UWA Sport

Fantastic experience: I did not visit this place in my 1 year in perth. But when I visited i actually went again. Now am again going to visit tomorrow as well. Great to have indoor courts for cheaper prices. Loved the time spent here.

Negative experience: They double booked our basketball sessions with volleyballs. The Asian girl at the front is super rude, even though we got there first, she gave us an attitude that it was our fault for the double booking. Kicked us off, while the volleyball group got the booking with no explanation.

Fantastic experience: UWA Sport has been very good to our Japanese martial arts club. The Student Sport Coordinator has been attentive to our requests and very helpful to us. UWA as a whole has been a great place and our kendo dojo would not exist without their help!

Fantastic experience: Surpringly amazing

Fantastic experience: Great location for indoor sports. Cheap rates compared to other places.

Fantastic experience: Very good gym. A wide range of facilities for many different exercises. The patrons here are friendly and don't bother you during training. The addition of CrowdDJ means you can request your own music and play it in the gym if you've forgotten your earbuds or headphones. Definitely worth getting a membership here if you study at UWA or live in the area.

Positive experience: Very relaxing venue.

Negative experience: this gym is so mid the same machine has been out of order since june and it is now september for a top 100 uni this gym is astonishingly ill maintained

Fantastic experience: Good facility nice staff

Fantastic experience: Good glass backed squash courts, worth checking out the squash club

Positive experience: Reasonable price for student. Equipment is old.

Fantastic experience: Cool

Negative experience: I left UWA a year ago and despite numerous times contacting them and demanding that my membership is cancelled, I am still being charged every month. The most recent charge has come at a time where I am very short for cash and needing to pay rent, so due to them constantly charging me without permission I am facing possible homelessness. Mid af gym btw.

Fantastic experience: Friendly and approachable staff and great experience for the kids during the Holiday Sports

Positive experience: It's yeh nah yeh

Negative experience: The girl working at the reception on 7th March 2023 from 6 - 7 pm is extremely rude and racist. I understand this is not a retail or sales industry, but at least she should have some basic customer service.

Fantastic experience: Oggi was extremely helpful and a pleasure to talk to

Fantastic experience: Its alright

Fantastic experience: Went here to play volleyball and enjoyed playing here.

Fantastic experience: Super friendly instructors during the school holidays. Made my child feel welcomed

Positive experience: No aircon and not enough courts to book. But friendly staff and clean.

Fantastic experience: Great kids sport program

Fantastic experience: Well equipped Gym conveniently located close to public transport, reception staffs are always happy and friendly.

Negative experience: I'm not sure whether fencing is such a noisy sport. If so, the venue should not be rented to fencing team and ball games at the same time. It is no exaggeration to say that my friends and I were shouted by the fencers next door that we were going to have a heart attack. And the sign on the wall clearly lists only three ball games. When we used to play badminton here, the basketball player next door would shout, but that was completely within our acceptable range. Today's experience really annoys all of us. I booked the court one week in advance, but I received a notice that our reservation was cancelled just the day before, WITH NO REASON. Excuse me??? We filed a complaint and got compensation for another period, But when I confirmed it by phone later, I was told by another employee that there was no information about our reservation. Excuse me??? A manager later helped us solve this problem, but in any case, this unpleasant experience and our wasted time made us feel like: EXCUSE ME??？

Fantastic experience: Great for sports fans.

Fantastic experience: Convenience and quite plave

Fantastic experience: Fair price. Friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Good

Negative experience: UWA Kids holiday program is not good. My 6 year old was bullied but the staff ignored her complaint. I am not sure if the kids holiday program staff have any experience working with kids. I would not recommend the program to any of my friends.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym with everything you need

Negative experience: Lost access during COVID-19 shutdown of the university and then membership was reactivated without any acknowledgement or direct communication to me. I continued to do online and did not attend the campus, but when I did I was told I only had two weeks left on my membership. Basically paid for a full year and had about a month's worth of access. First point of call was to try pitch me for a new membership with more fees. Disappointed with the poor communication and unprofessional experience. EDIT (response to your response): "A direct email was sent personally by our Fitness Business Manager to all gym members on 4 June 2020" - I received no such email, I have surveyed all three of my inboxes (junk mail included). I attached a screenshot below as evidence, any issues viewing please let me know and I can direct email you. Unless something extraordinary has happened to that email, please provide evidence that the said email was ever sent to the address registered to my account, I am happy to be corrected if I am factually wrong here. I'm well within my right not to read your newsletter, the onus is on you to make direct correspondence with me. An email would have sufficed. N.B.: I am not subscribed to the newsletter. I decline your invitation to make the effort to visit the sports centre and subject myself to an uncomfortable interaction that may likely leave me feeling even worse off. NB: My initial request for a refund in March 2020 at the start of the university shutdown was declined, also much to my dissatisfaction.

