Club Esportiu Mediterrani in Sants-Montjuïc (Barcelona)

Club Esportiu Mediterrani, in Sants-Montjuïc, is a historic swimming club with excellent pools, including a summer outdoor pool, a spa and a large, recently renovated fitness room with new, clean machines connected to an app that guides and tracks your workouts. Swimmers describe it as one of the best swimming clubs in Barcelona, and several members find the gym very well equipped. The recent changes under the new management divide members. Some regret the heavy digitalisation, with access only via a wristband and services booked through an app, a spa that requires reservations and afternoon classes always full with waiting lists. Others feel the club is losing its neighbourhood spirit, with a new fitness room designed almost entirely around machines and not for older people or functional training. The changing rooms and lockers are old and worn for the price, and some mention members who refuse to share machines. Excellent pools and modern machines, in a club still adapting to its transformation.