Oasis Sports Centre

London, England, UNITED KINGDOM

Important Notice Please Read

Swimmers Guide is not connected with any of the facilities listed on this site in any way. We cannot tell you the pools’ opening and closing times or when Senior Aerobics classes are held; we cannot tell you about the availability or cost of swimming lessons; we cannot get you discounted admission to swim at any of them; and we cannot help you find your children’s lost goggles or bathing suits.

We can and do try to give you reliable information about the pools, their locations, their admission policies, and their single-visit or casual swimming prices. Where possible, we include hypertext links to the pools’ own official websites and Facebook pages, clickable email addresses, and links to the websites of the clubs and teams that swim there. Look to those resources within each listing for more detailed information.

The data in the site is under continual review and is revised whenever the site’s editor becomes aware of a change, but, with more than 20,000 listings, a complete, periodic review of every listing takes about seven years to complete; in many places, prices will change four or five times before we have a chance to check the pool’s official website again.

For that reason, we ask for your help: If any of the information in the listing is incorrect, out of date, or could be improved, please tell us. There is an "Edit" button on just about every line of every listing, click on the edit button to tell us what needs to be changed. (No, it's not a place for you to ask us questions. What we have in each listing is the latest news we have.)

Also, please consider checking the listings of the pools you regularly use at home or when traveling, as your knowledge may be helpful to someone else who is unfamiliar with the area and visiting for the first time. Just go to the Add a Pool section of the site, read the first page, then fill out the questionnaire.

Updated April 14, 2020.

Facility Overview

Facility Name
Oasis Sports Centre
Address
32 Endell Street, Bloomsbury, Camden, Central London
London, England WC2H 9AG
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone
(020) 7831 1804

Adult Admission Price & Policy

Drop-in/Casual
£7.20. [December, 2023]
Note: Admission policies and prices shown in Swimmers Guide listings are believed to be correct as of the date shown in brackets. If not correct now, please click on the "Edit" button and tell us so this listing can be fixed and the information brought current. This site works best when its users take an active role in the maintenance of the data.

Full-Size, Year-Round Pools & Boards

Pool 1
30y (27.42m) x 32f (9.75m), 3 lanes, 0.9m - 3.5m depth, outdoors, heated year-round, 27ºC (81ºF).
Pool 2
25m x 8m, 3 lanes, 1m - 2m depth, indoors, 29ºC (84ºF).

Location

Location
Across from Shaftesbury Theatre. Nearest tubes: Covent Garden/Holborn/Tottenham Court Rd.
Historical County
London Metropolitan Area
GPS
51.515793, -0.125671

Teams That Use This Facility

We have no web links or contact information for teams that train at this facility.

Facility Notes

There is a non-refundable charge to use the lockers.

Facility Reviews

A very busy pool making lap swimming difficult.
Fantastic location and cheap. For laps, use the INDOOR pool, it has speed-designated lanes and is much cooler. The one outside is crowded and overheated.
The changing rooms are tired, take flip flops. Modern, clean and plentiful floats, kick boards, etc. available. Both pools are a lot cleaner than in 1998.
The centre had a refurbishment in 2012, everything new and clean, lots of space in changing rooms, new showers, etc.
[February, 2013]
Very busy in peak times (before 9 AM, lunchtimes, after 5 PM), and there is not much lane discipline, either. But outside of those times these are great training pools: lane ropes are always up, lanes are wide enough, the temperature of pools is fine. On a sunny day there is space for sunbathing on the upper terrace. Schools often use the indoor pool between 9 AM and 3 PM in term time – so it’s best to check timetable if you don't want to swim outside.
[March, 2013]
I love this facility! Great location and a choice of indoor and outdoor pools. It gets very busy at lunchtimes or immediately after office hours.
[April, 2014]
I've swum there twice and each time there's been quite a lot of debris (dirt, feathers, sticks, leaves, etc.) at the bottom of the outdoor pool.
[May, 2014]
Both the indoor and outdoor pools were clean and free of debris. The outdoor pool is open throughout the year and is heated to 27ºC (80.6ºF). Both pools have three, wide lanes, and I observed the speeds being enforced. I swam at 9:30 AM, when it was not crowded in either pool.

The locker rooms were modern and clean, and had hair dryers, a swim suit dryer (extractor), and moisturizer available. A 20p coin is required to use the locker and is not refundable when the key is returned.
[November, 2015]
I loved my experience here. I've used only the indoor pool, which is always clean. My only beef is that the regular clock is as big as a pancake and the pace clock is huge. There are lots of kickboards and pull-buoys available. I swam weekdays from 10:30 AM to noon and it was not very crowded. It's still 20 pence (non-refundable) for a locker, so bring your shower gear on deck and leave valuables in a locker. There are hair dryers, soap, and lotion available in the clean and very spacious changing rooms. Credit and debit cards are accepted for admission, as long as the card has a chip.
[August, 2017]
I was thrilled to find this pool in London. I swam in the indoor pool, which was busy but there was still lots of room to get in my workout.
[June, 2021]
Rating: 6 on a scale of 10. Only the outside pool was open in the middle of winter. It was 23ºC (73ºF). The pool has three wide lanes with a mix of speeds. The pool is shallow enough to stop flip turns at one end and a metal bar runs along the width of the pool at the deep end which stops flips there. The bottom was discolored with debris. However, it's great that it exists in Central London at all. The locker rooms need work.
[December, 2023]