Information about Minsthorpe Leisure Centre

Ash Grove
WF9 2TF, Pontefract
+443458506506

Opening hours

  • sunday: 8h-14h
  • monday: 8h-21h
  • tuesday: 7h-21h
  • wednesday: 8h-21h
  • thursday: 7h-21h
  • friday: 8h-20h
  • saturday: 8h-14h

Find out what facilities are available to you at our Minsthorpe Leisure centre.

Our comment from FitFit UK about Minsthorpe Leisure Centre:

Minsthorpe Leisure Centre, located in Pontefract, offers an array of facilities perfect for families and individuals alike. This modern facility is celebrated for its:

  • Cleanliness: Visitors consistently acknowledge its lovely and tidy environment, including well-maintained pools and changing areas.
  • Friendly Staff: The staff members are noted for their polite and helpful attitude, ensuring a welcoming experience for all guests.
  • Diverse Activities: The centre features swimming lessons for all ages, soft play areas in the pool, and recently added fitness classes, making it suitable for everyone from beginners to seasoned athletes.
  • Value for Money: With a reasonable monthly membership fee that provides access to various facilities, including pools and gym equipment, patrons find it economical.
  • Accessibility: Many reviews highlight ease of booking and good parking availability, making it easy for locals to enjoy.
  • Variety of Classes: New fitness classes have been added recently, appealing to both casual users and fitness enthusiasts.

However, there have been some concerns regarding operating hours, particularly for public swimming times, which can be limited for families. A few users also noted that while the swimming environment is generally positive, there have been isolated incidents requiring better management. These points aside, the overwhelming majority of reviews emphasize the positive experiences at Minsthorpe Leisure Centre, making it a recommended destination for exercise and family fun.

Minsthorpe Leisure Centre: Opinions

4.6/5 (96 Opinions)
Jenny Britton 9 months ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely place, swimming for babies is great. Only go to watch G'grandaughter, but it is a great activity for her she loves it.

Marie Richardson 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Loved swimming lessons today with my Grandson ,he was a tad too relaxed and fell asleep to twinkle twinkle little star.The baby shark song is in my head forever ,great lasses,really friendly

s c 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: £16 / month for access to pool and gym, also other wmdc gyms and pools. If I want to take my little girl swimming it’s £1 extra for her. Brilliant imo

Amelia Sykes 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Loved it have to go again. Good price for what you get go to fun swim with your kids

Aston Mckenna 1 year ago

Negative experience: A man threatened me and my friends while at the skate park so we went to the leisure for CCTV and was only bothered about our scooters and kicked us out and at 4:40 we called the police

Annie Craggs 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great time with my friends but they wouldn't let us go in deep end and the staff kept on keeping me dirty looks but I had great time with my friends

Femi Fadairo 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Good equipment and nice customer service

Katie Roberts 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely and clean place

Zoe Archer 1 year ago

Positive experience: Swimming nice, gym good. Staff friendly, life guarding skills appear to lack, but I say appear,

James Payne 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great for soft play in the pool. Make sure you get here early on the sunday as might not get in. Had this happen once where myself and the children had to leave without swimming but this cant be helped.

Terence Dickinson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and friendly staff.

Paul Leafe 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly, great choice. First rate.

Julie Terry 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant

Niallandnash Niallandnash 1 year ago

Positive experience: Helpful staff and gym is fantastic

Gail Wilson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I first went last year with my elderly sister was greeted with absolutely amazing professional friendly staff they were brilliant and have been ever since. We go to a class called swim fit with Fiona and the way she is with my elderly sister is amazing she is now able to do all exercises thanks to her patience and time. swim fit with a lady called Fiona

Vicky Wheatcroft 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, nice place

Terry Dickinson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Looks amazing can't wait to join.

Paul Mc Cormick 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities

Joss McClay 1 year ago

Positive experience: The name has changed to Alpire @Minsthorpe and minds with priority

Sarah Smith (Sarah Zumba) 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lots of new fitness classes added to the timetable recently, fantastic, clean facility

Richard Walsh 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, clean facilities not too full.

Natalie Jackson 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: 1st time we've been. We took our 7 and 5 year old girls swimming and they loved it. 1st time going swimming to a swimming pool

Amanda Plum 2 years ago

Positive experience: As a disabled person I sometimes feel a burden in certain situations. Quite the opposite, the staff are very helpful and welcoming.

