It's just not very lovely !! The approach gives me anxiety with its building works & severe sky…read morehigh concrete passes & barriers & parking impossibilities. Brighton of all places should have a funky marina a real destination - this one is clumsy uncomfortable and soulless

This is a cute area, but everything was either closed or appeared lackluster in comparison to what…read moreyou can find in London. Two of us came here in February on a Monday morning, granted this is off season, but nothing seemed open and the town itself seemed completely asleep all morning. The marina is beautiful and has a variety of food options, but not much opens until 11am or 12pm. The boats are shining and the water looks clean as the sun beams down across it all. The bathrooms are upstairs and the disability bathrooms are locked on the first floor which seems quite disappointing in case of emergency. The bathrooms upstairs surprisingly had a good electric dyson hand dryer and was clean, although inconvenient to get to. Tip/Takeaway: Would not recommend planning on spending much time here other than passing through to get to the Undercliff Walk and making a bathroom break upstairs.

I went to this swimming centre at 1am on Saturday night as part of Cine City's event during White…read moreNight festival. There was about 80 people splashing around in their bikinis and costumes whilst behind them a gigantic screen played film footage all centred around swimming and swimming pools. There were ushers selling popcorn and people queing to sit down and watch from the raised spectator seats. It was a quietly magical experience that definitely encouraged me to go back to Prince Regent and actually swim there. As well as having a proper pool with different swimming lanes for professionals and sports fanatics, there's a shallow pool for kids and beginners and a warm teaching pool for toddlers. There's also a sauna, steam room and gym apparently - all at extra cost on a daily or weekly basis. Will post photos of the Cine City / White Night event in a few hours for swimming movie fans!

This swimming pool complex is in a convenient location right next to Starbucks and Pizza Express…read more(Not the best places to go right after a swim but what can you do?!) nearby the north laines - and it has a car park, a fairly small car park but it's great for the nightmare that is Brighton. Plus it's free after 6. Bonus! This pool itself is fairly average - it's good if it's not busy and it has 2 other seperate pools for swimming lessons and aqua aerobics (which by the way I must say looks rather fun!) The gym part of the complex is situated right above the pool so you can look up at those on the treadmills - just as they can look down at you which I guess it adds a little amusement! The changing rooms are OK, there is a fair selection of sizes including family rooms (I know I shouldn't use these but it's so much nicer to have space!). The thing is it does smell a little, as do the toilets... If you live in Brighton and enjoy swimming, there's no reason not to go here, it's just not the cleanest of complexes.

The Manor is a council owned community activities centre. It offers an array of sporting activities…read moreincluding Football, Basketball, Badminton, Gymnastics, Dance, Boccia, Aerobics, Tai-chi and Pilates. The venue itself consists of sports hall, a small kitchen, a meeting/art room, showers facilities and of course the surrounding playing fields. Its fab for kids as they have so much going gone particularly in the school hols. The venue is home to lots of local sports teams including Saltdean united FC. As well as offering a wealth of kids activities there also some fitness classes for the mums and dads, and adult sports teams. If your a family new to the area this is an ideal place to socialise in the heart of the community or if you just looking to get fit then the Manor is the place for you.

I have used the Triangle as one of the venues I trained Taekwon Do, which took place on a Saturday…read moremorning. We were in the studio and it is a good room with mirrored walls and a sprung floor. I've also competed in a number of TKD tournaments in the main sports hall. The center offers the expected range of classes from keep-fit to more team based activities. The amenities are good with clean changing areas. There is also a full gym for exercise heads and a decent looking swimming pool. The staff are fairly helpful and identified by branded tee shirts. There is also a canteen that serves a basic range of foods including jacket potatoes and chips, beans and other fried snacks. Being a place of fitness, I find this a little bizarre, but I suppose they serve what the public want. Go figure! There are also glass backed squash courts and you can hire courts for badminton or basketball. All in all a pretty decent sports center for the town, but you will need a car or a bus ride to get there as it is located on the outskirts of Burgess Hill.

I live just around the corner from the triangle leasure centre so am a freqent visitor…read more They have loads of differANT SPORTS TO TAKE PART IN HERE BUT THE MAIN ATTRACTION HASTO BETHE SWIMMING POOL. They have a large fun pool which has acouple of chutes and than there isa competitive pool. The prices are a little expensive but its all good and clrean. They also have a gym if you wanna join and thay have table tennis , tennis, football and loads of other stuff.

King Alfred also has 3 flumes that vary in scaryness. The black flume has blenty of big dips and as…read moreyou can't see very much they tend to come out of nowhere. However, my favourite is the blue as it feels the fastest of the 3. There are actually 3 pools as one is mainly for birthday parties etc. and is seperated from the other 2, so this place is good for kids birthday parties. I myself have had a birthday party and had a cracking time. Although, my mate lost his locker key and all his clothes got stolen, very funny! I to hope that they improve it slightly in the refurb but they shouldn't mess with it too much. I like having diving boards as they are always a good way to break up swim sessions.

