Leisure World Colchester

Went here as a family of four. 16 & 7 year old and two adults. Both children had a lot of fun and loved the slides.. lazy river and waves are decent. As you walk in it looks clean and tidy but as you walk through to the changing areas it look tired and the same with inside the pool area.. looks dated and needs to be freshened up. The showers are also tired and dated. The water also looked murky but that could be with the amount of chlorine they put in it. Dad also banged his head quite hard on the outside area, no warning given!!! Personally I think there are too many people allowed in at one time so sometimes felt crowded. Overall we had fun which was the main thing.

Really expensive for what there is, and incredibly crowded.
The lifeguards are seemingly useless, and all appear to be barely out of their teens. At the top of the flumes one lifeguard was sat doing literally nothing, giving no instruction or supervision to the flume riders, leaving them to decide for themselves when was safe to go as the safety lights weren't working. This lead to people either going too early to be safe or waiting too long and leaving a giant queue to form.
Lifeguards were also happy watching people dive and leap into the wave pool from the sides onto other swimmers with no intervention.
The changing rooms are cramped and unsanitary, the facilities are poor, the water appeared murky and discoloured.
Huge health and safety issues that will result in accidents. Cannot recommend.

Rapids and slides are fun but not a lot else to do in the leisure pool. Best to check the rapids are actually working before you hype the kids up in the car then find them closed with no warning on the website when booked. Like the 90 min slots keeping overall numbers lower so queues are fast.

Pool was cold, changing rooms were disgusting they kept the door open for the rapids outside so whole place was freezing not great for young kids my daughter was shivering the whole time. Also the toilets and changing areas were dirty and unkept. Wave pool and little slides were good but other than that pretty grimey.

The reason I'm giving it a 1 star is because of the changing rooms for the fitness/teaching pool. My children have lessons here each week and the changing rooms smell like someone has sprayed urine all over the place. It honestly smells cleaner in the toilets themselves. It's revolting and has been the same way for months. They need to get the whole changing area deep cleaned

Went as a family of four, 2 adults and 2 children. Changing rooms and bathrooms were in need of a deep clean, it wasn’t pleasant to be in there for more than a few minutes. The place is a little dated and for us a little too busy for the size of it.

Viewing area could be bigger as well.

I’d say good for families with younger children, if you don’t mind a crowded space.

It would be a little more pleasant if the water was warmer, but other than that, we generally have a fairly good visit. The rapids have been closed the last few times we've visited, but when they're open, they are great fun. There's also slides and a whirl/wave pool.

Absolutely awful! Went today as we phoned up a couple of days ago about the toddler swimming as been in the past and the lady said “yes it is still on everyday Monday - Friday” just turn up. So we did today after travelling and getting a baby all ready to then be told we should have booked it and refused it. My husband explained what we had done and that someone had told us to turn up. We have been in the past and there was never a booking system. They said there was nothing they could do for now after travelling 45 minutes! We were furious!! Won’t be visiting there again. We were not told you had to book and it had changed otherwise we would have! Such a shame as had many great times there but they couldn’t do anything and kept saying sorry.