Des Renford Leisure Centre

Negative experience: After a year the standards of the gym area has slipped dramatically. Most people don’t use towels & lots of people are allowed entry not even carrying a towel. Complaints to management have been made after 7 patrons in a 10 metre radius didn’t have towels. Shame because it’s not a bad gym otherwise but staff have now lost the gym floor.

Negative experience: The worse access for people with disabilities, I take a client for hydrotherapy session and we have to share 1 big shower chair that is used to hoist because the other one is too small to use and hardly works! The shower heads oooze water out from the sides, I've reported it for the last few months and there had been no solution. Honestly it's a disgrace, why are we paying tax when facilities we require use of do not work! Please give us spare shower chairs of a large size and fix the showers.

Negative experience: This place is falling apart! The changing rooms need showers, lockers, and many other things fixed. There are cockroaches everywhere, which is disgusting. The timetable for swimming lanes changes constantly to give priority to Squad classes. Don't believe what I am saying? Go there and check it out yourself.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic leisure centre! Great pools and excellent gym. Great variety of classes every day. Highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Rob's aqua aerobics classes are fantastic to help with your core strength and fitness. They are fun! Suzanne's yoga classes are amazing. Thanks Des Renford for having such great instructors and classes. :) Staff there are nice and the swimming pools are lovely.

Negative experience: We have been clients in this pool for over 7 years and absolutely love all swim instructors and staff members, but this time we visited pool during school holiday for Inflatable and been verbally abused by Lifeguard Lucas, caused my child cry and the day ruined. The manager admitted the Lifeguard’s fault and apologised but not the lifeguard itself. Its pity such people work with kids and ruin the reputation of good places.

Positive experience: Amazing swimming instructors for the kiddies but there's one lady at reception who is needs to fix her attitude. She's the middle aged one with the long, streaky blonde/brown hair and glasses. The one who seems to be the team leader with the shoulder length brown hair is always super helpful and nice.

Negative experience: not all, but definitely by majority very unwelcoming service staff. often very obviously gossiping or making comments about members coming and going from the centre. the facilities may have improved over the years but the community feel that this pool had for years has definitely declined.

Fantastic experience: Great place with group fitness, gym and pools. Instructor Sam Gilchrist is a true gem at this place!

Fantastic experience: Best gym and aquatic facility in Sydney by far. Good service, reasonably priced, great gym and pools. The GF classes are outstanding and group fitness instructor Samantha is the best. I wont be going elsewhere.

Fantastic experience: Great gym large, not to busy, nice range of equipment. The pools are nice and change rooms/toilets are clean. The pools can be very busy though.

Fantastic experience: Excellent customer service received from Natalia. Thank you

Positive experience: Fabulous but impossible to find parking during school holidays

Positive experience: Used to have swimming lessons here and had a good time. Nice place to go for a swim definitely worth checking out

Fantastic experience: Great place, easy access and not overcrowded. Very enjoyable experience. The staff are lovely and very professional(Thanks, Juliana). The amenities are always clean. pools are lovely and well maintained, the gym has got everything u need and there are a good variety of group fitness classes.

Fantastic experience: We had great experience with DRLC swim school team! Jack was fantastic at helping our four year old face his fear of water

Fantastic experience: There are clean pools in here that suit any age including the warm pool which has been my son’s favorite. It receives natural lights and part of the ceiling was left open in warm weather which was absolutely lovely

Fantastic experience: Hi the most beautiful experience developing creative facilities that I have experience and become the membership with its personalities have criticisms with professional support Machines to make your self esteem and self confidence in the achievements of golds levels with weight loss and a high level of levels of fitness it’s personal levels with support of personal care for the levels of a personal trainer makes you feel better with in self progress to a professional level of progress with the experience abilities of professions of work off there professional role it’s a true weathy friend and has a lot of benefits to provide with the membership of offering of the facility It’s wonderful helpful and accomplishing and good to see your life in a perfect happy feel good day by day I recommend the facility to a membership and any person that would like to come have a fun family day outings or become a membership joint with family and friends enjoy a beautiful day out Will be recommended by yourself and family and friends will explore more enjoyment on the day Thank You facilitation for your service Signage

Fantastic experience: We were very happy with our intensive swimming lessons. The instructor Kalina was great with our daughter and all kids made great progress in one week

Fantastic experience: Simply a fantastic variety of pools for all ages, and even a fun slide for the little ones.

