Citadel Leisure Centre
South Harbour Street
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About Citadel Leisure Centre
An accessible fitness and aquatics facility on South Harbour Street offering swimming and exercise activities for families, with convenient onsite parking and wheelchair-friendly access throughout.
What's nearby
- Lychees-Ayr 200m away
- Ayr Grammar Primary School 300m away
- Ocean View 300m away
- Ruby Seven Days 400m away
- Ayr Town Hall 450m away
Distances as the crow flies, via Google
Good to know
Parking
- ✓Free car park
Accessibility
- ✓Accessible parking
- ✓Accessible entrance
Details via Google — worth confirming with the attraction before you travel, especially for access needs.
Photos
Photos via Google
Opening hours
- Monday
- 5:45 AM – 10:00 PM
- Tuesday
- 5:45 AM – 10:00 PM
- Wednesday
- 5:45 AM – 10:00 PM
- Thursday
- 5:45 AM – 10:00 PM
- Friday
- 5:45 AM – 10:00 PM
- Saturday
- 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
- Sunday
- 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Current hours may differ from the usual schedule above (e.g. holidays) — check Google Maps for today's hours.
What visitors say
Facilities are old but it's alright. Saunas are always broken . At least 1 of 2 . Steam room is almost always closed and the last time it was working it smelled like fungus . Swimming pool are closed when there are kids or classes,but you never know the time for it so if you expect to show up and take a swim it's better to phone and ask stuff if it's available now. Also , my friend and I make a subscription for a few months ,we are same age and no medical conditions. But she was paying 15£/m and I was paying 25£/m , the receptionist woman said it was because she's got medical conditions ( but she's not ). So we never find out why is that. Prices for sauna+swimming pool for a day was 8£ a year ago. Which is okay if saunas are working and swimming pool is free from classes. Oh,and also, no one said to us when we first came in to use changing room that you should have a coin of 0.5£ for lockers, so keep in mind of it.
· via Google
Hadn't been to the swimming pool since I was a teen! Honestly to see the diving board and the high dale opened back up is amazing. nostalgia 🤩
· via Google
Review of swimming & changing facilities. Citadel is a monument of mismanagement. The changing facilities are old, battered and filthy. They're long overdue a deep clean, and unfortunately they don't appear to get regular or daily cleaning. The pool area should be great, but it's really showing it's ages and lack of care and investment. Investment, interestingly SAC have decided to spend millions on improving the external appearance of the entrance to Citadel, visitors to Ayr being hoodwinked apparently being more important than the experience of local people, the customer. There's cracked and smashed tiles throughout, leaky roof, smashed windows covered with bin bags, urinals overflowing onto the floor, smelly toilets etc. But yes, the entrance will look nice. There's leisure centres abandoned elsewhere in the UK that even after 4-5 years worth of graffiti and vandalism they're still cleaner and better looked after than Citadel.
· via Google
At a glance
- Address
- South Harbour Street, Ayr, KA7 1JB Get directions
- Category
- Swimming & Leisure Centres
- Guest rating
- 4.0 / 5 (617 reviews)
- Suitable for
- Ages 4+
- Setting
- Indoor
- Destination
- Ayr