Information about Thornes Park Stadium
WF2 8TY, Wakefield
Opening hours
- sunday: (closed)
- monday: 12h-20:30
- tuesday: 7:15-20:30
- wednesday: 7:15-20:30
- thursday: 7:15-20:30
- friday: 7:15-20:30
- saturday: 8:30-13:30
Our comment from FitFit UK about Thornes Park Stadium:
Thornes Park Stadium in Wakefield is a fantastic multi-use sports facility that offers a variety of activities, making it a great place to exercise and have fun for the entire family. Visitors have praised the excellent atmosphere and the friendly, helpful staff, creating a welcoming environment for everyone.
Users have highlighted the quality gym, equipped with a good selection of well-maintained machines, although some equipment may show signs of age. The indoor and outdoor activities available ensure that there is something for everyone, from gym workouts to organized sports classes, including popular offerings like pickleball and athletics.
Additionally, the clean and tidy facilities and the spacious outdoor park area contribute to an enjoyable experience. However, there have been mentions of parking issues on event days and the potential need for upgrades to certain amenities. Despite these concerns, many visitors have expressed their overall satisfaction, emphasizing that it’s a great place to improve your fitness and enjoy time with family and friends.
Overall, Thornes Park Stadium is highly recommended for its great facilities, variety of classes, and the supportive atmosphere fostered by its dedicated staff.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Thornes Park Stadium: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Great place
Fantastic experience: Quality gym, great equipment and good atmosphere
Fantastic experience: Having a great Pickleball experience.
Fantastic experience: Lovely gym, no pressure, feel totally comfortable unlike many other gyms where I feel paranoid and very uncomfortable. Good selection of equipment and the staff are brilliant
Fantastic experience: Excellent stadium
Positive experience: Staff are lovely and welcoming. Equipment seems like it's been randomly picked
Fantastic experience: Just went to see if they had equipment for a disabled person . All the staff were really helpful.
Fantastic experience: Really good facilities and really good classes. Not only is that good but the place is tidy and well kept and the staff are really nice and helpful.
Fantastic experience: Great facilities
Fantastic experience: Great facilities and brilliant blue running track, friendly staff
Fantastic experience: We only used the track under instruction of some wonderful physiotherapists .
Fantastic experience: Excellent place, there are a lot of activities for inside and outside stay.
Positive experience: Good gym, good atmosphere and staff.
Fantastic experience: Excellent social venue ,in our case indoor bowls .
Fantastic experience: Good gym and brilliant friendly staff . Equipment needs updating and more equipment. The opening Hours could be better on Monday to crowded on Monday doesn't open till 12 be nice for early opening times like most gyms be nice if the gym open on a Sunday like most gyms.
Positive experience: Good facilities in a public park
Fantastic experience: Cycling round the park with grandson
Positive experience: Decent gym. A little bigger would be an advantage especially considering the amount of space they could use up.
Fantastic experience: Nice evening walk, refreshing from a hectic day.. kids enjoyed kicking the ball.. feel safe
Positive experience: We only go in to use the Acesable Toilet & get a coffee after our walking group have walked the park.
Positive experience: Closed for 48hrs at the weekend? It's a gym for goodness sake.
Fantastic experience: Great place to exercise
Fantastic experience: Great staff, and that's what matters the most.
Positive experience: It's a good gym with plenty of equipment and the staff are friendly.
Fantastic experience: Great place for indoor bowls
Positive experience: Could do with an upgrade/facelift
Fantastic experience: Good facilities.
Fantastic experience: Loads of equipment and not too busy
Fantastic experience: Good stadium
Fantastic experience: Good n clean
Fantastic experience: Nice gym and friendly staff
Positive experience: Nice track, slightly naughty parking on event day. Lack of a stadium seating a mini pain on one of the hottest days of the year, but understand it burned down a few years ago(?), so blessed that the track remains!
Fantastic experience: ❤️
Negative experience: Glad to FINALLY have my membership cancelled for good with this gym especially after the off Attitude/Phone Manner of some! Of the reception staff, twice I've froze my membership account due to health issues, the last time i froze my membership account i was told it wouldn't get unfrozen until i contacted them to tell them otherwise yet without my say so they started taking £20 a month out of my account again, then when just trying to have a calm! Convocation about it with reception staff they got off & funny with me, but the good news is the SalesTeam have authorised me getting my money back and thats me back to saving £20 a month
Positive experience: Decent gym with a good array of equipment. Some of it showing it’s age but perfectly usable. Only negative is no water fountain in the gym area, only by reception which is a bit of a walk. Found the staff to be friendly. Overall would recommend.
Positive experience: Good gym, clean, well run. Friendly staff
Positive experience: Very good
Fantastic experience: Excellent place yo work put staff very obliging
Fantastic experience: Lovely place, I'm unsure of all the amenities they have as I was just there for a back exercise class, but receptionist was lovely and helpful
Fantastic experience: Great place to work out! The PT training is something to consider. You get your own work out plan its great to keep to your goals.
Fantastic experience: Brill Pilates teacher, loved seeing the running track again, i was a bit late though, sorry. My shoe lace had snapped, so, that's why i was using my earings to thread the lace through my trainer as i was in a rush. It was a really challenging class, my bones and joints seemed to click back into place in a good way. Its done my hip, groin, back and foot damage the world of good. I'll definately let the Rehabilitation Team know. Thank you very much, I'll definately be back. Felt safe there too, cheers
Positive experience: Big carpark, lovely playground with great slides. A really nice place
Fantastic experience: Great fun playing indoor bowls. A great crowd of people all using safety measures to avoid covid infections
Fantastic experience: Well equipped small gym.
