Darwen Leisure Centre

Fantastic experience: Great place

Positive experience: Clean, well organized, good 8 lane 25m pool

Fantastic experience: The website says you are closed on the 31 November but there is no 31 November. Also says you are closed Sunday the1 December but Sunday is the 2 December. It's 2024. Please inform the Doctor time lord and give his Tardis free parking.

Fantastic experience: A brilliant leisure centre. Love ❤️ it x

Positive experience: Great classes and facilities, parking is a bit of a nightmare due to the small carpark

Positive experience: I’ve been using Darwen Leisure Centre for various activities—swimming, gym sessions, and playing badminton—and it’s been a great experience overall. The staff are always very helpful and approachable, making each visit enjoyable. The pool is consistently clean, which is a huge plus, though it can get quite busy at peak times. I’ve found it’s best to avoid those periods if you want a quieter swim or workout. The same goes for the gym—it has good equipment, but it fills up quickly during busy hours. Overall, Darwen Leisure Centre is a well-maintained facility with excellent staff, but plan your visits around peak times for a more relaxed experience!

Fantastic experience: Lovely place, great food and very nice and friendly staff. Would highly recommend

Fantastic experience: Good Place and Gery was an amazing help there.

Fantastic experience: I am a volunteer with refresh on a Wednesday mornings at 10.30 am till 11.30am and everytime I walk in the staff at reception and the lifeguards are every welcoming and helpful

Negative experience: Only 4 of the treadmills are working , the others are out of order, it's been a month and it is very frustrating and disappointing. Logic is, if payments can be taken correctly, machines should also be fixed on time.

Fantastic experience: Great spot for Badminton

Fantastic experience: Great swimming lessons

Fantastic experience: Great leisure centrer and facilities

Fantastic experience: Excellent value

Fantastic experience: Always a nice atmosphere, lovely staff.

Fantastic experience: Clean pool, great staff

Fantastic experience: Great facilities. Friendly welcome.

Fantastic experience: It's always great here, staff friendly, great swimming pool. I go every week . Would highly recommend.

Positive experience: Big problem with a car park, other than that great place.

Fantastic experience: Always friendly and helpful.

Fantastic experience: Go here to swim quite often. The pool is the best I've been to

Fantastic experience: Les Mills classes are fabulous! Really enjoy them! The studios are great; well equipped , plenty of equipment so far as seen. Haven’t had time to try all of the classes; but the ones I have are great! All the class instructors I have had so far (April, Ali, Nikki, Sue) are amazing too! They will always check on people that they’re okay; cater for different fitness levels, motivating and encouraging :) The facilities are brilliant also, great variety of gym equipment, all clean, up to date and in good order. Changing rooms are lovely too; clean warm, the lockers are nice, good showering cubicles and changing cubicles. All the staff I have encountered have been nice and helpful also. I’m really glad I’ve got a membership :) keep up the great work everyone; you all add that extra sparkle to a lovely leisure centre!

Fantastic experience: Great place and very friendly and helpful staff

Positive experience: Nice pool, attended for a gala, parking is a bit of a nightmare when it's busy!

Positive experience: Good facilities, lovely staff!

Fantastic experience: I want to say a big thank you to Craig and Paula. Craig showed me all the facilities and explained things excellently. Great service

Positive experience: Good swimming pool. Only downside is lack of hairdryers and tumble dryer like Blackburn leisure has.

Positive experience: Helpful staff. Good pool. Mainly clean. Tremendous value for residents of Blackburn. £1 for two showers and an hour's exercise. Lost a star because lots of dust on the cable racking and steels above the changing room.

Positive experience: Headache finding the entrance. Didnt notice any signage. Similarly was difficult finding the pool i was supposed to meet the trainer at.

Positive experience: Took my daughter swimming, bit expensive if you want to go quite often as they no longer do the beez card discount on the majority of the sessions. Didn’t stay too long as the pool was cold. Changing facilities and toilets were clean, but no hair dryers anymore so had to leave with wet hair.

Fantastic experience: Used to go to Darwen Leisure centre regularly 20 odd years ago. My Granddaughter goes to the Friday Swimming club so I gave the gym a whirl. It's very different from last time I visited but still as good as it was then.

Fantastic experience: Well equipped and helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Always nice to call in. Great friendly staff lovely Atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: I love coming here, especially for a swim. I've used the gym but I'm a little gym shy if it's busy. Has a sauna and steam room, everything is lovely and clean. Really friendly staff!

