Qype: Nuffield Health Centre in London

London - Sport - Leisure Centres


I did a trial here as I was in the market for a new leisure centre. Unfortunately it's not destined to be this one. While I did like aspects of this centre; free towels, great bathrooms, nice pool. It didn't help that most times I had to wait to use a machine, and two of the ones I did try claimed to be 'out of batteries'!

It's quite a small gym and I think it already has enough members without me needing to pile on too. I also didn't love the fact that the locker keys aren't on any bracelet (have the organisers not seen what other gyms have been doing to years?) so you have to carry the key in a pocket (not a common feature of gym clothes). I also had to get the change room assistant to help me on both visits to get my locker to open - one was a drop-kick-door-to-the-left affair and the other was a jiggle jiggle hold and twist. I don't have 10 minutes to fight with a locker door after and excercise and juding by the nice lady's 'don't worry, it happens ALL THE TIME' there are pretty good odss of this happening.

Nice to try new things, but for £77 a month, this is not the gym for me.

PS - unless you know London very well or have Radar you may never find this place. I had to call reception on the way in and they guided me in Harry Potteresque - don't leave the station, instead walk all the way down platform 8 and three quarters...

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