Information about The Yarra Centre

Warburton Hwy 2435
3797, Yarra Junction
+61 3 5967 1675

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 – 6:00 PM
  • Sunday: 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
The Yarra Centre is a multi-function Aquatic and Leisure Centre located on the Warburton Hwy, Yarra Junction in the heart of the Yarra Ranges. Offering you a range of aquatic facilities including a 25m heated pool, a leisure and toddler pool with water play features. Health club, group fitness, aqua fitness, a multipurpose room, two court stadium, the Yarra Centre playroom creche, the Whistlestop Cafe and retail facilities specialise in the latest swimwear and accessories. You will be spoilt for choice at the Yarra Centre with personal and group training, aqua fitness, Les Mills and Freestyle group exercise for all ages and abilities. Come and visit us today! We look forward to providing you with the best health and leisure experiences

Our comment from FitFit Australia about The Yarra Centre:

The Yarra Centre, located in Yarra Junction, Australia, is a vibrant multi-function Aquatic and Leisure Centre that serves as an asset to the local community. It offers a variety of facilities, including:

  • A heated 25m pool and leisure pools designed for children, perfect for family fun.
  • Basketball courts that provide affordable activities for kids and families.
  • A gym and group fitness classes that cater to diverse fitness levels.
  • A friendly and welcoming atmosphere, complemented by exceptional staff.

Visitors appreciate the well-maintained cleanliness of the facilities, particularly the pools and changing areas. Many have noted the friendly demeanor of the staff and their commitment to providing great service.

However, some feedback points out areas for improvement, such as:

  • The gym may require expansion and updated equipment to meet the increasing demands of the growing community.
  • Issues with ventilation and the conditions of the bathrooms have been raised.
  • Parking can be a challenge at busy times.

Despite these concerns, The Yarra Centre remains a favorite spot for locals and visitors alike, thanks to its engaging community events and family-friendly environment. It's a perfect destination for swimming, sports, and leisure activities.

Services, Machines and Guided Classes

Swimming pool

The Yarra Centre: Opinions

4.1/5 (81 Opinions)
David Wallace 1 year ago

Positive experience: I’ll go to the gym at the Yarra centre and yes I do enjoy going there but the community around Yarra Junction is getting bigger and it might be time to expand a little bit specially the gym maybe a few more by basketball courts and also the pools! Definitely would like to see the gym windows tinted and maybe the pool windows as well Not sure where to start for this to ever happen, but it definitely needs to happen like I said the community around Yarra Junction is getting bigger!

Ashley Jade 1 year ago

Negative experience: The gym bathrooms smell like mould the whole place has poor ventilation and the staff are quite rude ...

Mostly OUTDOORS 1 year ago

Negative experience: Weak and tasteless coffee. Spend 5 mins and walk elsewhere!!

Trixie Cooper 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic, always something new for me to find

Krunchy Rainbow 2 years ago

Positive experience: Brilliant small indoor pool, with perfect temperature water. Great to cool off on a hot day with kids. Staff exceptionally friendly and welcoming.

Aaron Ratten 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: We used the basketball courts. This was a cheap easy activity for the kids.

Pamela Ressom 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Today in aqua we had our favourite teacher as a full in. Great surprise. Some new exercises to keep it interesting and a great workout. Thanks Nikki

Nancy Robinson 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really enjoy my time here, great company and staff xxx

Peter Gibson 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: It was fine

Angela Houghton 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I was there on Easter Saturday and the staff were exceptionally friendly and helpful. Thank you.

Jackie Murphy 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Have been an aquatic member at The Yarra Centre for 11 years. Great local facility that’s well used by the local community. Good clean facilities - great showers. Good hours and access. Two disabled change rooms which are shared with families. Pools are warmer than usual so as to cater for kids lessons and people doing rehab but you soon adjust. Fabulous staff are the cherry on top.

Frank Hayes 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: swam 750 ,building up slowly after the long break ,good to see the staff i had worked with

Graham Steel 4 years ago

Positive experience: Good

Ryan A 4 years ago

Negative experience: Never been here...pesky maps

Charlie 5 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good Swimming Pools. Absolutely Great Place To Play Basketball.

