Information about Markievicz Leisure Centre

Luke St
, Dublin
+353 1 222 6130

Opening hours

  • Monday: 7:00 AM – 9:45 PM
  • Tuesday: 7:00 AM – 9:45 PM
  • Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 9:45 PM
  • Thursday: 7:00 AM – 9:45 PM
  • Friday: 7:00 AM – 8:45 PM
  • Saturday: 10:00 AM – 4:45 PM
  • Sunday: Closed

Dublin City Council Sports and Leisure Services are here to keep Dublin's communities fit, healthy and active. Across the city, we provide a wide range of sporting, leisure and community services that allow you and your community to stay active and connect in a safe, positive and accessible manner.

Our comment from FitFit Ireland about Markievicz Leisure Centre:

Markievicz Leisure Centre is a highly praised sports facility located in Dublin, offering a clean and friendly environment for fitness enthusiasts and families alike. Visitors have lauded the:

  • Immaculate Facilities: The centre is consistently described as clean, with excellent changing rooms and ample lockers available.
  • Friendly and Professional Staff: Many users highlight the welcoming nature of the staff, noting their helpfulness and professionalism during visits.
  • Diverse Amenities: The centre features a well-equipped gym, an excellent 25m swimming pool, sauna, and steam room.
  • Great Value: Patrons appreciate the affordable pricing structure, with options for casual users and memberships alike, making it accessible for everyone.
  • Family-Friendly Atmosphere: The facility is noted for being ideal for families, with staff actively engaging and assisting young swimmers.
  • Convenient Location: Positioned centrally in Dublin, it is easy to access and a convenient spot for both exercise and relaxation.

While some users mentioned that the facilities may not be the most modern in town, the overall sentiment remains overwhelmingly positive, with many recommending Markievicz Leisure Centre as a hidden gem for both casual visitors and dedicated fitness fans.

Services, Machines and Guided Classes

Swimming pool

Markievicz Leisure Centre: Opinions

4.1/5 (233 Opinions)
Seamus Balfe 1 month ago

Positive experience: Modern pool , but not too busy.you can always get a lane to swim in.

Katie Skillen 1 month ago

Positive experience: Decent service from staff and a range of machines and free weights but the gym was very messy and equipment outdated and rusty

Peter Cronin 2 months ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are 100% can't wait to return

Bhavya Balkrishnan 2 months ago

Positive experience: Crowded gym. The pool is fine. Needs more cleaning. Swimming Lesions are fantastic. They are really good trainers who understand our fear and boost our confidence to swim.

Jonospikes808 2 months ago

Fantastic experience: If you are looking for a day pass to work out look no further. This place is spectacular and the staff is incredibly friendly. Can’t beat the price. Three squat racks. You’re set Paid 8 euros and some change to workout

victor goncalves 2 months ago

Negative experience: Hi Markievicz Leisure Centre Team, I woke up early this morning 26th July and got ready to head to the gym, only to find out it was closed for maintenance. Unfortunately, there was no prior notice or communication about this, which was incredibly frustrating. As a paying member, I expect to be informed of closures or schedule changes in advance. You have all my contact information from the registration process—email, phone number, etc.—yet there was no message, email, or call to let members know. This lack of communication is disappointing and makes me question the reliability of your service. I’m now seriously considering switching to another gym, even at a higher cost, simply for better customer service and communication. Please take this feedback seriously—it’s not difficult to keep your members informed, and doing so would make a big difference. Regards, Victor

Keith Patrick Joseph Michael Mc Carthy 3 months ago

Positive experience: You need to bring your own locks for the lockers. Nice pool and sauna, staff were very helpful

willemkroon Kroon 3 months ago

Negative experience: Zwembad is gedateerd, wordt geen onderhoud gepleegd. Zwembad is ook vies. In het water drijft snot, kwel en haar. Vloer is vies, eigenlijk is alles vies.

ceistiuchan seo 4 months ago

Fantastic experience: grand - I like the swimming hats

Ailyn Rosas 5 months ago

Fantastic experience: Very nice

Maham Johnson 5 months ago

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms! The staff is friendly as well.

Manuel Gonzalez Soto 6 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool

YPB Online 6 months ago

Positive experience: Dear Team, I would like to express my concern regarding the volume of the sound system in the gym. It is often excessively loud, which can be uncomfortable for many members. The majority of people use headphones, making such a high volume unnecessary. Additionally, the atmosphere feels more like a nightclub rather than a gym, which can negatively impact the workout experience. I believe adjusting the volume to a more reasonable level would create a more balanced and enjoyable environment for everyone. I appreciate your attention.

Mauro Zalazar 6 months ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent place for physical activities...

