Information about Bishopdale Recreation Centre

13A Bishopdale Ct
8053, Christchurch
+6433598320

Opening hours

  • sunday: 7h-19h
  • monday: 6h-21:30
  • tuesday: 6h-21:30
  • wednesday: 6h-21:30
  • thursday: 6h-21:30
  • friday: 6h-21:30
  • saturday: 7h-19h
A place for recreation, activity, and learning. The Bishopdale Recreation Centre is part of The Kind Foundation and home to our sports and events stadium, Elevate Fitness Bishopdale, and the Pūmanawa Bishopdale Early Learning Centre. A range of activities are delivered from the centre including after school and holiday programmes, basketball training, gym classes, and our Early Childhood offering.

Our comment from FitFit New Zealand about Bishopdale Recreation Centre:

Bishopdale Recreation Centre in Christchurch is a fantastic facility that offers a wide range of activities suitable for all ages and abilities. The centre is well-known for its:

  • Excellent sports facilities: Great venue for basketball, squash, and other team sports.
  • Friendly and helpful staff: Users appreciate the welcoming atmosphere and the presence of caring trainers.
  • Variety of classes: From spin to step classes, there is something for everyone, and instructors like Ruth and Michelle receive high praise.
  • Clean and well-maintained environment: The centre is kept tidy, ensuring a pleasant experience for its visitors.
  • Accessibility: The facility is accessible and well-suited for individuals with disabilities.
  • Great parking options: Many users have complimented the ample parking available near the facility.
  • Café and social atmosphere: A popular coffee shop adds to the community feel, with many enjoying the excellent coffee.

While most feedback is positive, some users noted that the air conditioning in the main gyms could be improved, and that the gym can feel a bit busy at peak times. However, the overall sentiment is that Bishopdale Recreation Centre is a recommended destination for fitness and leisure activities.

Services, Machines and Guided Classes

Fit
Training

Bishopdale Recreation Centre: Opinions

4.6/5 (117 Opinions)
Andrusha 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: awesome place

Beverly Davison 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Attended the basketball gym, great facility. Was pleasantly surprised at the parking available.

Zhong Wang 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: 大部分基督城的小学篮球比赛都在这里,大量停车位,实施完备。

Hiral Pinkesh PATEL 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Good

Chris Swain 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Absolutely fantastic. Lots of fun and great if you have someone with a disability

Debbie Hawkins 1 year ago

Positive experience: Good venue for basketball. Parking a little tricky but central location.

Barbara Savage 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I go for exercising to music on Monday and Ruth takes the class ,she is friendly and caring and very popular

David Pigou 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I visited here to attend the Rotary annual bookarama. Excellent event. Heaps of books and very well organised. Well done Rotary.

Tamatea Arikinui 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: good parking

Gordon Nairn 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for physio treatment.

Nic Pethig 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Best little gym in chch

Marllon Eufrásio Braga 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Perfect place for holiday program. My daughter just loves it.

T K 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great place great coffee

Rochelle Hodgson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: This place is great for children's ⛹

Clare Bray 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great venue, very helpful and friendly staff.

Colin Abbott 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great

Diane Brenchley 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Work out time

life of the Aikmans 2 years ago

Positive experience: Fun step class

Prateek’s 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean court and staff was friendly as well

John Barr 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good as usual, great facility

Gavin Bell 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good squash courts & facilities.

sean brookes 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff great facility

matauboy 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Visited for the antique show. Made a great contact for my research

Janet Slack 2 years ago

Positive experience: Class I go to is helpful & Michelle is excellent

Jeff Hunter 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always a friendly smiling face at reception. Lifefit Spin is good fun and great work out.

Hare LeLievre 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Encouraging, friendly, helpful, caring staff I have made a lot of friends since I joined Tha facilities are exactly what I needed for my age and abilities... excellent cafe

Michael Peach 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good place to play sports and all that

Robert Pinto 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great facilities

Sebastian Bach 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great venue for basketball in particular!

