Hornsby Aquatic and Leisure Centre — Local services in Sydney

Not great for lap swimming, for anyone who works, as there are squads taking up half the pool both morning and evening, and the pool closes soon after the squads finish in the evening. This is often worse in the evening as aqua-robics often takes up two or three of the remaining lanes.

During February and early March the pool is closed from 8:30 AM until 3:00 PM with swimming carnivals on weekdays, and some days on the weekends. This is unlikely to effect people who work weekdays, but it is also worth checking for evening carnivals, and avoiding trying to swim on those days.

The mornings are generally better than the evenings (weekdays), for laps, with both being crowded, but generally the lanes seem to flow better in the mornings.

On a hot day, especially during school holidays, the pool is ridiculously crowded, just a no go for lap swimming, except possibly early mornings. Also swimmer behaviour during peak times is often poor.

The pool closes ridiculously early, 7:45 Monday to Thursday, and 6:45 Friday, Saturday and Sunday, closing within 15 to 30 minutes of squads finishing. This is the same all year around, and is especially ludicrous during summer, and doubly so on extremely hot days, as it is full daylight and very hot when the pool closes. It is also extremely crowded on hot days. By way of comparison the YMCA pool at West Pymble is open until nine weekdays.

Overall transport is good, as the Pool is within easy walking distance of the station, and has some parking, which is often full especially in the evenings and during summer months. There are also bike racks available.

Staff are friendly, and the facilities clean and modern, just not sufficient...

Fabulous facilities, but unfortunately I found the leader and assessor in the Learn to Swim program extremely rude and patronising. The teachers themselves were lovely, but some appeared to be uninterested in their chosen lesson. After one year of lessons twice a week in Stingray group, my child started to tire of the same old thing. When I mentioned this to the woman in charge, she told me to go elsewhere. She berated me in front of all the spectating parents for talking to the child’s teacher and called my child’s stroke “shonky”. She also called me “Grandma” in front of my child, where she did not know that my child is fostered. This has been ongoing, but I think that the learn to swim program does not take into account the views of the teachers themselves or the child’s individual ability. In summary, because this woman is so rude and supercilious, I am not recommending the program.

I have now been to another centre, and have found a class which does do PASS (a child survival class) which teaches children survival skills like treading water and breastroke. Also it turns out that my child is ready for stroke development ; that is ALL the strokes.I have heard other parents complaining about above mentioned assessor and I shall be leaving. Today my child was with some almost beginners. Is this a punishment to the child or me? Disappointed in...

This pool is really disappointing. I'd heard how great it was supposed to be after waiting years for the renovations. It's tiny & pools are always closed, leaving open pools dangerously overcrowded.

I have an injury & need to use heated indoor pools for hydrotherapy. My first time was in school holidays. It was chaos! Kids & adults all trying to swim in the 17m pool with no lanes marked. I got kicked hard by a lady doing breaststroke past me. Lucky for council it was on my good side! Otherwise it would have resulted in an ambulance. Never again in school holidays for me! It's too unsafe! All February the pools were closed for school carnivals. I now have to go early before the sun rises to avoid the crowds, but even then the pool is closed for learn to swimmers or aquaaerobics so we're always squished into the 17m pool. You get no access to lanes for the money you pay. The 25m pool is going to be closed for the whole of April for maintenance, which means the 17m pool will be packed. It's a WHS incident waiting to happen!

Hornsby Council you've approved so many units in this area, you know how many people this pool needs to cater for. Why on earth did you not build a bigger indoor pool with more lanes?? You need to up the supervision because you're responsible if ppl are injured in...