Pelican Park Recreation Centre

Information about Pelican Park Recreation Centre
Opening hours
- Monday: 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Tuesday: 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Wednesday: 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Thursday: 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Friday: 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday: 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
- Sunday: 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Our comment from FitFit Australia about Pelican Park Recreation Centre:
Pelican Park Recreation Centre in Hastings offers a vibrant and family-friendly space for fitness and leisure activities.
Visitors frequently praise the exceptional swimming facilities, including a well-maintained 25m heated pool, various children's areas, and a relaxing spa. Many users have enjoyed:
- Great aqua classes
- Friendly and helpful staff
- Clean amenities
- Well-priced services
- Beautiful location by the shore with lovely views
The café at the centre also receives positive remarks for its delicious food and coffee. However, some users have expressed concerns regarding:
- The cleanliness of changing rooms, particularly in family areas
- Limited lap lane availability due to busy swimming lessons
- Inconsistent communication from staff
- Safety concerns in specific settings
Overall, Pelican Park Recreation Centre remains a popular choice for locals, providing an inviting environment for fitness and fun.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Pelican Park Recreation Centre: Opinions
Positive experience: Great pool Aqua classes great
Negative experience: Highly wouldn’t recommend, you’re not even allowed to stretch your ankles even with socks on. So many other gyms do. Don’t waste your time here. No consideration for how the other person feels. The guy that works there can’t even communicate properly without causing distress. Confusing terminology too, girl says you can with socks then says immediately after that you can’t. Whatttt??
Fantastic experience: Love the location, and selection is great
Fantastic experience: Aqua classes are great. Gym ideal for all stages of a workouts
Fantastic experience: Great facilities Very good gym equipment
Fantastic experience: Great place. Awesome views. Delicious food and really nice staff.
Positive experience: I do love our little local gym and pool I do hate that the spa is always so cold
Positive experience: Love the location, love the local pelican society restaurant! Good place to take people for indoor swimming and a lovely location near the shore.
Fantastic experience: Very helpful
Fantastic experience: The pool & facilities were better than I expected
Fantastic experience: Lots of equipment to keep kids busy.
Fantastic experience: Great venue for kids of all ages
Positive experience: Great staff and well priced services. Recommended for all locals!
Fantastic experience: We attended there 4days a week, everyone is friendly , staff are excellent &helpful
Fantastic experience: Thank you to the lovely ladies at Hastings pool yesterday. They helped me enormously, giving me directions to Phillip Island. I am from the UK, could not use my mobile, my hire car had no sat nav and there was no WiFi available. They went above and beyond to help. So grateful. We arrived safely thank you! X
Fantastic experience: Nice relaxed place
Fantastic experience: Love the water aerobics
Fantastic experience: Love this place. Staff so friendly and helpful.
Fantastic experience: I had go there it’s good
Positive experience: It's great for my health and wellness
Negative experience: Spa needs to be way hotter it is so cold
Positive experience: Great swimming facilities with a nice cafe
Positive experience: Good place, swimming pools are good temperature, the changing rooms are clean and a good size. Overall pretty good place.
Positive experience: I enjoyed the swim, and environment , however the lack of parking spaces was a let down. Still had a great time
Positive experience: Reasonably priced. The change rooms are always so dirty though. The family ones in particular were awful. Step up your cleaning guys.
Positive experience: Its a nice center We love the pool and the cafe However I wish they clean the changing rooms more often as its a bit dirty
Negative experience: Honestly don’t bother coming if you’re looking for a fun and easy going environment for a good gym session. I’ve been stalked twice while being there for 25 minutes… really just uneasy feelings with no staff following up with making sure all users feel safe and valued
Positive experience: Love this park and the space.
Fantastic experience: Great facility. New equipment.
Positive experience: A good and affordable place to swim, relax and exercise. Open until late for a great way to end the day and good clean facilities
Negative experience: Next time I find errors in general safety and covid 19 directive breaches, I will go straight to authorities . Recently I informed you of two major non compliance issues which are of a great concern to me. These issues were quickly activated upon, but if your team was being proactive, these issues would never have arisen, and we would all be safer and wiser.