Tyrone Stock 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: it was a Wonderful place to go for a day

Michael Burke 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: best venue for monday night basketball

Greg Rindel 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well priced, friendly fitness center with gym, group classes, spin, squash courts and loads more.

Jan Barber 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for exercise for those of all ages.

Mark 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, lots of parking and nice cafe

Cat Management Ltd Turkington 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best organized fitness centre in Christchurch.Activities for all ages sizes etc.

Lyssie Patterson 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I've always had a good experience here, place is clean and the staff are friendly and helpful

Ashleigh Kortegast 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: great school holiday programs opportunity for kids learning. also gyms for all ages

jason anderson 4 years ago

Positive experience: Like it

Spanish Gladiator 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good

Tony J Clark 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities

Charlotte Mc 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice wee gym

Barney Haami 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent venue n food

Blair Russell 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilty highly recommend

Alan and Les Dickson 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always welcoming and helpful.

Mau Te Rangimarie Clark 4 years ago

Positive experience: Air con in main gyms needed

Chasing My World Traveller 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great small halls to hire for small events

Greg Crosson 4 years ago

Positive experience: Scoreboard doesn't work for Monday social, sort it out

Kate Fox 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and well maintained

Colin Massey 4 years ago

Positive experience: Not too busy but starting to fill up.

jillian hooper 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out.friendly environment.great instructors.

Keith Sanders 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Grandson playing basketball and they won. A sign on door said no food in gymnasium. Disappointing to see some people disregarding the sign.

James 4 years ago

Positive experience: Great gym. Ronin is an excellent pt for programs suited to individual

Pierre Ghobrial 4 years ago

Positive experience: The YMCA is a good place to play sports (basketball, Football etc). But the gym is kind of overpriced especially because it is small with old equipment that tends to break on a regular. City Fitness Burnside is a much better gym alternative.

Katy Roche 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: I did the step/pump class, loved every minute of it. Great instructor, very mindful of a new person to the class

Syakirin Ghazali 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Did our bersatu training for futsal here

sheryl smith 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place.

Kiwi T G 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good facility

Dwayne McCormick 5 years ago

Positive experience: Great facility, friendly staff.

M#J Lee 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Enjoy watching the kids play futusal

Joey Lee 5 years ago

Negative experience: Pretty good place

Francis Sullivan 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent Gym and Instructors very affordable.

sheryll mccullough 5 years ago

Positive experience: Great venue for leisure marching days

Rori furness 5 years ago

Positive experience: Good for sports, nice staff and nice and clean.

Ian Lothian 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, great classes, very good value

Michelle Cross 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Worth a visit Big gym, great variety of classes and friendly staff, recommend!

Zenn Rarere 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very spacious gym run by an awesome set of trainers. Super friendly and welcoming making this gym a pleasure to come to daily

Jesse Chase 6 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly staff

Fadi Seenawi 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place

Karen Drayton 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Big centre

Slobodan Majkić 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great

Shane Rhodes 6 years ago

Negative experience: Bad experience playing basketball

Leslie D. Bush 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Magnificent book sale

Jisoo H 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Grate place and grate staffs

Pete Hopping 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym and PTs.

Maureen Dew 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fab staff lovely.

Maringi Parnell 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome recreational place

Michael Hoet 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good

chris auton 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great day at bookorama

Craig Barr 6 years ago

Positive experience: Excellent coffee at Ken's Cafe.

Greg Davidson 6 years ago

Positive experience: Very tidy but small carpark

Emma Clark 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love the YMCA. Best gym staff in Christchurch

Ella Toa 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: A great place to be friendly reception great sports room

Cassandra Woollett 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Rox does an amazing Zumba class Thursday nights at 6:30

Tracy Unger 6 years ago

Positive experience: I like that they have a really good physio office.

Lyndon Baty 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good equipment, good facilities & fantastic staff

Llemie Smith 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: A friendly place to workout filled with helpful trainers. All the encouragement I need ~

Mike Harrow 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Futsal facilities are great.

