Plymouth Pavilions

I attended a concert here on Tuesday, and while I thoroughly enjoyed the gig, I was not impressed with the venue and staff. The acoustics were okay. Barrier held about 70 people. Reasonably priced beer, wine, and spirits.
The layout of this venue is a mess-​so many sets of doors, it’s like a maze. The merchandise for sale was almost impossible to locate after the gig, as all of the exits put people out onto the street again. This was disappointing, as I hoped to buy merchandise.
The staff was incredibly rude and ignorant, speaking badly about the artist performing that night, and making fun of the people who had queued overnight to be front row. It was highly evident that the venue staff did not take their jobs seriously at all. Fortunately, the gig was fantastic.

Great venue for live gigs.

We went here to see Alice Cooper so reviewing as a music venue and not as a sports centre. Parking was easy and reasonably priced. Access to the venue was easy. It did seem very crowded in there though and I don’t think it was sold out. The sound quality was alright. I would be happy to return in future to see music.

I have seen a few gigs here and have to say its one of the worst live venues I’ve ever been to, Plymouth is in bad need of a really good live venue, so many bands seem to avoid Plymouth, is this something to do with the venue? The acoustics are really bad, and the drinks are very over priced, take a look at all the bands that are touring at any time and see how many of them will play Plymouth, the answer is not many. Come on Plymouth get your act tohether and do something to bring these bands to the area, maybe its time to learn something from the old St Austell collisseum days.

Great venue as they offer ice skating, concerts and swimming all under one roof.
Good place to take the kids, since the swimming pool has several slides to keep them entertained.
Can be busy at weekends or during half term time.
Gives discount to students.
Lockers and shower facilities available.
Staff here are friendly.

Pavilions is particularly great for children as it has a ice rink and swimming pool equipped with two water flumes, a wave machine, a jaccuzi, water features, as well as a shallow area complete with slide for young children.
They also provide floats and fun toys during certain sessions for children to play with in the pool.
Likewise the ice rink, the staff are so very friendly and are on hand to give advice and help if you are having problems keeping your balance. There is constant music, with seating around the edge for you to rest and buy drinks, biscuits, crisps etc from various vending machines.
They also have a fab arena which often has some of the best acts in the UK performing there if you are lucky enough to get tickets, for a fab night out.

lots to do and gets very busy at weekends so may have to que for a long time for the pool or ice skating but worth the wait asd th pool is great fun and the skating is also worth a trip.

I have only been there for music concerts and mainly because there is nowhere else in the southwest (Thats the pointy bit to the left of Bristol!) to see bands, save for the hall for cornwall.
I have to say, the acoustics are dreadful. They are so bad that a few years ago, motorhead could not play there as deep purple were there when motorhead would have been there. motorhead then played exeter university that night and have never been back to plymouth. The other problem is the scheduling, where there is no one there all year and then everyone comes in November. I suppose this is common, though. All in all, not as good as the old St austell collisseum — ah, those were the days!!!
Oh, and there is a skaiting rink and other things to do, although I have never sampled these.

A great place to see a concert as I am seeing Will Young there on December 9^th and I am so looking forward to it, not got long to wait now and counting the days down :)

I visited Plymouth Pavilions to see a concert by The Feeling recently, and thought it was a pretty good place. There was lots of room to stand and watch the guys, and areas for people to sit further up, plus designated areas for wheelchair users. There was a well stocked bar, but the drinks were quite expensive. There is a café with nice food, and a shop that sells sweets, drinks etc. Overall a pretty good place for a concert, and a safe walkway over the main road back to the carpark at the end of the evening.

The Pavilions provides plymouth with it’s only ice rink — it is a fair size, a nice relaxing pool is also there. The prices are reasonable and the staff friendly — certainly the best swimming pool open in plymouth certainly.

This is a great place to go ice skating and to watch concerts, i went here to see P! nk live in concert and it was brilliant and the way the staff sorted people out was brilliant, told exactly what was going on, ice skating is very fun here too.