Fantastic experience: Right here is the only leisure centre in the eastern suburbs you should bother yourself with. I’m 30 and I learnt to swim here as a kid. The centre has gone through incredible change over the years and I’m privileged to have grown up with the Des Renford family. You have staff members that have been working their whole life here which saids a lot about a business. The upstairs gym has a great open view, spin room, functional room, plenty of equipment with plenty of room to wiggle between people and machines. The gym is regularly cleaned and maintained. The first time I ever saw a fitness machine repairer was here. The classes are excellent and efficiently run with instructors that actually have a care about their job and genuinely go around and individually help people that might be struggling with the intensity. The pools have and are always brilliant. 3 main pools all with varying temperatures and sizes to suit everyone. The centre does in my opinion the best organising of swim schools and the public’s use of the lanes and has found a good balance in moderating role use of the pool to everyone. All of this you have access to for the last I checked $26 a week. There’s no lock-in contracts and you can cancel anytime. The staff here actually have a heart and are understanding (WINK WINK MYGYM EASTGARDENS)

Fantastic experience: Good

Fantastic experience: Brilliant staff, facilities and hours.

Fantastic experience: Daycent, facilities = yurt

Negative experience: Please shut the swimming pool doors In mans changing rooms it's way too cold outside in the evening and it will always end up being a fever

Fantastic experience: My favourite place to swim.... Friendly staff and amazing pools.

Fantastic experience: I like the class of aqua fitness the teachers was very nice and her music is fantastic… and all ladies was incredibles

Positive experience: Great pool, grew up here and this is a top place to visit. Since its renovation it has gotten a little expensive. But what hasn't these days.

Negative experience: Permanently closed the heated indoor 25m pool to aqua play and blaming covid restrictions for it even though every covid restriction has been lifted is just not good enough. This pool is being underutilised its very disappointing.

Negative experience: When someone call you at 10h30 am to ask you if the toddler pool is open I think it's common sense to say: Yes it's open BUT WE WILL CLOSE IT AT 11AM!!!! Like this people won't bring the kids to be told it's closing!

Fantastic experience: I had some private swimming lessons at Des Renford LC. It's pretty daunting as an adult. John was great!! Excellent instructor.

Fantastic experience: Very large centre with multiple pools (indoor and outdoor), gym, creche, cafe, birthday party rooms and small swim shop. The pools were well attended, I just only grabbed pix without many people in them for privacy reasons. Attended for a party and had a great experience. There's an option for an inflatable obstacle course and separate party rooms, which was fantastic. Easy parking lot parking Change rooms could do with a bit of an update, some stalls out of order

Positive experience: They have main outdoor 25m pool, enclosed heated kids pool, shallow toddler pool, indoor 25m competition pool and indoor heated pool. Plenty of outdoor space if you want to throw a picnic. Cafe available, too. For some reason, indoor heated pool is not open for free swim or aqua play for quite some time now. This makes it hard for me to choose this place during the cooler season especially with kids. Other than that, facilities are okay in a reasonable condition, nothing special to complain about. The staff there are mostly friendly, if not very keen in customer service occasionally.

Negative experience: Stole money out of my account

Negative experience: The receptionist is so rude. It makes me sad that what used to be a community centre has become a centre to force more money out of you every time despite having been coming here for years

Negative experience: Not toddler friendly on weekends We went to the pools on a Sunday to give my 2 year old son practice swimming but was kicked out of the 0.7 m pool because there was a class,we went to 2 other pools and we're kicked out aswell because of classes or private functions,as there isn't other pools available for toddlers to practice swimming until 11 we only had a short amount of time for my son to practice swimming before we had to leave for his nap Whoever is making the decisions either hasn't got kids or is incompetent at their job

Fantastic experience: The DLRC swim school is the best in the east. I am almost reluctant to write this as it's a bit of a secret outside the local area. I have taken the kids to four other swim schools from Edgecliff to Maroubra, and the improvement the team at DRLC have achieved in six months equates to two years at some of the fancier places we have attended. The staff are genuine, deeply caring, highly skilled professionals. I am so grateful to the swim school team at DLRC.