Lutfi Zougub 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good facilities and helpful staff. Prices can be more competitive.

Noname Mont4d 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities for people living with an impairment. Staff bend over backwards to assist me. Excellent

Ben Wilkinson 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Doing a free months trial there. My induction went smoothly and the trainer was very friendly and helpful. All the equipment is fairly new and well maintained. Plenty of space too, and not too busy.

sarah sonal 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: I really like this gym. It is a community gym, so there is a mix of all ages - very few beef heads! I feel very comfortable as a woman wo likes to use the free weights and squat racks. No staring, very friendly environment. I very rarely have to wait for equipment. Both my fiance and I are members here. Keep up the great work! Ps you get access to this gym and the city one for your membership, I use both as city is close to work and this is close to home. This is the bigger and more spread out of the two, but both are great!

Pinkesh Patel 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good place

maurice austin 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great exercise facilities

Kev Cumiskey 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good venue

Michael Beaumont 7 years ago

Positive experience: Awesome squash courts at a reasonable price

jenny warlich 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great sports venue..

Roger.machiko Burgess 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great for team sports

Wi TAENGKASEM 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well trained staff, trainer are great.

David Thomas 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Top gym. Fantastic helpful staff.

Phil Jones 7 years ago

Positive experience: Accessible, not to crowded. Good place to go.

Leave your opinion about Bishopdale Recreation Centre:

1 = Poor 5 = Excellent

Bishopdale Recreation Centre appears in the following listings:

Bishopdale Recreation Centre appears in the following listings:

Other gyms that may interest you

5 (4)
Chans Martial Arts - Papanui
Chans Martial Arts - Papanui

Chans Martial Arts - Papanui

See address and contact details
352 Wairakei Rd - 8053, Christchurch
+64274060337
Active Hatha Yoga For You

Active Hatha Yoga For You

See address and contact details
4 Westpark Dr - 8053, Christchurch
+6433599600
5 (24)
Ignition Health Private Gym
Ignition Health Private Gym

Ignition Health Private Gym

See address and contact details
74 Harris Cres - 8053, Christchurch
+64276323122
4.9 (47)
Muay Thai Christchurch
Muay Thai Christchurch

Muay Thai Christchurch

See address and contact details
6/515 Wairakei Rd - 8053, Christchurch
+64276658297
4.5 (15)
F45 Training Papanui

F45 Training Papanui

See address and contact details
66 Langdons Rd - 8053, Christchurch
+64272889792
5 (36)
Pilates Recipe

Pilates Recipe

See address and contact details
7 Bushby Pl - 8053, Christchurch
+64274830524
4.1 (154)
CityFitness Burnside

CityFitness Burnside

See address and contact details
Roydvale Ave 196 - 8053, Christchurch
+64 3-974 1627
ALIGN Personal Training

ALIGN Personal Training

See address and contact details
567 Wairakei Rd - 8053, Christchurch
+6433589667
Simple Tasty Nutrition

Simple Tasty Nutrition

See address and contact details
132 Vagues Rd - 8052, Christchurch
+64272842207
4.2 (179)
Graham Condon Recreation and Sport Centre
Graham Condon Recreation and Sport Centre

Graham Condon Recreation and Sport Centre

See address and contact details
3 Sisson Dr - 8053, Christchurch
+6439416888
4.8 (70)
Fitness Canterbury

Fitness Canterbury

See address and contact details
Wairakei Rd 567 - 8053, Christchurch
+64 3-358 9667
4.9 (54)
Anytime Fitness Papanui

Anytime Fitness Papanui

See address and contact details
Winston Ave 7 - 8053, Christchurch
+64 3-352 6050

Publish your gym in our directory for free

If you manage a gym and you want to appear in our website, send us the information about your gym so we can include you in our directory.Appearing in our directory is free!

Request a free listing

Find your perfect gym

Find a gym to get fit and improve your health.