Europa Pools Leisure Centre - Birkenhead

Darren

Its got a good pool and a great large open gym. The staff are all helpful and friendly and you get a free pass for the carparks. Its also only a couple of minutes walk from both Conway Park station and the main bus station.
Overall, I couldn't fault it even if I wanted to.

Liam D.

Once an Extraordinary place for families and entertainment. I knew so many people who'd sing this places praises. Now it's just soulless husk. Another victim of commercial streamlining for lower costs. A legacy destroyed.

Lee W.

Europa Pools used to be the crown jewel of family fun in Birkenhead with the slides, wave pool, jacuzzi... it had it all! Post-lockdown, they drained the life (and water) out of it and turned it into yet another gym. Because apparently what the Wirral really needed was a tenth place to lift weights.

The fun pool was always packed, I remember it first opening - parents, kids, grandparents, even reluctant swimmers pretending to mind the bags just to dodge the wave machine. It brought joy, exercise, and genuine community spirit. Now? Just rows of treadmills staring blankly at what used to be the best place to make memories.

Whoever made this decision: did you ever even go down the slide and feel alive? Bring back the fun. The community deserves more than just biceps and boredom.

Dagmara G.

This pool is a disaster. It's the summer holidays and you can't come with your family on Saturdays because they don't have any family hours. During the week, there are only 3 hours a day to choose from. During those hours, either my husband or I work and we can't come together after work with the kids. I've never been here before and I already know I'll never come back because it's just one big nonsense. Shame on you.

Karl R.

I went here for the first time in a long time last weekend. I was going with my son for a nice Saturday morning swim but was turned away by the receptionist telling me the pool is not open for family swim Saturday morning. In fact it is only open 13:45-15:45 Saturday and completely closed for family swim on Sunday. We took our money to the Oval and went for a swim there which was great.

I really shouldn't need to explain this but feel I must to help the manager understand reality.
Saturday morning is THE prime time families want to go for a swim. NOT 13:45 Saturday afternoon. Also being completely closed to families on Sundays is a disgrace. As it stands if families want to go for a swim on a weekend - which FYI is the only time they're not in school, is for 2hrs Saturday afternoon.

Get a grip!!!!

No wonder the place is struggling

Kieran H.

Friendly staff, decent facilities, see people having a moan about wet floors in the men's changing rooms sometimes, I mean, it is a swimming pool and steam room changing room, the floors gonna get wet.

Chris P.

Great friendly staff, good gym. Not used any of the other facilities

Adam S.

The closure of the fun pool at youth's expense is a disgrace. I'm not from the Wirral, but travelled 14 miles across the Mersey to bring the kids here every week before the pandemic, and sometimes during the week for Aqua Tots if we were off work. The kids are devastated they can't go, and there's nowhere else like it. They loved the "bubbly pool" as they described it, and the wave pool, plus the fact they could walk in at their own pace to a comfortable depth. Blatant bias and ignorant decision made by the council to close it, opting for financial benefit in the short term rather than health and welfare in the long. There was no requirement for another gym on the Wirral, or even the whole North West. It's just been done for quick financial return. Any paper work issued is clear narrow-minded statements with the only intent of keeping the pool closed. It is a little run-down, but with the right management, advertising, and minor makeover the fun pool alone would've been an attraction many families will have travelled for. Nobody I speak to even knew it existed. Safe to say, there's nothing there that's worth visiting now!