VU Aquatic & Fitness Centre

Fantastic experience: Nice clean facilities!

Positive experience: Very humid in the pool area

Fantastic experience: Been a member since Jan 2025. Friendly highly skilled staff. Great facilities. recommend for anyone wanting to improve their health and fitness.

Negative experience: I came today for the first time as I'm studying at VU and I was quite disappointed with the state of the pool and changing rooms. I've been to many swimming pools across Melbourne and many countries and I had never seen a place so abandoned. Definitely not expecting that from Victoria University. Changing rooms and showers are really old and seem to not have been painted/upgraded in years, as paint is peeling everywhere. Even on the walls of the pool and the bottom, the paint is so worn that it clearly shows the place is not well maintained. Such a shame, I've cancelled my subscription and won't recommend the swimming pool to anyone after a decent pool. The staff at reception which also are lifeguards are amazing tho, very helpful and friendly.

Negative experience: Used to be a great place to swim but now it is too busy. Between 4pm - 7.30pm there are 4 lanes for teaching, 4 lanes for squad. 1 lane for lap swimmers that is called 'recreational so little kids just keep jumping in and out. They may as well just close that one as well.

Positive experience: It’s a well spaced gym. Not all the newer style machines but every necessary machine is here to do every exercise including plenty of barbels and dumbbells, conditioning spaces and stretch spaces

Negative experience: Each week I come here and pay to watch my kids play sport. Not good enough when the facilities do not provide adequate chairs.

Negative experience: Broken shower door locks, this place name should be #smelly_cat, not enough equipment in the gym. 90's music system.

Fantastic experience: adequate gym equipments, helpful staffs, great pool & sauna.

Fantastic experience: Great classes, staff, equipment and pool.

Fantastic experience: Great in everything

Positive experience: crowded but conscious that I'm contributing to that as well

Fantastic experience: The indoor 25m pool is often very quiet, get a lane to yourself for swimming. The swim school is also well run and the teachers are super friendly and encouraging.

Positive experience: nice gym, some parts new and old. lacking machines but lots of free weight options

Fantastic experience: Great fitness classes available to both students and the local community. Excellent instructors. Positive vibes.

Positive experience: Great pool

Negative experience: Actual gym is great - access to pool and sauna with fitness centre and great range of equipment. Just a bit of a shame: I paid entry and started running on a treadmill (headphones in and keeping to myself) a staff member camr up to me and told me to stop using the treadmill because someone was filming a video in the corner of the gym and the treadmill was in their audio. Perhaps they should not film in the middle of the day at a gym open to patrons. No signs or anything up. Why should I stop my own workout for their video??

Positive experience: ### 4-Star Review for Victoria University Aquatic Centre and Sauna I had a great experience at the Victoria University Aquatic Centre and Sauna. The facilities are top-notch, and the environment is always clean and well-maintained. The pool is spacious, with plenty of lanes available for swimming, even during peak hours. The sauna is a fantastic addition and offers a perfect way to unwind after a swim. It's well-kept and provides a relaxing atmosphere. The staff at the centre are friendly and helpful, always ready to assist with any queries or needs. The only reason I'm giving four stars instead of five is that during busy times, the parking can be a bit of a challenge. Other than that, I highly recommend this facility for anyone looking to enjoy a great swimming and sauna experience.

Positive experience: the car park is very busy since its.shared with a football playground

Fantastic experience: I’ve been swimming Laps at VU AQUATIC CENTRE in Footscray since early 2023, the 25 meter pool always in great condition water wise and xlean. The staff and Life Guards are friendly, and very helpful also always there to assist you. I would recommend swimming Laps here if you live in the west looking for a good safe pool and too bring your children to learn to swim.

Negative experience: No tap for drinking water

Fantastic experience: special thanks to Patric for the introduction to facility good job patric

Fantastic experience: Beautiful, clean, huge pool, was fantastic. Change rooms clean aswell

Fantastic experience: The pool has good heating and very clean

Fantastic experience: This place is great. Nice and quiet and plenty of equipment. . Alot better than other commercial gyms.

Fantastic experience: A good space

Fantastic experience: Great facilities. Reasonable fees. Relatively quiet and calm.

Fantastic experience: Nice view. 25m pool. Good sauna

Fantastic experience: Courts are regularly cleaned now to prevent injury on the hire courts. Shower facilitities are decent and does the job.

Fantastic experience: All friendly staffs!

Fantastic experience: just 1 pool.

Fantastic experience: Went for soccer Training for our son .. nice and huge place.

Fantastic experience: Great teachers, really nice and clean pool

Fantastic experience: Nice views and sauna included in pool visit

Fantastic experience: Great pool for swimming laps, staff are always friendly and helpful. Can get busy with swimming lessons and other activities.

Positive experience: I just started going here, it’s not particularly cheap and you have to pay for parking. I feel like if I’m paying $100 a month that maybe the uni could figure out some parking for people who pay for the gym. Good facilities, but very unknowledgeable staff, had to sign up online.

Positive experience: Experience with staff and swimming instructors have been great. Nice views of the river. Facilities could do with a bit of an upgrade though.

Positive experience: Pros - Has a sauna - Sauna is hot - Friendly staff - Sauna Cons - Parking is paid and scarce - Dead rat at bottom of stairs (might be a pro for some) Gym equipment was a little dated but had everything I needed.

