Otara Pool and Leisure Centre

Information about Otara Pool and Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- Monday: 5:30 AM – 7:00 PM
- Tuesday: 5:30 AM – 7:00 PM
- Wednesday: 5:30 AM – 7:00 PM
- Thursday: 5:30 AM – 7:00 PM
- Friday: 5:30 AM – 7:00 PM
- Saturday: 9:00 AM – 6:45 PM
- Sunday: 9:00 AM – 6:45 PM
Find hours, contact details and information on the pools, gym and fitness, and sports and recreation at Ōtara Pool and Leisure Centre.
We recommend you check the website and/or our Facebook page prior to visiting the centre as the services we are operating could change under short notice.
Ōtara Pool and Leisure Centre is here to help you get active in a fun and supportive environment — whether that’s in the gym, going for a swim, joining a group fitness class or getting amongst our social sports leagues. We're proud to have something for the whole family.
Our double court stadium hosts lots of exciting competition events, but there're still plenty of times when you can drop in and play some basketball (or volleyball or netball) — or just shoot a few hoops.
We're passionate about our community and grateful to be right in the heart of Ōtara — close to other services and with plenty of parking available.
*Please note that hours may change due to staff availability. Keep an eye on our Facebook page and website alerts for any changes or give us a call before your visit.
Open for summer from December to March each year. The outdoor pool can be accessed via a ramp on the outside of the pool, but people with disabilities may need assistance to enter the pool.
*Concession pricing available with valid ID to students, seniors, Community Services Card holders and Green Prescription holders. Also available to those with a permanent disability.
Get into it – full membership across multiple centres
Get 15 per cent discount and a reduced joining fee with valid ID to students, seniors, Community Services Card holders and Green Prescription holders. Also available to those with a permanent disability.
Cardio equipment, resistance machines and an awesome collection of weights are here for you — and our friendly, skilled staff are waiting to support you in achieving your goals. Get stronger, get fitter and get faster with us!
We know that everyone's needs are different. When you become a member, in consultation with you we tailor a support programme to best serve you in getting (fit and) active your way.
Get into it – full membership across multiple centres
Get 15 per cent discount and a reduced joining fee with valid ID to students, seniors, Community Services Card holders and Green Prescription holders. Also available to those with a permanent disability.
Gym it – full gym access at your chosen centre
Get 15 per cent discount and a reduced joining fee with valid ID to students, seniors, Community Services Card holders and Green Prescription holders. Also available to those with a permanent disability.
Group fitness classes get you off the couch and interacting with our community. They also harness the group's energy to create a motivating, challenging, and totally addictive workout experience.
BoxFIT combines circuit training, kicking, power and agility to give you a dynamic cardio experience like no other. Wraps must be worn. Workouts with emphasis on improving boxing technique and boxing style training.
A 30 or 45-minute bodyweight training system that gets results!! It's a functional and effective metabolic workout that will change the way you train.
Bring your energy to this workout! This high intensity interval training class is designed with timed intervals to blast your muscles, burn calories and increase your cardio output.
Forever Fit is specifically designed with those aged 60 years and over in mind, where the focus is on strength and balance, resistance, light cardio and flexibility. Forever Fit is a social and supportive group, and a great way to meet others in your local community. Participants are required to attend a special one-hour appointment to join the group.
Get into it – full membership across multiple centres
Get 15 per cent discount and a reduced joining fee with valid ID to students, seniors, Community Services Card holders and Green Prescription holders. Also available to those with a permanent disability.
Bring your energy to this workout! This high intensity interval training class is designed with timed intervals to blast your muscles, burn calories and increase your cardio output.
Forever Fit is specifically designed with those aged 60 years and over in mind, where the focus is on strength and balance, resistance, light cardio and flexibility. Forever Fit is a social and supportive group, and a great way to meet others in your local community. Participants are required to attend a special one-hour appointment to join the group.
With our extensive natural outdoors area complete with palm trees, we are a friendly, multicultural centre with a strong community focus, and warm, dedicated staff.
20 hours free early childhood educations is available for children aged under 2 years, additional hours will be charged at the hourly rate below.20 hours free early childhood education is also available for children aged over 3 years, with a minimum of 2 days per week.We also offer 30 hours free early childhood education for children aged over 3 years, for 6 hours per day/5 days per week, additional hours are charged at the hourly rate below.
When the weather is warm we like to go to the pools for swimming lessons, or we head to the stadium to master a new sport or let the kids' imaginations run wild in our arts and crafts sessions.
Our programmes are designed for all age groups and our friendly staff are on hand to help in every way – even with homework and providing a healthy afternoon snack.
If the school your child/ren attends is not listed above, you can arrange to have your child/ren dropped off to the centre from 3.15pm for after school care.