Dillon Couch 6 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Ben Leach 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym with a full pool, great sauna and steam room and a room for classes. Everything you could need in a gym and only €34 a month! Amazing value for money

vedd rana 7 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great clean place, lovely staff! Brought my kids for swimming. Special thanks to coach Liam for giving great swimming lessons!

Katarzyna Mietlicka 7 months ago

Positive experience: 3,5/5 nice overall but slightly filthy.

Shaun O'Connor 8 months ago

Fantastic experience: Helpful friendly staff, a variety of Dubliners in for a workout, a steam, a swim, orjust playing with their kids. Machines are accessible & users considerate.

Juan Pablo Galaz Larios 10 months ago

Positive experience: Good facilities and pretty cheap, the only issue it is that the steam room tends to be out of service too often

Seneca Tommona 10 months ago

Negative experience: I corroborate the complaints about the aggressive manager who is probably on steroids. The manager accosts gym users in the middle of circuits telling them to clean up not realising the gym users are not finished their routine. The manager is definitely like the character George Orwell describes in 1984, the zealots of the regime. It's shameful to share an Irish passport with the people who use this gym and the passive aggressive people who use neo soviet managerial language in management. They lack a lot of equipment too and have no kettlebells. The receptionists are sarcastic and use passive aggressive facial drama and intonation at reasonable questions. I would respect this if it had any wit. But it clearly doesn't. I suppose the only nice thing that can be said about it is that it is almost reasonable in price and can be used on holiday. Unfortunately, they wouldn't be inclined in using IQ tests to screen the clientele to prevent the sub85 IQ roid heads that flare up over conversations about psychology amongst gym users. Sadly Southern Ireland seems to be full of these people. It saddens me to say I'm Irish when I see these others who share my passport.

Dan Schubert 10 months ago

Positive experience: A much more extensively equipped gym than you're likely to find in any hotel - I didn't see one nearly as good when planning this vacation. Clean, well-used but kept in good repair, with the friendly locals I've come to expect (and very much appreciate) in Dublin. So far, coming in before noon, I've never had to wait for a machine or station. Coming from San Francisco, I'm particularly delighted by the incredibly affordable 8€ day passes. I'm in Dublin for ten days, and I plan to use this every free morning. The only reason I'm not giving it five stars is because I'm used to much bigger (and far more expensive) gyms back home. Very happy I found this!

And Mor 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym and pool.friendly staff. Very clean.

Kate G 10 months ago

Negative experience: This place is totally neglected. There is always something that doesn’t work either there is no hairdryer working for weeks(!), sauna, steam room or machines at the gym. Also it need renovation: rusty showers, broken cabinets, missing tiles in steam room, dirty ceiling with missing tiles… I feel like travelling in time 30 years back. Im not coming back

Ewan Milo Kinmonth Duerden 10 months ago

Negative experience: Came here because I had a class with an independent instructor in the pool. I arrived 30 mins early to be prepared for the class in time. I was confronted with an unfriendly rude woman (manager I believe) drilling me with questions about what I was doing and stating I wasn't insured to be there before the class started. Eventually admitting I could arrive 10 minutes before the class starts. Made to stand in the entrance waiting 20 minutes before being allowed in, a total waste of time which ruined my experience. Other points worth mentioning. It takes about 10 minutes at least to find a free clothes locker it's so busy. The showers are corroded and unmaintained. The pool is extremely shallow and all throughout the class the same woman was screaming instruction running her water aerobics class. A totally unrelaxing and unfriendly environment.

Ian McVey 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility pool steamroom sauna gym and for over 60"s surprisingly affordable. Minutes from Tara Street station

Barry Flynn 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym in the centre of Dublin with a nice swimming pool. Sauna and steam room. Clean showers!! Good vibe that welcomes everyone!! Friendly staff and a variety of classes available. Thanks all!!

Deniss Brovkins 11 months ago

Fantastic experience:

Pamastic P 1 year ago

Positive experience: Nice swimming pool, sauna and stream. Clean showering room and changing room. Except for the hair dryer is out of order but you can bring yourself a hair dryer.

Karina Janson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Best swimming pool

yury p 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: It is nice and clean, don’t forget a lock with you for the box

박양선 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful swimming pool and staffs are so kind

Back to Front Design 1 year ago

Negative experience: Kicked out for not wearing a hat??? Guard watched me get in the pool and only told me once I was wet. Wouldn’t lend me a hat Wouldn’t i give me a refund. Couldn’t even tell me why it’s a rule just acted like a was stupid for not knowing. There’s a tiny sign at the counter I’m supposed to have read? So rude

michael reilly 1 year ago

Positive experience: Staff are just ex

Fabio Rosa 1 year ago

Positive experience: The pool Is Just 100..cm Deep for the first 12,5 meters, then ( it's 25 meters long) it becomes deep enough to swim in a more.serious way. There are 6 lanes and the temperature,.in July, is a bit too high ( around 29 degrees), but on the other hand it's a quiet place.to.swim. the two central lanes are reserved to.fast swimmers, the two external bordering with the central are for slower ones, the two next to the floor are reserved for swimming courses or people just learning to float on their own.