Positive experience: I am a local regular swimmer and three years ago I rated this pool poor for adult lap swimming, except in the summer. That was because the outside 50m pool was only open in summer months, and various squads, private schools and classes take up most of the prime time lanes indoors. However, the outside 50m pool is now open year round, and you can generally get a fairly uncrowded lane there whenever you want - except Saturdays. Cleanliness of the pools has also improved a bit. So I have upgraded it from 2 to 4 stars. The UNSW pool is still better for adult lap swimming though. Des Renford remains a great place to take the kids year-round, thanks to the dome over the outside kiddie pool.

Fantastic experience: Re-enrolled my son in swim school after being elsewhere for a few years. Just wanted to note the service from the swim school has improved immensely. Whatever changes have been made keep it up. It has gone from cranky disinterested staff to positive and very helpful staff. Makes such a difference

Fantastic experience: First visit for a few years. Beautiful clear water in heated 50m outdoor pool at great temp for lap swimming. Clean, dry changing rooms (so many other pools seem to have a permanent smelly swamp in their change rooms eg Icebergs, Cook & Phillip. Friendly concierge staff & lifeguard. I'll be back.

Negative experience: We are members of a local surf lifesaving club for nippers and their skills test are done at this pool. Kids were free but have to pay spectator fees as a parent. Seriously. I didn't have my wallet with me so this was problematic. They wouldn't let me send my child in (in her swimsuit ready to go) without me also going in - she's 9yrs old and participating in squads. I was not at all impressed.

Fantastic experience: Great pools....awesome cheap creche.

Fantastic experience: Kids love the kiddie pool. They are splash happy.. Swimming lessons rock! Easy to access. Coffees average.. But it is a pool kiosk, (it contains the right ingredient to keep me awake though)

Fantastic experience: Great place. Been there since I was a child back in the early 90s. It has become from a small pool center into a huge pool + gym center (brand new). I'm glad that the council has given their time into this place since it did need a new make over. Besides that, I've been going to the gym 4-5 times a week as a casual regular and love it. Barely anyone up there near the weights area so I have it mostly to myself haha! People who work there are lovely and welcoming - as well as willing to help you whenever you need it.

Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing the changes her from when I was a young child coming here to do my initial swimming lessons. All you had was the big olympic size outdoor pool, with the smaller kids pool area. Now with the new expansive Des Renford complex gymnasium it certainly caters for a vast majority of the local community.

Fantastic experience: Zumba class every Friday at 6:30PM is AMAZING - the people are so lovely and welcoming and the studio space and sound is 5STAR :)

Negative experience: Aqua Play times are no good. An open time of 10.15am is too late for toddlers. Also, very inconsistent on entry procedures. Some weeks your allowed in at 9.30am and other weeks your made to wait outside next to the driveway with your children until 10.15am and watched over by the rude dragon woman.

Negative experience: Instructors are great but the actual people working at reception the swim school are horrible. They will never admit to entitlement mistake and offer to corrected. I know what I signed up for and I clearly remember the conversation but they have resigned up for a time that does not suit me and forgot to notify me. I wish I had the conversation recorded when I spoke to the lady from the swim school whereas we discussed the enrolment times.

Fantastic experience: Great swimming centre. There's inside and outside pools and a gym upstairs. Creche which apparently means babysitting centre in fancy council language so presumably you can throw your kids down while you go for a swim. You can have parties in the big pooll up the back which has a blow up castle

Fantastic experience: Great local swimming pool with gym ‍♀️. Fantastic facilities. Excellent staff, very helpful. Great coaching for up and coming Olympians. Lots of parking. Outside is surrounded by sports fields.(Heffron Park).

