1 / 3Broadway Baths
📍 Manchester, North West
23-metre, 4-lane community pool in New Moston built in 1932. Non-profit facility offering swimming lessons, aqua aerobics, family sessions, sauna, and gym. Free parking available.
Best leisure centre around! Clean, well maintained and friendly staff. Excellent value for money. Highly recommend!
🏆 Family Action Verdict
Best for confident swimmers comfortable with a traditional, no-frills community pool. Families with young children should management of older visitors in the pool has drawn criticism, and facility maintenance has been inconsistent. The pool suits adults and independent swimmers most reliably — supervision of mixed-age sessions can be variable.
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💬 What Families Are Saying
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Lindsay Bosson
7 months ago
“Best leisure centre around! Clean, well maintained and friendly staff. Excellent value for money. Highly recommend!”
YiMan
a year ago
“I don't recommend using their services at all. You can't freeze your membership unless you're pregnant or you have a letter from your GP. This outrageous, forcing people to pay for a service they aren't using. When you join, they also ask you to pay a 15£ fee, which makes the total of 50£. I've never heard in my life a company to tell you: you can't freeze your membership unless you're pregnant or physically ill." And besides, their dumbell area in this center is very small, and the bikes aren't very stable.”
Natalie Isaacs
a year ago
“Started really well 2 adults 2 kids and a baby went in after about 30 mins adult and baby got out as the 2 kids are good swimmers and we was sat at the side member of staff told us they not to come out because they was in the shallow end and wasn’t swimming so he didn’t think they where good swimmers 1st they did lessons at the centre as well as school and what kids go swimming to actually swim they go to have fun in the water. Payed for an hour and didn’t even get that full time.”
Arron M
7 years ago
“Previously gave this a 5 but today have had to edit and downgrade to a 1 due to the standards slipping so much in the last couple of months. Staff power washing the dirty floors into the pool while swimmers still using. Gym equipment broken and never being replaced. Gym machines being broken and taking months to be repaired. And now the steam room is also broken! Floors in changing rooms not being cleaned regularly. Staff not cleaning gym area enough. Weights and benches being left everywhere which means you have to spend 10 minutes cleaning up after other people to make space - before you have even started your workout. No management or supervisor available to discuss this apparently (until 6pm tonight - 7 hours after my visit) but happy to charge full membership even though full equipment / facilities not available. Don't know what is happening here but not the place it was.”
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Overview
Broadway Baths is a non-profit 1932 heritage facility featuring a 23-metre, 4-lane pool, fully equipped gym, sauna, and steam room. Programmes include swimming lessons, aqua aerobics, family sessions, and kids' activities. Free parking and pram access are available. Membership plans are on offer alongside casual entry.