Negative experience: Staff friendly but visits let down by poor gym equipment maintenance ie drinking fountain in gym been broken for months.

Positive experience: Friendly staff, small car park, good facilities. I normally only use the leisure centre to swim.

Fantastic experience: Highly recommend place for fun

Fantastic experience: Good to see extra equipment has been put in!

Negative experience: I use the gym , equipments are always dirty and covered in dry sweat marks both equipment and environment could do wit a good deep clean.

Fantastic experience: I just use the gym. I appreciate the space of the facility. You can exercise without feeling crowded. The staff are helpful and friendly

Fantastic experience: Very clean well maintained centre, many activities on offer, refresh scheme very good.

Fantastic experience: I love my adult swimming lessons - have found a new confidence in the water I never I’d before - thank you Kelly

Positive experience: Been using on and off over the last few years, good classes with plenty of choice at a fair price for a membership. The only thing I would say is that the layout of gym needs re thinking as no area to use for the free weight section towards the back and no mirrors in front of any of the racks/again free weights to check on your form feels very crammed.

Positive experience: Very clean, good facilities, no cafe on a Saturday which is a shame. Otherwise it's great. Good location, easy-ish system to book online and love the small pool.

Fantastic experience: I love it .everything perfect and nice friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Very modern, wonderful place

Fantastic experience: Clean and nice place to take younger kids as the pool temperature is just right. Main pool isn't as warm.

Fantastic experience: It is expected that you can be a good person

Positive experience: Love the classes but the public pool is rather cold at times brrr

Fantastic experience: Excellent local facility with knowledgeable staff

Positive experience: Great leisure centre, pay monthly membership ship is reasonable. Access to personal trainer twice a month, who can tailor a fitness plan for you. You need to be quick to book on certain classes as they fill up quickly.

Fantastic experience: First time visiting this leisure facility and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I think it's a fantastic facility. I used the gym which was very good. I would recommend adding a few mirrors in the free weights area, especially in front of the squat rack. Also invest some proper sized Olympic weights. Loved the fact the reception has a coffee shop. Flat white was spot on. The lady serving was really friendly too. Great to see a place like this available for the locals to use.

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Great customer service lovely staff

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, just wish it was open a bit later on a weekend

Fantastic experience: Nice and clean and really good coffee

Fantastic experience: Darwen Leisure centre is clean and well equipped. The staff are always friendly and helpful.

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities, friendly staff, convenient parking

Fantastic experience: I love this place, honestly everyone there is sound (except from the late night ego lifters), I highly recommend getting a membership especially with an hour's PT a month with some amazingly friendly personal trainers it is a great place to workout and grow

Fantastic experience: Took my granddaughter to her swimming lesson. Had a coffee while watching her from the gallery. The instructor was very good and I could see that he was explaining everything clearly.

Fantastic experience: Went to Fear Factor, when we arrived we did knot think it was going to be impressed. But my god we're we wrong the mazes, definitely impressed and will scare anyone. Definitely worth visiting, will be going again next year. Please do support this growing event.

Fantastic experience: Best local swimming pool with great swim classes

Positive experience: When they designed this leisure centre 20 years ago they decided against building any squash courts, which is a real shame seeing as there is such a shortage across the district, especially now that they've closed down Shadsworth Leisure Centre. It is also a shame that they can't be more competitive on price for their courts, as they're often empty in large parts of the day. Apart from this though it has a well kept gym and pool area, including a smaller pool that caters for infants. There is also a cafe which allows for great views of the pools.

Fantastic experience: Clean, easily accessible pool. Free car parking on site, just make sure you put your reg in at reception.

Positive experience: Use the gym as part of my fitness program

Fantastic experience: Good range of classes, great instructors, the membership is excellent value, and includes use of the pool.

Fantastic experience: The baby pool is really good, it's warm and they get lots of toys out to play with

Positive experience: Disappointed with the constant change of swimming times. The car park is rarely accessible after 9.15 am. Not great for people with disabilities. Most of the staff are so helpful and go the extra mile

Fantastic experience: Lovely and clean with nice friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Not yet used the facilities but had to mention how helpful and friendly all the staff are.

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities, very clean and tidy, brilliant helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Nice Gym nice Pool friendly crowd ...

