Barry Leisure Centre

Love the facilities available here. The staff are all friendly and always happy to help. Joined the gym about two years ago, and the are constanly updating and introducing new things like the trixster bikes and easy-​line classes, which are specially run for GP referrals too. The swimming and sauna room facilities are good too, the changing rooms are always clean and if not, they clean up rapidly when asked. Bring the grand kids in the holidays, well worth it.

Great Leisure Centre for all sporting and fitness needs. Also has a newly refurbished Health Suite. I was a regular user of the gym until they re-​arranged the machines so that the trixter bikes face mirrors — really off putting and now I go elsewhere.
However, the 25m pool and the childrens pool are great and you can hire courts for badminton sessions quite cheaply too. If you just want the one court, you can request the small hall so it’s a little more private too.
I must point out though that this isn’t located in Barry Island but close to Barry town centre.

Barry Leisure Centre. I remember somebody once saying they didn’t even know Barry had a leisure centre! Well you might be surprised to find that it does and it’s a decent leisure centre too. It has a swimming pool, indoor squash and badminton courts, table tennis and Basketball courses. There is something for everybody here.
Barry Leisure centre also has a fitness gym that offers memberships starting from £23 per month but if you are not sure about the gym you could always try it out before becoming a member where you can pay just £4.70 for a workout at off-​peak times and £5.80 at peak times. Everyone I know who uses the gym highly recommends it as they have all the equipment that will suit your needs. If you were serious about joining then they will try and get you to become a ‘FreeStyle member’, which I’m told is worth going for. As for prices for the rest of the centre they vary between the peak times. The Leisure centres within the Vale area roughly have a similar price and the website provides all the details.
Barry Leisure Centre is a great centre to work out at the gym, play some squash or badminton and even enjoy a swim in the pool they have. They also have a variety of clubs and courses you could join. Now let’s all go for a swim!

I used to work very close to this leisure centre, so tried it out a few times for pilates and other exercise classes. It’s a friendly place, with good facilities, and my only gripe would be that the changing rooms and showers offer no privacy! I don’t know about you, but I don’t really fancy bumping into one of my colleagues naked in the changing rooms…
If that doesn’t bother you, however, the centre has a good range of activities on offer. Classes include aqua aerobics, circuit training, Tone & Stretch, Pilates, Cardio Tone, Body Blast, Boxfit, and Young at Heart (for older people) — amongst many others.
In addition to the regular classes in the main sports hall area, there are swimming pools (a main pool and a small pool, with reasonable prices), plus there’s a gym, squash courts, and a health suite (which includes a steam room and a sauna).

Barry leisure is my local and as a lifestyle member I get to use all the facilities of the three participating leisure centers. The best thing about Barry is the fact that there are at least three pilates classes a week and as someone who only deals with really low impact exercise you can see how this would appeal. For the less lazy, there is cardio, circuits and aerobics.
Like the other two centers you’ll find a decent sized pool and a health suite with sauna, steam room and jacuzzi as well as sunbeds and of course the obligatory water slide.
A local leisure center is great for just dropping in without paying a hefty annual fee, a much underrated service in my opinion.

We took our daughters swimming at the leisure centre a few months ago and they loved it. Outside the centre there is parking for you. It was quite cheap for us all to go swimming. There is a nice clean unisex changing room which has cubicles that you can go into if you would rather. There are two seperate swimming pools. One is for the older children and adults the water this side is obviously a lot deeper. Then the other pool is for the children or adults who are there with there children. This pool was very warm it has small steps under the water leading you into it so you can tell how deep it is. Being honest it isn’t that deep or that big but is perfect for your children to swim round in. This room has decorations and pictures on the roof and windows. The theme is the beach so there is craps and jellyfish and pretend seagulls on the roof. A life guard sits on the side between the pools to make sure everyone is safe. There is also a big blue flume slide between the pools this leads into a small bit of water the slide is very safe and organised. Overall a great swimming pool which your child will enjoy.