Information about Musselburgh Sports Centre

101 Newbigging
EH21 7AS, Musselburgh
+441316535208

Opening hours

  • sunday: 9h-16:30
  • monday: 7h-21:30
  • tuesday: 6h-21:30
  • wednesday: 7h-21:30
  • thursday: 6h-21:30
  • friday: 7h-21:30
  • saturday: 9h-16:30
Complex with a sports hall, gym, a wide range of exercise classes, a swimming pool, sauna and spa.

Our comment from FitFit UK about Musselburgh Sports Centre:

Musselburgh Sports Centre is a well-rounded facility perfect for relaxing and enjoying various fitness activities. The centre features a swimming pool that maintains a comfortable temperature, making it ideal for family use, while the health suite offers amenities like a sauna, steam room, and jacuzzi for unwinding after a workout.

Visitors rave about the friendly staff, particularly noting positive experiences with team members at the front desk. The gym is well-equipped with a variety of machines and regularly offered fitness classes, providing something for everyone. Furthermore, the centre offers excellent value for affordable prices, with free parking available for added convenience.

However, there are areas for improvement. Many users have suggested implementing single-sex hours in the health suite, as some members prefer this option. Additionally, maintenance issues have been reported, including out-of-order equipment and insufficient cleanliness in some areas, particularly the changing rooms and poolside facilities. It would also benefit from updated timetables to prevent misunderstandings regarding swimming lessons.

Overall, Musselburgh Sports Centre provides a friendly and functional environment for sports and leisure activities, making it a valuable community resource, with ongoing opportunities for enhancement.

Services, Machines and Guided Classes

Swimming
Sauna
Swimming pool

Musselburgh Sports Centre: Opinions

4/5 (126 Opinions)
Kevin Wicksted 9 months ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant for a wee chill at the weekend, and all the staff are great especially Frances on the front desk.What more for a chill out, Sauna, Jacuzzi and Steam Room and shower. Just rest and be thankful.

Google User Incognito 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: First, suggestion: Please introduce men-only and women-only hours for the health suite apart from the regular universal access. Many members prefer to use these facilities with single sex access. So, it won't harm if you introduce 2 hours per day only for men and 2 hours only for women. What's great: Gym machines, Fitness classes of wide variety, Friendly coaches, and accessible + usually clean facilities all at affordable price What's not so great: No single sex hours. No hair dryers in changing rooms and poolside are working. Also, it'll help if they open 6am to 9:30pm daily, consistently.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hello, thank you for your message. We appreciate your feedback and have passed this on to our Senior Management team. We do value you being in touch, and we take all comments seriously and these will be reviewed to see how we may improve on service. Kind regards, enjoyleisure

Susan Main 10 months ago

Positive experience: The swimming pool is a good temperature and not crowded, so I was looking forward to a return visit. However, although the timetable said the pool was open until 6.30pm (Thursday), I arrived at 14.45 and was told that the pool was closing at 15.15 for swimming lessons. Please update your timetable and make it clear when swimming lessons will use the whole pool.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hello Susan, thank you for your message. We appreciate your feedback and have passed this on to our Senior Management team. We do value you being in touch, and we take all comments seriously and these will be reviewed to see how we may improve on service. Kind regards, enjoyleisure

Robert Percival 11 months ago

Positive experience: Great Gym facility, good parking, use the gym at least twice weekly. Some Machines tend to be out of order periodically and the electric scales have been out of order for too long. I'm also concerned that the aquafit classes are ending and that the service will not be resumed. I pay a six monthly subscription and it's not going to be worth renewal Updated 10th October Emailed the Head Office today to enquire about the withdrawal of aquafit, the reply was, there Is one at Prestonpans 8pm on Thursdays, whilst three classes weekly will be lost at Musselburgh. So that's two x members twice at 6 month each they're going to lose.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hello Robert, thank you for your message. We appreciate your feedback and have passed this on to our Senior Management team. We do value you being in touch, and we take all comments seriously and these will be reviewed to see how we may improve on service. Kind regards, enjoyleisure

Lynn Kazazic 1 year ago

Positive experience: Swimming pool toilets are disgusting always blocked and dirty. Swimming lessons could be better by sticking with the same coach instead of changing every week and also coach shouldnt be putting swimming score down. Should just keep it the same or put it up. Swimming lessons should be assessed once a month instead of just ever 4 or 5 months.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hello Lynn, thank you for your message. We appreciate your feedback and have passed this on to both our Senior Management and Swimming team. We do value you being in touch, and we take all comments seriously and these will be reviewed to see how we may improve on service. Kind regards, enjoyleisure

Frank Crowe 1 year ago

Positive experience: It is a marvellous facility with lots of parking and adjacent to a bus terminus. Was there for a Toy, model cars and trains and sci fi festival. There were some wonderful bargains.