Pris H 2 years ago

Positive experience: Clean enough, the gym is quite big and has what I personally need, the pool is good and the staff is generally helpful and nice!

Eva Veronica 2 years ago

Positive experience: It's local so easy to book, easy to have a space and friendly staff. The space and classes are limited unfortunatelly but I am happy to join anyway :) I am waiting for some yoga classes offered

Sue Ebohon 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love Sunday mornings xx

Sandra X 2 years ago

Positive experience: Clean and tidy pool and changing rooms friendly staff

Carl Smith 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: We had a swimmingly fantastic time

Romeo Fusion 2 years ago

Negative experience: I have decided wrong place to learn swimming for my son. My son is in first stages but he is not understanding English because we are taking different language so i was in the balcony of the pool to see if he is leaning or playing and i was showing that what to do by doing by hand sign but that lady she show me who teaches my son, she send me out with another her colleague saying that i can't stay in i think my he will not learn, i think he will learn afther well so i e

Mandy Dunning 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love this place, nice n clean. Friendly staff. Lots of parking.

Trevor Johnson 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I never been but heard so many great things about this gym I wish everyone at the gym well and hopefully it will over take and beat superflex gym that's full of evil

mupet 17 2 years ago

Positive experience: Visited for a training, but is good for all the classes etc they do

Neo S 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely gym, experienced and friendly staff. Could open a bit earlier though

James Mac 2 years ago

Positive experience: A good swimming pool with nice friendly staff. However, the car park is a bit small for when it's busy

Dawn Clark 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I love it

Edyta Gaczynska 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good quality of class

Dave Flavell 3 years ago

Positive experience: Only parked in car park because I fetched a load of young pupils for their swimming lesson

Richard Jones 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Although small compared to pontefract it was a brilliant little gym and pool. Staff was very helpful

Piotr Tx 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place. Great staff. Price ok.

Andrzej Dudek 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: A place where you can find something for yourself, strength training, aerobic training, etc. helpful and kind staff. An additional positive for the pool.

Sarah 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Polite staff and clean changing areas and pool

Derek Wood 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great local facility.

Rebecca Dunning 3 years ago

Negative experience: Small gym and people at reception can see you entering the pool

Dianne Farrar 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym with lots of equipment and very knowledgeable helpful staff. Good sized swimming pool (I haven't tried it yet) with aquarobics as well as swimming.

Chris Rogers 3 years ago

Positive experience: It's okay

Linda Dudek 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, lovely pool and as a reluctant swimmer really enjoyed it and intend to go more often.

Piotr Zalewski 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastyczne miejsce

fern moss 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym for a great price with Aspire. Everything you could need in the multi gym and lots of classes to choose from in your membership. Pay and play is a great option if you want to try before you sign up or just can't use it that often

David Davison 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place, great staff...easy to find an good parking. Has swimming pool, gym, fitness classes an personal trainer help should you need it. Would recommend. Nyt class are also well worth it.

Ionelia Gotzi 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome place,not very crowded. Our kids enjoyed swimming there, definitely going again

Riggy B 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility good range of equipment and classes and a nice pool

Robin Westerman 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Superb newly built gym and swimming pool. Friendly and helpful staff. Good parking. Beautiful location. Pleasant customers. Pretty well perfect.

phil Eyles 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great little sports centre lovely staff

Carol Flynn 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: During the covid period & restrictions they've coped really well and done the best they could in trying times. Friendly staff. At last the online booking seems to be sorted. Keep it up

Paul Turton 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility, brilliant prices which include all extras, friendly and helpful staff, cleanliness is spot on and great gym equipment. All in all brilliant leisure centre

Julie Rose 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff lovely such a friendly place

Caroline Coy 4 years ago

Negative experience: Would love to use this facility, need to get my daughter used to the pool and teach her to swim. And could do with some gentle exercise too but the opening times are awful for the pool. Very disappointed, what is the point in spending all that money on a new pool of its hardly ever open. Ridiculous

Karen Smithers 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very well organised through these hard times.

