For those who remember this gym used to be called LA Fitness.
Firstly I have to say the music constantly played here over the loud speakers is very distasteful in every sense of the word. And at such a high volume you cannot hear your own music on your ipod or iphone music players. Not everyone wants to hear 'gangsta rap, grime rap, driller rap music' every time they come in to workout. Who ever is in charge of the music playlist here is not a customer minded person whats so ever they have their own agenda going on.
One thing we all now know about Sports Direct or anything to do with the company is that it peddles 'cheap' products in large quantities. Sadly this gym is clearly evident of this, there's no quality here, just a very large quantity of members due to the membership cost per month now being peanuts to join.
As a result of this lack of quality, there are visibly a lot of long term broken machines that haven't been fixed dotted around the place.
Around the swimming pool area there are always loose fitted sharp broken uncemented floor tiles missing, constant cold showers.
The pool area is a small area. And there's a regular struggle to get a decent unobstructed swim in the pool most of the time, either due to children with families or other classes causing obstructions or people disobeying the rules, diving , jumping in.
The staff don't do anything about it, nor enforce any policies or timetable scheduling.
The steam room is mostly always out of order either to poor maintenance or members damaging the components of it, trying to get it to produce immediate steam instead of letting it work naturally. Again this room has been, is used by young children unsupervised on many occasions.
The jacuzzi is also out of bounds on a regular basis. When it does work young children are seen using it at their parents approval, when clearly the rules state they're not to.
There is always a queue to use the small sauna. Which is in need of a good disenfecting and cleaning.
The cheap membership monthly fees have helped to ruin this sporting facility. Not to mention the disrespectful members who take liberties in the facility.
Sometimes you have to wonder if its actually worth coming here?
My advice is if you can afford to pay a little extra membership and go somewhere else where there is a quality clean respectful feel about the place, where there is tasteful music played at an audible background volume level, whereby rules are enforced properly by the staff, workout machines are maintained properly and heat rooms maintained and sanitised regularly then try somewhere a little upmarket, because this gym doesn't meet any of the above.
The cheaper option in life is not always the best, you'll be sorely disappointed coming here.