This was such a fun experience! It was challenging & engaging! It'd be a great activity for family…read more& friends

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This place is only busy because there are so few other options in the area. Unfortunately, the…read morebusiness makes the management arrogant and they offer zero customer service. If they bother to get back to you about any concern you might have about the facilities they will be completely inflexible and unhelpful. They know if you leave they have plenty of other users with little to no other choices. The recent refurbishment has been badly managed with a much smaller choice of equipment spread over 4 floors in 6 different spaces! Even at off-peak times there are queues for equipment because much of it does not even work. Complaints fall on deaf ears and management will not even entertain reducing fees due to the reduction in services. Their only suggestion they can offer is to cancel! They really do not care about the community or their members despite the headlines on their website.

This is a great place to come swimming. After a ridiculous saga, it was finally reopened a couple…read moreof years ago and it is this relative newness that makes it so shiny and nice. You don't worry about verrucas and kids weeing in the pool here, unlike at North London's other, older and therefore grimier public pools. I like to come early on a Saturday morning (provided I haven't been out too heavily the night before) as it's usually pretty quiet and you can get a good pace in the fast lane without hitting too many people's heels. The changing rooms are also big and clean although my favourite thing about the pool is that it's near enough to my house that I can stroll home for a post-swim shower.

As part of my regime to have a washboard stomach by summer 2012 I decided to try and suppress my…read moreick-reflex and give the local pool a try. I always enjoyed swimming as a kid and it's supposed to be fabulous for toning up so thought it'd be a great first stop on the road to my bikini body. Now, this is a tiny little pool run by Enfield Council and their site reliably informed me that 6:30am - 8:30am during the week was 'Adult Swim' time. In keeping with my 'healthy mind, healthy body' attitude I decided 6:30am would be a reasonable hour to swim on a Monday morning and I was right. It was me and a handful of 'older' ladies and gents. This is a nice way of me saying it was me and the OAPs. Not to be outdone by their age and disorientation I actually was confused the moment I walked in as I had taken my specs off in the changing room (obviously) and could barely see where there was space to swim. The lifeguard told me to go in the lane at the end which turned out was the fast lane...she clearly had higher expectations of my swimming ability than I! It's a relatively clean pool and I was glad to be allowed to wear flip-flops to leave by the side - helped to deter me from getting the 'icks'. I didn't see anything gross like floating plasters either, which is always a plus! How those old people managed to swim and gossip incessantly at that hour is beyond me but I felt awake and refreshed when I climbed out of the pool after a half hour or so of swimming, and knew an awful lot about Mavis, her daughter who was supposed to call and how her dodgy hip was doing. The changing facilities certainly need a bit of work. There was just one giant changing room with no working lock on it and most of the ladies had left their belongings in there, most probably Mavis and her crew. I opted to use a toilet cubicle which was grim but where else was I supposed to change? All in all a handy little pool in a handy location and considering it's open early-doors I'll definitely be popping by again soon - for £4 a swim you can't really expect much more!

I use regularly the swimming pool at Southgate leisure centre and today tried the Arnos Pool. I…read morecouldn't believe it. Aspects that definitely need improvement in Arnos pool: hygiene, changing rooms and reception. I'm not planning to return any time soon. You pay the same amount and southgate is so so much better. Also, in Arnos the lockers don't return the coins and we have to pay extra if wanting to use the hair dryer, or hand dryer as it is. Very difficult to park. Will only return after a good refurbishment.

I kinda wish this were my council community center…read more Friendly staff, and they didn't charge me a deposit to rent a badminton racket when I realised I had shown up with no cash. Lockers are unlocked by a token you get from the front desk, and this frees a key-wristband that you can keep with you while you sweat off some of that Sunday roast. Clean locker room, massive facilities for football, gymnastics, badminton, etc, I'll definitely be back! Close to buses and the Tube as well.

Treetops is one of the best soft play places I've see. I'm fortunate to live nearby. My child…read moreloves it. The prices are reasonable for the soft play and the snack bar as well. The only negatives are that they don't always enforce the no camera rule and it can sometimes get really crowded. Still five stars however.

Excellent Leisure Centre easily accessible off the North Circular. Great pool and a wave pool too…read more Very adequate workout area. Sauna too.

Not the coolest of cool places to hang out on a saturday night, but the Vue cinema has loads of…read morescreens so is always showing what you want to see, and there is a good selection of restaurants (Nando's, Ask etc) in the complex as well so that you can satisfy your belly before going into the cinema (and stuffing yourself more with popcorn and sweets)

Tottenham Green Leisure Centre is quite large, holding classes of all types, wet and dry…read more Travelling here is easy by bus, as there is a bus depot a few minutes walk away from it, and it is within walking distance from Seven Sisters tube. The car park is cheap, and small. I n recent years, I have only ever used the modern gym that they have, with sauna and steam room, and the swimming pool. They really do cater for everyone as on Saturday afternoons, they have a fun and waves session in the pool, where you will find kids galore having a great time. There is a small water shoot for the kids too, so they love it. For the adults, they have Aerobics classes, and also have a separate pool for diving, where the floor gets deeper by the touch of a button. As for facilities, they have squash, table tennis, badminton and basketball and I must be forgetting something. They have a fitness hall for all classes, where they have Martial Art, keep fit etc. It is a well kept fitness centre. They do have a membership which is definitely cheaper than most, and also allows you to use other facilities in the Harringay Borough. I haven't been for a long while, I drove past it a couple of days ago and said what I usually say, 'Oh yeah, I got to renew my membership'. Oh yes, one of those thing which I forgot to add, is that they also have a library, you see, they really do cater for everybody!

