Bairnsdale Aquatic & Recreation Centre

Positive experience: Good venue. They need to keep their info on Google up to date especially for holidays and public holidays.

Fantastic experience: Good

Positive experience: Good

Fantastic experience: Seriously the BEST hot hot dark chocolate from the cafe on Sunday-

Positive experience: Great place for swimming, working out and just relaxing or having fun. The canteen has a good selection for any hungry little ones. One point of improvement is the occasional poor services that some of the staff can give. Overall a pretty great place

Positive experience: Good for the kids

Positive experience: Forge theatre. Have seen two shows here. All seats have excellent viewing of the stage

Fantastic experience: Been going to Aqua classes now for 6 months , feel so much better now , Sheree, Jordan and Cindy are Terrific , and special mention to the ladies who go to the classes they are very welcoming , and we have lol .

Negative experience: Not good enough. Group fitness room double booked. Always a class at 11 am EVERY wednesday. WHY would it be able to be booked by someone else?

Fantastic experience: Great to see that is is being utilized by Swimming and Basketball all under the one roof. The Basketball area really needs air con though.

Fantastic experience: Great place to swim if it's to hot to go to the lake

Positive experience: Good clean pool environment. Water playground for the kids with water bucket. Sauna could have been hotter and the spa jets were not working. Overall good venue with a decent small gym as well.

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and pools to choose from kids, small 1.4m deep pool warm water for hydro and small children and disable people, which has a ramp, for very easy access, is well planned for, and a large pool with lanes .It has a nice spa bath, sauna room, many lifesavers on duty throughout the pool, change rooms and showers, plenty of baby room toilets and next door a fully active and excellent gym.

Fantastic experience: We had our birthday party at the pool and it was fantastic! The instructors took the girls though heaps of different water games resulting in a whole lot of laughter. Then we had lunch, supplied by the BARC, which was dim sims, party pies and sausage rolls, dips, spring rolls etc. Heaps of food. The staff were so helpful and willing to accommodate us. Highly recommend for pool parties!

Positive experience: We very often visit the BARC. The reasons for the lower stars is that a couple of features in the water play area have been broken for months now and the Aquadome gets the inflatable run on holidays (even though they also have the Aqua Run/Park at the foreshore) and Bairnsdale gets absolutely nothing.

Fantastic experience: MY daughter done swimming lessons there and they were very helpful in teaching my daughter .

Positive experience: This Swimming Pool is Fabulous Staff very friendly, l've never had a problem with anything or any body here. I've been coming for a couple of years Don't listen to the Whingers.

Fantastic experience: The staff are awesome

Positive experience: Great place for exercise.

Positive experience: I enjoy coming here for a swim, it’s a great place with lovely people supervising and running the place. It’s generally clean enough and the staff are friendly

Fantastic experience: Good facilities, nice staff

Fantastic experience: Staff are very accommodating. Plenty of parking. Very accessible.

Negative experience: Terrible Customer Service, Staff walked away whilst I was in the middle of ordering and didn’t even let me finish. Also made my coffee with a already used group head left in machine making my coffee bitter and terrible.

Positive experience: A+

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, helpful and friendly staff and the pool is always warm

Negative experience: Not enough maintenance and cleaning should be reviewed always something not working

Positive experience: Of the facilities: the facilities are modern and spacious, a coliseum, you can play basketball and soccer, gyn, sauna, the spa is having problems, birds work and others do not, 25-meter pool, another hot water pool and a pool for children with small and fun games. my children train swimming, the teachers are very dedicated and professional, I recommend them! the staff, lifeguard, reception or the cafeteria are super friendly. they also have zumba classes which are so much fun you have to try going!

Fantastic experience: Gym was great - lots of equipment and friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Had lovely time playing music to the daycare kiddies, thanks.

Fantastic experience: Love it ! Great lil Cafe too ..

Negative experience: absolutely HORRIBLE customer service. will not be going back!

Positive experience: Good facilities, gym equipment could do with a little maintenance.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff plenty of life guards patrolling

Positive experience: Pretty good

Fantastic experience: Great place to have a membership

Fantastic experience: Very clean, not too crowded, have lifeguards circulating the pools, customer service at the desk is lovely.

Fantastic experience: Very friendly staff Clean facilities

Fantastic experience: Really good, clean facilities with friendly staff.

Positive experience: Great relaxing spa, nice and clean. Staff are lovely, really enjoyed the session.

Fantastic experience: Loved it great for all ages

Negative experience: Both my partner and myself were eyed and stared out of the place by lifeguards. To the point we couldn't go into a spa, sauna or pool without a lifeguard on duty eyeing us till the left the place. Best bet if your brown, asian, of colour, etc is to avoid the place. The pool staff make it obvious we aren't welcome

Fantastic experience: Good facilities, lots of parking & friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Great facilities. Well maintained. Pleasant and helpful staff.

