Musselburgh Sports Centre

Information about Musselburgh Sports Centre
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
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
Musselburgh Sports Centre: Opinions
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Fantastic experience: Ideal
Thanks for your review Tony!
Fantastic experience: Brilliant
Thanks Mark!
Positive experience: Pool was warm and not busy on a Saturday morning, lessons are on until 10am separate kids pool too
Thanks for your review Laura! Hope to see you again soon.
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.
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
Hi Charles, really pleased that you had a good time!
Fantastic experience: Compact facility with small cafe.
Fantastic experience: Was at the toy fair, fantastic venue ❤ will be back .
Positive experience: Pool q quiet,facilities okay.
Fantastic experience: Free parking
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.
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.
Positive experience: Gym reasonably good, needs heavier dumbells than 25kg, health suite area and pool likewise good. Staff helpfull.
Fantastic experience: I don’t think so but it was in a different place
Fantastic experience: Roller skating day with the children really good fun
Fantastic experience: Very nice place and relax
Fantastic experience: My kids liked it
Fantastic experience: I like going here on steam sauna and swimming pool
Fantastic experience: Good place for family to swim and exercise together
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.)
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
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 ♂️
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
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
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
Positive experience: Lots of activities
Fantastic experience: Superowe miejsce
Fantastic experience: Great sports centre and friendly staff
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.
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(
Negative experience: Found Hair in my food and more butter than ham on kids meals
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.
Fantastic experience: Had my daughters birthday pool party good value and the pool adjusts to different heights so excellent for non swimmers
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.
Fantastic experience: Fajne miejsce super zajęcia dla dzieci
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!!!
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
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.
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.
Fantastic experience: Nice for exercise
Positive experience: Don't use much but always decent
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.
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
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.
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.
Positive experience: The quite ridiculous time that they take to fix broken things is frustrating.
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
Positive experience: Good range of classes
Positive experience: AT LONG LAST-the showers are working!!
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.
Fantastic experience: Very clean staff lovely
Positive experience: Really lovely staff and an amazing swimming pool and lots of different sport options.
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.
Thank you! We'll pass your comments onto Lisa! :)
Positive experience: Still reduced activity due to ongoing Pandemic but overall service is good and facilities are always clean
Fantastic experience: I like water
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
Positive experience: You can get pizza here
Fantastic experience: Lots of different things in one place
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.
Negative experience: Don't really like sports tbh, wouldn't recommend
Fantastic experience: Soft play was very good and reasonably priced. One entrance at the top so easy to ensure our young twins were safe
Fantastic experience: Very helpful staff and nice cafe
Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool for family's. Very shallow baby pool. Lots of classes abd activities also a nice little cafe there.
Negative experience: Full of idiots
Fantastic experience: Plenty to do and you can also get a coffee
Positive experience: Fun activities
Fantastic experience: Great building for every1 sport
Negative experience: Just joined online came to do a work out to find out that I need to be inducted Monday to Friday
Positive experience: Good facilities
Fantastic experience: Corey good keep me fit
Fantastic experience: Great, has a gym swimming and courts
Positive experience: Decent size
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
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.
Hi Nakul, Many thanks for your kind review. We are glad to hear you enjoy this facility and hope to see you soon - enjoyleisure
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.
Hi Ettore, Thank you very much for your review. We hope to see you soon - enjoyleisure
Positive experience: This community center has a pool, soft play over two levels, a cafe and a number of kids and adults sports classes
Fantastic experience: Great facility friendly helpful staff worth a visit
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.
Positive experience: Good facilities for the local community. Gym, softplay, pool etc
Negative experience: Dirty & disgusting. never again.
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.
Fantastic experience: Very noice
Fantastic experience: Great facilities and staff pool a bit cold though
Positive experience: Enjoyed the swim. Class for our child was excellent.
Fantastic experience: Great gym and pool not so warm but ok
Fantastic experience: Lovely staff and always clean
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.
Positive experience: Good centre
Fantastic experience: We hold roller disco's here it's the perfect place for a family and adult roller disco.
Fantastic experience: Ok
Positive experience: OK could do with a freshen up
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.
Fantastic experience: Good
Positive experience: Some money need to be spent. It is still it's old self. The Jacuzzi broken most of the time.
Positive experience: Swimming-quite a cold pool the other facilities are available for wheelchair users
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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