Carnegie Leisure Centre

What it’s like

A 25m pool, a toddler pool, a soft play maze and a climbing wall under one roof, each charged separately.

There's a proper 25m pool here alongside a toddler pool, so you can have a five-year-old attempting lengths while a baby paddles about in the shallow end. Under 5s swim for £1, which is about as fair as pool pricing gets, and a family ticket for two adults and two juniors comes to £16.20. The pool keeps odd hours through the week, split into a daytime block and a later evening slot on most days.

For the smaller ones there's the Snappy Play Area, ball pools, slides, cargo nets and winding tunnels, with its own baby corner away from the bigger kids. It's £3 for up to 60 minutes and last entry is an hour before closing, so a late-afternoon dash won't get you the full session. If you've got an older child after more of a challenge, the climbing wall runs 90-minute sessions, £5.30 for juniors and teens, £7.50 for adults, though last entry there is 45 minutes before close, a different cut-off to the play area that's easy to get muddled.

There's badminton, squash, short tennis and table tennis if anyone fancies a proper knock about, plus junior gym classes for teens. Once a month, the last Friday of the month, there's a disco inflatable session in the pool, the sort of thing an eight-year-old will remind you about for weeks beforehand. The café runs through the day for a coffee while someone else has a go on the wall.

Access is properly sorted: a pool hoist, waterproof wheelchairs, step-free access throughout and an accessible toilet. Birthday parties run through the centre, booked separately from a normal visit. With the pool, play area and climbing wall all keeping different hours and different last-entry times, it's the one place where checking the clock before you go actually pays off.

Facilities

Need to know

Last entry

Snappy Play Area 60 minutes before closing

Wheelchairs

Unassisted wheelchair access, pool hoist, waterproof wheelchairs available

Dogs

Guide dogs and assistance dogs welcome

• The play area and climbing wall have different last-entry times, 60 minutes and 45 minutes before closing respectively, easy to mix up
• Under 5s swim for £1, one of the cheapest tickets on the price list
• The disco inflatable pool session only happens on the last Friday of the month
• Racquet sports hours are broken into odd blocks through the day, worth checking which slot you want before you go

Plan your visit

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