

Dive into GL1 Leisure Centre, offering swimming lessons, indoor pools, gym facilities, bowling, and family activities like pool parties and inflatables.
Venue Type
Indoor
Typical visit duration
All day
Booking
Walk-in
Recommended ages
0 months (newborn)+
I recently froze my membership for 3 months due to a medical issue, now I've returned i noted that the showers/lockers/toilets still haven't been fixed. In fact in one men's toilet in the swimming area none of the taps work, so how are you supposed to wash your hands, this is basic hygiene which needs sorting! The pools are excellent but are let down by the ancillary facilities. The whole facility seems to have gone down hill since Freedom Leisure took over, they must be saving money on their maintenance team because nothing seems to be fixed when it goes wrong.
The mens toilets (the ones that actually work) are disgusting! Genuinely vile. Only 2 of the 4 showers in the children's changing area work and have been that way for over a month now. Locker doors are hanging off all over the place. They can't do a basic update on their website to let people know you now have to book swimming sessions rather than turning up (as it still states on the site). Instead of investing money on fixing the problems they are spending it on new equipment. It's very easy to see why this place went bust in the first place. Managed in the exact same way as it was before.
Sorry but your parking charge of £4.20 is disgusting, even after giving half of it back if the customer can be bothered to queue up again to get the refund. Not only that, but the grotty machine makes it easy to pay the £4.20 for 0 minutes. Typical council - spends as much time asset stripping as it does virtue signaling and fining the poor buggers that live there.
The swimming pool is great, but the cleanliness in the changing rooms and around the pool area is poor. The same brown pile of “mush”, at the end of the fast lane has been left untouched. The leisure centre desperately needs a clean
Attended the European Kempo championships here recently. It's a great venue, with great facilities and the centre was clean and well serviced. Just one little, little thing was it would have been great if the cafes were at full operation levels as it have a profitable spell for the centre. We had to go and get drinks and food so think they missed a trick. GREAT PLACE
Reviews last updated: 29 September 2026
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This venue was last updated on 28 September 2026