Tottenham Green Leisure Centre to my mind has been a pretty poor option for serious swimmers over…read morethe years. There only ever seemed to be 1 lane available for non-casual swimmers i.e. people who actually want to swim for fitness gain, as opposed to kids who want to splash each other, shout, and generally annoy the people who have paid the full cost to get into the pool. A little anecdote that I should relate regarding the pool. A friend was was warned by another swimmer to be careful to check all their clothing and bags when leaving the pool. The problem is not as one might immediately think, of light fingered scallywags helping themselves to the personal property of others, although I am sure that may go on. The issue is that the pool changing rooms are infested with cockroaches that, if you are unlucky, will attach themselves to your person. At some point of course they will decamp, possibly to infest your home or workplace. So having learnt this I have decided not to start visiting the pool again. A shame as I pay a ton of council tax, as do others in the borough. Shame on the management of the centre, who collect their secure salaries every month, whilst accruing index-linked pension benefits for a comfortable retirement, yet are not bothered enough to deal with what is very likely a fairly easily solved pest control problem. Shame on them, sack them all.

Forgot I was allergic to water. The water burned. Not a pleasent experience. Accidentally swallowed…read moresome water. Am now patronised from ankle down.

Park Lane Leisure Centre is set between Muswell Hill and Crouch End Broadway, and offers a wide…read morerange of leisure facilities. They have a gym, and hold fitness classes of all types, I have a few friends that take the classes here, but have never taken any myself. My friends have been going for quite a while so they must be quite good. I do however go to park lane for other reasons. In London, you do not get many out door pools, probably due to our great climate. There are a couple that I know of, one being in Hampstead Heath, and the other at the Park Road Leisure Centre. On the weekends, especially during the summer holidays as a teenager, I was here all the time. It is a great place for youngsters to meet and socialize and get some exercise. On those sunny days it was great and was the highlight of my week. The outdoor pool is only open from may to September, and if it is raining during those months, they also have an indoor pool, so no need to worry.

When I first signed up for the gym membership here, I was expecting to work out among only the…read moresenior members of the local community - not that that would be a bad thing. But then I was the more surprised that the clientele here is actually very diverse: from the teens, who are posing in front of the mirrors in the locker rooms to show off their muscles, the bus drivers working out during their breaks, the house wives gathering in the morning to do engage in chit-chat on the cross trainers, and the grandma from next door who's the most enthusiastic participant in the tummy session... When you join with a yearly membership - which is really affordable - you get a package of personal training sessions, a gym towel, a T-shirt and a water bottle...all this is nothing fancy, but then again it kind of entices you to continue coming. Also, the trainers here are really great, I have to say. What's best about them is that they engage in ever-so-brief conversations with you; they ask you how you're coming along, or when you haven't been there for a while, they notice you coming back and congratulate you on that. This, I feel is great and it makes me feel as being part of some kind of community. Keep up doing the good work!

I have used this pool a lot over the years as a great place for younger kids to gain pool…read moreconfidence and have fun. Its another beach style pool with a tiled island area - perfect for little ones getting to grips with jumping in the water. Much of this pool is really shallow. It has a reasonable wave machine - with a shelf you can sit on and get battered by the waves. Great fun when the kids were under 8 - we came here after school every 3 weeks over a couple of years (we use to alternate with Britannia in Hoxton and Waterfront in Woolwich) - but we have outgrown it . All the kids swim competitively now and the fun here is too tame for them (even with the youngest at 9). It has a really small swim around the island with no jets - just a waterfall that flows over your head as you swim by. A good shower jet for standing under that is powerful and always catches new visitors out as they desperately try to stop the jet removing their swimsuit. There is one slide which is great for first slide experiences....It snakes directly over the pool and is only half tube so if you go fast enough you get to splash the water over the top onto the pool below (and unsuspecting swimmers). Guess I spent too much time here. Main jacuzzi pool was always out of action and the small version was pretty poor. They do offer lane swimming if you want to train after public sessions - they stretch a few ropes across - so many better places to train, not sure why anyone would use this unless they lived next door.. We got to know most of the staff really well - slide was always open and on quiet nights we would get the waves to order. If you are looking to build water confidence in your toddlers or provide fun for under eights then this is great - otherwise travel there are better places about. Showers hit and miss, changing facilities basic and there is a gym. Never used it so cannot comment.