Information about The Yarra 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 – 6:00 PM
- Sunday: 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Welcome to The Yarra Centre, a vibrant multi-functional Aquatic and Leisure Centre ideally located on Warburton Highway in the picturesque Yarra Junction. Our center is designed to support a healthy lifestyle and foster community engagement through various facilities and activities catering to all ages and fitness levels.
Our state-of-the-art amenities include a 25-meter heated pool, alongside leisure and toddler pools featuring water play zones, providing the perfect environment for family fun and swimming lessons. Fitness enthusiasts will appreciate our fully equipped health club and a wide array of group fitness programs, including Les Mills and aqua fitness classes that cater to diverse abilities and interests.
In addition to aquatic and fitness facilities, The Yarra Centre boasts a multipurpose indoor stadium, ideal for basketball, netball, table tennis, and more. Families will also find value in our on-site creche, allowing parents to focus on their fitness while their little ones play safely. Enjoy a refreshing break at our Whistlestop Café, where you can grab a bite or enjoy a coffee after your workout.
At The Yarra Centre, we believe in creating an inclusive atmosphere that encourages movement, connection, and personal growth. Whether you're looking to swim, train, or participate in community events, we invite you to explore all that we offer.
Join us today and take that first step towards a healthier lifestyle! Our friendly team is excited to welcome you and provide you with the best health and leisure experiences possible.
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
The Yarra Centre: Opinions
Positive experience: Sometimes see people peeing in the pool lol
Hi Ryan, thank you for your feedback! We take cleanliness and hygiene seriously and will address this issue promptly. Your experience matters to us, and we appreciate your understanding as we work to maintain a welcoming environment for all.
Fantastic experience: We (my friends and I) recently visited Yarra Sector Casual Pool. We didn’t have swimwear or leggings as we hadn’t planned for swimming, so we went in wearing trousers and t-shirts just to relax and enjoy. Unfortunately, a stranger approached us and made some unpleasant comments, which made us feel quite uncomfortable and disappointed. However, the pool staff, especially the lady lifeguard, handled the situation very kindly. She reassured us that we weren’t doing anything wrong and told us to stay comfortable and enjoy our time. We really appreciate her understanding and professionalism. Thank you to the Yarra Sector staff, especially the lady lifeguard, for being so respectful and supportive. It truly made our visit better!
Thank you for your wonderful review, Janvi! We're proud of our staff for creating a welcoming environment. We're sorry to hear about your experience, but we're glad our lifeguard could support you. Your comfort is our priority. We hope to see you and your friends again soon!
Negative experience: If you lift anything considered medium heavy, or make a slight sound, be prepared for someone to tell you off. If you want to exercise in peace, its far better to go literally anywhere else.
Hi Matt, we appreciate your feedback and are sorry to hear about your experience. Our goal is to create a comfortable environment for everyone. We'll take your comments into consideration as we strive to improve. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing place and great people.
Thank you, Ali! We're thrilled to hear you had an amazing experience at The Yarra Centre. Our team is dedicated to creating a welcoming atmosphere, and your kind words mean the world to us. We look forward to welcoming you back soon!
Fantastic experience: Visiting from Sydney and purchased some casual visits. Love it and great staff and gym equipment.
Thank you, Edward! We're thrilled to hear you enjoyed your visit and appreciated our staff and equipment. It’s always a pleasure to welcome guests from afar. We hope to see you again next time you’re in Yarra Junction!
Negative experience: Went for swimming with kids, that's when we came to know its closed for months. Atleast update it on ur website.
Dear Nishanth, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and frustration caused by the closure. Your feedback is valuable. Our website is up- to - date and displaying our "Scheduled Pool Maintenance Closure" on the home page in the green banner. We hope to welcome you back soon!
Negative experience: Terrible!!!!
Hi Taylor, we’re sorry to hear about your experience at The Yarra Centre. Your feedback is important to us, and we’d like to understand more about what went wrong. Please consider reaching out to us directly so we can address your concerns and improve. Thank you!
Fantastic experience: The staff have always been courteous, professional and helpful here so I recommend them highly.
