Des Renford Leisure Centre

We had great experience with DRLC swim school team! Jack was fantastic at helping our four year old face his fear of water

Simply a fantastic variety of pools for all ages, and even a fun slide for the little ones.

Very large centre with multiple pools (indoor and outdoor), gym, creche, cafe, birthday party rooms and small swim shop.

The pools were well attended, I just only grabbed pix without many people in them for privacy reasons.

? Attended for a party and had a great experience. There's an option for an inflatable obstacle course and separate party rooms, which was fantastic.

Easy parking lot parking

Change rooms could do with a bit of an update, some stalls out of order

Best gym and aquatic facility in Sydney by far.
Good service, reasonably priced, great gym and pools.
The GF classes are outstanding and group fitness instructor Christina S is the best. I wont be going elsewhere.

I like the class of aqua fitness the teachers was very nice and her music is fantastic… and all ladies was incredibles

It's a nice center. Getting a bit old in places. Needs a bit of a renovation. And fixing the showers. But otherwise the lessons are great. The staff are good too. Except for the front reception.

Permanently closed the heated indoor 25m pool to aqua play and blaming covid restrictions for it even though every covid restriction has been lifted is just not good enough. This pool is being underutilised its very disappointing.

It's a great local centre and the swim classes are good. The recent removal of all the benches means parents usually don't have a place to sit anymore while kids are in classes.

Great pool, grew up here and this is a top place to visit. Since its renovation it has gotten a little expensive. But what hasn't these days.

The DLRC swim school is the best in the east. I am almost reluctant to write this as it's a bit of a secret outside the local area. I have taken the kids to four other swim schools from Edgecliff to Maroubra, and the improvement the team at DRLC have achieved in six months equates to two years at some of the fancier places we have attended. The staff are genuine, deeply caring, highly skilled professionals. I am so grateful to the swim school team at DLRC.

Re-enrolled my son in swim school after being elsewhere for a few years. Just wanted to note the service from the swim school has improved immensely. Whatever changes have been made keep it up. It has gone from cranky disinterested staff to positive and very helpful staff. Makes such a difference

Swim coaches are so rude kicking swimmers out of the program and making them swim somewhere else. (Kade Hayes) is the worst guy there he has kicked about 100 kids out

The receptionist is so rude. It makes me sad that what used to be a community centre has become a centre to force more money out of you every time despite having been coming here for years

First visit for a few years. Beautiful clear water in heated 50m outdoor pool at great temp for lap swimming. Clean, dry changing rooms (so many other pools seem to have a permanent smelly swamp in their change rooms eg Icebergs, Cook & Phillip. Friendly concierge staff & lifeguard. I'll be back.

I am a local regular swimmer and three years ago I rated this pool poor for adult lap swimming, except in the summer. That was because the outside 50m pool was only open in summer months, and various squads, private schools and classes take up most of the prime time lanes indoors. However, the outside 50m pool is now open year round, and you can generally get a fairly uncrowded lane there whenever you want - except Saturdays. Cleanliness of the pools has also improved a bit. So I have upgraded it from 2 to 4 stars. The UNSW pool is still better for adult lap swimming though.

Des Renford remains a great place to take the kids year-round, thanks to the dome over the outside kiddie pool.

We are members of a local surf lifesaving club for nippers and their skills test are done at this pool. Kids were free but have to pay spectator fees as a parent. Seriously. I didn't have my wallet with me so this was problematic. They wouldn't let me send my child in (in her swimsuit ready to go) without me also going in - she's 9yrs old and participating in squads. I was not at all impressed.

Absolutely amazing the changes her from when I was a young child coming here to do my initial swimming lessons. All you had was the big olympic size outdoor pool, with the smaller kids pool area.
Now with the new expansive Des Renford complex gymnasium it certainly caters for a vast majority of the local community.

Not toddler friendly on weekends

We went to the pools on a Sunday to give my 2 year old son practice swimming but was kicked out of the 0.7 m pool because there was a class, we went to 2 other pools and we're kicked out aswell because of classes or private functions, as there isn't other pools available for toddlers to practice swimming until 11 we only had a short amount of time for my son to practice swimming before we had to leave for his nap
Whoever is making the decisions either hasn't got kids or is incompetent at their job

It was my first visit today for my son’s swimming lesson. Lady at the reception was extremely rude and yelling at people to check in.
What a customer service!

Zumba class every Friday at 6: 30PM is AMAZING - the people are so lovely and welcoming and the studio space and sound is 5STAR:)