Graeme Abernethy 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: It's pretty good pool is a little small tho but it has everything you need to to keep fit and it's pretty cheap to be honest

Everything S 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Love this swimming pool

Aina Vjakse 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: The place is clean, and a lot of staff around. To compare other gyms. They come across as helpful and kind. From the size point, the gym is packed with equipment. A bit too near to one another. However, they have almost all the essentials. The swimming pool is large, sauna and steam room are amazing and clean. Changing areas & showers are spacious enough. Overall I would recommend it. There's a positive vibe in the gym, atmosphere, and beam! Which is significant to me. The toilet paper is the only drawback; it could be upgraded.

E D 1 year ago

Negative experience: Awful. Old. Stinks. Poor layout. Never again.

Диана Жидкова 1 year ago

Positive experience: Good place, helpful team, absolutely clean gym and swimming pool, but old one equipment(

Ana Vi Soler 1 year ago

Positive experience: The gym is not too full like others in the city center. The monthly rate is really affordable for all the services you can get. It could have am extra clean in the toilets and showers to be 5 stars

Jane McCune 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great staff. Lovely clean facilities

Gilmar Alarcon 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great environment and phenomenal staff

Zele Viorel 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place.. Dirty pool, area, shower room.. But the price is cheaper

Robert Binkowski 1 year ago

Positive experience: I only used it as a swimming pool. The place is not cleaned properly and thus the mold is everywhere. The pool is nice and wide to swim in, with clear distinctions for fast, midium, slow and casual swimmers. With the addition of swimming classes for kids.

sof 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great gym and leisure facilities.

Lady Ink Tattoo Education 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Best affordable place for swimming, sauna and gym. They also have swimming lessons you can take on your own time.

Gabriel Taffarel 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Very good local gym in town, great pool and great staff.

Thomas Price 1 year ago

Negative experience: Seriously dangerous place. They don't check people in or out and have random people looking through lockers. Bought a lock there, lock didn't work either. Be careful, lots of guys running in and checking lockers. This place isn't safe.

Sandra Olivera 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Very clean pool. Nice sauna. They also have steam room. Bring a padlock for your locker. You can pay a Day Pass ONLY to use the pool area, which is cheaper than the "All inclusive" Day pass.

Jason Hickey 1 year ago

Positive experience: The pool very good for the kids nice and clean gym

Andrew Kilbey 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are fantastic really helpful pool was warm

Zsolt Horvath 1 year ago

Positive experience: Very nice place to have a workout, they have swimming pool, sauna and steam room. The service is cheap compared to other places in the area. The staff is ok.

Ryan Conlan 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: A great Leisure Centre and would highly recommend to family and friends.

John Burns 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Nice modern and clean gym and pool.

Arif Enes İnce 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Pretty good for swim and gym but they need to give more attention cleaning and showers.

Simone Connington 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great cheap swim of a,Saturday with the added steam room and sauna

The Stylish Runner (Michel) 1 year ago

Positive experience: Some people complain unnecessarily. First of all, if they are not happy, why don't they pay more than €100.00 per month a go to a fancy gym? They are snowflakes. It is what it is. Things don't change quickly because it's not private gym. Staff is always ready to help. I am giving 4 stars because I strongly believe that the changing rooms, whether in the shower area or outside, should be cleaned more often. I know there's a pool, sauna but that's my opinion. The floor, the seats etc get wet and dirty very quick.

Roberto R 1 year ago

Negative experience: Unbelievable! Never seen a so dirty gym but it’s cheap and I coped with it. But now it’s one month without a proper hot shower. Freezing water! Just to save some money on electricity in the middle of the winter! What a shame! It is unacceptable. They should shout it down! Find a better place to work out.

Mike Coakley 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility in city centre. Very friendly and helpful staff. Great value

Marco Boncompagni 1 year ago

Negative experience: Cold showers, dirty and poor equipment. Avoid

Tomas Riccardi 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great staff and immaculate facilities.

Hakim Coulibaly 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Sauna was really hot was great

Anita Thuku 1 year ago

Positive experience: It's a great place to workout. Very lovely staff and happy to help. Great place to unwind and relax

The Greatest Scarabaeidae 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Very nice gym, got a pool and two spa rooms that makes it very much a perfect place to visit for a light workout.

EDITH BOVEDA 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent place, with afordable price in such convenient. And wonderful staff.