alastair hearsum 1 year ago

Positive experience: Friendly staff and not busy for badminton. Hard to book courts though; no online booking and hard to get through on the phone.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hello Alastair, thank you for your message. We appreciate your feedback and have passed this on to our Senior Management team. We do value you being in touch, and we take all comments seriously and these will be reviewed to see how we may improve on service. Kind regards, enjoyleisure

Hazel Miller 1 year ago

Positive experience: Lovely place for a swim and also enjoy the events they run such as the toy fair. Could do with a deep clean in the showers and near the pool though

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hello Hazel, thank you for your feedback. I have passed this on to our Senior Management team. We do value you being in touch, and we take all comments seriously and these will be reviewed to see how we may improve on service. Kind regards, enjoyleisure

Marianne MacRae 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Had a softplay party here for my 4-year-old. Loved it! Great little venue for the wee ones, lovely staff, good deal.

Tony Fox 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Ideal

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Thanks for your review Tony!

Mark P 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Thanks Mark!

Laura Stone 1 year ago

Positive experience: Pool was warm and not busy on a Saturday morning, lessons are on until 10am separate kids pool too

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Thanks for your review Laura! Hope to see you again soon.

Christine and Paul Willson 1 year ago

Positive experience: I attended a toy fair by Northern toys, the facilties are designed as a sports centre rather than for a toy fair. The main hall was used for this purpose. We used the cafe and the food was good although seating limited due to the toy fair.

Charles Abercrombie 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I went to this place on Saturday morning they had a funfair on at Musselburgh sport centre and it was great to see all different stalls in this building

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hi Charles, really pleased that you had a good time!

M “Al” F 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Compact facility with small cafe.

Andrew Watson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Was at the toy fair, fantastic venue ❤ will be back .

Gordon McCulloch 1 year ago

Positive experience: Pool q quiet,facilities okay.

Alan Mcintosh 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Free parking

Mista T 1 year ago

Positive experience: Took the wee fella swimming. The website stated that the floating floor pool was available, yet when we turned up, it was closed due to a private session. Not great when people plan their day around the published timetable. Disappointing.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hello, we’ll endeavour to keep our website as up-to-date as possible. Apologies if this has not been the case on this occasion. Please do check the Sports Centre's web page for any changes to the normal pool timetable. Regards, Enjoy Leisure.

arnietwo 1 year ago

Positive experience: Gym reasonably good, needs heavier dumbells than 25kg, health suite area and pool likewise good. Staff helpfull.

Suzie Stuart 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I don’t think so but it was in a different place

Margaret Brown 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Roller skating day with the children really good fun

Seweryn Wielgosz 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Very nice place and relax

SUFYAN TUNESI 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: My kids liked it

killerman_world 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I like going here on steam sauna and swimming pool

Sunday Adedeji 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good place for family to swim and exercise together

David Howells 2 years ago

Positive experience: Not bad gym - rating it at 80%, right in the middle of my four star range. Could do with more free weights (the dumbbell range was good) and a bigger area. (A squat rack etc. would help.)

Iain Fraser 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Shh keep this to yourself but youll feel like you have your own swimming pool lol cause you'll practically have the place to yourself and you get a decent munch after your swim in the cafeteria which has a great view of the pool and offers home made soup and hot filled rolls fruit shoots 4 the kids vegetarian options . A la carte , no but the foods up there its decent

Marek Krzyszczak 2 years ago

Positive experience: Despite every time mentioning that my daughter has a membership card and we give her name, we are being charged full price. The dark-haired lady needs computer and customer service training.... what's the point of membership then if we are being charged full price for using facilities ‍♂️

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hello Marek, Could I please ask you to email: [email protected] so that we may look further into this matter for you? Kind Regards, Enjoy Leisure

Olivia Kinsella 2 years ago

Negative experience: Used to love coming here but have now came 3 times in the last few months and the pool has been closed for lessons or parties so this time I rang before coming and they said the pool is open to then get here and it's closed for lessons AGAIN. Then why did the man on the phone tell me it's open. Ridiculous

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Olivia, My apologies for the delay responding. The opening hours have recently changed due to additional clubs and lessons to accommodate the temporary closure of the Loch Centre’s swimming pool, and it might have been this that caused the problem. Alternatively, as most regular customers know there are lessons on, it could be that the person who answered the phone just thought you were speaking about after the lessons were due to start. People want to know the pool is definitely opening afterwards in case it might be closed for a swimming gala. However if either of the above were the cause, they could have been easily avoided by just saying: when the pool was open, last admission time and closing times, and if there were any restrictions (for example floating floor are not available between 1 and 2). Which is what we would expect our staff to do – as this is good practice. My apologies for your poor experience at Musselburgh and we will do our utmost to improve. We have a rolling programme of customer care training and will make sure those answering the phone do so in a more helpful manner. Kind regards Brian Bogie

Nikki Stewart 2 years ago

Positive experience: Lots of activities

PACYPULAFC Kulczykowska 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Superowe miejsce

maggi thomson 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great sports centre and friendly staff

Symon Lockhart 2 years ago

Positive experience: Visited here as our local swimming pool is closed for repair. Clean pool and locker areas. Toilets were filthy and a number of the showers by the pool were not working. No space to sit in the cafe due to parents waiting on children at swimming lessons.