Fantastic experience: I was a member at the Des Renford for around 7 months in 2020/2021 and it was the best gym I have ever been too! The staff were always so friendly and happy to give advice / help where needed. The facilities were great and equipment was kept clean. I went pretty much every night during ‘peak’ hours and there was still always lots of room for training - even with covid restrictions! Huge toilets and shower block downstairs. So many classes & all actually worth going too! Added bonus of swimming pools. I would definitely recommend this gym any day!

Fantastic experience: The swimming experience was fine, but the hot chips are on a different level. I have no idea what secret methods they use to make those chips but they are easily superior to hungry jacks' chips.

Fantastic experience: Best crunchiest hot chips in Sydney. It is very strange that a swimming pool & fitness centre sells the best hot chips in Sydney.. so good it borderlines suspicious

Fantastic experience: I've been going to this place for several months now for gym/swimming sessions and I can't love it more.

Negative experience: Can’t get through to make a booking either by phone or website ?

Positive experience: Nice centre but they really need to open back up for kids or give some indication of their plan.

Negative experience: Would give 0 star if i could. Bad experience, booked online and they said didn't take casual entries. Doesn't make sense at all!! very rush asking u join membership to get in, just 5 mins just 5 mins, filled up this form. After i've done ,they said not able to join the yoga class for now. Waste my time !! Very upset.

Negative experience: I had a bad experience with a lady who is staff of swimming lesson table. I thinks her name Rourke. She was so rude . I asked something which was not understood clearly. But she said to me , dont explain again!!!. I explain yesterday. Even i said sorry my english is not good.. I didn't understand.

Negative experience: Good place to swim at. Lots of pools to do laps. However the change rooms are not a very comfortable place to be. I have been there to swim multiple times and 90 percent of the time the change room smells very bad. A big improvement needs to be made with the cleaning of the change rooms.

Positive experience: Swim instructors are lovely, cafe staff and life guard staff are also lovely and very helpful. Entry and reception staff are rude. Many occasions have been very unhelpful and have made errors on enrollment. When trying to fix the errors refuse they refuse to admit fault and say there is no record. Also my sister was forced to pay entry when accompanying our three children to intensive swim lessons. She was forced to pay entry because she had a swimsuit on under clothing even though she was not swimming just supervising. Apparently if you wear swimwear you must pay.. even though its summer and you may swim elsewhere. She was also accused of not paying for the children's lessons only standard entry. This offensive especially as the children also attend lessons during the term. Staff should be polite and not make assumptions.

Positive experience: They have been doing a great job handling COVID constraints.

Fantastic experience: A modern and clean leisure centre with multiple pools and a state of the art gym. Expensive, but worth the membership cost for the sheer variety of what they offer in return.

Fantastic experience: I have to say that you made my day with your friendly service. I can see a lot of improvement in your kiosk area and I love the fact that it is always clean every time that I come for a swim. I would recommend specially for families as they are really serious about safety. It's a friendly environment where you can have fun and enjoy yourself.

Fantastic experience: Very good public swimming pool kids friendly

Negative experience: No power sockets

Fantastic experience: The best gym and swimming pool in Maroubra

Negative experience: No sauna steam room or spa

Negative experience: Had to find alternative because there is no sauna or hot whirlpool available in this centre..

Positive experience: Good swim school. Be sure to book way in advance as it's busy. Friendly, experienced staff. Good outdoor pool and leisure area.

Positive experience: Been going here for quite some time. Not many lanes available for the public which really isn't fair. It would be great if they could arrange a Steam Room to really amp up the "Leisure Centre" experience

Positive experience: Our school comes here every year. Has several pools and a gym upstairs with the creche downstairs. They also have some baby pools for different ages. There is a free area out the front where you can play table tennis while you're waiting. There is also a small shop for swimwear and accessories at the front

Negative experience: This rating only relates to the cafe there. Went there at 12pm today. A tall bearded guy working at the cafe was rude. My 12 year old son asked for hot chips with regular salt (they have a habit of putting junkie chicken salt on the chips without asking) and he got the junky salt. This man refused to replace the chips and said that my son didn't ask for regular chips. My son certainly didn't ask for flavoured chips (my son's friend also heard him ask for regular salt) , especially because MSG gives him terrible migraines. Not wanting to ruin my son's day and make a fuss in front of his friend, I allowed him to have the chips anyway after this person refused to give him the correct order. My 12 year old son now has a migraine. They shouldn't blame the customer when the staff get an order wrong and they certainly shouldn't be rude about it!

