St Austell Leisure Centre
Information about St Austell Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- Monday: 6:00 AM – 9:30 PM
- Tuesday: 6:00 AM – 9:30 PM
- Wednesday: 6:00 AM – 9:30 PM
- Thursday: 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Friday: 6:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Saturday: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Sunday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Better, St Austell Leisure Centre (formerly Polkyth Leisure Centre), offers quality, affordable fitness facilities and leisure activities to help keep you active and lead a healthy lifestyle.Following an extensive refurbishment totalling £800,000 in April 2018, our Gym is spacious and well equipped with Technogym™ equipment stations. Our experienced team of Fitness Instructors are also available at peak times to support you with your fitness goals. We have a varied programme of fitness classes such as spinning, pilates, yoga and boxfit taking place over two professional studios. If you enjoy making a splash take advantage of our 5 lane 25m swimming pool where there are opportunities for swimming lessons, fitness swims, family fun and water workouts. We also have a hydrotherapy pool which is ideal for customers in need of some water based rehabilitation and exercise.We have a 3 court sports hall which provides opportunities for badminton, mini tennis, gymnastics, trampolining, judo and holiday activities. Our Better Play soft play facility, boasts four levels of action packed fun, bursting with fun activity including wavey slides, crawl tubes, log bridge, cargo nets, dizzy discs, roller squeeze, monster bash and much more! With two dedicated party rooms it’s the perfect venue to host children’s birthday parties! Our team really look forward to welcoming you to Better, St Austell 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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Services, Machines and Guided Classes
St Austell Leisure Centre: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Just started swimming again after quite few years made to feel very welcome. Great set up for slow to fast lanes so no pressure to go faster. Very relaxed atmosphere Lovely friendly staff Easy app to book Lovely hot showers Very clean
Fantastic experience: Polite friendly staff. Always helpful!
Fantastic experience: Have been swimming here for years friendly helpful staff, nice clean facilities. One of the best things about St Austell. Good coffee in cafe, soft play area is great.
Fantastic experience: Love, love, love it here. It's my happy place. Fantastic staff, great range of classes and facilities.
Fantastic experience: Great soft play centre
Fantastic experience: Great Value with the membership. Highly recommend. For what you get included in your monthly membership, you'd be stupid not to do for it...
Fantastic experience: Our boys love their swimming club , some teachers are better than others and have more patience with kids. Also our boys love their indoor soft play , it’s safe and secure and friendly atmosphere
Fantastic experience: Excellent.. pool was warm and not over crowded... Great ♀️ swim
Fantastic experience: My little girl went swimming there and she came back every day saying how nice the workers were there but her favourite person there was Alice
Fantastic experience: The pool is pretty standard and a bit on the cooler side but the kids love it and always hard to get the out again. The swimming lessons offered have been a nice help and a good step in the right direction to get them to be confident in the water. Shower cubicles and big family changing rooms too!
Fantastic experience: Trying to get volleyball going again and the st austell team have been amazing! Its been so nice just to have people here me out and help me with wanting to get volleyball going there again. Staff have been super helpful and are pointing me in the right direction. I want to say a special thanks to a guy who i believe is called steven. He helped with a minor injury i had and there was another guy who took great care of me also:) steven also gave me ideas on how to get a club going and making things potentially happen again with volleyball. Thank you all. You all have been great ❤️
Fantastic experience: The water in the pool is at a cool but appropriate temperature. The staff are polite & the changing rooms are clean. I do Dance exercise classes here along with Pilates and core conditioning & legs bums tums, all are highly recommend & well instructed by the instructor (Jess). Joining is easy at the reception I got assistance from the lady serving. She was polite, didn't rush me & was on hand if I needed help. No complaints from me 5
Fantastic experience: Very good facility with an excellent online booking system. Well priced with a handy car park ticket scheme that is truly excellent value. Staff have always been friendly and helpful. Would it be nice if the showers were a little better? Of course but it costs a fraction of the local hotel pool membership so that's a small price to pay. Happy to recommend
Fantastic experience: Friendly and helpful service. An important part of St Austell
Fantastic experience: Staff are very friendly and helpful Great classes and gym best to be a member and book through the app you have to be quick as the classes are popular and there are waiting lists.
Fantastic experience: Lovely staff who take pride in their workplace. Clean.
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, clean pool. Showers not working, but apart from that, all great
Positive experience: Love the soft play here. Has been open over the holidays when other things havnt.
Fantastic experience: This centre has a good size swimming pool, 5 lanes and very clean too.
Fantastic experience: Lots of equipment great space.
Fantastic experience: Very organised for our training
Fantastic experience: staff ALWAYS friendly, knowledgeable and supportive.