Alan Jones 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent

Lindsey Evans 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: It was so nice 2 be back at Minsthorpe bath's a luvly pool & everyone's so friendly, iv really missed my swimming ❤️x

Michael Hickey 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Swimming pool warm lovely and clean, staff very friendly and helpful and I'm a wheelchair user and found it very disabled friendly

Michael Blythe 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good lovely pool not too busy

Samantha 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice little leisure centre. Called in one night for a swim, the pool was lovely and warm and the reception staff were fantastic , didn't sample the gym but if the pool is anything to go by then I would definitely recommend

Karen Jones 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: First visit with grandson swimming lessons. Beautiful new fantastic staff... Although l noticed the communal entrance could do with a wipe especially the sliver rubbish bins . Heavy useage area though.

vicki collingwood 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Aqua fit on Thursday evening was brilliant

Iain Summerfield 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful leisure centre. All the staff are friendly and professional. Very clean. Not enough normal Public Swimming times? That's the only negative

Dave Allanach 5 years ago

Positive experience: Fantastic facilities; shame the opening hours don't always play nicely around a family and full time job!

Jack I 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Facilities are great, staff friendly and knowledgeable. Would definitely recommend. Ian is a credit to the gym. He’s been doing mine and my mates 12 week fitness plan and the results from this have been fab.

John Mills 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, really good gym and pool, clean,good changing facilities

Christine Gatley 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities. Friendly staff. Good value

Mick Hardaker 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice pool friendly staff kids love it

Adam Barwell 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Top facilities

Colin Richardson 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice new facility with friendly staff

Daniel Branwood 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: They have a skatepark!!!! Deffo a skate mission Steve pics

Lynn Clark 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good

Pauline Mortimer 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Enjoy aqua shame carnt fit swimming in

Ginger Pog 6 years ago

Positive experience: Toilets need to be checked more and kept clean, tiles too slippy in changing rooms Staff are always nice though

Andy Coope 6 years ago

Positive experience: Excellent new facilities with very helpful staff

Chris Corns 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: A really great new local facility, spotlessly clean

Danielle Watkins 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and staff. Clean. Reasonably priced. Great parking.

Wayne Robson 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice pool

Rob P 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great pool, and warm enough for more mature swimmers.

hello humans 6 years ago

Positive experience: It's a small swimming center no slide but good fun as they have Floaties. Also has a Gym.

Joseph Douce 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Cheap and fantastic facilities.

mark glover 6 years ago

Positive experience: Brand new and good facilities

Ákos Tolnay 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good facilities to spend your free time with some sport.

Peter Oxby 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: One of the best amenities provided by WMDC. The joining price is very reasonable and facilities second to non. A well equipped gym and a warm pool with excellent instructors make a visit more beneficial

Penny Kerr 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Swimming every morning.

Lorraine Swift 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: I go there at least 3 times a week 4 gym & swim staff are very friendly & will help u if they can really enjoy going x

lee stevens 7 years ago

Positive experience: Excellent

Hannah Michelle 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent place to take my little girl swimming during the week as it's quiet

Adrian Wright 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great new venue and terrific value for money.

Caroline Goodwin 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love it. Very friendly atmosphere. Love the classes

vicky Murphy 7 years ago

Positive experience: Pool is great but times for public swim dreadful all seems to be for lane swimming need adult swimming during the day not shared with lessons etc,

Maria Sekerkova 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: I love it.its brand new..and fun for family or individual. It has parking but there is a bus stop on the top of the road. There is a swimming pool, studio and gym.staff is helpful.

Lesley Wray 7 years ago

Negative experience: Not been able to use the center yet only want to swim ,but no time when I can go ,due to work and wanted to take the grandchildren but the hrs are not enough ,on Saturday I have 1child who can swim1that needs help and 2 that can't swim but are confident in shallow water the youngest being 3yrs old ,but the public swim is in deep water then closes and then shallow water for half hr . so I will have to carry on going elsewhere, plz make it a better public timtable.update, Well we, ve been its OK but the timetable is no good I have 4grandchildren 1can swim 2 confident not swimmer s 1only 3yrs old only goes in shallow water ,so not able to go on a weekend ,for public swim as its only deep water ,the early swim not suitable for us so looks like adwick will stay as our family swim center, will only use minsthorpe when its just me what a shame !thanks for nothing

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