We require a minimum of five after school care participants from one school to be registered before we can add another school to the above list. Due to this criteria, we no longer do pick-ups from the following schools:
As well as nurturing your child, our school holiday programme for 5 to 13-year-olds has a range of activities to keep them entertained. We teach them simple life skills like baking cookies*. We have lots of fun making arts and crafts. We also provide them with lots of opportunities to get active.
Grab a schedule from this website or your closest centre four to six weeks before the programme starts so you can choose and book your favourite activities!
*Concession pricing available with valid ID to students, seniors, Community Services Card holders and Green Prescription holders. Also available to those with a permanent disability.
*Concession pricing available with valid ID to students, seniors, Community Services Card holders and Green Prescription holders. Also available to those with a permanent disability.
Get into it – full membership across multiple centres
Get 15 per cent discount and a reduced joining fee with valid ID to students, seniors, Community Services Card holders and Green Prescription holders. Also available to those with a permanent disability.
Gym it – full gym access at your chosen centre
Get 15 per cent discount and a reduced joining fee with valid ID to students, seniors, Community Services Card holders and Green Prescription holders. Also available to those with a permanent disability.
Our comment from FitFit New Zealand about Otara Pool and Leisure Centre:
The Otara Pool and Leisure Centre is a fantastic community asset located in Auckland, New Zealand, offering a wide range of facilities to cater to all visitors. With excellent amenities, including spacious indoor and outdoor pools, a rejuvenating spa, and sauna, this centre is perfect for family visits and recreational activities.
Highlights of the facility include:
- Variety of Pools: A large main pool, a smaller children's pool, and outdoor options make it ideal for families.
- Friendly Staff: Many users rave about the helpful and welcoming staff, enhancing the overall experience.
- Clean Environment: While some areas may need more consistent maintenance, many visitors commend the cleanliness of the facilities.
- Community Focus: A genuine community hub offering various activities and classes, making it more than just a swimming pool.
- Free Access: The facility is free to enter, providing great value for families looking for a fun day out.
While some visitors expressed concerns about cleanliness in certain areas and the crowding during busy times, the overwhelming sentiment remains positive. Overall, the Otara Pool and Leisure Centre is highly regarded for its great atmosphere, excellent staff, and being a wonderful place for families to enjoy water activities together.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Otara Pool and Leisure Centre: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Neat and well kept. Swimming instructors are doing a good job.
Fantastic experience: For free? Heck yeah!
Fantastic experience: Amazing pool, a bit of more chlorine and bathroom needs some drainage maintenance rest amazing pool.
Fantastic experience: My daughter is learning swimming here through swimgym in otara and she is loving it.. ❤️
Positive experience: The reception was so friendly. A lot of pool choices. Spa and Sauna available too! Maybe the water was a bit colder than expected - says on the website maintained to 32°, but didn't feel like it.
Positive experience: Free swimming
Fantastic experience: Entrée gratuite, du jamais vu, merci pour cela. Piscine simple mais plus que suffisante
Fantastic experience: Piscine plutôt basique avec entrée gratuite. Souvent pas très propre et très bruyant. Ça va pour prendre juste une douche.
Fantastic experience: Nice n clean
Positive experience: Personal amable y ducha gratis, pero la piscina estaba saturada de gente y no se podía nadar
Fantastic experience: Very well planned out facility
Positive experience: The spa pool pump has been broken for a long time, and the washing room is often broken!
Fantastic experience: Awesome pools- sauna & spa
Fantastic experience: My kid goes basketball and swimming here . Very friendly and welcoming atmosphere .no issues but Sometimes parking is a problem due to the Saturday market .
Fantastic experience: Helpful, kind and caring staff
Fantastic experience: Nice hve u guys ever haern of ae punching bag fathtion came out of the water hving water sprigal out of hit and its soff no one wound hurt them slef and colouring colouring competition 4 eny age to do aftr they swim
Fantastic experience: Very affordable, they have a sauna a spa and pools.
Fantastic experience: Very affordable, they have a sauna a spa and pools.
Fantastic experience: Very affordable, they have a sauna a spa and pools.
Positive experience: too crowded and the toilet was such a disaster
Fantastic experience: Good place for leasure
Fantastic experience: Love the walking pool...not slippery like all the other pools so get a good water walk...outside deep enough for aqua jog and awesome.
Fantastic experience: The customer service was awesome. Free for both adults and kids. Pay extra for the spa/sauna. Great incentive to get families out and about.
