Squash Court prices
Published: 25 Jan 2010 - 05:29 by jimbob1965
Updated: 08 May 2010 - 06:39
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A bit of help from UK based players if I may. If you play squash on courts in local authority run leisure centres, I would appreciate it if you could answer the following:
- What do you pay in total (i.e. before splitting the cost between players) for a peak hours court and how long is the session?
- What are classed as peak hours?
- What is the off peak rate?
- What is your location? (county or region will be fine if you don't want to reveal your exact location)
- How many local authority courts are there in your town/city?
- What is the population of your town/city?
The reason I ask is that the local authority where I live has at the start of 2010 to our astonishment applied a huge 25% increase in court charges. A peak hours court now costs £7.00 for 40 mins, up from £5.60. We have been told this is due to cost increases and the need to relate prices more to costs of operation. It is also considered that £3.50 per player for a game of squash still represents 'value for money'.
In any future discussions with the council, it would be useful to have some data from other areas as a benchmark so I hope UK players can respond to this request.
Many thanks in advance for your help
Jimbob
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From stevee10001 - 08 May 2010 - 06:39
From Adz - 28 Jan 2010 - 19:28
Answers below:
- What do you pay in total (i.e. before splitting the cost between players) for a peak hours court and how long is the session? - £6.30 per session or £5.45 concessionary - 45 mins
- What are classed as peak hours? - After 5.30pm (I think!!)
- What is the off peak rate? - I don't think it's different as I've also paid £6.30 in the morning and afternoon
- What is your location? (county or region will be fine if you don't want to reveal your exact location) - Neath Port Talbot County in South Wales
- How many local authority courts are there in your town/city? 2 locations with 3 each, used to be 3 locations totalling 12 courts but 1 closed and 2 lowered court numbers
- What is the population of your town - There's roughly 138k people (Wikipedia)
http://www.celticleisure.org/price_list.htm
They also do a membership scheme which gives you half of the squash court cost for free. Priced between £21 and £30 per month (I think Civil Service, Nurses etc get a cheaper rate). So if both players are members the courts cost nothing. Very good if you play more than twice a week as you make your money back. They also run a social night on a Friday at one centre (£3.15 per person or free with membership - 6.15pm onwards), Adult and Junior Coaching at the other, 2 hours for adults on Sat morning, 3 hours for juniors on Sun Afternoon @ same fee......
Hope this helps!!
Cheers
Adz
From ibbo - 28 Jan 2010 - 06:33
the prices at my local sport centre for peak £6.70p off peak is £5.90p for 40 mins
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