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Get fit!!

Advantages: activities, cleanliness, very large, great customer service
Disadvantages: price slightly high

i attended virgin active a few months back now and after being shown around i become a member. The facilities available in the gym are absolutely fantastic, these include swimming pool, weights, CV equipment, Yoga equipment, Sauna, Steam room, Tanning beds, and a variet of classes such as boxing, cycling, circuits and light weights yoga, so everything for everyone really!! The layout is very good i think, and the cleanliness and space of the changing ...
...have kids there is a club they can be taken care off and they can also partipate in kids events such as birthday parties, classes, football, swimming and many more. If anyone enjoys the gym i would recommend Virgin as it has everything you or your family could need. ...

jayrhodes89 22.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Virgin Active Fitness Club, London

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Some tips to avoid being ripped off at gyms

Advantages: This will save you a fortune
Disadvantages: how to work out what to spend the money you've saved on.

Here's some inside info on Fitness First and how to get the upper hand: Follow these rules to get the best membership rates. 1) suggest you really keen to join TODAY but you don't want to pay the joining fee. FF sales staff are not targetted on joining fee's so will waver this completely if they think you will join that day. 2) You will always have to pay the admin fee, this is a clever fee designed by the fitness industry as a whole to get more ...
...to DOES NOT have a fitness first within a 5 MILE radius. Its in the contract so make use of it. c) if you suffer injury and cannot train you can legally terminate you membership provided you have a doctors note.........good time to be friends with someone in the NHS or medical student. Lastley if you work for a big company, you can get a free membership at FF if you negotiate a deal with the sales staff to Promote FF within your company. This is ...

Logan33 29.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Fitness First, Holloway, London

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Esporta took nearly £400 without telling me

Advantages: Good enough if you don't mind having money removed from your account against your will
Disadvantages: Similar to the disadvantages of being mugged

I was a member of Esporta Islington for a year or so and was reasonably satisfied with their facilities. I then broke my arm and suspended my membership. A year and a half later I noticed unexpected withdrawals from my bank account. It was Esporta - they had reactiveated my account without telling me and removed almost £400 over 6 months before I had noticed. I complained to Esporta and despite the fact that I had not made a single visit to their ...
...active) they REFUSED to re-credit the fees. They said that the contract I had signed allowed them to make the charges. They claimed that they had written to me, but no such letter was received. I was shocked by the behaviour of this supposedly reputable gym and would strongly recommend you find somewhere else to get fit. ...

rbdavis 15.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Esporta Club, Islington, London

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Poor customer service from Head Office. Broken and cold showers

Advantages: variety of fitness classes, pool
Disadvantages: lack of lockers, lack of usable showers, cramped fitness classes

...services, using all threatening manners to extract payment from you because they say you have signed an agreement, but then they themselves fail to fulfil their side of the agreement. I would not use this gym again and do not recommend the the London Wall branch of LA Fitness ...

vickylondon 29.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of LA Fitness, Holborn, London

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LA Fitness gave us more stress ...

Advantages: More Stress
Disadvantages: Careless, not available managers, No hot water, dirty ...

We came to LA Fitness to get out of our stressful life but almost every time that we used the gym there was enough problems in this gym to give us stress so why bother to come to LA Fitness after this contract finishes? Here is a letter I have sent to LA Fitness complain email address below(member.relations@lafitness.co.uk) and will let you know the result: Date: 07 February 2008 ED13154 Dear Sir / Madam I have joined the Edgware brunch from ...
...to trust the managers of LA Fitness and therefore LA Fitness is not organised properly otherwise it wouldn't employ managers that making those mistakes or maybe this is the way you could get money out of people. Here is my complain, my brother did not come to the gym whole December and January at all but you have charged him for December and January and February the total of £120 and it was all your fault not ours. We came to LA Fitness to get ...

Parkook 07.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of LA Fitness, Aldgate, London

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