Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre

Information about Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: (closed)
- monday: 17h-21h
- tuesday: 17h-21h
- wednesday: 17h-21h
- thursday: 17h-21h
- friday: 17h-21h
- saturday: (closed)
Sandwell Leisure Trust maintains 9 leisure centres across Sandwell, helping local people get active with our amazing facilities and services. Learn more.
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To pre-book a Family Swim/Splashtime session please call the centre of your choice on 0300 012 0121 and a member of the team will be able to help you book your session.
To enable us to manage occupancy and to avoid disappointment on arrival please ensure you pre-book and don’t turn up to the session without booking.
Our comment from FitFit UK about Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre:
Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre, located in Smethwick, UK, offers a range of sporting facilities in a community-oriented environment. With a variety of activities available, including badminton and weightlifting, it provides a welcoming atmosphere for all users.
- Positive Aspects:
- Friendly and helpful staff create a warm environment.
- Ample parking space available for visitors.
- Great space for badminton, with many courts accessible.
- A well-loved local venue where many users have made fond memories over the years.
- Positive feedback on specific instructors and coaching available.
- Community-focused, providing important services and facilities for local residents.
- Areas for Improvement:
- The centre is in need of modernization and repairs, particularly concerning the roof, which has leaked during rainy weather.
- Some facilities, like the squash courts, require urgent attention as they have become unusable.
- Opening hours have been reduced, which may not be convenient for all visitors.
- Equipment availability and pricing comparisons with other local gyms could be enhanced.
- Visitors have noted that lighting and heating in certain areas could use updates.
Overall, while the Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre has its challenges, it maintains a loyal following and a strong community presence, making it a beloved spot for many local sports enthusiasts.
Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre: Opinions
Positive experience: Great but bit worn down.
Fantastic experience: Decent gym. Gutted the ladies gym will be permanently closed after 31.05.24. It's much more spacious than the one at the aquatics centre. Air con is spot on in the summer too. It will be missed.
Negative experience: Only car park. Spare for new swiminpool if any events are organised.
Negative experience: Don’t go here expensive and the roof leaks when it’s raining.
Positive experience: OK place in need of modernisation
Positive experience: Lighting needs upgrading. Very cold
Positive experience: Place Needs modernisation but great community
Negative experience: Infrastructure is in dilapidated state
Fantastic experience: 50 years of using this leisure centre and some great memories made, highlight being playing Badminton on my wedding day against my brother. Great staff over the years - Barry, John, Steve, Tracy and Brent. Always friendly and helpful. Other than the usual problem of the leaking roof, it's a great venue.
Positive experience: Dated leisure centre
Negative experience: The staff and other services/facilities are fine but the squash courts are an absolute wreck! One court isn't even usable and the balcony to spectate is closed off too and it's been like this for months. Absolute mess compared to Haden Hill and Tipton Sports Academy, with no signs it'll be repaired any time soon.
Positive experience: It's not too bad of a place, plenty of parking. However, need the roof fixing! Always leaking and it's damaging the floor.
Negative experience: Decent place to play Badminton but the roof leaks and if it leaks to much on your court they will tell you to leave, should really fix the leaking roof.
Positive experience: If you are looking for state of the art facilities then its not for you because its a bit old
Fantastic experience: A Great sports centre in the locality
Positive experience: Parking is good. Court flooring is above average. The 1st court is good but less height and the mini court is pretty small and the lights are not upto standard.
Negative experience: Customer service is absolutely terrible. I would highly recommend those who wish to the facilities at harry mitchel to look elsewhere as there are better leisure centres at which the employees respect the customers and make them feel welcomed. Tremendously disappointed as if I where asked a few weeks ago my rating of the establishment, I would have spoken about them in high regard
Fantastic experience: Great staff, some good equipment. Will clearly be great when the new facilities are open.
Negative experience: Reduced hours Monday - Friday 5.00 pm - 9.00 pm Saturdays and Sundays closed what's the point keeping it opened. I remember years ago when people use to bring their dogs for these dogs competitions use to stink very bad.
Negative experience: I've given it 2 star as compared to other gyms it is very expensive. They need to be in line with other gyms and bring in more equipment. Otherwise not a bad gym.