Jesse Hogan 4 years ago

Positive experience: The Yarra Centre at Yarra Junction: great!

michelle mock 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great staff especially the family friendly creche

Nancy Chittick 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Went swimming everything clean water was perfect

Bob T 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great

Tommy Winter 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very helpful, very friendly - great facility!

Mashudur Rahaman 5 years ago

Positive experience: Nice place

Ivan Thomas George Daniels 5 years ago

Positive experience: I like Yarra Junction

neena s 5 years ago

Positive experience: Pretty good. But no outdoor pool

Simon Powell 5 years ago

Negative experience: Water could be warmer

The Yarra Centre

Thank you for your feedback Simon. Our pool temperature runs at 30 degrees for the 25mtr & 33 for the leisure & toddler pool. The pool can feel cooler if the outside temperature is warmer and vise versa. The temperature is checked four times a day and is consistently 30 degrees. Other indoor pools in the area run at 24-27 degrees so ours is definitely warmer. Hope this helps.

Gordon Buller 5 years ago

Positive experience: Good food.

Day Gowland 5 years ago

Positive experience: Nice spot for a rest. Hard to get a park sometimes.

Desmond Bagley 5 years ago

Negative experience: They seem to regularly clean the changing rooms when patrons are using facilities,, it should normally be done after hours unless critical situation but it happens too often.. swimming pool should be available till 8:30 but expect them to close up earlier if they think it's a quiet night.

S Nair 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: The Yarra Centre is a multi-function Aquatic and Leisure Centre located on the Warburton Hwy, Yarra Junction in the heart of the Yarra Ranges. Offering you a range of aquatic facilities including a 25m heated pool, a leisure and toddler pool with water play features. Health club, group fitness, aqua fitness, a multipurpose room, two court stadium, the Yarra Centre playroom creche, the Whistlestop Cafe and retail facilities specialise in the latest swimwear and accessories. The facility is crowded during the weekends.

Emma Donikian 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Entrée 6$ piscine principale de 25m et deux bassins moins profond pour les enfant très agréable Possibilité de juste prendre une une douche 2.50$, chaude et bonne pression dans des cabines individuelles L'ensemble de l'établissement est très propre et très lumineux Le top de cette piscine c'est le personnel qui est incroyablement sympathique, amical, sourient, attentif, professionnel rien à dire à part qu'ils sont parfait !

Jodi Tolevski 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Looked all over town for a coffee at 4pm after my 3 hour drive to get here. Matt at the Yarra Centre was so helpful and had coffee with a smile. Happy days.

Abigail Jeffree 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lots of fun and warm pools! Long enough to do laps up and down the pool!

Mol Charles 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are lovely

自由撒野 6 years ago

Positive experience: 远离市中心的地方的一个多功能体育馆。

Barry ARMSTRONG 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good place to enjoy junior basketball and swimming

Alan Cousins 6 years ago

Positive experience: Swim fun in the pool with granddaughter

David Peacock 6 years ago

Positive experience: Drove past looked good

Janine Thompson-Stokell 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good place for locals to access a pool and gym.

Zombie 67 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great ectopia festival. Great place. Lots of space. Grass. Shade. Peaceful.

Paul Dossor 6 years ago

Positive experience: attended a sports seen with the local primary schools. Pool is always great at 25m with plenty of place for the kids to splash about or have a kayak session. Basketball and tennis courts available and the cafe servers hot food snacks coffee and drinks. good place for the kids to have a swim during the school holidays and chill out. Staff there insure that rules are followed and people are not disturb by bad behaviour.

Alex “Yomama” Flynn 6 years ago

Positive experience: My daughter (not yet 1) absolutley loves it here especially being able to walk into the water with the way the baby pool is set up. All pools are a bit warm though would prefer if one at least was cold.

Alice Charlotte 6 years ago

Negative experience: The women's showers are always out of order. I'm a local, it's been like this for years, they have not fixed the women's showers since they broke ten years ago.

