Information about St Ives Leisure Centre


TR26 1HB, Penzance
+44 1736 797006

Opening hours

  • Monday: 6:30 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Tuesday: 6:30 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Wednesday: 6:30 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Thursday: 6:30 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Friday: 6:30 AM – 9:00 PM
  • Saturday: 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
  • Sunday: 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM

 Better, St Ives Leisure Centre offers quality, affordable fitness facilities and leisure activities to help keep you active and lead a healthy lifestyle. Following a £140.000 refurbishment in September 2017, not only does our gym offer possibly the best views for you to enjoy whilst you are working out, but also holds 53 top of the range Technogym™ equipment stations.With an extensive programme of more than 20 weekly Fitness Classes such as Tai Chi, Pilates and Circuits, a 25m six lane swimming pool, as well as a Learner Pool with slide and bubble jets, and a successful Better Swim School catering for children of all ages and abilities, there really is something for everyone at Better, St Ives Leisure Centre.

 Better, St Ives Leisure Centre offers quality, affordable fitness facilities and leisure activities to help keep you active and lead a healthy lifestyle.  Following a £140.000 refurbishment in September 2017, not only does our gym offer possibly the best views for you to enjoy whilst you are working out, but also holds 53 top of the range Technogym™ equipment stations. With an extensive programme of more than 20 weekly Fitness Classes such as Tai Chi, Pilates and Circuits, a 25m six lane swimming pool, as well as a Learner Pool with slide and bubble jets, and a successful Better Swim School catering for children of all ages and abilities, there really is something for everyone at Better, St Ives Leisure Centre.

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Better is a registered trademark and trading name of GLL (Greenwich Leisure Limited), a charitable social enterprise and registered society under the Co-operative & Community Benefit & Societies Act 2014 registration no. 27793R. Registered office: Middlegate House, The Royal Arsenal, London, SE18 6SX. Inland Revenue Charity no: XR43398 VAT registration no: 219749179.

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St Ives Leisure Centre: Opinions

4.9/5 (53 Opinions)
Mick Sedgeman 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: It was excellent

David Swancott 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Parked here for walk down into town, there is a park and ride here also.

Alex Connors 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Using it while on holiday for a week, £30 for a week pass is a little expensive but do get access to the pool and view from gym is nice

Jonathan Brain 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great location and facility

Ryan Bennett 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Sessions are 60 mins £6 an adult, under 3's go free. Overall, it was a bargain! Water was warm enough for our 9 week old baby and our 4 year old could stand up everywhere in the kids pool. Lockers are only 25p and you can pay for it using a card or contactless Google pay etc. Parking is brilliant although you do pay for it with a barrier style system. Loads of parent child parking right beside the venue too. Changing rooms were clean and really easy to herd the kids to the pool as it's really easy access. The kids pool is a good size and there were only 2 other families in there when we visited at 10am. Big box full of floats and my 4 year old really enjoyed the little slide. The cafe was well priced £10.40 for 2 huge pieces of cake, a blueberry muffin, flat white, kids squash and cup of tea. Staff were very polite indeed. Possibly the best thing about St Ives so far on our trip as we didn't feel ripped off, we had fun and it was really calming. Just got home and both kids are asleep. Priceless!

Sofia Van Der Bank 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place

jane lee 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool with very friendly staf

Lucan 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice gym and views from it. Gym is kinda small as far as free weights and space to work. Definitely focuses on the cardio side

Kevin Costello 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: A great swimming pool complex and gym with friendly staff.

Philip Green 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very busy and parking difficult.

John Elston 2 years ago

Positive experience: Great swimming pool and facilities in general.. Very clean. Well organised throughout. The showers can be a tad hot without any control for the temperature.

Charlie Mitchell 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great to get back in the water for a swim after a year of lockdown, the staff were very helpful in sorting out my new membership. Great value..

Mark Drygala 2 years ago

Fantastic experience:

John McEachern 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well organised Covid arrangements to ensure members are kept safe but can still enjoy using the facilities.

Abbes Cadi-Tazi 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym with top notch equipment and an unbeatable view over the Atlantic

Paul Careswell 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: A beautiful Leisure Centre ,great facilities and friendly staff .A gym with the best views in the Country .♥️

nuria anta 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Big parking full of spaces, a bit steep but as usual in Cornwall. You pay at the end so good not to have to calculated how long do we need to stay, but we didn’t have to show our ticket to come out, the barrier open itself .