Fantastic experience: Staff very helpful nice place to keep fit
Fantastic experience: Solid gym with friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: I personally loved this place when I lived in the area. Swimming pool was a great size with 4 lanes plus free swim and deep corner area (3M if i remember correctly). My Sunday sessions were always the best. Yoga class used to be les by a lovely lady with really soothing and calm voice making you feel relaxed. Workout gym had plenty of cardio machines but free weights and machines area was small. There is a great hall for badminton, big group classes etc. And best of all was the price for swimming, fairly cheap. I only have good memories from this place.
Fantastic experience: A great aqua from Steve L again,love his classes.
Fantastic experience: Good pool on a cloudy ⛅ day, book ahead online.
Fantastic experience: Only used the swimming pool so far. The room is lovely and warm. The water is at a cool but appropriate temperature. The staff are polite & the changing rooms are clean. Joining is easy at the reception I got assistance from the lady serving. She was polite, didn't rush me & was on hand if I needed help. No complaints from my 5????
Fantastic experience: Good local activity centre. Do good rates for tourists. Lots of activities going on. Gym is good. No longer any squash courts which is a shame. Pool is good but small.
Fantastic experience: 1st swimming this morning for 19 weeks, tad bit nervous, but no need to be. So well organised, one way system, socially distance changing facilities, which were being cleaned, while I was there. 2 wide lanes for fast and slow swimmers. So good for my mental health, I'm buzzing. Booked again for Wednesday and Friday. Thank you so much to all the staff for all your hardwork to enable us to enjoy again.
Fantastic experience: Play area brilliant and very clean, cafe staff are so lovely and so accommodating with dietary requirements, food lovely
Fantastic experience: Very clean and well sanitised equipment, well organised, professional and friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Come here regularly, always clean and tidy, staff are very helpful. Never feel judged. Highly recommended!
Fantastic experience: Soft play is excellent for out 1 year old.
Fantastic experience: I only go in to watc my daughter swim verclean and friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Fantastic. So clean, and really friendly staff. Good cheap food menu with choices for kids. Much better and cleaner than other pools we've been too. Also really appreciated that there was a sectioned off shallow part for the very little ones so they could swim in peace with some fun water jets. Great looking soft play too.
Fantastic experience: Good stuff, good facilities,big swimming pool had deep end can dive to, hot showers, big changing rooms yeh enjoyed defo coming back! Olso good mini bar, great coffee ☕, lovley sandwiches this place is just perfect not only for family oper for all. Yeh gym is good for bigginer's staff helping out too, lot's of machines, running trucks, rowing,etc... Big spacious place
Fantastic experience: Excellent friendly staff especially towards disabled customers. Good facilities although membership fees are now a little too high
Fantastic experience: Great new Sunday classes. Could feel the muscles waking up to a new workout techique. Great classes Steve L.
Fantastic experience: We were staying near St Austell for a week, so went for the option of a week’s membership for £23, great value! Good facilities which have recently been updated, new equipment, pool with lane swimming sessions, friendly staff, long opening hours.
Fantastic experience: The gym for me,plenty of kit with helpful staff
Fantastic experience: Very clean swimming pool and gym and sports hall.
Fantastic experience: A big improvement from when Tempest ran the centre. The guys and girls running the centre also appear to be happier and are certainly very helpful when we need it. The whole building looks smarter, waiting area is a massive improvement and I'm looking forward to taking a look around the new gym to see if I should move from my current one.Great going all, keep up the good work!
Fantastic experience: Amazing staff who help you with every aspect they can. They go above and behind their duty. I truly believe that these people are now part of my extended family. Amazing classes with fantastic teachers.
Fantastic experience: Great pool, gym and other facilities!
Fantastic experience: I joined Better St. Austell Leisure Centre recently to take advantage of the gym and since it has had a revamp the facilities are much improved. All new gym equipment, new lockers and showers. A great ambience with excellent people to train you on the new equipment. Everybody is so positive I look forward to my training sessions. There are a good cross section of members who have been going for ages and those who are just starting out, everybody is so friendly. If you are thinking of going to the gym this is the place to go.
Fantastic experience: Great facilities and a popular place for locals to use. Clean and upgraded
Fantastic experience: Quality facilities and very cheap court prices even in this day and age. Would definitely recommend taking a visit
Fantastic experience: I love that leisure centre it is mostly friendly staff and people who goes there they have health and safety around the diving pit so it has 40 cm pool for little kids for height.
Fantastic experience: One of the better leisure centres I've been in, a beginner's pool for very you'd children and a full size pool for swimmers and a very deep pool that used to be a diving pool but the boards have been taken away, it also has shared sex changing rooms, how 21st century
Fantastic experience: My First time ever using the gym facilities at Polkyth . Fantastic service sorting membership-workout . Danny the fitness instructor was brilliant. A VIP service - A full tutorial on how to use the equipment and a personal plan in place to achieve my goals . Very knowledgeable, informative & friendly . I felt really comfortable and reassured. And at no PT cost !! The positivity had made me feel more motivated . Will Highly recommend it to friends .
Fantastic experience: Swimming here is usually great. Good showering cubicles. Cafe for a chillout afterwards.
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