
Information about Drumbrae Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: 9h-19h
- monday: 6:30-21h
- tuesday: 6:30-21h
- wednesday: 6:30-21h
- thursday: 6:30-21h
- friday: 6:30-21h
- saturday: 8h-18h
Our comment from FitFit UK about Drumbrae Leisure Centre:
Drumbrae Leisure Centre, located in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, is a vibrant community hub offering a wide range of facilities and services for all ages. Visitors have praised the centre for its:
- Great facilities including a large swimming pool, gym, badminton courts, and a range of fitness classes.
- Caring and welcoming staff who provide professional service and are always ready to assist.
- Clean and well-maintained environment making it a pleasant space for workouts, swimming, and family activities.
- Perfect venue for children’s parties, with ample space for activities and supportive staff.
- A wide variety of classes catering to different age groups and fitness levels.
- A spacious café, though some have mentioned it being closed on certain days.
While the centre is highly regarded, some users have expressed concerns regarding:
- The availability of classes for younger children, noting that they fill up quickly.
- Membership costs, which some find to be quite high compared to similar facilities in the area.
- The cleanliness of changing rooms at peak times, indicating room for improvement in maintenance.
Overall, Drumbrae Leisure Centre is recognized as an excellent place for fitness and fun, with numerous activities for families and individuals alike.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Drumbrae Leisure Centre: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Great venue for kids parties. Staff are on hand and attentive. The space you rent is a really good size so plenty of room for activities. Other facilities looked good too.
Fantastic experience: Amazing place
Fantastic experience: Have been visiting for Adult Beginner Swim classes, the coaches are lovely and very supportive!
Fantastic experience: Staff are all very helpful and friendly
Fantastic experience: Brilliant
Positive experience: Good place but lacks classes for under 5s, especially those in nursery. Classes fill up fast for primary school kids. Wish they had more trial sessions. Membership is so ridiculously expensive
Fantastic experience: Great facility. Professional and friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: My friend and I attended Steady Steps at Drumbrae. The instructor Michael McLaughlin is an excellent tutor, professional, with a great sense of humour. He made us feel at ease and was most encouraging allowing everyone to go at their own pace according to their levels of ability. “The right man for the right job!” B Stirling
Positive experience: Good
Fantastic experience: Clean, well maintained and friendly staff. A good place to workout and swim.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities here and very helpful staff. Wide range of equipment in Gym. Swimming pool too and cafe. Lots of free parking.
Fantastic experience: Just went for a swim. Super clean, lovely pool. Just what I needed. Rest of the facility looked busy. Badminton lessons, lots of activity in the gym.
Fantastic experience: Returning to swimming after a 5 year hiatus. I only swim once a week so I don't have a membership. I pitch up at 6:25am and I am able to pay by card. Showers/pool is always clean. Lane swimming in place slow/medium/fast/other, I usually stick to medium. My only issue is that the medium lane can get a bit busy. I would suggest creating another one, probably from the "other" lanes.
Fantastic experience: Really clean and busy, well equipped. Lucky to have in the area
Positive experience: Great pool and good clean facilities. What’s bad and despite being operated as a charity, is the monthly subscription is now nearly £50 for swim membership. That would be fine if the pool was always open but it’s not always open from 5pm when most people who work finish. E.G unlimited swim in Fife is £37 pm, in Boness its £22 pm. Is heating, wages, and costs so much more in Edinburgh?
Fantastic experience: Highly recommended place for birthday parties Staff are very nice and happy to accommodate Gem of a place
Positive experience: Very friendly, professional service from the staff here. Carol on reception exemplifies this. Changing rooms in pool area often dirty in afternoons. Other pools constantly clean changing areas.
Negative experience: Cafe closed on Saturdays..!
Fantastic experience: Dropped on for a shower, which they offer for £2.20. Easy to park the campervan there. Shower was great temperature, very powerful and clean. Changing area was roomy and lockers huge. Remember to take a pound coin for the lockers (you get it back).
Fantastic experience: Good to be back after the long summer pool closure.
Fantastic experience: Staff are amazing especially lady at reception warm and welcoming and highly helpful
Negative experience: Stopped by for a swim to a closed sign on the door "closed for the summer" just paid my joining fee..
Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym facility and beautiful swimming pool and lots of different classes. Very clean and pristine in all.areas and very helpful staff.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities for swimming, badminton, gym ,Zumba,Yoga
Fantastic experience: Receptionist very welcoming and facility was amazing
Fantastic experience: So glad to see the car park has been resurfaced. No longer have to avoid the pothole craters. Excellent aquafit class today
Fantastic experience: First time visiting very clean and got clear instructions from staff to get to pool changing rooms
Fantastic experience: Great classes big pool and good sized gym
Fantastic experience: Good pool, clean Facilities, friendly and helpful staff, will be a returning customer.
Fantastic experience: Nice place, I love the gym equipments.
Fantastic experience: Good post
Negative experience: Is nice places The Pool Hours are absolutely bad classes and casual swimmers make it impossible to do anything calmly it is Impossible that's why I left my Doctor recommended but is Impossible .
Fantastic experience: Good to excersise if its in the good stocked weight room od swimming pool good centre
Positive experience: This my first time as I took my Granddaughter for her Gymnastics. A very clean place and airy, has a small cafe as well.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and friendly, helpful staff
Fantastic experience: Very clean, loads to do . Helpful friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Great place for a workout. Friendly and profesional staff. Quality gym equipment and very clean areas
Positive experience: Hi always welcome thery but would like to know what the cafe is never open anymore thery alway lots to do thery xxxx
Fantastic experience: Beautiful location. Greenery all around and a big ground next to it. A big parking space as well. It has gym, swimming pool, space for indoor games, etc. Quiet big to let enough quantity of people allowed in at a time. They also offer different types of discounts.
Fantastic experience: Heute haben wir nur das Cafe besucht. Es gab ein sehr schmackhaftes Sandwich. Weiter so
Fantastic experience: Great place for the gym. The leisure centre is clean and nice as well.
Fantastic experience: I came for a shower. Costs £2 and only payable by card. Directed to swim pool showers. You need a pound coin for the lockers which are spacious and you get your pound back when you open the locker. Showers have cubicles which are big and have a soap dispenser so no need to bring your own. Mixed changing so have to use changing cubicles. Water is hot and you have to keep pressing the button to keep it going. The staff are lovely and helpful. On the whole well worth the £2 cost.
Fantastic experience: We had a 5 year old birthday here and the bouncy castle and other toys laid out were great for the kids.
Fantastic experience: It was closed that day.
Fantastic experience: Very friendly and helpful front desk staff.
Fantastic experience: We came for a well needed shower and had a very nice swim in the pool. The place is clean and looks rather new. Staff is friendly and helpful. Will definitely be back.
Fantastic experience: Staff were great and they made me feel comfortable as this was my first visit to the centre
Positive experience: It’s a good place but I think they need to work better on staff availability and classes availability. My son is waiting for next level and there is no place available.
Positive experience: Overall it's ok, but showers could be cleaner and the pool sessions could be organised in a better way.
Fantastic experience: Good facilities
Fantastic experience: Was at a children's party, great space for them to run around and can bring your own food
Fantastic experience: Great local leisure centre gym swimming loads for the family too do cafe etc
Negative experience: Nice gym but one of the staff members with curly hair was walking around smelling that bad of body odour it was.very off putting
Fantastic experience: I attended a birthday party there and the place was really amazing.. Kids just loved it
Fantastic experience: Just started back to the swimming at Drumbrae leisure. Staff nice and eventually after realising which swimming sessions I like have been having some great swimming sessions. Hopefully everything will be back to normal soon
Negative experience: Ok
Fantastic experience: This is a great gym to go to
Fantastic experience: Great place to excercise , always busy too
Fantastic experience: amazing
Fantastic experience: Well maintained indoor badminton courts
Fantastic experience: Friendy staff, instructors and users. Great value.
Fantastic experience: I play badminton every Sunday. There are 3 courts. The place is neat and friendly staff. You need to book in advance coz the place is very demanding considering winter.
Positive experience: Good facilities not the most helpful of friendly reception staff
Fantastic experience: Get friendly staff and very help full
Fantastic experience: Lovely staff and good facilities. Came back for the first time in 10 years. After seeing me struggling with the daft iPads, Carol was really friendly and welcoming - I hate going to the gym so good customer service makes all the difference :)
Positive experience: Good pool, easy to book, nice changing rooms
Positive experience: I like the gym l starting to get used to it now. Speaking to staff members Name Alex's nice to speak to. I starting to enjoy the gym more now. GREAT...