Fantastic experience: Clean and peaceful
Fantastic experience: Fantastique!! Vraiment j'ai jamais vu ça, venant de France c'est inimaginable pour nous d'avoir une piscine gratuite, bien équipée, avec des lignes de nages, un sauna pour très peu chère et des douches gratuites ! Merci à vous d'exister
Fantastic experience: I luff dis place straightaway
Negative experience: Bad experience. Whoever that lady (receptionist) was in the weekend awful attitude, awful facial expressions. Giving bad energy when asked questions.
Fantastic experience: Awesome place where Grace foundation are able too help a lot off people through their journeys and struggles, and a great place too have our tru stories/ church meetings Appreciate it
Fantastic experience: Free shower and swimming pool Enjoy because I find it's the only one in NZ
Positive experience: I have been living in Otara with my wife and kids for 8 and half years and by far Otara is the best and our home always our home so basically, we use our local pool every week especially rugby season and summertime staff are really good facility bigger for kids to enjoy (kids pool) and outdoor pool really good for summertime more space for adult to swim indoor as well.
Negative experience: Most degrading pool I've been too. Was told by staff to seperate my kids from the other kids in the pool because my kids weren't enrolled into there school holiday program. I thought this was a public pool ? Was told to move to another side of the pool that was about knee high. It was embarrassing to hear my kids ask why they couldn't play with the other kids as that side of the pool was more suitable for kids to play and enjoy I sore many other parents go through the same thing. Surely there is a way where we can share space equally in the pools without being segregated
Fantastic experience: Love that place. I gym and swim there. All the staff is super kind and the gym is never too busy. I sure hope this centre doesn’t become a private institution.
Positive experience: Excellent facility, but unutilise when I've been there.
Fantastic experience: Awesome facilities
Positive experience: Great activit
Fantastic experience: My daughter attends after school care and the staff are awesome.
Fantastic experience: Went for a showcase but nice facilities/parking.
Fantastic experience: We Had a basketball tournament here. Courts are awesome! Had everything we needed to make the day run smoothly
Positive experience: Good pools lane pool and spa is a bit congested nice gym happy staff good music
Fantastic experience: Another great pool to visit and great team!
Positive experience: Went to a Senior Group's Handcraft activities today. This group met once a week in one of the rooms from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm every Tuesday. Weaving, making leis and head pieces including singing and tala noa. Individual sharing and catchup on issues ie health and lifestyle including support available from either WINZ or The Salvation Army, Friendship house. Vakatautua is their main link regarding health and disability support if required.
Fantastic experience: Awesome spa and sauna when they are in use, saw dogs swimming in the outside pools and so many different ethnicities we love the gym, pools, staff
Fantastic experience: Kim doing forever fit, is working well with my Mum
Fantastic experience: Not so busy!
Fantastic experience: Perfect place on a hot summer day. Has outdoor, indoor, spa and sauna facilities. Take your own food in too
Positive experience: Swimming Pool is big, Otara has a small pool for the kids and Large pool inside and out - (outisde is normally opened mainly in Summer ofc) Otara has two Sauna's one for the Mens and one for the Ladies, it is quite small inside, probably fit around 5-6 people. The Spa pool is 2 feet away from the Sauna so when you walk out you can just literally jump right in, it is quite big but Papatoetoe one is much bigger, but Otara one is much hotter.
Fantastic experience: Home grown bound...well one of many...
Fantastic experience: Best place to visit and get your aquatic needs.
Positive experience: Nice clean facilities, such a shame the main pool is not very big.
Positive experience: Love the pools , only gripe is the showers are Grose sometimes, that's more a gripe on the customers than the venue.we are so lucky that the pools are Free, relatives that visit us always go for a swim now
Negative experience: Poor customer service! Do NOT go here
Fantastic experience: Didn't know their was an outside pool, which was nice....
Fantastic experience: We have so much fun its clean, friendly and reminding staff, very recommendable.
Fantastic experience: For a public swimming pool, this is a great place and it's free. Well set up with plenty of seating for spectators/parents if you wanna take the kids but stay out of the water. Massive outdoor space, under shade for a picnic or to chill, outdoor and indoor pools and a decent changing room area. Showers are a good temperature too.
Fantastic experience: Nice and clean. Well maintained. Good staff
Fantastic experience: Great indoor pools. Swimmers are divided into lanes according to how slow or fast you are.
Positive experience: Lots of visitor playing rough in the water. Some of them even throwing basketball in the water hitting other swimmers. No enough lifeguards to monitor the pool. The "few" lifeguards who are on duty are too few to control misbehavior. It's accident waiting to happen with all these anti-social behavior, or incident waiting to happen if/when the duty lifeguard attempt to control these misbehavior. On some day... police should be here.
Fantastic experience: Awesome aqua class
Positive experience: Douche gratuite
Fantastic experience: Clean and warm water plus free entry
Fantastic experience: Really good experience
Fantastic experience: Free, enough said, take the kids
Fantastic experience: Great staff that work there
Fantastic experience: Kids having fun & people are friendly
Fantastic experience: Family orientated love taking our kids here.
