June 2025 by Christine Lowne
I returned to life lesuire last week after not attending for about 20 years - the place is absolutely filthy !!
I know it?s an old building but toilets changing rooms and showers are still broken and not fit for purpose. The pool itself is ok although quite cold but health suite closed for foreseeable and paying a membership dosent seem satisfactory- management need to get their act together and sort this out ASAP .
March 2025 by Rachel Vickers
Definitely needs upgrading! Very dirty changing rooms and toilets. The water is freezing for babies and children
March 2025 by Andrew Bowden
I've been swimming here for years and the pool is fine, but yeah, there's no denying the changing rooms are falling to bits and need a complete revamp - preferably with more showers and better drainage. The toilets regularly smell. Many cubicle doors need new locks. Life Leisure and Stockport Council have invested in refurbishing the changing facilities at other sites. I can only hope they're working out a plan for Grand Central because they really need to do something soon.
You do need a padlock for the lockers which I get annoys some people. But I'll say this - before when it was "old pound coins" it was very common for wristbands to be broken or missing, or the locks to be simply broken. I can remember one visit where I struggled to even find a locker that was usable! Since they moved to padlocks, most of the lockers are actually usable!
In the summer of 2024 they had problems with the boom that splits the pool in half (into two 25m pools), so you regularly have to swim width-ways which is annoying and isn't helped in the evenings by the swimming club regularly trying to raid the public swim space. It's far better on the 50m swim sessions. They do sometimes let you in the other half if it's not being used for school lessons or by Stockport Metro, but that's not often.
It needs to be fixed, but it's been like this for months now.
March 2025 by Nicolle Mason
Absolutely filthy.
March 2025 by Katarzyna Wronska Jee
It?s in a state of disrepair and it?s absolutely filthy. Don?t bring your kids in here unless you want to spend next couple of weeks visiting doctors. Lifts are out of order every other week. There is no lockers where you can actually lock your belongings so good luck leaving anything there. There is a crazy amount of sand in jacuzzi as well, I don?t think anyone ever cleans this place
February 2025 by Christina
Shame I can?t give a 0 rating. The worse experience of my life. Had to wipe my feet on the way out. Dated, tired and dirty facilities and changing rooms. I would honestly avoid at all costs. Only came here because my usual gym is currently closed. The manager needs to be sacked. No way a manager can run a premises in such disgrace. They should be cleaning the toilets in there not managing the place!
February 2025 by Lb
The facilities are actually decent it?s all just dirty, the building itself looks depressing and tacky. The staff are nice, the company can seem sinister, make sure you read the Ts and Cs as they create loopholes like any other company.
February 2025 by Rosalyn Dawson
It?s just not clean. The toilets and changing rooms need a deep clean. Then when the attendants ?clean? them, it needs mopping, the whole toilet area needs cleaning. It?s so gross that this is never done. I have to come here 4 times a week for my daughters swim club and it never improves. Not even after the refurbed toilets. They didn?t clean it before or after this and new doors won?t sort out dirty floors and toilets.
February 2025 by Dionne Davies
As it?s my friends birthday month she received a free weeks pass to give to a friend. I used it for the classes and health suite which I enjoyed. I also had a kick start session with Oliver. He asked me what I wanted to gain from the session - I wanted to have a tour of the gym, he showed me how their gym equipment works & he talked me through the boditrax machine. I couldn?t recommend this session with Oliver enough. He was really thorough and took his time to explain everything to me and it wasn?t rushed. Overall I felt welcomed whereas other gyms (not life leisure) I have been to have felt the opposite to the point where I didn?t want to go to the gym due to the atmosphere. I am now going to join this hub?
January 2025 by Jones Jones
new "refurb" is pretty dissapointing. Yeah it looks good but the gym has less equipment than before and the quality is no better. May as well go to pure gym or gym group as they have more equipment and are 24/7. Very silly decisions being made.
January 2025 by Daniel Davies
Clean, pleasant experience
November 2024 by michael davies
I take my son here for the swim and slides and he always enjoys it.
Two nice slides and a big pool aswell as the splash zone. I have to say it hasnt changed much since I was a kid so could do with a makeover, especially the changing area which is a bit manky. The duration of the swim and slides should always be at least 1.5 hours. 1 hour isn't enough so not sure why it changes sometimes. All in all it's a decent place to go though.
November 2024 by Carl Bavister
It wasn't made clear you need a padlock for the lockers ....
November 2024 by Ramzi Razeq
Very nice pool, lovely staff to deal with, thank you ?
November 2024 by Sophia b
Good facilities, the staff are friendly. Can get quite busy and therefore crowded as there may not be enough changing areas but otherwise good!
