Richard Dunns Leisure Centre (Bradford)

Advantages: slides
Disadvantages: queues

...is the only ride of its kind in Europe. There are long queues for these, however (especially the Zambeezee where you have to queue once for the tyre and once for the ride) but its well worth it. Richard Dunn - definately one to add to your days out list! ... Read review

Advantages: The swimming
Disadvantages: Too many visitors

Richard Dunns Leisure Centre named after the famous boxer from Bradford, Richard Dunn. The sports centre has a large swimming pool with slides and other water features. There are also a number of sports halls with wooden floors for badminton and indoor football. A number of other rooms are used for playing table tennis and doing weight training and aerobics. The weight training rooms have a large amount of equipment for cardivascular work, fitness, ...
...pitches so that Bradford and Richard Dunns Leisure Centre can become the north east England hockey coaching academy but the council are been very stubborn and wont let this happen. The centre is great for a couple of hours with your mates doing sports. I don’t know any exact prices but for swimming it is between £2.50 and £3.50 but I will fill you in on this later. ... Read review

Advantages: Fun slides
Disadvantages: Dirty & smelly

...used the swimming pool at Richard Dunn Leisure Centre. I travelled about 20 miles from my home to go use the swimming pool and was really looking forward to it because of the slides. You do have to pay about £2 extra to use the slides, but I didn't mind as they slides were good fun, and even though I went at a busy time, the queues for them were not too long. The changing room and the swimming pool, however were a different story. The changing room ...
...a vast amount of discarded wristbands floating in the swimming pool, along with a number of other items. In addition to this, the bottom of the pool felt grainy, like there was dirt settled on it. I would not go there again, and I really would not recommend it to anyone, purely on the grounds of the hygiene. Which is a shame, because the slides really were a lot of fun...... ... Read review

Advantages: slides quite fun
Disadvantages: Expensive for a place with such poor cleanliness

I went swimming with friends on a saturday afternoon- WHEN we went was used as an excuse for our complaints. BUT i still pay the same amount of money as those who go first thing on a week day- in fact i paid more Pros: 1) the slide was quite fun Cons: 1) we were told we had only 50 minutes in the pool AFTER we had paid 2) the changing room smelt of urine from the moment i walked in there to the moment i left 3)the changing rooms, pool and toilets ... Read review