Fantastic experience: Good cleaning and social distancing, staff friendly
Negative experience: Extremely unhelpful duty manager who refused to help with questions on my Edinburgh Leisure membership. Rude, obnoxious and quick and unapologetic. Would not allow me access to a quick swim even though I had turned up at 6.30am to resolve my membership woes. Shame that the pool and facilities are let down by those in management that should know better.
Positive experience: Nice staffs and very patient care
Fantastic experience: Was using the car charge point and the covid vaccine centre had been set up but they had kindly left the two spaces at the charger
Fantastic experience: Great well organised venue.
Fantastic experience: Community leisure centre with games hall, outdoor pitch and 25M pool with moveable floor. Wide catchment usage due to location and available parking.
Fantastic experience: Very well run gym.
Fantastic experience: I use the gym for PT session fortnightly. It's v clean and numbers are controlled. Everyone seems to be taking on board their responsibility to keep the equipment clean and folk are doing their best to keep to social distancing rules. Feels safe.
Fantastic experience: Very helpful and friendly staff and clean environment. The pool was at amazing temperature and kept safety precautions on point. Thank yous very much for giving us the chance to swim and relax in such a caring spot
Fantastic experience: Great facilities, plenty of parking and top-notch staff team. Offers everything you need from a community leisure facility at a great price. Recent upgrades are very welcome too. Has good on-site EV charging as well
Positive experience: Is OK
Fantastic experience: I think this is one of the best leisure centres in Edinburgh. The staff are coping incredibly well with the new restrictions and are making careful observations on cleanliness and that the clients are observing the new restrictions too. I feel very at ease and safe attending this leisure centre. It is absolutely spotless. The staff are very friendly and the lady on reception with the blonde hair does her job exceptionally well as does the young tall gentleman by the pool. Both are very friendlly and very helpful. Sorry I can't give names but I didn't see the name badge! But all staff are very good at this leisure centre. The gym is very well equipped and plenty of machines available for use. The workout class rooms are spotless and the decor is calming. The prices are great too! Great job! Thanks!
Fantastic experience: Since been closed real sad hope opens soon was there everyday.brilliant
Positive experience: Good but swimming pool cold
Positive experience: Good facilities and nice swimming pool
Positive experience: Some of the instructors here are great, but the cleanliness of the changing rooms is awful. Floors often dirty, hair around soap dispensers and ants around hair dryers. Not pleasant for anybody, but especially when you're taking small children there.
Positive experience: Pretty much everything fitness under a roof. Parking could be a problem during weekends at times
Fantastic experience: I used the gym today at this leisure centre. Well equipped and upto date gym. Variety of cardio machines along with good selection of free weight equipment. Nice and clean environment. Staff is very friendly and helpful. Good locker facilities and plenty of free car parking available. Their swimming pool was looking good as well even though I only used the gym today. U can also book a hall for indoor games. There is also a nice cafe inside to have some snacks and stuff.
Fantastic experience: Great facilities
Fantastic experience: Visit Gym Great staff good equipment
Fantastic experience: relaxing, also for table tennis
Positive experience: Play badminton here. It's good. But sometimes they let part of the hall be hired out to basketball boys who let their basket ball roll into the badminton area which is bad for badminton and there is also gymnastics on with loud music which is bad for good concentration when trying to not be bad at badminton.
Fantastic experience: Great centre with friendly and helpful staff. Pool is hired out to schools so is often packed with kids and unavailable to public until evening; check timetables before attending.
Fantastic experience: I think it is a great place with lots on offer. Friendly and helpful staff.
Positive experience: Good
Positive experience: Grandaughter loves swimming cafe a must reopen
Positive experience: Good place to play badminton. Quite expensive for a leisure centre.
Positive experience: It's nice amazing place to swim and go for the clubs
Fantastic experience: Great parking
Fantastic experience: Very nice place...
Positive experience: I don't know why the water fountain in the reception area gives out warmish water but you can get nice cold water from the one in the gym and the other one at the end of the building???
Positive experience: Great facilities and wonderful people very helpful good at setting up a fitness plan for those who want to keep fit or diet.
Positive experience: Drumbrae Scream Centre more like. My ears are still ringing although they do sell earplugs for swimming at ticket kiosk.
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