Thank you Brad for your kind comments, We look forward to seeing you at Yarra Centre.
Fantastic experience: Great job guys. I loved the kindness you showed to my kids when we went there for a day out. Very memorable.
Thanks so much Joel for your comments, we are so happy you and your children enjoyed Yarra Centre. We look forward to seeing you all again.
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!
Negative experience: The gym bathrooms smell like mould the whole place has poor ventilation and the staff are quite rude ...
Negative experience: Weak and tasteless coffee. Spend 5 mins and walk elsewhere!!
Fantastic experience: Fantastic, always something new for me to find
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.
Fantastic experience: We used the basketball courts. This was a cheap easy activity for the kids.
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
Fantastic experience: Really enjoy my time here, great company and staff xxx
Fantastic experience: It was fine
Fantastic experience: I was there on Easter Saturday and the staff were exceptionally friendly and helpful. Thank you.
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.
Fantastic experience: swam 750 ,building up slowly after the long break ,good to see the staff i had worked with
Positive experience: Good
Negative experience: Never been here...pesky maps
Fantastic experience: Good Swimming Pools. Absolutely Great Place To Play Basketball.
Positive experience: The Yarra Centre at Yarra Junction: great!
Fantastic experience: Great staff especially the family friendly creche
Fantastic experience: Went swimming everything clean water was perfect
Fantastic experience: Great
Fantastic experience: Very helpful, very friendly - great facility!
Positive experience: Nice place
Positive experience: I like Yarra Junction
Positive experience: Pretty good. But no outdoor pool
Negative experience: Water could be warmer
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.
Positive experience: Good food.
Positive experience: Nice spot for a rest. Hard to get a park sometimes.
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.
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.
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 !
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.
Fantastic experience: Lots of fun and warm pools! Long enough to do laps up and down the pool!
Fantastic experience: Staff are lovely
Positive experience: 远离市中心的地方的一个多功能体育馆。
Positive experience: Good place to enjoy junior basketball and swimming
Positive experience: Swim fun in the pool with granddaughter
Positive experience: Drove past looked good
Positive experience: Good place for locals to access a pool and gym.
Fantastic experience: Great ectopia festival. Great place. Lots of space. Grass. Shade. Peaceful.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Fantastic experience: Great ectopia festival. Great place. Lots of space. Grass. Shade. Peaceful.
Fantastic experience: Has all types community events and awesome activities for people of all ages Which is good to get into
Fantastic experience: The only gym around so it's pretty good
Fantastic experience: Try their Face2Face program. It's challenging and rewarding.
Fantastic experience: Helpful staff
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.
Fantastic experience: Great facilities, pool gym and coffee shop and also a great child care centre
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.
Fantastic experience: Pools good, friendly staff I love coming here.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful location
Fantastic experience: History of mystery.
Positive experience: Breat for swimming
Negative experience: So expensive !!
Positive experience: Definitely needs to open earlier on the weekend.
Positive experience: Swim teachers could be a little more enthusiastic
Positive experience: Good variety of services.
Positive experience: Stadium gets very stuffy
Positive experience: Very good
Positive experience: Grandkids and I had a good few hours of swimming ! A good place to be !
Positive experience: Lovely pool but would like outdoor pool for summer!
Positive experience: If you're stay in the Upper Yarra Valley make sure you visit tne aqutic centre and gym.
Positive experience: Great modern facilities only set back is the hot weather as the stadium gets to hot and the pool gets chlorine stuffy.
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.
Fantastic experience: Great place.
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.
Fantastic experience: Great experience
Fantastic experience: Nice place for a birthday party
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.
Fantastic experience: This is a friendly family centre with something for everyone
Fantastic experience: Great place to take to kids , its a window into the past.
Fantastic experience: Great place for a great night
Positive experience: Its good
Positive experience: Great country facility for all ages.
Positive experience: An older centre, so facilities are not as modern as others.. but the staff are exceptional and go above and beyond.
Positive experience: If you're looking for a gym and swim location. This is a great little sports and Leisure centre.
Fantastic experience: Great
Fantastic experience: Good
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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