Fantastic experience: Luxuriously bubbles permeating my bathers a spa to myself before the swimmers got in then sat in steam room Total Bliss..now l am a Member 3 months free all gymnasium too All ages welcome
Positive experience: It is close by, the employees there go out of their way for you and everything is under one roof. I wish there was a second major lap pool, but lve been a member for a few years now, and missed it heaps when it shut due to Covid.
Fantastic experience: I use the pool and attend group classes frequently and have found the facilities to be good. The aquatic area can get quite busy with swimming lessons which limits lap lane availability. Front desk team are always super nice and great at remembering names. Although not directly related to Pelican Park, I wish the company that owns it would create an aquatic membership that includes aqua classes. I'm paying for a full gym membership even though I don't use the gym at all :(
Positive experience: Good pool with 2 children's areas, spa and sauna. A decent gym. Reasonable price for membership. Like most places, the pool can get very busy with multiple classes running making limited lap lanes a little busy
Fantastic experience: Great
Fantastic experience: Conveniently near playgroup. Lovely staff. Good coffee.
Fantastic experience: Great facility. New equipment.
Positive experience: It is close by, the employees there go out of their way for you and everything is under one roof. I wish there was a second major lap pool, but lve been a member for a few years now, and missed it heaps when it shut due to Covid.
Fantastic experience: This is about the sixth closest swim school for us. It's a decent commute every weekend, but keep coming because it's so well run. Anna is a fantastic teacher who has really brought out a huge level of both enthusiasm and confidence in our daughter to tackle learning to swim. It's a consistently enjoyable environment that produces fantastic outcomes with a fun environment to enjoy learning. We're also greatly appreciative of Meredith's consistently professional and proactive communications around the uncertainty of the past 18 months. Very well run from top to bottom. You have my most sincere thanks.
Negative experience: Closed to the virus
Positive experience: Fun aqua class with Deb1
Negative experience: Depressing lighting in the pool area. Lighting is to sterile looking. Place is too dark!!!
Positive experience: Good playground..big shade trees and grass areas picnic tables and beside. the pier and sea
Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff, very friendly environment!! Fantastic facilities!
Positive experience: During covid they had strange rules what didn't make sense. Sunday morning swimming lessons with my son is always good.
Negative experience: I've contacted them several times about their booking app because it's primitive, not user friendly or allowing of any booking more than 2 days in advance. One class is never on app as available for booking so you have to call them to do it. Email responses are slow or not at all. It's quite frustrating trying to resolve anything with them or have questions answered. I do not feel as though social distancing is adequate in one class so I've stopped going to it. Class members were requested to workout facing eachother directly within less than a metre and this makes me feel very uncomfortable. Especially since some of the members are elderly.
Fantastic experience:
Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff, very friendly environment!! Fantastic facilities!
Fantastic experience: Great gym with no strutting. Just normal people keeping fit. Great pool for all the family. Staff super friendly.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful clean amenities and friendly staff. Prefer this pool to PARC which is closer for me. Lap lanes are open!
Fantastic experience: So blessed to have such wonderful recreation options in Hastings. Suits all ages and all weather. Highly recommended to get moving in heated indoor pool.
Fantastic experience: Great food, coffee and service.. Lovely views.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and we'll maintained
Fantastic experience: The staff are great, I love the gym and the sunrise view is amazing
Fantastic experience: Beautiful view from the indoor pools.
Fantastic experience: Nice seaside setting ... good adventure playground for toddlers
Fantastic experience: Great 25m heated pool. Cheap entry, Friendly staff.. Awesome!
Fantastic experience: Great staff my child had swim lessons here and she loves it.
Fantastic experience: Absolutely great: facilities and people.
Positive experience: I love swimming here and always have. Staff are friendly, courteous, helpful and simply lovely! Pool is great and the change room facilities are clean ...win win!
Positive experience: Great place
Positive experience: Great place for swimming and other activities.
Fantastic experience: Great place for a workout with classes, gym, aquatics, spa, sauna.
