Went for a weekend trip to Canterbury with my swimming club and we found this little gem. Three…read morepools well maintained pools in the easy access part of the city. They have a 33m pool, plus a proper training pool and also a Family Beach pool whicch contains a seperate Toddler pool. Very nice.everyone catered for. Creche available. Well worth a 5 star rating

Excellent facilities…read more But they had loads of junk food vending machines, like coca cola, chocolate bars and Monster Munch crisps. The cafe was closed so you were left to eat junk. Maybe they think people who want a healthy life want to eat that. Wrong! Fortunately there is a Sainsburys round the corner, so you didn't have to get any junk from the vending machine. I look forward to the day when they have healthy snacks and drinks in the vending machines at Reception suitable for a sports centre. Coca Cola doesn't seem appropriate.

A great family day out…read more The Leisure centre offers several swimming pools; a family pool ( with wave machine), an olympic size pool and one with high diving boards. The centre also has a childrens activity area away from the pools and offer crafts and play time while parents wait. The Leisure centre is within Mote park which has a variety of playground equipment to keep the little ones entertained.

Maidstone Leisure Centre is just located outside the town centre in Mote Park, which is about 5…read moreminutes away. The Centre offers several swimming pools, a great family pool with a wave machine and log flume, a brilliant olympic size swimming pool and another with driving boards. If you don't fancy swimming, and have small children, then polar adventure is a great place to take the kids to play, with a large soft play area and ice hill slides. Its also a great place for kiddies birthday parties. The leisure centre also has a large multipupose sports hall a great gym facilities, and a health suite with sauna and spa. Great place for a family day out!

Yep not bad. Bit of a walk from Military Road, where we were staying but that's good for us…read more Pool well maintained and staff very friendly. Freedom leisure do have a good reputation for high standards. Pays you to be a member.the six-o, in our case1

The leisure centre is well run offering lots of sporting activities for all ages. You can make use…read moreof the fitness suite or the swimming pool. There is even a learners pool aimed mainly at younger children. the leisure centre runs lots of courses and activities throughout the year and they have a very well know swimming club. If you are staying in dover and are stuck for something to do with the kids this is well worth a visit and for the swimming pool you can buy family tickets.

The new company that has taken over is not as good as Your Leisure. The website for swimming is…read moreabsolutely terrible and completely unreliable. I have traveled to Dover on 3 occasions to find I couldn't swim. The reception staff are great, but mainly the same people as before. Management should seek employment elsewhere. Also, while I'm feeling frustrated, Places for People don't respond to complaints or improve as a result. Rather typical Dover Council awarding contracts to those who can't deliver.

Can you keep a secret guys?? Not many people seem to have noticed it yet, but a year and a half…read moreafter the Olympics there's some exciting stuff going on in Stratford again... Yep living near the Park is paying off nicely at the moment - my new local council swimming pool is none other than the Aquatics Centre! It's been open to the public for the last few weeks and I have to say it's a pretty special venue - I still get tingles every time I walk in. It's £4.50 per swim session for an adult and there's an easy peasy online system to book in advance. There are 2 full size pools inside - the Competition Pool for the hardcore swimmers and the Training Pool where they separate the lengths into two 25m sections. Personally I found a 50m pool to be ridiculously long in real life (my superwoman stamina is a err work in progress) so I tend to do laps in the 25m lanes. You choose a pool and a start time online but it's pretty lax once you're in, and you can stay as long as you like. The water is a nice slightly warm temperature and it's usually a uniform 1.2m depth all the way along (though somehow they can change the depth of different sections - the mind boggles!). It's not all lanes - there are also sections of the pool roped off for 'fun' as well as swimming lessons. Also saw signs for a total wipeout stylee 'Splash Time' for kiddies at weekends that sounded like great fun if anyone wants to lend me a child?! The reason it misses a 5th star is that the changing rooms and shower facilities are just not that great. It's spacious yes and there are plenty of cubicles, hairdryers and lockers, but the layout is a little confusing (quite a wander from the lockers to the female showers), they seem to have too many staff/cleaners milling around not doing much, and the showers themselves seem temperamental and need you to wave a hand past every 3 seconds. Is this how Michael Phelps showered?! (*pauses to enjoy the mental picture*) Ahem. Yeah I expected better. So remember to bring your own towel+toiletries, a plastic bag for your wet cozzie (I haven't spotted a drying machine yet) and a £1 coin for the lockers. And please only tell your special friends - the nicest thing at the moment is that it isn't too busy on weeknights! See you there :)

The swimming pool itself is great, most of the time quiet, you can choose your line depending on…read morehow fast you want to swim so that you don't get disturb by other people while swimming. The changing space however is really poor for this kind of aquatics centre - you can really tell you're just meant to come, quickly change, swim and leave. There are few showers and they are quite temperamental. The lockers and cubicles are just not that comfortable to use. So it's a very good pool, but come there for exercise only and not hoping for a full spa experience!

From the owner: Piscine Olympique La piscine dispose d'un bassin olympique avec 8 lignes d'eau et de gradins…read morepouvant contenir jusqu'à 600 personnes. Un bassin d'initiation accueille les débutants et les plus petits qui peuvent s'amuser avec un toboggan aquatique de 38m. Au sous-sol de la piscine, on retrouve une salle de billard, un stand de tir, une salle d'arts martiaux ainsi qu'un boulodrome.