The Yarra Centre

Hi Alice We are a little confused about your feedback. We have 9 showers available for women to use and they are always available and in working condition. All 9 are in working order as of today with two having just been retiled. Maintenance is continuous at our Centre and logged daily for repairs. Which showers are you talking about?

Brad Staples 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always friendly staff and we love how the pool is not overly busy here. Bubs classes are small and intimate and it's becoming our regular Saturday morning routine.

D Larcomb 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great ectopia festival. Great place. Lots of space. Grass. Shade. Peaceful.

T E A G A N 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Has all types community events and awesome activities for people of all ages Which is good to get into

Shaun Dunne 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: The only gym around so it's pretty good

KimiLou 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Try their Face2Face program. It's challenging and rewarding.

Heather McPherson 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Helpful staff

Emine Ciftci 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: A breathtaking Blur Lotus park near by and a great family park that is enclosed so allows parents to relax while kids play. Has public toilets and supermarket across the road. Have been to the market in the carpark a few times also.

Michael Hall 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, pool gym and coffee shop and also a great child care centre

Jon Tinkler 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: An absolute asset to the community, providing a brilliant 25m pool with 2 other kids/teaching pools, a great little gym and 2 well looked after basketball courts. Just so great to have it in the area.

Apollo Reyes 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Pools good, friendly staff I love coming here.

James O'Brien 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful location

Graeme Heath 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: History of mystery.

Shannon Jones 7 years ago

Positive experience: Breat for swimming

Keely Wehlauer 7 years ago

Negative experience: So expensive !!

Mark Knight (Knighty) 7 years ago

Positive experience: Definitely needs to open earlier on the weekend.

Susie is your #thermomix consultant Van Stryp 7 years ago

Positive experience: Swim teachers could be a little more enthusiastic

Sharyn Barrile 7 years ago

Positive experience: Good variety of services.

Krystie Shead 7 years ago

Positive experience: Stadium gets very stuffy

Richard Sullivan 7 years ago

Positive experience: Very good

Kenneth McDonald 7 years ago

Positive experience: Grandkids and I had a good few hours of swimming ! A good place to be !

Ziron 7 years ago

Positive experience: Lovely pool but would like outdoor pool for summer!

Robert Mason 7 years ago

Positive experience: If you're stay in the Upper Yarra Valley make sure you visit tne aqutic centre and gym.

Sean Carter 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great modern facilities only set back is the hot weather as the stadium gets to hot and the pool gets chlorine stuffy.

Steven Ingram 7 years ago

Negative experience: Good for family when it comes to the pool side of things and maybe the stadium, But the gym is far from upto scratch, it's not the most hygenic especially the change rooms.

emma leslie 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place.

Melissa Edwards 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: I've only been there to have a shower on my weekends away in the area but the staff are friendly the showers are lovely and hot which only cost $2.50 and the prices for their cafe are reasonable i will continue to go back anytime im camping around the area.

Peta Kobiolke 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great experience

Linda Jakobs 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place for a birthday party

Kristaps Petermanis 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Went there for the pool. Very nice and affordable experience. The place is available even for non-locals. We stayed at a nearby host and ejoyed the pool several times. There's also a gym and other amenities on site. Well worth checking out.

Rachel Briggs 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: This is a friendly family centre with something for everyone

Ross Smith 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to take to kids , its a window into the past.

Winston Thorpe 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for a great night

Hennessey Dreams 8 years ago

Positive experience: Its good

Julie-anne Baker 8 years ago

Positive experience: Great country facility for all ages.

Cassandra Watts 8 years ago

Positive experience: An older centre, so facilities are not as modern as others.. but the staff are exceptional and go above and beyond.

Tony Lewis 8 years ago

Positive experience: If you're looking for a gym and swim location. This is a great little sports and Leisure centre.

Doug Greenall 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great

Pamitha Rupasinghe 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good

Sam Rye 9 years ago

Positive experience: A little tired and limited for the kids, but great to have it in the area. Good kids swimming classes.

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