Thomas Joseph Galea 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are very friendly and helpful extremely clean gym and pool really nice cubicles disabled wheelchair users available. Showers after using the pool could do with an renovation and possibly the floor. Reasonably priced for a swim there is a baby pool and a main pool available which the kids pools is heated. There is also a cafe inside and lifeguards always there.

Gina Mihai 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful little town, must visit!

Owen Lewis 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Today we enjoyed a very Covid-secure family swim. Easy to navigate their booking system. Friendly staff. The best things about this pool are unaffected by these unusual times: wide lanes, clean facilities, amazing views, the relative quietness in comparison to the brummy-heavy craziness of Fore Street and the harbour!

Steph Crocker 2 years ago

Positive experience: OK but grot in change rooms but staff all good

jim fitzgerald 2 years ago

Positive experience: You need to join the St Ives Leisure center to use it. Ask for the app Free parking when you are a member and using the Centre. 9 disabled parking places Good customer service with easy to speak to staff. UK government Covid-19 guidelines in place.As 2 pools 1x 25m 1x baby pool on the ground floor with a medium size work out gym with free weights on the 1st floor.Also access from the entrance is a very fine cafeteria with excellent customer service. disability accessible Cafe open 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. quality food with outside seating very reasonable prices good tasty food order from the counter but table service covid-19 government guidelines in place

Jocasta Collis 2 years ago

Positive experience: The garden centre is nice but small it still manages to do most of what you need though.

Daniel Paulo 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice 60s leisure centre

Woodlore Nelson 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Stunning

Matthew Thomas 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome!!!!

Jay Nowman 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Is there a “Better” (geddit?) pool, in the country than this view? Friendly staff, facilities in the midst of being updated but it’s the locals that made it. Great chat and lots of tips.

Carol Bradford 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great leisure centre. Great swimming pool.

Josh Chandler 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Leisurely.

stephen gill 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Swimmingly fun!!!!

Reintraud Heese 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: At the beginning of April still very comfortable and romantic.

Graham Arnold 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Just a car park for me

Mike 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good place to park the car

PastaSauce 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: I lost all my weight, unfortunately I now weigh absolutely zero and have ascended my mortal form

Roland Dicke 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great parking!

Ian Donaldson 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great experience I had a lovely swim with lovely views over St Ives

Hannah Waters 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: The kids swimming pool is loads of fun with the slide, floats and football goal

Kenneth Osborn 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good for all the family, staff fantastic thanks

Gill Madden 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great prices value for money and fab customer service

Scott Dunderdale 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: It’s the staff that make it 5 * all the way.

East Anglia Productions 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fun ,family and ofcouresevfut

Susan Cramp 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Loved it

Piers Bird (Ponder Pix) 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Polite friendly went totally over the top to help me out. Couldn't say enough about the staff. Superb service. Lots of parking, views to die for.

Peter Butterworth 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Super car park for visiting St Ives. They claim 1000 spaces. Not that expensive.

Fliss Walker 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: A lovely pool, friendly staff. Baby pool is lovely too with a little slide which my younger children always make use of. As a family we love visiting this pool. Would be nice if extra activities were put in for older children / teenagers. I don't understand why people have given it a bad review based on its car park, if you can't negotiate the car park may be you'd be safer walking and staying always from driving! The car park is nothing to do with the pool it's council run.

Richard Bishop 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent swimming school and leisure centre

Cheryl Young 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice pool very refreshing pool. Nice staff

Martin Tregenza 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Learner pool is warm. Staff friendly. Mega busy in summer and car park is shared with a town parking council car park- good luck getting a space in the summer!

Jamie Sartori 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always clean, well staffed, lots of lifeguards, good parking and value for money. Can get busy, but it's a good sized pool and a well heated kids play pool

Tim Macknelly 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely swimming pool, always quiet, warm and friendly staff.. top notch

sharon clack 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool

M1LK LIZARD 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities with friendly and helpful staff. The monthly membership options are worth looking at, as you will save a lot of money if you intend to visit often and they work across all associated sites in Cornwall (which is all but two, from what I understand).

k K 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic warm friendly staff, who look after my children during their swimming lessons beautifully.

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