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Quick Fit !

Advantages: Welcoming, homely, well-run
Disadvantages: Expensive if you do not use it a lot

...heart crisis seemed likely. Esporta Belfast opened not too far away from home, and a caller at the house offered a month's trial for £20. I was there in a jiffy ! 2 ~~~~~~~~~~The Hurdles~~~~~~~~~ Time was still a hurdle. No extra hours had been added to my days! But an early start proved to be the answer - at 7.15 am there are few folk in the gym and fewer on my phone ! Being a creature of habit was another hurdle, and I knew that this had ...
...least half the people in Esporta Belfast, are there with the same needs as myself.! 3 ~~~~~~~~~~The Surroundings~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Esporta Belfast is very easy to reach - traffic permitting, being very close to the City Airport, the Holywood Exchange and Tesco ! It is set in its own grounds with green fields and a little wood surrounding three sides. There is plenty of parking and I have never seen it more than three quarters full. The foyer ...

trevorbrock 14.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Esporta Club, Belfast

La Fitness - LAzy Management.

Advantages: Good instructors
Disadvantages: Poor management/maintainance.

...have been a member of LA Fitness Belfast for two years and what was once one of the best places to be a member has now become a total disgrace. Over the last six months the facilities have become worse and worse. Examples : A Spa that doesn't work very often - its currently cover over with a cover as its so disguting looking. A Steam Room that isn't working properly, A Sauna where it has taken 2 months two put a light bulb in and its not the ...
...taken away and never replaced - the one in the Ladies room is fine. The shower system has not work correctly for over three months and its still being fixed. Either the manager needs replaced or the maintenance person/people need replaced. Only good thing about the place now (besides being close to my workplace !) is that the instructors are good. Take my advice don't join unless you get a good reduction or proof that they have fixed everything. ...

JMcB 07.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of LA Fitness, Belfast

Anyone NOT for tennis ?

Advantages: Easily accessible, good facilities and nice staff
Disadvantages: Cost - unless you use it well

Gym memberships appeal to two groups of people - those who want to impress others with their affluence and those who are desperate to improve fitness. I am in the latter, and reckon it is good value. Why ? Lloyd's in Belfast is in a great location, close to the Dundonald Ice Bowl, and on a nice green field site. It has pleasant outlooks and plenty of parking room - which is a secure, card-operated facility. Inside, the spacious entrance area ...
...courts, pools and gym. Racquets courts - if you are for tennis after all, the courts are vast indoor areas as well as some outdoor courts, plus squash, badminton and table-tennis facilities. Swimming facilities include a large indoor pool, a smaller, heated outdoor pool, spa, sauna and steam room, all accessible from the changing rooms which are used for the rest of the facilities. ( I have been in other clubs where that is not the case, and it ...

trevorbrock 19.03.2005 · Read full review
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Review of David Lloyd Clubs, Belfast

Don't join

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Facilities

...has meant that companies like LA Fitness continue to operate when they ought to shrivel up and dissappear. This club is awful! Showers are closed, though if you were to go inside them you would find broken floor tiles and a leaking roof. The exercise studio features a leaking roof and lots of 'feature' puddles that gym instrutors need to warn of, just in case a member falls. The club is like an unwanted puppy - neglected, tired and in need of some ...
...complete the much promised £1m refurbishment as its unusable at present. It's a shame as I have been a member for many years and used to love it - a really friendly and and intimate club, which under the 'new' ownership of LA Fitness has been run into the ground. ...

busymummy1972 11.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of LA Fitness- Northolt (Dragons)

Membership Relations are ruthless and to be frank; dishonest

Advantages: Good tennis
Disadvantages: Price don't offer value, dishonest membership relations staff

REVIEW OF DAVID LLOYDS, CARDIFF The club is best described as having two sides, a good and a bad. Firstly The Bad: AND THIS OUGHT TO HAVE A WEALTH WARNING: The office staff, in charge of Membership Relations, are ruthless and to be frank; very very dishonest! The club ties the members into very long contracts (currently 6 or 12 months notice) and does not adhere to it’s own contract with regards to price increases, 14a & 14b of the contract in ...
...trick in the book when you want to leave the club or hand in your notice. The membership manager, Michelle Morgan, will even insist that she does not receive emails as notice of resignation or retraction, depending on what benefits them, of course. This trick is just to get you paying for a few more months more than you otherwise would have. Of course, they will not tell you this until the date has passed and you are into the next full paying month. ...

Artexy 06.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of David Lloyd Clubs, Cardiff