Information about Papakura Leisure Centre

Great South Rd 294
2110, Pukekohe
+64 9-298 6852

Opening hours

  • Monday: 5:30 AM – 8:30 PM
  • Tuesday: 5:30 AM – 8:30 PM
  • Wednesday: 5:30 AM – 10:00 PM
  • Thursday: 5:30 AM – 8:30 PM
  • Friday: 5:30 AM – 8:30 PM
  • Saturday: 6:30 AM – 12:30 PM
  • Sunday: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Papakura Leisure Centre, more commonly known as "pap rec" by our local community, provides the perfect environment for programmes suited to all ages and abilities. With a Fitness Centre split across two levels, sports leagues, group fitness classes and our Chill Out kids programmes we genuinely have something for everyone!

Our comment from FitFit New Zealand about Papakura Leisure Centre:

Welcome to the Papakura Leisure Centre, a vibrant and community-focused facility located in Pukekohe, New Zealand. Our centre is known for its friendly and welcoming staff, who often greet members by name, creating a personal and inviting atmosphere.

Here are some highlights of our centre:

  • Excellent Accessibility: Enjoy 24/7 access to our gym, allowing you to fit your workouts into your schedule at any time.
  • Friendly Environment: Our staff are consistently described as helpful and supportive, making it a great place for families and individuals alike.
  • Great Facilities: We offer a variety of amenities including a 50m swimming pool, gym equipment, and fun group classes such as Zumba.
  • Community Programs: The centre hosts various holiday programs and after-school care, providing excellent services for children.
  • Affordability: We provide access to facilities at competitive pricing, making fitness accessible for all.

However, we acknowledge some areas for improvement:

  • Facility Upgrades: Some users have remarked on the need for updating the gym equipment and overall facility appearance.
  • Parking Issues: During weekends, parking can become quite limited, especially when events are held.
  • Customer Service: While many enjoy our service, there have been instances of mixed experiences with certain staff, and we are committed to addressing these concerns.

Overall, Papakura Leisure Centre remains a comprehensive fitness hub that continues to serve its community with care and dedication. We strive to enhance our services and look forward to welcoming you.

Services, Machines and Guided Classes

Swimming pool

Papakura Leisure Centre: Opinions

4.1/5 (101 Opinions)
Maryanne Withers 4 months ago

Fantastic experience: Absolutely love going to gym the equipment could do with an upgrade but are still usable an the staff are absolutely wonderful so I'm giving it five stars for the wonderful staff an prices

Judi Townsend 5 months ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff who often welcome you by name which is awesome!

Gary Aulakh 6 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility

Matty Shams 6 months ago

Negative experience: Terribly neglected gym with old equipment

Angelo Gaspan 6 months ago

Fantastic experience: It's a great place

Y k 6 months ago

Negative experience: Don't even bother trying to look for parking in the weekend after 12. The whole lot gets used by those weekend basketball groups. And being a member there for more than 8 years, after scanning in the door this guy rudely tells you what door to use when they are in and out all the time.

Matt Sh 6 months ago

Negative experience: Very basic gym and expensive membership

Dandy Hizon 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: Oki n oki

Kaysa Diamond 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: The staff are very nice and enjoyed chatting with the staff

Ali Azeem 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Nice 50m length pool

Elizabeth Fleming 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: It was awesome getting back into action the staff are awesome and put me in the plan

Curtis Ahrminav 1 year ago

Positive experience: Convenience and Leisure

leighton 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great place great staff

michael cook mclaughlin 1 year ago

Negative experience: The old white lady who works there is very rude and disrespectful wouldnt wanna be around her on a bad day. Grumpy old hag.

Simone Davis 1 year ago

Positive experience: I've been coming to this gym for years, and love it. I basically go on, get my workout out of the way and walk out having accomplished what I needed to. My only downfall about the place is it could do with a revamp, looks a little old and run down. Other than that I'm happy overall. Looking forward to pushing myself to my limits next year. Bring on 2024!

Ava Buzzard 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Shower lovely

Jasmine Wilson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great option!

Duane Tipene 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Always come away feeling better

Jean Crowley 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are all friendly and helpful. Outstanding service

Elias Eddie 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great place and wonderful people working there. Happy to send my son every year. Thanks to great management. A+++++++

Larissa Denton 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: The staff and members at PLC are what makes this place so special. Everyone is really friendly and helpful and ready for a chat. It is a small gym but offers lots of different classes if you are so inclined.