Negative experience: Have had to change my review. Last two swims I’ve had have been terrible. Last week EDA decided to run their squad in the only public lane. This week the water polo people were menaces, constantly got hit by balls and they took the backstroke flags down halfway through

Negative experience: The pool is good and well maintained, however I have had some terrible experiences with management. I bought a swimming cap from them that did absolutely nothing to keep my hair dry - I tried it multiple times on different occasions and nothing. Management "couldn't help" me. On another occasion I bought goggles that leaked, they didn't suggest I try them on before going in the pool, and when I got in they just leaked water into my eyes. I came out of the pool 5 minutes later and got offered no refund, no apology, just a "too bad". Terrible experiences, I won't be returning.

Fantastic experience: Clear, nice pool

Positive experience: Nice gym but sometimes sky news is playing on the TV and I loose IQ points.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic layout but what one would expect from a university. The staff are friendly and very helpful with direction on navigating oneself around the campus. Always very clean and presentable.

Fantastic experience: Amazing

Fantastic experience: Facilities in great condition and staff are friendly and helpful

Fantastic experience: Great staff clean pool recommend

Fantastic experience: Amazing swimming and gym. Very friendly and quiet at times.

Fantastic experience: Been visiting this pool for over 10yrs as a local. Great facilities & the best sauna in Melbourne.

Positive experience: Good place to casual swimming (I guess the cheapest in Melbourne) in 25 meter pool and fitness

Fantastic experience: Great facility even without 50m lanes

Positive experience: They are open again but with reduced hours. Annoyingly these aren’t published but I took a photo of the hours

Fantastic experience: Top class facility nice view of the race course

Positive experience: A great pool. I've been swimming here for years. Staff are very welcoming. My only complaint is that too many lanes are given to the triathlon group in the morning. This leaves only 3 lanes (sometimes 2) for community swimmers and I have to avoid Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for this reason.

Fantastic experience: Love the place, the staff is super friendly and helpful.

Positive experience: I dunno what you want me to say it's a pool.

Positive experience: Very professional staff, wide offer of fitness and sporting activities

Negative experience: Have gone to the gym a couple of times, once to check it out and once to sign up. Both times the receptionists weren't very helpful. The first time, the receptionist couldn't tell me any information about the different memberships, the sign up process etc. so I looked it up online after. Tried to get some additional information over the phone and was told to "just come in and a PT can talk to you". When I then went to sign up, they didn't inform me of the 3 month minimum term, I had to ask for all the relevant information instead of them providing an overview of the membership terms, and they couldn't tell me whether there would be a PT available at the times that I would want them. I was asked to sign up and pay the month upfront before even talking to a PT. Then made an appointment which they double booked and had to change. It's a bad first impression and I hope the intro session with the PT goes well (in which case I'll change my review to reflect this). Edit: have been going to the gym for over 6 months, the trainers are great, invested in my training, and other gym goers friendly - but the gym administration largely useless.

Fantastic experience: Good facility

Fantastic experience: The best place for swimming, fitness and other activities. I have been enjoying with the gym classes.

Fantastic experience: 25m indoor heated pool, minimum depth 1.2m so be prepared to be in the water with the kiddos. Great location and facilities

Fantastic experience: Magnificent facility, well staffed. Great swimming lessons even for special needs kids.

Fantastic experience: My dear place for exercise..

Fantastic experience: Ripper pool

Positive experience: Nice place

Positive experience: Nice and clean. Not too busy.

Positive experience: Really good pool, nice views and friendly staff.

Negative experience: Visited a lot before, good swimming pool. But on 21/11/2018, the receptionist was impolite, he threw the bill to us like throwing rubbish and his attitude was unacceptable.

Negative experience: This is a protest vote. Pool doesn't have a steam room, spa or heated lanes. I CAN see why people find this place amazing because of the panoramic views of the Flemington race course. BUT for me even it there was panoramic views of Victoria's secret models, paying for entry to this place without the amenities other pools offer is not worth it. Don't know why it gets 4 stars, so my vote is to bring down overall rating.

Fantastic experience: Kids love it

Fantastic experience: Awesome place!

Fantastic experience: Awesome

Fantastic experience: Great place and friendly, experienced staff

Fantastic experience: Spacious facilities and loads of equipment. The staff are also helpful and friendly.

Fantastic experience: Clean, comfortable temperature, friendly staff, id go again

Fantastic experience: Love this ..

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and good facilities.

Fantastic experience: Great location, clean pool and enough lifesavers

Fantastic experience: Lovely staff and great facilities

Positive experience: Great location for a swim

Positive experience: Good place to be

Positive experience: Good pool, good gym

Positive experience: Great pool. Nice range of equipment and not too busy. Very few group classes in the evenings though.

Positive experience: I almost don't want to review this because it feels like a footscray secret. And, there is nothing I love more then not just an empty lane but an entire pool to myself. I know that I choose my times carefully as there are lesson post 4pm on weekdays and until 12pm on weekends. So if you are an early morning swimmer or if you work in the area and want a lunch break swim. This is your place.

Fantastic experience: Best pool with clean water!!!

Fantastic experience: Nice gym and equipments. not too busy

Fantastic experience: Best place for kids and adults swimming lessons a few of the swim teacher's have been voted the best in the state by the VicSwim program

Positive experience: A great facility for swimming

Positive experience: very clean environment. pool not great for kids.

Positive experience: Given different information over the phone than in person regarding payments and scheduling.

Positive experience: Good and clean gym at a reasonable price. I like that they have a function space for tire flipping

Positive experience: Good for early morning lap swimming. Water always good (not too hot).

Positive experience: Would you please update the opening hours regularly on the website as I went to the gym a few times and it was closed.

Positive experience: Fantastic venue, great views, weekend are busiest but even Saturday morning you can find a spare lane.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, good range of classes and equipment

Fantastic experience: Good place for the whole family to swim.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff , all types of gym equipment , nice and clean pool , beautiful lifeguards

Fantastic experience: Great, swimming pool has a sauna