Parklands Leisure Centre

Apr 8th, 2023

Clean and pleasant. Water warm in pool. Helpful staff.
Apr 2nd, 2023

Swimming. Gyms. Sporty stuff. Avoid if you don't like exercise.
Dec 23rd, 2022

Dec 22nd, 2022

I occasionally use this centre for a stop off "pay as you go" session when I'm passing through the town a couple of times a month on average. The pool is good although the changing facilities are outdated and the lockers old fashioned. That is at least made up for by it being a nice pool. The gym is rather small and close knit but has good gym equipment. Sadly for my last two visits (two weeks apart....!) the showers were all closed off and out of bounds on both occasions, basically as they were not working. I expected that to be a 'one off' for my previous visit a fortnight ago but for them still to be not working two weeks later was a real eye opener for me! Anybody would think getting the showers to work would be top priority for hygeine's sake in such a set up but seemingly not here! Phoning ahead to check on such things in advance is nigh on impossible too and my calls in the past over various queries here are rarely returned on the day - which is when you obviously need them to be if your call isn't even answered first time around! It's obviously very short staffed for this to even be the case. Sadly, as much as I occasionally enjoy using Parklands LC, it does seem to me to be a leisure complex in decline and with little to no money spent on it in the five years or so I've now been occasionally frequenting it for! I hope the future for it is brighter than the past five years or so have been as far as I've been concerned.
Dec 8th, 2022