David Lloyd

I pay £160 for my platinum membership and £40 for my 3 year old DD at a David Lloyd club in the south east and we both love it. My DD attends the kids classes 3/4 times a week plus swimming once a week and I use the gym 4-5 times a week so we definitely get our moneys worth. I find my club to be clean and everything is in good working order, the food in the restaurant is healthy and varied. The only downside is how busy it is now and parking is a nightmare.

Your children go to gym classes 2 hours each day. Really. That's obscene if true.

I wouldn't go anywhere near David Lloyd. https://democracythree.org/help-emma-sue-david-lloyd This is not a one off by any means. In Kingston Upon Thames there's a man who changes in the women's changing rooms (from his MALE clothes) and in to a bralet. He sits around the swimming pool...watching. David Lloyd allow this to happen. Lots of women leaving. If there's a Ballantyne gym near you that's the safest one to go to. DB won't allow perverted men in to women's spaces.

Ah okay. Even so, not something I care about personally so probably wouldn’t notice anyway, I always use a cubicle for changing.

Same here. And closes at 10pm in the week when it used to be 11.

@QuintanaRoo interesting that you mention pre-COVID opening hours. I’m sure that our club used to close at 9pm on Sundays, but it’s definitely 8pm now, which is a shame, I regularly enjoyed a Sunday evening swim/steam.

There was an article with the CEO last week saying basically they’re going to keep raising prices as their customers say they want even more luxury and even better facilities. So more spas coming and price rises to fund it.

makes me laugh, I’d settle for non leaking ceilings, clean changing rooms, going back to pre covid opening hours and a better timetable but they can’t even get that right.

I'm a platinum peak time member and it's £149 a month. My club is one of the mid range ones in the south east, so I dread to think how much the premium ones are.

I wouldn’t join again, I paid a lump sum for the year, approx 3.5k for 3 adults 1 child, this was 2019, ish, I think. But I’d been a member for a few years
before too. Full racquets contract. The pool was always dingy and dark, the food really substandard, it just didn’t have that wow factor I was hoping (and paying) for. I might reconsider if I move and my local on has an outdoor pool, otherwise, no. Very overpriced.

our local one used to be great but is atrocious now. Maintenance issues and they've taken on too many members in general so the exclusive feel you pay for (easy parking, no queuing for machines, issues with spaces in classes or crowded pools, changing and coffee areas) is totally gone. However, the premium prices remain. Most people I know who were original members when our local club opened 15ish yrs ago, have left because it is such an outrageous rip off.

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@TheChosenTwo i suspect you do have mixed sex changing rooms - their policy is if a male member feels the women’s changing rooms better suit his gender identity then he is free to use them. You won’t know until it happens at your gym.

@HunterHearstHelmsley Mine is nearly £100! I emailed this year about the price and was told pay it or leave!They are money grabbing,I only stay because I swim outside every day.

It's definitely old as "Vantage" hasn't been a thing for years!

Side note, I'm under 65 and pay significantly less than £73.50

It’s great for me tbh, I swim a lot and use the spa, do spin classes but none of the others really although I’ve given many of them a go over the years.
Expensive but I get enough use from it that I’m okay with it, it’s less than a mile away.
The one I go to is spotless, there are always cleaners, staff on the gym floor, no mixed sex changing rooms either. Never not been able to get a towel.
Plenty of classes available, good booking system.
Ds comes with me to the gym sometimes and we’ve done a few family Blaze sessions, we also swim a lot together during the school holidays.
Dh is also a member and rarely uses it but keeps the membership because he does like a steam and sauna. He and ds also sometimes go and play tennis.
Think we pay £280 for the three of us. Dds used to also be members but they aren’t anymore as they like going to the gym with a friend and none of their friends were members so they now use a PureGym or one of those 24 hour ones.
Nuffield near me doesn’t allow children but I’m not sure if that’s a nationwide policy.
weve been members for about 10 years now and I’ve never had a gripe with it, plenty of machines and they are constantly updating the facilities and the spa is fantastic.

Ah yes, i’ve just checked the price list and it’s quite out of date!

@ConnorBevan Well that price list must be years old! I am over 65 and I pay way more than £73.50 monthly! Clearly you work for DL,so can you explain!

Mine would probably be c.£200 just for me. I think it went up c 10% per year and got too much for what wasn't a great experience.

I now go to Nuffield for a quarter of the price and am consciously happy there and the staff are lovely, everyone of them.

I can't believe I wasted something time and money at DL when the Nuffield (which I drove past to get to DL) was so much better.

@ConnorBevan i am guessing you work at David Lloyd?

£130 a month at my local. Too expensive for me

We joined a few months ago and are disappointed. The facilities are nice and as expected but the kid's classes are rubbish and my kids refuse to go

Just to add, my eldest is approaching 18. When he is 18 the monthly fee goes up to £265.

It's borderline not worth it.

Wow. Unbelievable - thanks for mentioning this, I was just about to sign up which I won’t be doing now.

I live quite near you, we pay £185 for 2 adults, standard membership, no racquets. I don’t want to sound snobby either, but I find the price does a good job of excluding the members you wouldn’t want!

A couple of years ago we couldn’t go away due to one of my parents needing to be supported through a massive op. We had DL membership for 3 months so we could use the outdoor pool, it was epic. It was £104 monthly for me and around £30 for each child, so sadly not affordable long term. I thought the swimming facilities and classes were excellent. However the gym itself is no better than my local PureGym, which is around £15 a month!