Dina Astayeva 2 years ago

Negative experience: had questions regarding the memberships, but the lady didn’t answer my questions saying that everything is on website then, i wrote to their emails, they never answer(

Samantha Brady 2 years ago

Negative experience: Found Hair in my food and more butter than ham on kids meals

Victoria Jack 2 years ago

Positive experience: Noone at the gym knows how to give you a plan to work towards. Swimming pool taken up with kids' lessons on two of the four evenings it is open.

Michael Campbell 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Had my daughters birthday pool party good value and the pool adjusts to different heights so excellent for non swimmers

Susan Butts 2 years ago

Positive experience: Handy to get to (30 bus), but quite scruffy & grubby, particularly when comparing it to other facilities in East Lothian run by the same organisation! Staff could be pleasanter too.

Michał Roguski 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fajne miejsce super zajęcia dla dzieci

Leon Davis 3 years ago

Negative experience: Shocking attitude of the staff. Vending machine wasn’t working but there was no sign on it. Was told have to call this number coz they don’t do refunds. Pretty much knowing not many folk are gonna take the time or hassle to get a couple quid back they lose from a broken vending machine. Absolute joke!!!

John Patterson 3 years ago

Negative experience: Changing rooms are full of chewing gum every where and dirty health suite is dirty as well lost of rust everywhere staff can be nice just depends on witch on you get just needs a good deal clean

Emma Reid 3 years ago

Positive experience: I can only comment on the pool because this is the only reason I have visited. Pool is relatively clean but can sometimes be a bit cold. The pool can also get quite busy but this is understandable.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Thank you for the 4 star review and your feedback Emma! We're constantly trying to improve our service so your feedback is very important to us. Musselburgh can be busy at peak times for swimming, if you're ever unsure you can always phone ahead of your visit to our reception on 0131 653 5200 to check but prebooking is not required.

kikz 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice for exercise

paul davis 3 years ago

Positive experience: Don't use much but always decent

Steph 3 years ago

Positive experience: Big swimming pool with separate baby pool, friendly staff. Viewing area from the cafe. Lots of changing cubicles including family size. Not too busy if you pick the right time. Plenty of parking.

Audrey Gray 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Finally found a pool that has opened its showers! Great pool - tho it was chilly last time I was in - and gradual incline to deep end

Robert Leitch 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great sports centre - with sports hall, gym, run various classes, sauna and swimming pool ( the water is usually at a pleasant temperature) and has a great section for younger children. There is a small café for snacks and drinks.

Patricia Robertson 3 years ago

Negative experience: Booked in for lane swimming, no lanes in when I got to poolside. I asked the (very unhelpful and uninterested) guard if lanes were going in, as that is what I had booked and paid for-her response was a flat 'no' and that was it-no apology, no explanation, and certainly no attempt to put a lane rope in. I spoke to the manager about her rudeness and dis interest, he was very apologetic.

Mark Cliffe 3 years ago

Positive experience: The quite ridiculous time that they take to fix broken things is frustrating.

Ovidiu Ilie Zoltan 3 years ago

Negative experience: I go every Monday whit my soon to swimming and after the lessons I go always to buy hotdog whit chips. The staff is wonderful friendly always there ,but I think is more then 1 month they don’t have a machine to make chips. And they are many kids to ask for chips. So sand. Thanks

Kevin Clark 3 years ago

Positive experience: Good range of classes

Una Montgomery 3 years ago

Positive experience: AT LONG LAST-the showers are working!!

emma cooper 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and good facilities. Went to one of the classes and enjoyed it. Considering the monthly cost for a membership, it's good value for money.

Sharon Rose 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very clean staff lovely

Evie Jackson 4 years ago

Positive experience: Really lovely staff and an amazing swimming pool and lots of different sport options.