Fantastic experience: A very nicely run place. Plenty of space to do a quick swim. The cafe had some good coffee. Would be visiting this place often. The staff was courteous as well.

Fantastic experience: Great centre

Fantastic experience: Love all the classes

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms in the area, 4 different pools - all heated. Suits all age groups from babies to competitive swimmers. And Segafredo coffee from cafe is fabulous. Plenty of car parking too... well at least outside of swimming carnival period.

Fantastic experience: My review is limited to my swimming experience: In one word: EXCELLENT! Pros: - 4 pools (all heated) - great for serious swimming; - great for family / children swimming / splashing (very child friendly) - opens very early in the morning - fantastic staff (very friendly, helpful and professional) - very affordable - decent public transport options; Cons: - rather small-ish parking (during peak hours it may be dicey to find a parking spot) - sometimes changing rooms are a bit on a grubby side (particularly in the afternoon) - no secure lockers (feels awkward to lag your bag with you at all times)

Fantastic experience: Great staff and very clean

Fantastic experience: The best gym and swimming pool in Maroubra

Fantastic experience: Great place to swim. Have indoor and outdoor pools. Clean. Free parking. Also have a gym with equipment and wide variety of fitness classes with concession. Large fitness room. Enjoy going there.

Positive experience: Welcoming staff

Fantastic experience: went from a midget to a daniel rennie in 2 days

Negative experience: Rude and unfriendly staff, paid my money but left before actually swimming because of two staff I encountered this morning. Won't be back.

Positive experience: Love the gym, awesome classes and plenty of equipment to share even at peak hour times. Haven't yet tried the pool, but definitely classes are my favorite!

Positive experience: Modern facility with lots of pool options. It’s great that they have weekly lane availabilities online so you can regularly check. Unfortunately lane availability is limited for patron lap swimming during peak after work hours due to squad training. On the document it may say two lanes available but these are in fact dedicated to aqua play and therefore there are no lap lanes. This can be deceiving. Good car parking and generally friendly staff.

Negative experience: I'm really sorry to say this because I like this Leisure Centre but just yesterday after a swim carnival my daughter was sick yet again. When she was little she had swim lessons there and was sick all the time. Her Dr discovered it was the dirty pool. Symptoms included sore red throats and vomiting. Every swim carnival it's the same. PLEASE clean your pools thoroughly. This will be the last time she attends. ( complaints were made by the children as to how dirty the floor of the indoor pool was)

Negative experience: The facilities are great but only having TWO OUT OF EIGHT lanes available to the public for lap swimming in the 50m pool from 4-7pm PEAK period is ridiculous! Having to regularly share the two meagre lanes with 8+ people at a time, who range vastly in swimming speed is not a pleasant experience.

Fantastic experience: went from a midget to a daniel rennie in 2 days

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym! Good classes, super reasonably priced, friendly staff. The pools are awesome and well heated. I'm very happy with the fact you don't have any membership/cancellation fees as well

Fantastic experience: Great place for kids to learn to swim

Fantastic experience: Clean swim

Fantastic experience: The best facilities and best staff Amazing Body Attack and Body Combat classes

Positive experience: good place to swim , wish the bathroom/change room was cleaner.

Positive experience: Nice place. Very clean and plenty of pools to choose from

Positive experience: Good facilities. Teachers are nice but not efficient.

Positive experience: I came here on a very hot day and wanted a cold swim but the indoor pools were very hot!

Positive experience: It has been renovated since my last visit during the 2002. It was good back then and now it looks better & great fun activities for the kids to start their journey underwater.

Negative experience: Pool is always busy and lifeguards less than attentive. Have had more bad experiences than good, so would suggest swimming elsewhere.

Positive experience: Car park out the front. Quite a few pools, some are indoor and heated. Great placed to bring the kids. Kids parties with blow up jumping castle is good. Also do swimming lessons and has a gym.

Fantastic experience: well maintained