Calshot Activities Centre Review

Is a nice place, with lot's of activities, different sports, or you can just walk and enjoy the atmosphere. You can do : climbing, winter fun, ski, dry sloope skiing, velodrome cycling, water different activities and different difficulty. A nice place to bring your chids. You can rest and drink a cup of coffee or tea and have a sandwich. Nice place to spend time and enjoy sport.

Had a meal here big improvement. Menu not extensive

Great place to take kids and get them on a course for sailing/kayaking/climbing/cycling etc. Also lovely for a costal walk with views of Southampton and IOW.

Great range of activities and the food in the cafe is reasonably priced considering they have a captive audience.....

Great veggie breakfast and a filter coffee, excellent value. The cafe has a brilliant view of the Solent, at the mouth of Southampton water.

Very nice place in summer safe and child friendly environment

Really well organised and fun youth track cycling course.

The cafe: it was not a busy time but the place was looking dirty. We set on two tables and both were dirty.
The centre is however a piece of history, hosting aircrafts that flew for the Schneider trophy. Two hangars take names after famous aircrafts.

Fantastic for climbing. Not too expensive. Skiing is ok for a small indoor dry slope but not good for a serious skier. Local area can be a good day out at the beach with plenty to see and do

Great for kids. Little expensive but good overall. Decent coffee for a small cafe.

The new parking eye style barrier system is annoying, as we used to enjoy driving into and out of the area many times a day looking at ships and wildlife.

Climbing was excellent, varied walls and climbs and loads to get up. Really enjoyed my time here. Boulder section, though small, was crammed with interesting problems. The belay walls are HUGE!

20th time i have been to Calshot with school. Kids love the activities. Instructors always supportive and friendly.

Calshot is rim m8 its bigger then I thought it would be and the activities you can do there is mazeballs

A great place to take the kids to burn off some of that energy or a place to relax and watch the ships and small boats go by.

Ringo races were an absolute hit with my 3 year old and 6 year old. Great rock climbing too!

Calshot Activities Centre is a brilliant place to go for a day out. I have personally experiences many of the activities that are on offer and thoroughly enjoyed the day out. The velodrome is a brilliant place to go to if you like to do track cycling as well as train for your next race.

If only it was more accessible I'd be there everyday!

Loads of activities - cycling, climbing, skiing, ringos etc, plus nice cafe and right next to the shoreline where you can find loads of shells or watch all the boats and ships.

Excellent for climbing and skiing. A huge area with a brilliant cafe at affordable prices. The cafe looks over the Solent at the entrance to Southampton Water. The biggest ships in the world pass close by.

Great range of activities and a nice cafe with a great view.

Went to the velodrome which was a fantastic experience. Also the cafe there was excellent, surprisingly good value with large portions.

Great place for climbing, track cycling and dry slope skiing. Very nice cafe. Only down side is parking charges.

A real gem, this one, even if it is in the middle of nowhere(!) There's the great climbing area, compete with bouldering, lead climbing and top-roping, indoor dry skiing, and a very impressive velodrome, all in the same building! Oh, the cafe is great too, and stays open after the climbing area has closed (very unusual in climbing centres!)

Awesome place the group had a wicked time it's a shame coach driver are not even treated a free coffee

We did the Ringos. Masks only required for spectators (not participants). 30 min session was good and well distanced. Lift not being used so be prepared for a good workout. Parking onsite, very close to the Hangar and pay on departure (good value).

Busy activity centre for the family. Awesome velodrome with viewing area. Lots of climbing walls. Ticketless parking charges can be pricey so park before the barriers and walk down but still need to pay and display. Windsurf shop great. Pebbly beach busy with windsurfing and kite surfing. Low tide shows sandbanks quite far out so come at high tide for watersports. Cafe and toilets in hangars. I love this place.

Very cold in the winter, but some pretty epic climbing routes

Very good facilities for climbing wall sailing windsurfing etc

Seems to be a good selection of activities. There was a good atmosphere about the site, it was clean and tidy. The velodrome looks very worth a go. Many happy memories to be made here in years to come by the whole family.

Nice place not only for activities but to stop at for a coffee or something to eat in the restaurant/bar. Offering great views all the way to portsmouth. The climbing walls are varied and well planned, and the dry ski slope offers facilities for beginners and the experienced skier

great facilities and if your children play pokemon - lots of pokestops! Parking charges are quite reasonable too.