Positive experience: Best gym.... mad facilities

Fantastic experience: Just wish the big yellow bucket wasn't there in the kids splash zone. It scares so many little kids and very off putting for us!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place.

Fantastic experience: Since the refurbishment the aquatic centre has been lifted to a new level.

Positive experience: I enjoyed it it not a bad creation centre for the competition

Fantastic experience: Well appointed and has just about everything. .Third time there this week.

Positive experience: Safe for kids. Good sharing of pools for play or serious swimming.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place to spend with family and loved ones

Negative experience: I already left but still charging me

Fantastic experience: Clean pool and nice staff!

Fantastic experience: Have been coming here for years. Great family pool. The renovations have greatly improved the look and options of play activities for kids.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful! Really friendly staff and clientele, was there almost 2 hours in the pool chatting and making new friends

Fantastic experience: Good place.

Fantastic experience: Awesome staff, Claire is a great teacher..

Positive experience: Great place. The coffee has a weird taste.. mb get some advice on how this could b improved as its a shame not to b able to buy a good coffee here

Fantastic experience: Excellent I go twice a week with a group and we love the aqua aerobics

Positive experience: Friendly staff and the management team was fantastic.

Positive experience: Getting there early for the warm up and stretch in the small pool is great. Have a swim in the large pool once muscles are warmed up. Stay and join the aerobics in the pool is good exercise and great fun. No pressure to keep up is applied. Very enjoyable, good company.

Positive experience: Good venue. Ok food. The tables in the court yard are unbalanced.

Fantastic experience: Excellent aqua classes

Positive experience: An adult with a kid under ten is now $5.50, get on it parents, the kids love it! Plus they're all worn out for the day and give you a little peace and quiet for the rest of the day! Yay! Edit, I think this might only be if you have a health care card. I keep getting charged a different amount each time I go so I can't actually work out how much it is. It doesn't help that each staff member has a different answer when asked the price for aquatic entry!!

Fantastic experience: Super awesome place for kids. The water play area keeps them entertained for hours. Good for lap swimmers as well. Trying the gym next week.

Positive experience: Clean and nice, well priced, 2 adults 2 children $16.

Positive experience: Yep go there frequently for aqua aerobics and enjoy the exercise and the company.

Positive experience: It can be very expensive depending on what you want to do....

Fantastic experience: Love the upgrade guys! Kids loved it even more. Very popular with my toddler

Positive experience: Good place to swim, not very busy. The fitting rooms can be better.

Fantastic experience: Great facility!

Positive experience: Great facilities paired with helpful staff leads to a fun time will give another star once the bathroom upgrades are done. Keep up the good work fellas.

Fantastic experience: Excellent customer service whether you're visiting the gym, cafe or pools A++ and don't forget the free Wifi

Fantastic experience: Great progress with redevelopment.

Fantastic experience: Excellent water play equipment for children, wonderful sauna and spa areas, refreshing pool area, very clean and have alot of change rooms, with children's change room. (wheelchair access as well as wheelchair pool access.)

Fantastic experience: Great upgrades and warmer pools. Well done.

Positive experience: Fun, great atmosphere, super lovely staff. Would come back if I didn't live 4 hours away... May come back anyway

Positive experience: New kids pool fantastic. It's a shame the toilets and showers didn't get an upgrade

Fantastic experience: Family environment modern. Variety

Positive experience: Fanatics venue , clean, neat , new hydrotherapy pool which is fantastic

Fantastic experience: Love the new changes Staff are always friendly and happy to give advice and answer any questions you have

Fantastic experience: Love the morning float... good for mental health...thx BARC

Fantastic experience: Great upgrade

Fantastic experience: Free Friday swimming!!

Fantastic experience: Great fun for kids and very warm for mum's and dad's..

Negative experience: Never been there

Positive experience: Good srmtaff friendly atmosphere

Fantastic experience: The Bairnsdale Aquatic Centre is looking fantastic. The new facilities will be open for use in 2 weeks approximately. The water temperature was perfect for swimming.

Fantastic experience: Can't wait to go back since the new stuff is there

Fantastic experience: Great place

Fantastic experience: Great Place for the family to swim! All the staff are really helpful and very approachable

Positive experience: Great for swimming, hydro and lessons..friendly staff

Positive experience: Love this place. Affordable. Indoor pool clean and good temperature. No small kids. Gym adequate although coukd do with better staffing.

Fantastic experience: Great facility and friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Staff are always super friendly and welcoming. Free Swim Fridays have been an absolute blessing getting my toddler used to the pool. Even through renovations the facilities are all you could really need

Fantastic experience: Good gym and pool

Fantastic experience: Very child friendly

Positive experience: Greant courts

Positive experience: Great facility

Positive experience: Can't wait until the renovations are complete