full potential. Sadly no Cafe anymore.

Neil Parry 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good pool

Robert McBurnie 8 years ago

Positive experience: Need to open more on public holidays

Kelly Sarah-louise 8 years ago

Positive experience: A very basic community leisure facility. New cardio equipment. Very restricted opening hours at the weekends. Pool is mostly used for county schools during the week term time. Lacks adequate changing and showering facilities. Needs to roll with the times and offer a more modern flexible service. A separate gym entrance with membership swipe cards would go a long way to providing a much needed 24 hour gym facility.

Robert Hughes 8 years ago

Positive experience: Great place to bring the kids, shame about lack of cafe

Shaun Russell Jones 8 years ago

Negative experience: Basic, in dire need of some new equipment, poor gym not a reflection of the hard working gym staff and Instructors

Andra Jones (ancrab) 8 years ago

Positive experience: Limited swimming times, no cafe , dated.

Jonathan L (russywhite) 8 years ago

Positive experience: Small pool but adequate, changing rooms could do with a smarten up.

Ryan Johnson 8 years ago

Positive experience: Its got great facilities and friendly staff

amber P 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Variety of classes, squash courts decent price, memberships available, helpful staff

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