Fantastic experience: Nice running track. I visited here because they were holding kids bike riding lessons on the track
Positive experience: The track area is showing its age, plenty of people wanting to use it, all seems a bit disorganised
Fantastic experience: Excellent
Fantastic experience: Great training
Fantastic experience: Live the atmosphere of the place
Fantastic experience: Plenty of people today sunny weather nice place to be
Positive experience: Really needs some tlc
Fantastic experience: Excellent venue absolutely first class
Positive experience: Good internal facilities and extensive external park area for various activities.
Fantastic experience: Visited for the first time for the Wakefield model Railway show, some great layouts on show, well done.
Fantastic experience: Great place to get fit. Staff really good and freindly.
Positive experience: Not bad
Positive experience: Rubbish all over. Empty bottles wrappers etc.
Fantastic experience: Very nice atmosphere, very sporty and so much better than a tv or a phone. Great.
Fantastic experience: Great place to train
Fantastic experience: Been training at thornes 10 years now and it's the only gym for me!! Great staff and not too busy
Positive experience: Needs better toilets
Positive experience: Alright, depending on what you are wanting to do. The staff are very friendly and encouraging but I was advised by the trainer who assessed me that the exercise programme that would be the most effective for me was at another of the council's leisure centres, where he organised for me to see one of his colleagues.
Fantastic experience: Great par core area and the staff where very helpful
Positive experience: The place needs regular checks for repairs and keeping clean.
Fantastic experience: A brilliant morning very professionally organised
Negative experience: Not a good experience at thornes stadium booked my grandson for gym joey took the details over the phone got my start time and time when to go arrived there on the day not got him on the list at all to start but had him on the system the ladies on reception said it was full then said saying that they don't all turn up, so I asked if he cud start today the ladies said we are full you can start in augest or cum another day to which I replied can't cum another day only do Fridays and am not waiting till augest when the lady over the phone said I could start 1st march Friday at 10.45 I left feeling very annoyed
Positive experience: Very nice gym.....was there to see Independent Doctor for a Accident Claim. Staff were friendly at the Reception desk when you arrived giving plain clear concise directions where had to be for the Appointment.
Fantastic experience: Great park
Fantastic experience: My granddaughter does athletics here.
Positive experience: Not enough bins, food is excellent though.
Fantastic experience: Great place for the whole family to get active.
Fantastic experience: Went in to rejoin membership. Service was great. Very informative. And a hive of activity.
Positive experience: Large park. Miniature railway is good value. BMX/skate park. Large childrens play area. Dog friendly (take bags and pick it up)
Fantastic experience: nice stadium, good facilities
Positive experience: Visited for exhibition there, hall was ok but a walk to carpark
Positive experience: Tidy gym. Equipment is all high end touch screen stuff. Went with the Mrs to do some cardio and everything you need is there. It has two gyms, one downstairs near the entrance which has a couple of chest and shoulders machines, along with a few treadmills, rowing machines and cross trainers. Another up the stairs where all the free weights, dumbells and curling bars are. Would have liked to see some boxing bags, battle ropes, sleighs etc. Although this isn't a "boxing" gym it seems to have everything else. 4 stars, not because of the boxing bags, but because the staff were pretty rude. My first time at this gym and I asked where everything was and the guy at the counter was pretty rude and acted like I should already know. Didn't offer to show me about, just took my money and left me too it, which if I was new to gyms in general could have been a bit daunting. I could have understood if it was exceptionally busy, but it was dead. I would probably go back with the Mrs as the gym itself is pretty tidy, but I will certainly be sticking with the gym that's closer to my work. Staff are alot more friendly and show all new comers how to safely use the machines, which as I said above could be a bit daunting for anyone who is new.
Fantastic experience: Always a nice venue. It is a multi use facility so I am unable to comment on how good it's sports facilities are, combined with the park which caters for children and teens it has plenty to offer either keep fit types or family's with children, easy parking give them a try.
Fantastic experience: Excellent gym great track
Fantastic experience: Great facility for track and field, with a wonderful gym club too
Fantastic experience: Great gym facilities
Positive experience: Great place to exercise staff are friendly and helpful.
Positive experience: Met here to start a cycle ride with the breeze ladies,used the toilets which were very clean
Positive experience: Friendly welcoming atmosphere accompanied by generally helpful and well motivated staff.
Negative experience: Parking terrible
Negative experience: I have been coming here for 3 years now. Facilities are poor. Nothing ever seems to get repaired. The council should be ashamed of themselves. Staff are lovely and friendly however.
Positive experience: Very good
Positive experience: Nice facilities
Fantastic experience: A great set up.
Positive experience: Great facilities and friendly staff
Positive experience: Could do with a cafe for teas coffee
Fantastic experience: Amazing staff.
Fantastic experience: Lots to do for all ages always enjoy a day or an hour in Thorne park
Positive experience: Great 8 Lane, 10 Lane home straight athletics track. Inside you have choice of 2 gym's to use. They also have an indoor track but if you want to use this contact first to see if it's free. Good team who will offer help and advice if needed. The home of Wakefield District Harriers athletic club.
Fantastic experience: Good place, needs a tidy up
Fantastic experience: Ran a 100m pb so well chuffed
Fantastic experience: Great place to take family
Fantastic experience: Little one does gymnastics there she loves it
Fantastic experience: Ideal everyday sports facilities.
Positive experience: Could do with more parking spaces
Fantastic experience: Brilliant place
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