Positive experience: Played a bit of badminton with my goddaughter. We had a good time.
Positive experience: Good Clean
Positive experience: Badminton court light was not good.
Positive experience: Opening hours no good since lock down, 5.30 pm to 10.00 pm
Positive experience: The badminton courts are not the original size and are slightly smaller than normal.
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and welcoming environment.
Fantastic experience: Good badminton Court
Positive experience: Good for training in the gym, not much equipment but the basic is there
Positive experience: Warley Weightlifting Club is the best, great coaching.
Fantastic experience: Nice and clean Park
Fantastic experience: Iv been coming here since i was in school love the place love the people
Positive experience: Great space to play, however for badminton the ceiling has bars which reach way too low
Positive experience: Great sports hall for wheel chair basketball, roller derby and badminton. And room for table tennis. Friendly staff. Ample easy parking ... Not 5* doesn't have basketball hoops, only book things 7 days in advance, no email confirmation of booking and no air con and heating is on all the time
Positive experience: Nicely run and a good place for courts ...just wish the showers would be cleaner and not as smelly!
Positive experience: Good
Positive experience: Plenty of badminton courts
Fantastic experience: Very nice gym, with a wide variety of facilities and activities available . The staff here are also exceptionally nice and more than willing to help you with any questions or queries. There are a variety of halls and gyms that allow you to keep fit and enjoy yourself. The parking here is also free and there is plenty of space.
Fantastic experience: I loved the badminton but could be longer
Fantastic experience: Brilliant
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, lots of facilities
Positive experience: Meh
Fantastic experience: Gaspa had a great game
Fantastic experience:
Positive experience: Nice
Fantastic experience: Very good on time
Negative experience: Ladies gym is not worth the price. I joined due to the fact that it's close by to my house and was convenient. After closing the gym for over two weeks in December (time of my membership that I still had to pay for), I came back to discover they did not repair the heating - the main reason why they shut down in the first place. The entire ladies gym (which consists of 2 small rooms and very basic equipment) is now absolutely freezing. Those are not appropriate conditions for any workout and they now refuse to let me cancel my membership without paying for another 10 months.
Negative experience: Not much going on in this place. Need a major refurbished. They have Olympic weightlifting club and they charge £30per month for coaching or £10/session.
Fantastic experience: Staff very friendly
Positive experience: It's an old and outdated leisure centre
Positive experience: Good
Fantastic experience: A leisure centre that I have been using for many years. Good community
Positive experience: Can always get a squash court, reasonably priced too
Positive experience: Badminton courts are usually always available. Can buy shuttlecocks and squash balls too
Positive experience: Very friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Local, clean and friendly
Positive experience: Great indoor facilities for badminton
Positive experience: Not the best place due to its age, poor lighting, inconvenient noisey doors leading into the main hall and allowing people to walk through and dated layout. The low metal trusses, old boxing ring lamps, and low ducting make playing badminton difficult. Lack of improvements over the years will lead to it's ultimate closure. Why 3 stars well if you want a good game with people that love badminton the surroundings are something that are overcome.
Positive experience: Great ladies only gym.
Fantastic experience: Great space for dog shows
Fantastic experience: Very accessible
Positive experience: so so
Fantastic experience: Great place for the weightlifting competition I went too
Negative experience: Very expensive. Don't need heating I'm badminton court.
Positive experience: The facility is a bit dated but fully equipped with adequate equipment and pleasant staff.
Fantastic experience: Fab classes fab staff great equipment
Fantastic experience: Women's only gym. Brilliant.
Positive experience: Friendly staff. Good facilities. Some parts look a little old and worn
Positive experience: Help keep the youth's out of trouble
Fantastic experience: Good sports centre
Negative experience: Good center
Positive experience: Nice centre with different amenities and classes but the building it's showing its age. Friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Leisure time!!!
Positive experience: Old and worn down
Fantastic experience: My second home
Fantastic experience: Love the place. We skate here twice a week, and it's a clean, friendly venue.
Positive experience: leisure centre has to offer alot .. but i only play badminton
Positive experience: Great for badminton squash of the gym
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