Otara Pool and Leisure Centre

Fantastic experience: Free showers, for those of us who are passing through the city with a caravan, it is very much appreciated

Negative experience: Pools are dirty

Fantastic experience: My family comes to Otara pool center basically every month. We love this place not only because it’s free, but it’s also clean and family friendly. My son enjoys swimming and playing water here during this hot summer time.

Positive experience: Piscine publique gratuite. Infrastructures basiques mais idéale pour les familles. L’ambiance est conviviale et adaptée aux enfants, même si cela peut être un peu bruyant aux heures d’affluence. Les installations sont bien entretenues, avec des espaces suffisants stockés des affaires pendant qu’on est dans l’eau. Sanitaire correct et douche chaude gratuite.

Positive experience: Piscine publique gratuite. Infrastructures basiques mais idéale pour les familles. L’ambiance est conviviale et adaptée aux enfants, même si cela peut être un peu bruyant aux heures d’affluence. Les installations sont bien entretenues, avec des espaces suffisants stockés des affaires pendant qu’on est dans l’eau. Sanitaire correct et douche chaude gratuite.

Positive experience: Great place and friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: We were camping in a camper van without shower. This great place permitted us to free hot showers. It was very clean and showers were hot. Great pleasant staff.

Fantastic experience: Nice and clean

Fantastic experience: Kia ora for having a free pool & hot showers! Really apreciate it! And the girl working in reception was suuuper nice ☺️

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: 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 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: 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