Fantastic experience: Great park, indoor heated pool and a nice cafe by westernport bay.
Positive experience: I swim regularly at the pool, which is a model of accessibility for people with disabilities- automatic doors, ramp, pool wheelchairs, water around 29 degrees. And afterwards, coffee and breakfast at the Pelikan Societe overlooking Hastings Bight. Doesn’t get any better!
Negative experience: Rude staff at front desk, swimming teachers constantly changing, told one thing and then told different things regarding suspending payments due to children being unwell. Would NOT recommend to anyone. Been waiting nearly a year for entitled refund and nothing. Go elsewhere!!!
Fantastic experience: Nice place to fish
Fantastic experience: Best swimming & gym complex on the peninsula !!!
Fantastic experience: There was not much pelicans but a few was enough!
Fantastic experience: Took the kids for a swim and loved it, not too crowded.
Fantastic experience: Great place
Fantastic experience: Value for money and clean well-maintained facilities. Staff willing to help and friendly.
Fantastic experience: Great place for a workout with classes, gym, aquatics, spa, sauna.
Fantastic experience: Great park, indoor heated pool and a nice cafe by westernport bay.
Fantastic experience: My son does summing lessons here every Friday, the staff are all lovely ( especially Jenny ) and the change rooms and pool are also clean. Also great value for money.
Fantastic experience: Swimming pool is nice and quiet, 3 different pools to choose from, especially suitable for younger kids. Love the spa, very powerful jets. Don't go here if you look for big entertainment but it has a little slide and fountains which come on now and then. Take skate board/bikes/scooters as they have great skate park and also big playground.
Fantastic experience: Great gym with most picturesque views from all windows of Westernport Bay
Positive experience: Pleasant enough
Positive experience: good place. yeet
Positive experience: A great fun place to take my nieces and nephews for a swim at any time of the year. We all enjoy ourselves in the 3 different pools. The babies love the pelican slide in their pool whilst the others love the middle pool, when the fountain begins + water gushes down on them. The only negative is that the pressure of the water from it can be too intense, even on my adult shoulders. I do wish they used a different type of chlorine as it's also very strong, almost causing headaches for us. I do wish the KIOSK was opened again. They used to serve hot chips, domains, potato crisps + cold + hot drinks but now you can't get any food at all. Due to not having a kiosk, we always have to cut our visit short. BRING BACK THE KIOSK + MORE PEOPLE WILL COME + STAY LONGER. Please.
Negative experience: Sadly with new management they won’t allow a make- up class if your child misses a swimming lesson - not happy!!!! Along with difficulties getting in through the turnstile if the attendant is busy and price of such short classes I don’t think we’ll be doing swimming lessons here next year.
Positive experience: Great skate park for skills of all levels. My 7yo loved it. Recommend supervision of young ones as this park can get quite busy. A lot of older kids there. They were very courteous to my young one but would still recommend supervision.
Fantastic experience: good place
Fantastic experience: Took my granddaughter there for a couple of hours. The staff were very helpful and there were excellent facilities.
Fantastic experience: The pool really clean. Great service from staff. Café clean, best coffee and food
Fantastic experience: Can't fault my nephews swim instructor. He has improved leaps and bounds thanks to Peita. Keep teaching and smiling :)
Fantastic experience: Great pool. Magnificent setting. Lots of fun aqua classes. Fantastic teachers.
Fantastic experience: Great park for everyone
Fantastic experience: We love visiting this little aquatic centre. It’s never busy, even on hot summer days.
Fantastic experience: Great place to swim and stay fit.
Fantastic experience: The pool is always warm and clean My son loves the slide
Fantastic experience: My kids love the swimming pool
Fantastic experience: Fantastic place for a workout. Has everything you need. I wish I could move it back to where I live!
Fantastic experience: Great play ground
Fantastic experience: Great for young kids. Not a huge place which means you can keep an eye on the young ones easier. Friendly staff. Clean facilities. Parking easy.
Fantastic experience: Awesome swimming pool!!
Positive experience: Nice place
Positive experience: A very pleasant reserve
Positive experience: Excellent park, pool, pier and restaurant
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