The Dolphin

“Pleasant staff great coffee”

Paul Reeve-Hughes★★★★

Visited on a couple of occasions within the past week as I was staying locally, on both occasions for a lane swim. I booked on the app and on my first visit I gave my name to the receptionist to check me off the list; on the second occasion I was able to walk straight in. The pool itself is a six-lane 25-metre affair. On my first visit, double-width slow and medium lanes were available on the outside of the pool, with two single lanes for faster swimmers on the inside. I used the medium lane, which felt about right for my pace, but at least a couple of other swimmers would have been better s

Kumar Parichay Singampalle★

People in the reception are absolutely useless. I drive down to find details to enroll my kid into swimming lessons and they send me away with an email ID. They were not even serving anyone else or busy for that matter. Absolutely useless. You might as well put some screens in their place and save some money.

Louise House★★

Very disappointing first experience. Booked a session online for the training pool to introduce my son to swimming at 5 months old. Girls on the front desk were lovely and very helpful hence any positive rating. The changing facilities are very dated. Baby changing fold down does not have a safety strap making it challenging to change myself and my son. Showers typical of what you would expect at a leisure centre - couldn't shower my son and myself after our session until we got home as have to repeatedly push a button (not safe with a slippery baby in arm) to get water and no way to turn down

Ingrid Marson★★★

I have used this leisure centre regularly on an ad hoc basis and find the staff are friendly and helpful. The centre is generally fairly clean and in good order (the swimming pool isn't immaculate, but no public pools are). My main issue is the Junior gym membership - my kids were keen to use the gym, but there are only 2 junior gym sessions every day (including in school holidays) and its a nightmare to book them - the only way to book is to go on the Places Leisure app exactly 15 days and the exact time the session is (eg 430pm 15 days before the session you want) - they usually sell out wit