This is a really nice sports facility where you get a welcome as soon as you enter. There is ample…read moreparking facilities on site and the opening hours mean you have little excuse not to go and utilise your membership. The reception staff are fantastic, I really feel that nothing appears to be too much trouble for them. The facilities on site are good, occasionally, I have found the water in the pool to be a little cool, but thats maybe me. The changing rooms are always immaculate and they offer good facilities, there are lots of hairdryers and it reminds me of a spa in there. The gym itself is well laid out and is a comfortable temperature for your workout, it has never been too busy and I have never felt that I have been looked down upon for my poor physique - whereas some gyms you feel uncomfortable. The staff are all really friendly and helpful and after your workout there is a really nice restaurant which serves really nice food and really tasty coffee.

Softplay and swimming often over subscribed meaning it is dangerous and scary for smaller children,…read moreI have often seen children hurt and crying inside the softplay area with no staff on hand to offer help or ensure safety. There is nothing to stop people from staying over the allotted hour play time, meaning that when others stay and more come in there can be more than a hundred children at one time the softplay center. A serious accident is waiting to happen. When speaking to the manager he offered no solution. Terrible booking service through the website (often doesn't load) Can't get through via phone (i've been on hold for 30 minutes now)

This p[lace is amazing it is always clean and has tons for children to do…read more cannot recomend it enough

So this is where it all started...the beginning of a rather bizarre love with swimming pools as a…read moreplace for fun - the memories of youth - I remember the excitement when this leisure pool originally opened in 1976 - it wasn't a rectangle it was round! What was this madness? Half the pool was too shallow to actually swim in and it had waves. This was the very first time I had encountered a "leisure" pool - oh trend setting, thoroughly modern Swindon you have so much to answer for - (along with the famed "magic roundabout"). I still return here with the kids every time we jump on a train to visit my wife's family. It is a great pool but looking distinctly tatty round the edges now. The domed roof desperately needs renewing - it looked spectacular 30 years ago but putting that aside its still super fun. The pool itself is beach style with a separate small kids pool. Good kids pool with 3 slides plus pirate ship.... The main pool has a steep three lane multislide and a new long slide circles inside the building (77m long). But really it is the flumes here that count and these are top. The Domebusters have a had a refurb this year and one of them has been replaced. All are approx 100m in length.So first off The Sidewinder A fairly gentle, spiralling flume aimed at younger children and parents. You can sit or go head first. The Great White My favourite - heads first ONLY never seen that on any other slide! Normally feet first everywhere.... A fast ride with two small vertical drops and several twists and turns. The Storm The new this year straight fast flume - small circumference with a striped lighting effect and sounds.. Didn't get to try this out this time - but will be back to do so....busy with an under 5... The session time was only an hour - which is really not long enough and it is fairly expensive considering the stingy hour. There are not many reasons to visit Swindon but this is definitely one if you are a water slide fan or the kids love to swim. . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update So I came back to try out the new flume which I hadn't managed to try out last time. Managed to slip away from a family visit for a couple of hours with my teenagers. Interestingly GLL have taken over the management of the leisure centre since we were here in 2012 (they run most of the pools we visit in London). It had been spruced up a bit with the new corporate livery...but still the stingy session times. We took no notice of the session times and made good use of the domebuster slides. So The Storm was the main attraction - small tube, dark, with striped lightning and fast with the descent as a helix. A big thumbs up from the family - a great slide but not in our top 5 slides. The Great White remains the favourite - head first you can pick up some proper speed and fly over the steepest vertical drops... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oasis is a great place to take the family swimming! They have a huge laguna pool that boasts water…read moreslides, a wave machine, a smaller pool for the children and a big water sprayer. They do a range of different classes such as mother and baby Swimming, OAP Swimming and also offer swimming lessons. They have also just started doing gigs with people such as 'The Sugababes' 'Cascada' and 'Shayne Ward' perfoming there.

I've been bodybuilding for 32 years and this gym is one of the best I've been in. Some of the…read moreequipment is the best I've ever used. it could do with a separate dedicated incline bench for barbell work as using the same power rack for squats and bench makes it a real pain to get a hold of at times. It's the only gym I've been in that doesn't have a straight / cambered bar for a cable attachment. Please sort it out? The calf machine could do with a few more adjustment holes drilled in to it. Apart from these niggles the gym is awesome and well worth the £15.99 per month.

OK. This is now my fourth city centre gym and so far so good. Great price and great equipment…read more(three floors). The place is kept reasonably clean and fellow gym members are considerate for the moment, given there are no paper towels and disinfectant spray available. A gym towel a must! I'd recommend going in the mornings because it does get busy at lunchtime and even busier after work.