Tania Reut 1 year ago

Positive experience: The pool is great and staff are nice. But the changing rooms look like they never get cleaned. It’s a bit extreme and quite unpleasant.

Martin Langley 2 years ago

Positive experience: Very nice and nice and friendly with the people I'm 50 the sana and steam room has free weights and machines as well does what U put in to it , like anything in life ️

Peter Carroll 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I have swam here for the last 5 years. Good facilities, nice staff, clean pool and changing areas. Have met really great people here :)

Gábor Majer 2 years ago

Positive experience: Good small fitness with swimming pool. The entry fee is 8.65€ for one day to the gym.

Davidski 2 years ago

Positive experience: It was all good ,just the pool water was manky ,i opened my eyes underwater just to see the blurry muck floating around in peace .

Thomas Smith 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: What a great space for everyone to enjoy. Very good value for money, helpful staff.

Gavin Liu 2 years ago

Positive experience: Good location, decent priced, lovely staff, and clean changing room. Apart from some gym equipment and the benches being worn down, this is a decent place to exercise

Patrick Caddell 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely staff and great place not too busy which is nice

Héctor José Peña 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I liked it. The sauna is so great!

Darren Farrell 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice gym everybody is very helpful

Nanosh Magdy 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: The swimming coaches are very good specially with kids they do true effort with the kids and very professional. very recommended Very cheap to have a good time swimming suits kids but only before 5 pm

Fionn Forrester 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great pool , sauna and steam room. The deep end is deep too. It's a Nice spot to relax,, especially in the sauna and steam Room. It's bliss

Bartholomew Begley 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great pool (25m). Friendly staff. Good changing rooms. Well maintained. This place is one of the best things about Dublin.

Ruairí Power 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff very friendly. Always very clean and not too busy. Great spot.

Tom Meaney 2 years ago

Negative experience: Sent Three emails asking a simple question, which required a simple yes or no answer. Three emails sent Three emails ignored, really need to work on their communication skills.

g s (Grainoig) 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Was a member a few years ago intended to rejoin next week

Leandro Carneiro 2 years ago

Positive experience: Sometimes the pool is full and sauna is not working. Everything seems ok to me.

NurseNico 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent experience. I'm traveling from USA but wanted to get a quick workout and swim in and they were very accommodating and friendly. 1 day gym pass was $7.65 euro for gym and pool!! Amazing

Sabine McKenna 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Super place for a straightforward swim, or for giving a toddler his first taste of the big pool. Ok facilities, nice warm air, friendly staff.

Dhanashree Kadulkar 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Helpful staff. Clean pool. Really good steam room and Sauna

Owen O'L 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place and right in the city centre. For anybody looking to use a swimming pool in Dublin, this is an excellent place to go.

J Liu 2 years ago

Negative experience: 1 star for the stupidity of management and service in the sauna in swimming pool. If the sauna is not functioning, at least put a notice outside.

Danny Dempsey 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are all brilliant give them all a raise !

Hugh Whitla 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym and super location, and very easy to cycle to and from.

Gerry Nolan 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Needed advice on the bikes because of a knee problem. A very young member of staff spent some time with me and had me sorted in no time. Great advice on every aspect of the bike and my limitations with my knee.

Gerry Sinnott 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Superb facility in the heart of Dublin. Swimming Pool , Gym , Steam Room, Sauna very reasonable rates.

aleksi savela 2 years ago

Negative experience: They close very early, especially on weekends when one would have time to go there… Gym is small and super packed but can expect it as it is cheap

Platon ?????? 2 years ago

Positive experience: Nice suitable facility right in the centre of everything. Best price/quality. Professional and kind staff

Joseph Dooley 2 years ago

Positive experience: Great facilities. Swimming pool and gym, sauna and a steam room. Showers and toilets. Lockers. Bring your own lock and key! Very busy place most of the time.

Orsolya Beatrix Szabo 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff friendly and helpful. The gym is small which makes it very busy at peak times so expect longer waiting times for access to machines. The swimming pool is awesome considering that it's in the middle of Dublin

Sol Galarce 2 years ago

Negative experience: Gym affordable price, but half an hour before closing they suggest you leave.

Natalie Tan 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Disabled friendly! The staff are helpful, always smiling and attentive. Plenty of wet wipes, sanitizer and disinfectant solution in the gym. One of the staff members, Jerry is a lovely chap to talk with- eager to demonstrate how to use the equipment and talk exercise techniques!

Adriana Furim 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: The most affordable choice if you are looking for a Swimming pool, swimming lessons are great value too,

Paddy Roche 2 years ago

Positive experience: The sauna is broken for weeks on end. It's very busy during any normal hours

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