Facilities
The wetside facilities include a 25m 6 lane swimming pool which ranges from a depth of 1.2 to 2.5m. This pool is used by Shiverers Swimming Club for training. There is also a lagoon area with a large slide for over 8s. A teaching pool (depth 0.9m to 1.2m) is also used for swimming lessons which follow a syllabus designed by the ASA, the teaching pool can also be rented for children birthday parties.
Full wetside changing facilities are available including individual cubicals, family cubicals, group changing rooms and disable changing room (which uses the RADAR Key scheme). There are also lockers which take £1 coins. Three flumes did stand on the east side of the building however these were not used for many years due to health and safety concerns and so were recently removed.
The King Alfred Leisure Centre also has "Fitness Works Gym", a relatively small gym with a variety of machines and free weights, the larger Cheetahs gym is also based in the building but is not managed by Brighton and Hove City Council.
A therapy room is based in the old entrance hall called purple turtle which offers a wide variety of treatments.
There are two sports halls, based in the old pool halls. The main sports hall is used for sports such as badminton, football, basketball, roller hockey and trampolining. The small sports hall is used for the mini mayhem sessions (a soft play session), martial arts, table tennis and sessions such as aerobics.
The King Alfred Leisure Centre also has a ballroom which has a wide variety of events from meetings, to exams as well as live music, most notably is the recent performance by Nick Cave on the 2nd July 2008.
There is also an indoor bowles club on the east side of the building (in what was once a car park) and the 'multiplay' facilities to the west which has netball and tennis courts. The centre has car parking facilities on the west side, above the ten pin bowling rink (which has been closed since 1999) and Megazone (a Laser shooting game) which is also closed.
There is also a cafe (Yes Cafe) which opened in 2008, replacing the long serving 'Splash Cafe' which closed due to the proposed redevelopment.
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