Kingsdown Sports Centre really doesn't look at all attractive from the outside. To be honest I…read morealmost didn't bother going in to enquire about a membership at all! It is however quite convientantly located as there aren't really any other gyms nearby. Once I had pulled myself together to go in there was only one receptionist who was on the phone. I waited for about 5 minutes and was not acknowledged at all. I looked around for prices but none were to be found. This is something I find really irritating as it means that blatently a massive sales pitch is going to be fired at me when all I wanted to know was a simple price! This was in fact the case. Eventually the receptionist welcomed me and I was offered a tour. The descriptions made by Will and Lisa are very accurate. The equipment is fine, the classes are fine, the saunas are fine etc. Nothing amazing and I have definitely experienced better. There is however bike storage outside the building and there is an extensive fitness class program. Additionally there is free parking, 3 squash courts and a creche.

It looks a bit old and dowdy from the outside, a big square lump of a thing with too much concrete…read morein view. Things aren't much better inside, with a few rooms that could do with a lick of paint. I suppose a sports centre doesn't need to be pretty though. The facilities are what I should judge it against, and these are fairly good. The most used thing here is the gym, with banks running machines, bikes, and the other usual things you'd expect. Along with that there's a couple of squash courts and a main hall where they do things like aerobics and badminton. It's run by the council so you can't do too much better price wise. This is probably why it isn't the flashest or or smartest of places though. But if you don't come to a sports centre to pose or admire the wall paper this place will do just fine.

This leisure centre is rather nice I think. We went to book my daughter's swimming lessons when we…read morewere buying a house at Yeovil. I thought it was all rather well laid out with very good access, and very user friendly. The was a cafe near the entrance which I thought was great, a meeting point for parents and offspring. The staff were very friendly too, and when everything fell through they gave me a refund over the phone (well not literally) which I thought was impressive. The whole place seemed pleasing to me, with trees close by and good parking.

Light, bright and clean swimming facilities. Good staff. Pool itself is not particularly big or…read moredeep compared to Strode Pool in Street, but it's a nicer environment. Handily located next to Ninesprings so you can go for a family walk too afterwards.

There's quite an interesting range of sports on offer down here. I was dragged down to play…read morebadminton by my other half, and was immediately taken by the sand court where you can play beach football or volleyball. They also have cricket nets and a bowling green (which I might be tempted by in a few years' time!). Be warned, though, the service on the desk is rubbish. I called up to book a court and was told I didn't need to, then on arrival was informed that since my call they'd booked them all out by an unrepentant assistant who clearly didn't give a shit.

This is a small community centre that runs loads of educational projects and classes for a wide…read morerange of people from all walks of life. They provide essential services to the local community such as tea dances and let out their hall to a local church on saturdays. they also have some really interesting classes such as dress making and pilates historical societys and slimming world. this hall always seems cold but performs a vital service and is well worth a visit. the centre is ran by a commited and caring team who are always happy to help with any questions you may have.

The review left in 2009 is a good indication of this centre. It just needs a lot more input now…read morethat the management are quite out dated in their ideas and uses for the centre. It has had a great deal of work done over the past three years, roof, toilets and generally cleaning up of the rooms etc. It just needs an injection of 'fresh' ideas and a touch of diversity - then it would be absolutely perfect for the folk of Filton.

It sounds wrong to say this is a run of the (tread)mill sports centre but it's probably the best…read moreway to describe it to give you the right impression. It has two pools, small (baby) pool and a regular, 25m, large pool. It has wet and dry changing facilities - with the swimming / wet ones having a refurb recently. The reception staff are a real mix, some are really friendly, helpful and enthusiastic and some just look plain bored. We have found the teaching staff to be nothing short of excellent, a dedicated bunch who have a real passion for swimming. We have small children and they have thoroughly enjoyed their lessons and have progressed well with the tuition. We get regular feedback, often weekly as how they are doing and where they are heading. The swimming pool is light, functional and perfect for swimming lessons and lane swimming. Most of the time the temperature is good and the lanes aren't very busy the times I have been. They have the floats out on Saturday afternoons to add a bit of variety. The viewing are is a row of seat all along one side of the pool and with a glass waist high partition you can view the swimming area easily and communicate with people in the pool. The sports hall is viewable from the reception area, I haven't been in but I've seen Zumba classes, roller hockey and badminton going on through the large glass walls that go down one thirds of the side of it. Refreshments wise there are a couple of drink vending machines (one hot, one cold) and also snack machines. Also a small but adequate range of swimming items are available for sale in the reception area such as costumes, goggles, floating aids and a limited amount of gym clothes.

Nice swimming pool and gym facilities. The badminton hall is nice and tall and is ventilated nicely…read morehowever there is a glass wall overseeing at least the first two courts and it can be a pit off-putting for players but means spectators can watch without being in the way of play. Recommended.