Enric Arbiol 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: The best place to bringing my daughter to swimming lessons, specially with a great coach like Lisa, explaining all showing how to do, and with patience and care.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Thank you! We'll pass your comments onto Lisa! :)

John Wilson 4 years ago

Positive experience: Still reduced activity due to ongoing Pandemic but overall service is good and facilities are always clean

CalebMcA 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: I like water

Ben Thwaites 5 years ago

Positive experience: Starting to worry as to were my money goes for this place. It clearly doesn't go on maintenance....... However most of the staff are really friendly

Oleknuso 5 years ago

Positive experience: You can get pizza here

RossG251 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lots of different things in one place

Ian Kirk 5 years ago

Positive experience: Decided to go for a swim,after not being able to due to circumstances for a long time, facilities are good swim and spa steam+sauna+jacuzzi were good.

Jade B 5 years ago

Negative experience: Don't really like sports tbh, wouldn't recommend

Ryan 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Soft play was very good and reasonably priced. One entrance at the top so easy to ensure our young twins were safe

Karen Dickson 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very helpful staff and nice cafe

Ms Stanley 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool for family's. Very shallow baby pool. Lots of classes abd activities also a nice little cafe there.

Like Don't Like 6 years ago

Negative experience: Full of idiots

Ruby Hay 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Plenty to do and you can also get a coffee

Robert Davies 6 years ago

Positive experience: Fun activities

Beth Ramsay 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great building for every1 sport

Paul 6 years ago

Negative experience: Just joined online came to do a work out to find out that I need to be inducted Monday to Friday

robert watson 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good facilities

Corey Watt 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Corey good keep me fit

Paulina Okoro 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great, has a gym swimming and courts

Pam Jam 6 years ago

Positive experience: Decent size

Private Library 6 years ago

Negative experience: I believe the children’s jamboree area needs updated! my 3 year old was bored as theirs no slides and the soft play area was very basic. Nowhere to buy drinks or snacks in the play area Their was no attended or superviser was in the room as all during our 1 hour play time here which I thought was very unsafe to be honest and wouldn’t happen at any of the other children’s plays read in east lothian

Nakul Haridas 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really nice pool and the wee one loves it here. Wish it were a heated pool so could enjoy it more. Nice place for a relaxing weekend and fun for the family.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hi Nakul, Many thanks for your kind review. We are glad to hear you enjoy this facility and hope to see you soon - enjoyleisure

Ettore Pedretti 7 years ago

Positive experience: The swimming pool is a 25 m standard but cut short by a boom to allow a children pool. It is small but we are in a small town and having a swimming pool at all is good.

Musselburgh Sports Centre

Hi Ettore, Thank you very much for your review. We hope to see you soon - enjoyleisure

Cheryl Horton 7 years ago

Positive experience: This community center has a pool, soft play over two levels, a cafe and a number of kids and adults sports classes

Gordon Romanis 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility friendly helpful staff worth a visit

Douglas Sewell 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and very friendly staff. Cafetera well worth visiting with very good home cooked food and a good selection at reasonable prices. Only used the soft play area with great grandkids which deserved 5 stars on its own but viewing all the facilities on our way around the centre I would not hesitate to use everything available if the Center was closer to home. All in all I was very impressed.

BeZa Kiron 7 years ago

Positive experience: Good facilities for the local community. Gym, softplay, pool etc

Elizabet Hamilton 7 years ago

Negative experience: Dirty & disgusting. never again.

barath baskar 7 years ago

Positive experience: Very nice sports center. Bus 30 directly takes you there. The swimming pool looks great. Has ample room for badminton. The gym looks new and we'll staffed too.

Stephen May 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very noice

James “The Dude” Thomson 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and staff pool a bit cold though

Pete Duncan 7 years ago

Positive experience: Enjoyed the swim. Class for our child was excellent.

Samantha Thomson 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym and pool not so warm but ok

ASTV Smeaton 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely staff and always clean

sami al-ani 7 years ago

Positive experience: Gym is very limited and small, but pool is adequate as is health suite facilities. Staff at reception are very rude, blunt and lack basic courtesy.

PAUL GREIG 7 years ago

Positive experience: Good centre

United SK8S Ltd Skating in Scotland 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: We hold roller disco's here it's the perfect place for a family and adult roller disco.

William Badrick 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Ok

Michelle Main 7 years ago

Positive experience: OK could do with a freshen up

April Went 7 years ago

Positive experience: The swimming pool is a bit on the small side as is the gym and there wasn't any one on reception. Had to go on a hunt to find a water fountain though did eventually find one in the gym after asking another random person using the facility.

P Olszewski 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good

Christopher Osahon Ogunbor 7 years ago

Positive experience: Some money need to be spent. It is still it's old self. The Jacuzzi broken most of the time.

Andrew McGill 7 years ago

Positive experience: Swimming-quite a cold pool the other facilities are available for wheelchair users

Lynda Tracey 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Easy to find , clean and a good selection of fitness classes.Large pool and health suite. Has a creche for the little ones.

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