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks for the review Larissa, we are glad you enjoy your time at PLC!! We have the best members!

Louise Reeve 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Big shout out to CLM gym in Papakura. I think it use to be a YMCA. I have been going there for a month now. Totally love it . I get out of my brain and into my body so to speak. So far not only have I lost 2 kgs but also cms around biceps, waist and hips. For less than 1/2 box G&Ts a week, I get 24/7 access, program, regular assessments by trainer, and group classes if I want. Outstanding. And to top it off, I get a lovely view of the Papakura Graveyard which is a gentle reminder, if I don't use it, I loose it lol. A big thumbs up to the gym.

Sione Vaiola 2 years ago

Positive experience: Best trainers and friendly staffs

ngaire Appleton 2 years ago

Positive experience: Easy to locate, tidy and clean.

Lauren 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: The staff are always super friendly

Charlotte Whanga - Katipa 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place, Great people. They run some awesome holiday programs for the school children.

sanketh gupta 2 years ago

Negative experience: Old and tired facilities. The adult pool was not warm. Shower facilities are minimal and no door..

rob Gemmell (two toes) 2 years ago

Positive experience: Fantastic family friendly space with awesome staff. However the complex is very worn down, it needs some serious TLC to make it inviting and the prices need to be lowered to.

Jasmine Retief 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: If you want to get fit with the proper equipment on a budget this is the place for you. Heaps of parking and the work out classes are fun and supportive.

Em Eff 2 years ago

Negative experience: Disappointing . . Signed up to a one month swim/gym membership yet couldn't use the sauna/steam room/spa due to maintenance at massey park. Phoned up to cancel my membership as I moved cities and inquired about compensation for paying yet not being able to fully use the facilities. Was told there was nothing they could do, but if I had told them during the maintenance period, they could have put the "swim" part of my membership on hold. With that kind of theory, surely everyone on a swim/gym membership should have their "swim" membership automatically put on hold during maintenance. As I was a member at this gym for years, prior to coming back for a month, I expected a little better.

Richard rau pou Stevens 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to get fit and healthy also good people

Jamie “Jhoe” O'Henacy 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Gym

Karen Roberts 3 years ago

Positive experience: Was not able to stay. I didn't have the right pass.

Julianna Roberts 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: My go to place to release some stress

Shirley Turner 3 years ago

Positive experience: Love these classes thankyou Christine you are an inspiration to us all. Pity not advised on facebook that classes had resumed after Covid shutdown for 50 plus. Maybe in future a post would be appreciated as I have missed 2 weeks of classes. Very disappointing

Isha Syal 3 years ago

Negative experience: Poor customer service

Papakura Leisure Centre

Hi Isha, sorry to hear you had a poor experience. Could you please email us on [email protected] so we can look into your concerns further. Thanks

Candelaria Cordon (Cande) 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great people, great service.

Druss TheLegend 3 years ago

Positive experience: Good way to relax and enjoy time with tour children

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks for your review Druss, see you back soon at Papakura Leisure Centre!

NJ olaf 3 years ago

Positive experience: Gym facilities are a bit small, but there's enough equipment for workout.

Allen Duder 3 years ago

Positive experience: I have not started going yet due to level 3 covid. But I was recommended to this place by my diabetes nurse

Denize Campbell 3 years ago

Negative experience: I was very disappointed of the papakra leisure centre of how my grandson was looking forward today to play a bit of basketball in saying this I dropped him off as it stated that the court would be available at this time srry to say they decided to change the time to a later time so I said to my grandson ok we will go home and wait for this time stated and I will dropp you off .Well this happened 2 more times so this time I decided to ring them to confirm when will the court be available she said 8pm so I said thank you.When it was 55pm my grandson was so happy so I decided to drop him off guess what there were people om the court dancing it was like what was going on my grandson ended up crying.Got home rang and ask the question why there answer you can come up now the oriole have all gone .zI have decide that the staff are unprofessional I will never let any of my family join there and I will make sure this will ho viral on Factbook

Papakura Leisure Centre

Papakura Leisure would like to sincerely apologise that your experience was disappointing. We have looked into how these errors occurred and have found the following.We have found that we did not update our stadium availability on our website, omitting the children's holiday programme over the two weeks of school holidays when they are booked into our stadium until 6:00pm at night. We are sorry for our oversight and will update our stadium availability to reflect this for the rest of these holidays and for all future holiday programmes. We have found that the regular booked Zumba class scheduled to finish at 8:00pm ran overtime by 2 minutes and we have contacted the Instructor with the request that this class finishes on time in the future, so the 8:00pm availability given to you by staff was correct.We understand and apologise that your Grandson was badly disappointed and we accept that this experience cannot be changed. We would like to offer a 10 visit stadium pass for your Grandson to use for future visits. If you would like to accept this please contact us on our email [email protected] or phone the facility and we will be able to organise a time to organise this.Once again, we apologise for your experience and hope you will give us the opportunity to provide a better experience.