Fantastic experience: Great gym with the friendliest of staff and more importantly, concientious staff who are very knowledgable on sports/fitness related issues.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and nice equipment.

Positive experience: Parking is a major problem on weekdays between 8am to 5pm. You need to factor the cost of parking into your overall gym membership cost.

Negative experience: I play squash here and the roof is dodgy as. We have lost so many balls up in the holes filled with fluff. The fluff is disintegrating and falls out frequently. We pay enough for the courts that it would be nice to not have wire and fluff falling down on the court and an abyss where balls are never to be seen again. Maybe they should provide balls???

Fantastic experience: Great school holiday kids sport program. My 8 year old absolutely loves it. Bookings available through their website. They sell out quickly so book early

Positive experience: Good place nice people But why today the gym is closing while Google says it's opening till night?

Positive experience: Nice staff. They seem to always have trouble with their booking system.

Fantastic experience: Great university sports facilities for talent's training and fitness in Nedlands western Australia.

Fantastic experience: Hired a volleyball court for 2hrs, was a lot of fun. Kids had a blast

Fantastic experience: Played volleyball The centre is rly good and perfect for vball

Positive experience: Great little venue with heaps to do. Basketball is quite dusty and slippery though.

Fantastic experience: Great place to play sports! If you're an alumni, you get a discount!

Fantastic experience: Great, I Instructed a Zumba class.

Fantastic experience: Fancy place for volleyball

Positive experience: Good place with high quality equipment and helpful staff, its just quite pricey even for UWA students

Fantastic experience: Good timings is required

Negative experience: Outdated courts and badminton nets. The lights are really bright, making hard to see the shuttlecocks when playing. Multiple markings on ground for the different courts (volleyball, netball, indoor soccer, basketball, badminton...) makes it challenging to gauge where your court actually starts and ends. Staff are civil. Prices for courts hire are expensive for the quality offered.

Positive experience: Friendly and clean. Moderately priced.

Fantastic experience: Good place for gym. It will be the best if discount everyday!!

Fantastic experience: Our son really enjoyed the kids sports program.

Fantastic experience: Enrolled my son for school holiday sport here

Fantastic experience: You can register as a member, membership fee is $494

Fantastic experience: Clean and large facility offering a variety of sports and fitness activities. Decent badminton courts - set up your own net and poles. Lighting could be less intense and more diffuse - sometimes it's hard to see the shuttlecock when it's high up. Friendly service. Reasonable prices for students and alumni of the university. Plenty of clean toilets. The large gym area felt quite warm so I don't know if that area has air conditioning. Parking available around facility but it can get quite full and busy. Overall a wonderful, clean and friendly place to get fit!

Fantastic experience: Great facilities

Fantastic experience: I highly recommend the group fitness classes of UWA sports. There are wide rangr of wonderful exercise opportunities. I especially love the Body Balance class instructed by Grace. Most of the instructors and staffs are highly cordial.

Positive experience: Awesome pace to workout. They got pretty much all you need. The music can be repetative sometimes which us annoying but other wise, its pretty good.

Positive experience: Great gym facility. Has specific rooms including: - heavy weights room with deadlift pads, squat racks and bench racks. i LOVE this room because it has big windows, is well-ventilated and has a lovely view of the campus foliage. - a separate room for spin classes - a 'studio room' which is kind of tucked away from the main gym and includes cables, bars, some light weights - a main area with a functional training section including a sled, battle ropes and a fake-grass area - a downstairs cardio area with bikes, treadmills etc. Generally has a wide variety of machines and weights. Staff are very helpful with membership issues etc. and offer helpful tips on technique. I would say because a lot of young guys go to the gym, it can sometimes feel a bit intimidating and you do definitely get the occasional bro just like... flexing in the mirror... in front of everyone. If you're a little intimidated about going to the gym, I'd recommend starting out at less busy times because the culture of some of the people here is noticeably different to other gyms I've been to. I guess it's just the age bracket because it's at uni. The business is also a little different to a regular gym - on weekdays it tends to peak early in the morning 7-8am, and then from 3pm onwards until around 9ish it's quite busy. Get in really early at like 6am, the middle of the day, or weekend or Friday evenings and you've got yourself a nice quiet gym to yourself. Especially if you're a student at UWA, the prices are pretty reasonable and there's lots of classes and facilities on offer. If you're with a university sports club it's definitely worth asking about whether your club offers discounted memberships through the Athlete Strength and Development Program, as I was able to get a significantly discounted rate through the UWA Boat Club to support my training there.