Visited here with mum. We wanted to eat and drink in the cafeteria but they weren't serving food for 45 mins and then told they would be serving only chips. Annoyed. Not a great menu. They serve Stella Artois alongside teas and coffees.
Calshot now charge for parking using an ANPR system. On exiting, car registration plate number is put into a machine and the cost of parking is displayed. Blue Badge holders need to present their badge at the information centre and a 4 digit code is given and instructions on how to input into the machine to obtain free parking.

Had my little girls 6th birthday here doing the dry slope in rings and the kids really loved it the ladie who was doing with them was really good
We had the food done by the cafe the food was lovely and friendly staff
Would defiantly recommend

Excellent day. Friendly, knowledgeable and helpful staff.

I had the half day track cycling experience as a birthday treat, and can't recommend this highly enough if you are a keen cyclist. Only tip is plenty of war gear if you do this in winter....think a sub zero ride and you should be good! Cafe excellent also with nice views of the estuary.

Nice slopes for skiing and snowboarding, there's also a nice range of climbing walls. The cafe has lovely food and staff and the views over the sea are breathtaking. Beautiful location.

If I wanted a cooked meal, there was an hours wait. Very disappointing.

Everything for water sports enthusiastic
You can not stay there with the camper

The climbing here is great, I'm not interested in skiing or cycling but there is also the dry slope and velodrome there so plenty of indoor activities. The cafe there is very comfortable and has quite a good menu and the outdoor seating has a lovely view of Southampton and is a great place to watch the boats come and go.

Go climbing here regularly and love it!
All of the team are helpful and are more than happy to spend time and teach you the ropes, loads of different climbing routes from beginners to more advanced.
If your looking for indoor climbing, this is by far the place to go!

The most amazing place for a chilled out activity day

Lovely place but Cafe and restaurant has poor service during peak times

I keep my boat there. Brilliant slipway that's usable whatever the tide! Great facilities too!

Extremely fun amazing staff really good week loved it

A really fun place. Great for team building and trying new things such as skiing, rock climbing, abseiling, orienteering, team swing, crate stack and fun and games in the evening!

Great place for a velodrome, skiing and wall climbing, also a cafe.

Very cool place to climb. Approaches with different levels of difficulty ... I recommend

Nice atmosphere and went for a meal which was quite good

Whether you re a family looking to do some activities together, a group of friends wanting a fun day out, organising a celebration with a difference or a club wanting a social event - Calshot has it all.

From half day to week long residential visits, with every programme tailored for the individual group.

Offering a wide range of exciting water and land based activities, for all abilities and ages through out the year, either indoors within our historic hangars which accommodate a climbing complex, an indoor velodrome and a dry ski slope or outdoors on land or the water.

With onsite accommodation and meals for residential courses/activities, a cafe/bar and facilities which are accessible to all.

Great climbing surface, tons of wall and angles but the setting isnt great. In need of professional setters. Not worth going for just the bouldering.

did the 4 Hour stage 1 and 2 of the track cycling, the instructor was very nice, informative and helpful . the track its self is great and so are the Dolan track bikes.

Great place. Even during these uncertain times they are operating kayak hire and a beach exploration session with all the appropriate procedures in place. Can't wait for it to fully open again!

Went paddle boarding from Calshot today. Great afternoon.

I climb here every week and there is a large selection of really good top rope routes and also lead routes. There's a couple of auto belays if you need them and a smallish bouldering area.

Best indoor climbing gym in the area. Large number of routes plus they have recently installed a new voukfer cave and auto belay routes

Great place to take children on school residental. Accomidation and food fab. Instructions really good at motivating children and really know there stuff.

Calshot Castle was very enjoyable. The lady in reception was very knowledgeable considering she had not been doing the job for long. Cafe although advertised everywhere some what underwhelming.

Went for a week with my kids school. Great instructors, good facilities and equipment. The bar is nice, the dry slope is indoor so truly all year, the climbing walls are big and popular. Darling and canoeing my is all decent. Recommended.

Velodrome is great fun. Very different experience to the standard 250m tracks. Worth a go even if you ride indoor elsewhere. It is cold though