J҈A҈S҈E҈ 3 years ago

Positive experience: Previously was a 1 star review but they've professionally fixed the issues I've had with one of their PT's that thought it was funny to cancel me 3 times. Levi if you see this review find a different career because you lack of professionalism, respect and you're negatively affecting our community.

aryan bedi 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice staff

Muni Goundar 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility, awesome casual rates and great staff.

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks Muni, we agree our team are amazing!

Amandalee Coker 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best around, friendly, always willing to help, never feel uncomfortable, only gym I'll ever belong to

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks Amandalee we agree our facility and the team are amazing!

jodi tupaea 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I get to work out with my family close to all our houses n lovely staff specially my sister atawhai

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks for the review Jodi! See you back at the facility again soon!

Miss Shyla 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: The staff are all nice. Basic gym equipment with the weights and cardio seperated to each side. Fun group exercises. I participate in Zumba class that's always fun. Gym is hardly ever fully packed which is great. Finally made it 24/7 yet still cheap as since they made it a $20 one-off payment.

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks for the review Chanel! Glad to hear you are enjoying the facilities :)

Forrest Gump 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing staff here are very friendly and helpful

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks for your review! looking forwards to seeing you back at Papakura Recreation & Fitness soon!

Anna Harland 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff

Chantel Hinga 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: The staff are welcoming and great people..very proud service makes me feel confident inside that i will be successful with there guidance and support throughout my training and challenges also their unique team and skills.

yvonne kahira harding 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good service and FOOD

Adam McCready 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Attend the centre for basketball. Good court and hoops. There is a radio for playing music. Its 24hr which is good but it would be better if it was closer north so I don't have to drive as far. Its next to a cemetery. The police were talking to someone, not sure why but they left shortly after. No rating for tge cemetery

I24shikiッ 4 years ago

Positive experience: Clean and great gym

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks for the review Ravenice, glad your enjoying the facility

Ryan B 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice staff

Papakura Leisure Centre

thanks - we have an amazing team!

Charlie 4 years ago

Negative experience: To much fitness not enough recreation

Chris Healey 4 years ago

Positive experience: People and staff are helpful & friendly.

Cindy Sonny 4 years ago

Positive experience: Many different fitness classes offered at a very reasonable cost.

Maria Fernandez 4 years ago

Negative experience: Some trainers are not interacting with their members. I walked in and one of the female trainers (wearing glasses) was on her phone and she seemed to be lazy and not very helpful. Not too sure if all the trainers were suppose to check on their members (as per say) and not their phones. What I have notice is that trainers only walk up to the gym and look around for 10seconds then head back to the reception desk. If you work at a fitness Industry, you should be spending more time asking members if they need help, regardless if they know the workout or not. And please trainers, do your job or you will have a bad review like this (as some of your members picked up).

Karen Smith 4 years ago

Positive experience: A well used community resource. Getting old and tired now. Nice outside area available for gym users.

NZMarquis (NZMarquis) 4 years ago

Negative experience: Staff here are fabulous and there's a good spirit amongst those who play basketball. However, I went for the gym recently and the facilities are tiny and very old for such a populous area. It's 24hrs now which is an improvement, but there's some major investment needed here.

Gary Leaf 4 years ago

Positive experience: Great gym ambiance it's a working person's club. Friendly staff. Some of the equipment and the toilets and showers need upgrading. The addition of a boxing space with punching and speed bags would be great for personal training and Boxfit classes.

Freaky Family Fun 4 years ago

Positive experience: Awesome facility. Only there for cardio and the back room is a little small but never crowded, been a max of 4 people in there any time I have been. Lots of kids stuff downstairs in the hall. Earbuds fix that for me though.

jeff goldfinch 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great friendly staff ,and an excellent before and after school care program. They also have some good personal fitness instuctors and good gym facilities with a relaxed atmosphere

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thank you Jeff for your review :)

Marcus Waretini 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: It's a family orientated and most definitely friendly gym to work out at and the best thing now it's 24/7

Chevy Waipouri 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Played netball here

Eliza Casey 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great equipment and friendly staff

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thank you Eliza for taking the time to leave us this nice review.