Positive experience: Great clean gym just a shame the coffee shop isn't open later on in the day

Fantastic experience: Fabulous Swimming Pool and helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: Took the grandchildren to family swim on Sunday afternoon exceptionally clean pool and changing area, staff couldn't have been more busy cleaning all areas. Well done everyone

Fantastic experience: Nice centre, great coffee in the cafe. Gym is great and quiet in the mornings. Plus they had the blood donation drive come over every now and again.

Fantastic experience: Referb a few years ago all modern equipment

Fantastic experience: Good facilities well presented

Fantastic experience: Gym session with a couple of mates. Clean equipment and friendly staff. Very happy!

Fantastic experience: Professional, helpful, efficient and caring staff. The centre and especially the pool area are always very clean

Fantastic experience: The facilities at Darwen leisure centre are good. Gym, squash courts, two swimming pools (one for the kids) etc etc. You can even book table tennis! I'll probably find myself inside its walls once again at some point. The staff are helpful and polite. Well recommend

Fantastic experience: Great local facility. Attended yoga for first time, friendly teacher and students. Great space. Free parking.

Negative experience: Nice pool clean all round nice staff great facility . Parking the worst I've ever seen .avoid if coming in your own car

Fantastic experience: What a brilliant facility and the staff are are so helpful, there is something for everyone. The refresh and restart teams was a life saver for me and I cannot thank them enough.

Positive experience: Nice place has an easy cafe for a quick bite/ drink

Fantastic experience: Alison and the refresh team are excellent, they're totally switched on to the capabilities of individuals and ensure everyone is able to achieve the maximum from the course. After 1 week I'm astounded at the difference it's made to me both physically and in my outlook.

Positive experience: Great facilities and very clean

Fantastic experience: It's a nice place to be with a friendly staff and clean environment

Negative experience: They really need to update there website been trying to book a swimming session for me and my kids and it is impossible, dont know how anyone manages to get in there!!

Fantastic experience: Great clean and great parking. We were there for a gala and it was fab staff were very helpful thankyou darwen leisure centre and Bobcats Burnley

Positive experience: Nice place but staff not helpful

Fantastic experience: Great service Clean environment Great staff

Fantastic experience: Great staff and place. Just need the Beez cards to be active again. Please bring back the been cards or similar scheme

Fantastic experience: Clean and my daughter loved the swimming

Negative experience: Hiya. Me and my family went to Darwen leisure centre to go swimming and asked for 2 adults and 2 childrens tickets for the next family session in the big pool. They said we could only book online. In the queue next to us was an elderly lady who heard this and said she doesn't have the internet so she couldn't go swimming. So we're in the year 2021 and an elderly lady who's paid her tax etc all her life can't go swimming even though she's at the reception desk at Darwen leisure centre and ready to pay with cash. She has to book online! Yet back in the 1970s, 80s etc you just turned up and pay at the counter. So 50 years ago it was much simpler, in simple terms we're going backwards! I get online and try and book a family ticket for swimming, I select it and it comes up in my basket £47 instead of £11...... I try this several times....same thing. So I try to become a member, email, password etc no problem. So I try to login and it asks for a membership number........errrr sorry but I've not been sent a membership number!!!!!! TOTALLY HAD ENOUGH!!!!! This is NOT acceptable! The website/Booking process are not fit for purpose and I detest the elitist mentality which is prevalent in processes such as this. Whoever manages the construction/concepts of this process obviously has no idea of what technophobia is; and also people who are illiterate, have learning disabilities or difficulties and also for people for whom English is a second language. Also the elderly, of which there are many who have the right to NOT have the internet etc because they simply don't want or need it, and probably in many cases can't afford it. THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!!! Do you call yourself intelligent??!!! If yes why is the process of paying for swimming so complicated! Technology is supposed to make things simpler, not more complicated/time consuming; and in the elderly ladies case we saw today EXCLUDING................

Positive experience: Great pools, great staff, an enjoyable experience for the family. Thanks!

Fantastic experience: The online system is really easy to use and the service is great.

Fantastic experience: A well organised gym and health suite. I had a brief tour before joining and was impressed with the facilities. Staff are really friendly and polite and I look forward to breaking into a sweat or 2...

Positive experience: Staff Very helpful when they could see me struggleing ideas grateful for the help but sorry to say it is the first time in four years of visits

Fantastic experience: Great place, very safe and clean