Fantastic experience: Awesome time with my mokos everytime
Fantastic experience: A real asset to the community. Staff are really friendly
Fantastic experience: Amazing during the evening before closing where not many people
Positive experience: A true community place for meeting others at. friendly and polite staff.
Fantastic experience: I got baptized in one of these pools , my family and church members aswel , friendly staff here
Fantastic experience: Had very good experience with friendly staff. Facilities are up to standard
Fantastic experience: looking for a free shower? look no further. Otara Pool and leisure center is here for you! been there twice
Fantastic experience: Aqua aerobics always fun times. Music rocking. People warm and happy
Positive experience: The bathrooms being unsanitary, smelling like urine with rust on the kids changing table is the absolute worse.
Positive experience: I'm just scaffolding the out side but it looks ok they have a gym pools etc and on Saturday the flea market the place to be
Positive experience: The pools were good. However, the chlorine in the water was too strong for the eyes.
Positive experience: Good pool but shower and toilet areas weren't very clean
Negative experience: Was at the Leisure Centre to umpire at a Muslim netball tournament, the booking for this tournament was paid for 8.30am onwards I'm very disappointed that the young girls & adults who arrived early were made to wait outside until after 9am before being allowed to enter, this was utterly disgraceful especially when the rain came through
Fantastic experience: Love the facilities here.. Spa is right where sauna is.. Even better its seperate male and female steam saunas here... Very clean and tidy.. The staff is awesome... Very friendly... This is connected to a stadium facility.
Fantastic experience: The lifeguards and regulars are pretty down to earth. I always feel relaxed and 100% safe when I'm here. I live out of Otara but come here cos of the good vibes and music the lifeguards play on the days I go. I am a muso so it feels nice swimming and sometimes dancing in the pool to mellow sounds they bang. Thumbs up
Fantastic experience: Love the Otara pools. Lifeguards are great and always play good music. It’s never totally crowded which I enjoy, and I love how the kids pool goes from very shallow to 90cm so my two year old and six year old can quite happily play together in the same pool. We’ve only recently moved to the area but I’m looking forward to getting into the outside pool when it’s not raining.
Fantastic experience: It’s a great pool !
Fantastic experience: Enjoyable swim and the spa pool was really therapeutic to my bad knee.
Fantastic experience: Coming here is so relaxing, clean and tidy, the staff are super down to earth and the facilities are great will keep coming back Recommend 100%
Fantastic experience: Used outside walk way to go to and from Otara Flea Market between Maori Wardens Office and Recreation Center. Parked in car park. Gosh it was a lovely experience. Got out food and cuzzy got her a Mullet and Mussle for her dinner. All and all a very great morning. . All the way from Papakura.
Fantastic experience: Great place. Gym, swimming pools, hot pool. Good gym fees. Personal trainers. Next door, same building Te Puke O Tara Trust. Community space.
Positive experience: Good gym and atmosphere, showers could be warmer as there pretty cold and sauan could do with a hose down every hour or so for hygienic purposes other than that no problem here
Positive experience: Parking usually full on Saturdays from people going to the markets. Basketball facilities are nice. Staff are usually good to deal with but sometimes they like to say the courts are unavailable when clearly no one is using them.
Fantastic experience: Nice pools to take your family too. Spacious when not over crowded. Kids love it here. Family changing rooms may need alil paint or a spruce up? Apart from that a good outing if your in the area.
Positive experience: The pools are designed for different groups.The swimming pool here is huge and can even make you feel a little dizzy. Staff are friendly. It's a great place to take kids to learn to swim. recommend.
Fantastic experience: Clean facilities, friendly helpful staff
Fantastic experience: Good pool
Fantastic experience: Awesome facilities and choice az staff
Fantastic experience: Sa dancing awesome cultural evening watching grand children.
Fantastic experience: Healthy by exercise. Everyone must wipe down the equipment after use to keep sanitized, very good regimens, everyone pulls the same responsibilty equally. Gym music are good depending who's on duty. SKY sport are limited to Crickets, Netball and Rugby replayed games. Nothing has changed. Overall it's what it is. Now their operation time is back to normal lets get moving to swim, gym, do activities and socializing. Interesting predicament.
Fantastic experience: Great place to be at... don't be shy to ask at the front counter about their services. They're very helpful.
Fantastic experience: Great facilities, has spa and saunas( for male and female) outdoor pools ( not able to use was I was there) cool back ground music.
Fantastic experience: Great friendly helpful staff.
Fantastic experience: Not crowded and it was very clean.
Fantastic experience: Good place to swim has both inside and outside pool
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