Christie D'cunha 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: It's local and great team

elsie tua 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Enjoying the variety

Max A 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: This gym is awesome with helpful friendly staff and a good atmosphere

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks Max!! we will pass your feedback onto the team!!

W Leith 5 years ago

Positive experience: A big tick

Ellie Ellie 5 years ago

Positive experience: Great gym and facilities

Paarsa A 5 years ago

Positive experience: helpful staff, the building is abit old

Heather Lennox 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: My gym and it's friendly and not pretentious

Christine McMillan 5 years ago

Positive experience: Very good gym, love the friendly and helpful staff just hate the car parking, it can get really hectic at times.

Julie Harris 5 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly staff, very good morning and after school care

Papakura Leisure Centre

Hi Julie, Thanks for review. we will pass it onto the team :)!

Wayne Cooper 5 years ago

Positive experience: I take intellectual people to the aerobics class here. Very friendly environment with coaches that have good motivation skills. Our trips are ongoing....

Amy Bircham 5 years ago

Positive experience: It a good place where many sports for all age kids and adults can take part i.e kids soccer zumba they also have before and after school programs for all age kids school hoiladay programs for kids a gym for all age adults and nice clean shower loo change facinities and so much more check it out

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thank you Amy for your review! :)

Tika Rimamate 5 years ago

Negative experience: I'm sure the staff are friendly, but I don't like the way they can lure u in with a great deal or gym membership plan. Recently having come out of a term I'm shocked. The rec center is partner/contracted with DEBIT SUCCESS!!! The contracts are worst then if u were to take a loan. Debit success Unprofessional , mean , rude, if u were to fall into some sort of hardship these guys don't care if you broke ur leg and couldn't actually use the gym these guys don't care so keep paying your membership if you were to move away well you'll have to find a facility that uses debit succes. I'm disappointed that Papakura rec uses this company to receive and manage there payments, the gym seems like a nice quite place and the staff friendly , it just sucks that debit success is the reason for my bad review.

Patricia Carlson 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great team

BIRANDRA SINGH 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place and staff

Caroline Lindsay 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: All very clean and tidy. Staff nice and helpful.

Raewyn Swney 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: A place for fitness

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks for your review!

9422Sam 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Cleanhelpful caring staff love exersizing here it was always enjoyable

Papakura Leisure Centre

Thanks for the review, we will pass your feedback onto the team!

Estelle Ru 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: bit small but good.

Rob Howard 6 years ago

Positive experience: Standard Council owned recreational center

Oldgray Lowe 6 years ago

Positive experience: I was at physio Centre to help with my arthritis in my knees .

Rawinia Harrison 6 years ago

Positive experience: Great place to get fit!

Christel M 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff. Great place for before and after school care, holiday programmes at typical prices.

Tim Black 6 years ago

Positive experience: Equipment needs an upgrade along with the venue however staff very helpful

Hopeshealth Nz 6 years ago

Positive experience: Awesome and never busy only on certain times. I use to work at configure and since it shut have seem so many ladies there come to this gym. I always wondered why. Now i see its because its such a mature gym for more maturer ages. Been to snapfitness, new york, and more. And this onw has to be the one that helps you feel more comfortable .

WESTSIDE 5014 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: the people are friendly and helpful

Caroline Thompson 6 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly and relaxed gym

keen_fisher nz 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Cheapest gym I've been to and the trainers very helpful

Deni Talia 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: love this place easy parking all the equipment that you need friendly staff and nice clean bathroom and hot showers for those cold mornings ++++++

Apolinario Buebo 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: It's a nice venue...

Chris Marama 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff. Great place for before and after school care, holiday programmes at typical prices.

Amanda Allan 7 years ago

Positive experience: Lovely staff and great classes

Mike Masoe 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: It's a very quite place n very please to knows the place never been before

Bindy Goldfinch 7 years ago

Positive experience: Well the personal trainers are super cheap...Kiel if u can get him is Gd. The new younger staff though are horrible. Typical rude millennial.Debbie the boss is lovely. Equipment could be better

Tracey Mitchell 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great staff, really supportive and friendly and motivating, good equipment too

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