Positive experience: I used the badminton courts and they are pretty ok, but it's too noisy.. Staff was very friendly

Fantastic experience: Gym with a lot of equipment. Personal trainers available to ask at all times.

Fantastic experience: The young people at UWA do an awesome job. Nuff said

Negative experience: Cons: They don’t offer any body assessment services (body measurement, pinch test) which I thought would be standard with a gym. In addition when the gym runs a group class it can take up a large segment of gym space. Nobody uses a towel on equipment and it isn’t enforced by trainers. The gym is not open for 52 weeks of the year, it’s closer to 49 weeks. So if you pay for a full year, you won’t get what you pay for. Pros: The gym equipment is modern and in good working order and there is always a trainer on the gym floor.

Positive experience: Has 3 volleyball + Basketball and 6 Badminton courts which need to be booked beforehand as there isn't much space. The courts are not ventilated too well so get really hot in the summer but nothing too bad. Also has Lawn tennis available.

Fantastic experience: Great indoor courts for badminton and basketball.

Fantastic experience: great facilities ang gym

Positive experience: Hard to find way in and around but spacious and with helpful staff. Too expensive to join though

Fantastic experience: Great facilities!

Fantastic experience: Perfect

Positive experience: Great information about what's on offer. Very helpful

Fantastic experience: The group classes were great. The class leaders were all very good and helpful with recommendations for both how to work it harder for the fit people and also how to start slower for someone like me getting back into fitness.

Positive experience: Good gym. Good price for students and alumni

Fantastic experience: Nice

Positive experience: Great response, good tour by the staff at the gym. Sufficient info that I got as a new student in UWA.

Fantastic experience: Great classes and fantastic instructors!

Fantastic experience: Well maintained facilities!

Positive experience: A very good place to do allmost all sports. The gym has got world class facilities. Indoor has several badminton and basket ball courts!! However you need to pre book to avail the facility.

Positive experience: Not a member. Went there once. Great range of equipment

Positive experience: Good gym, with more than adequate facilities. Does get quite crowded at peak hour.

Positive experience: Nice staff but average facilities. Website for court bookings seem to be broken

Positive experience: Very nice place and it's quite cheap if you are a UWA student.

Fantastic experience: nice Gym

Fantastic experience: Great variety of equipment and spacious enough for everyone

Positive experience: Good recreation centre with multi-sport facilities and helpful staff. The gym amenities are very good but some of the building is quite dated. Pricing is reasonable if you are a UWA student and there are associated tennis courts for hire too. Overall a good facility with ok change rooms / shower / bathroom facilities

Negative experience: I don't know what UWA sport are doing but from my recent experience with them it is evident that they have some serious issues with the organization of their facilities as well as their customer service. The last 3 times I have gone to use their basketball courts the person at the desk has told me that all the courts are booked out for maintenance or another event when there is clearly nothing happening in there. I understand that the centre has a lot of different bookings and events going on but they really need to take note of what every other sports complex around Perth does with "casual bookings". This is a simple concept that allows patrons to use the facility on a casual basis without a booking and UWA sport is throwing away money and losing business by making their process overly complicated.

Negative experience: Unfriendly staff and you have to pay for using the basketball courts, even if you are a student/guild member

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities for Sports lovers

Positive experience: Good facilities and range of equipment.

Fantastic experience: Did couple of kendo courses for beginner in here on Wednesday from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Great place, very friendly people. Very warmth environment. Regular training was quite fast paced, high spirited, beginner course was evenly paced, easy to follow. I had the best experience of my life.

Negative experience: don't understand why they changed the equipments which are worse than before

Positive experience: Good facilities nice activities but expensive fares

Positive experience: Great trainers, very friendly and happy to help. Food available downstairs. Good sized gym and good changing facilities though the opening hours (not 24/7) makes me lower my rating as I'm someone that works out late night/early morning.

Negative experience: Really unfriendly gym staff, seem to always have an attitude.

Negative experience: The price not suit the condition

Positive experience: Good facility...just need more equipments in free weight room...