I took my niece and nephew here for a spot of swimming and fun at their local pool. This is the…read morefirst time I have visited the King Alfred Leisure Centre and the pool is okay, quite worn but had good facilities and friendly staff. The changing rooms and shower area have all been renewed and the centre as a whole has a nice quiet and relaxed feel to it. There are also two large sports halls, a gym to grow those muscles and a selection of exercise studios for classes. It is a shame there was not a huge float or wave machine for children, but it has some great space to have some splashing fun and swim some lengths. I would recommend the King Alfred Leisure Centre as a place to take the kids on a cheap day out. I was quiet lucky to get access for free on the day as they were giving out free day passes (keep your eyes peeled).

James Dean dated a lot of hotties back in the day, and they didn't mind sharing. I asked so many…read moregirls out back in the 50s and they were like, "um, I'm Withdean." And indeed they were. Ahh. Oh well. First-Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium - I didn't ever get to watch Brighton play at this stadium, and I haven't used the gym that is here. However since I'm obsessed with everywhere that British footy clubs play, I've been on these grounds a couple of times. Hard to believe that Brighton actually played here. In 2011 I toured the facilities and realized that it must have been really tough for the fans to deal with playing here. However it was worth the wait because their new stadium is one of the best in the country. I've been to most UK & US stadiums, due to lifelong obsessions with travel, sport & especially footy (soccer to Americans). Born & raised in England, I followed Oxford United (hometown team) to stadia all over the country at away games, and later Liverpool (fave team) around. Every stadium review - like all my reviews - are from first-hand personal experience, usually from several visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, and visited most stadiums for fun in my spare time. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was "stuck" in UK for 3 months, I went to hundreds yet again while travelling. I have pictures of me at most, which I'll post later. Also, when back in UK I'll take more pix, and add more stadia! *** return to regular review *** This is a really poor stadium, especially for a club as big as Brighton. It's good that the Albion only played there for 12 years, and my word, their new stadium could not be much more spectacular, could it? Withdean was built in 1936 and can only hold 8k people. 12 years in this stadium was actually probably hell for the Brighton fans but my goodness was it worth it when you see the Amex, amirite? And no, I wasn't a huge fan of John Kerry. I'd rather have gone withdean.

One of the five centres my gym membership covers, Withdean Sports Complex is massive, the home to…read moreBrighton Seagulls at the moment but not for long as the new shiny stadium is nearly finished in Falmer. As well as the stadium there are tennis and squash courts, a gym and exercise classrooms. I cycled up there the other day to partake in the Body Conditioning class, and left limping and aching. Being a member of the Kinetika gyms means I can visit this one as well as the nearer Prince Regents, alongside the others in the Brighton and Hove area. The gym is much better than the Prince Regents one, if a bit dark, it's bigger, got more equipment, and less smelly and sweaty, which is always a good thing. The fact that it's a 2 mile bike ride to get to means that by the end of my class/gym session I really feel like I've worked out.

I have often driven past and looked at the back of this centre from the A27, but I finally went…read morethere this week and it's FAB! I went to use the track, which is a floodlit, 400m, cushioned, all-weather surface... i was a joy to run on! Looking in from the outside, the various pools and slides looked great fun, while people walking around looked warm and relaxed... no-one was scurrying around due to the temperature here! Looking on the website, there is a gym and even a climbing wall tucked away in there... a real gem indeed! Plenty of free parking, although Mountfield Road now has so many humps on it that you feel like you've done a workout getting the car there. It's only five minutes walk from the station though and ten from the centre of town... much less if you chose to run there, of course!

I have severe asthma (so bad that if I went on the cross trainer for longer than 35 seconds I would…read morehave an asthma attack). Whilst on a 6 week training programme, the instructor said that I should never use the cross trainer. He also advised that I should build up to a light jog on the treadmill over the course of 6 weeks so that my lungs are strong enough to cope. Half way through this programme, whilst on the treadmill, I overheard another member of staff ridiculing me. I cancelled my membership and have not been back since.

Buildbrighton is one of a loose network of independent hackspaces around the world. It works a lot…read morelike a gym for geeks: you pay a monthly fee (whatever you think the services are worth to you) and you get access to the equipment and facilities at the space. It's a little hard to find, as the main entrance to their workshop is inside a place called Rodhus, an arts/crafts workshop space. To get in you have to find the back entrance to Rodhus and ring a bell located on a cartoon robot! There's three areas in BuildBrighton, a large co-working/open plan desk area with a kitchen, a wood- and metal-working shop (with welder, lathes, saws etc), and a computer-controlled manufacturing shop (with laser cutter, 3D printers etc). Everyone involved with the community is very friendly, their Thursday open-evenings are usually full of people asking eachother advice about various making-related skills.