David Lloyd Members

Have a look at the fb page. Some very unhappy people. They're quiet clear 25% to freeze.

And of course if you cancel it’s a 3 month notice period. Though I do reckon there’s an argument that the facilities have changed so much we should be allowed to immediately cancel. But it will be a fight and I imagine they will take people to small claims court if they just stop their membership.

I’m really unhappy. We’ve had no communication apart from the fact they reopen on the 25th. We’ve had no outdoor classes as no space.

Indoor classes are obviously going to be severely limited capacity, probably 5 per class unless govt guidelines change. Even if they do our studios are tiny and with social distancing will maybe only fit 8 in.

If you freeze your membership you have to pay 25%. I think it will be a major struggle to get in a class. So I either pay £110 a month and can’t do any classes but could possibly use the gym (which I never do) or pay £30 a month and not allowed in.

Oh and they’ve scrapped all Les Mills classes apart from bodypump, they’ve stopped paying for the licences. All the classes are going to be run by their in house instructors,,,,,which in my experience are always consistently shit. All they ever do is circuits, legs bums and tums or a core class. And they’re always rubbish.

We have had outdoor classes. They’ve been great. Unfortunately, I’ve heard that our club won’t be running them after July 24th. Not sure I fancy sweating it out in a Spin studio right now with no fresh air! Ditto Blaze - I definitely won’t be going in there!

My concern is that we go as a family and as you mention it's a lot of money if it's not going to be used fully.

We pay about £310 I think for 2 a 4 children and want to be able to use it fully.

The kids really miss the swimming pool!

Some members in our DL have said they can extend freeze until 1 September?

We have emailed but not heard back yet

We got offered the vouchers too for March.

We’ve been offered a choice of refund for March - either PT vouchers, bar credit, guest passes, a donation to the club or cash refund. It came by email a few weeks ago. I assumed it was central and not just our club.

Funny that they're happy to take payment for the 7 days in July knowing full well loads of people won't even be going, but no word of what's happening about the 11 days in March that have been paid for but unused due to closing.

My DL emailed saying that they would only be taking 7 days membership fee on the 24th of July ,full fees from beginning of August.

Ours has had outdoor facilities open too but we haven't bothered going. Considering they have an app they could easily do booking for the pools and gym which would make life a lot easier for everyone. I don't want to be getting 2 kids ready to go swimming, including timing feeds for a newborn, only to turn up and be told they're full.

I think we're going to try and cancel to be honest.

@NerrSnerr I'm also torn and don't know what to do. We too pay a family membership and even before it was already hard to find slots, now it will be impossible.

I emailed them yesterday about the pool and they’ve said they won’t be doing bookings and they don’t expect it to get over capacity but it is first come first served.
I didn’t ask about gym as I don’t intend to use it for a bit but Im desperate for a swim!

They’re taking our fees again from I think August. Right now my centre is doing outside classes etc that you can book via the app and not pay for so assume that maybe everything will need to be booked.

@SpiltMilk100 i'm not at David Lloyd but my gym has said it will be advance bookings for the gym, pool and classes so they can control numbers. We don't have any more info than that at the moment though.

Yes had an email saying will be fully reopening the club but with reduced member and class capacity and increased cleaning etc. Not really sure if we want to continue our membership either but it's 3 months notice which is a lot of money when we probably won't be going. They haven't given any indication they will allow people to cancel for no charge or 1 months fee which is mor acceptable. I just don't see how it's going to work with reduced capacity, what if I go and they're full when I get there? Will I be expected to qué as if I'm going in the supermarket?