I was lured into a one-year membership in this club which, as I realised shortly after I joined, was a huge mistake. The gym was awful – small, stuffy and claustrophobic. The swimming pool looked old and warn-out. I took a session with a personal trainer which cost me an additional (and quite big) amount of money and ended up sick for two weeks as the trainer, in my view, completely miscalculated the amount of pressure I could endure (despite of ... ...goer). That completely put me off going there.
Beware that their one-year service contract is designed to effectively keep you hooked for a term longer than one year. I paid in full for the entire year of my membership (during which I visited less than 10 times). However, the cancellation notice which I mailed to them a month prior to the end of the one-year term was apparently lost and they continued charging me beyond the one-year term and bombarding ...
Ksenya_2009 15.07.2009
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Having had basically the same experience as vailwilliams, I am in the process of attempting to cancel my membership after not receiving the level of service, standards of cleanliness, lack of good repair of machines and general bad management of this club. ...
chriseccles78 10.12.2008
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I had the misfortune of joining this awful gym and I ended up having to pay for two gyms as it was impossible to cancel my membership. Be aware you are essentially buying into a credit agreement. I was an idiot and didn't read the small print. The gym itself was dreadful, small and claustrophobic and the worst thing is that they had put a portable aircon unit from the spin class in the room on an upper level, so the unit was pumping out the filthy ... ...(with the exception of one or two) looked totally miserable and the manager I spoke too was rude and bordering on arrogant. The customer care ethic in this company sucks. My experience with this gym actually put me off going to a gym at all! Not a place to go chill out after a hard day in the office. ...
vailwilliams 09.01.2008
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