What is your gym costing you?

[Furbo]

Our David Lloyd membership has just gone from £300 to £482, due to an annual increase and a child turning eighteen.

I took off my eldest child when they went to uni, to save money. It would otherwise be around £650 I think.

It is too much; I've given them notice. It especially doesn't seem like value when the place is now overrun with oiks who don't know how to behave, share space or use a toilet.

However, perhaps I am out of touch and that is all quite reasonable.

It's a Midlands-based club.

Any comparisons?

[craig1912]

Is that a month?

Ours is £750pa everything included (two people)

[Scabutz]

I have Platinum at a Tier 1 David Lloyd. Its now £230/month for a single adult individual membership

[Sheets Tabuer]

Per month? my gym is £480 per year

[Furbo]

craig1912 said:

Is that a month?

Ours is £750pa everything included (two people)

Yes per month.

[markymarkthree]

£14.99 per month.
However I can only go there between 1000hrs & 1400hrs Mon / Fri . I can if I fancy rock up at 1355hrs and have a work out.

[horsemeatscandal]

I had no idea you could pay that much for a gym.

[biggbn]

£35 per month, 24hr access, two of us

[cts1975]

Brio Leisure £45 per month for two of us.

[WH16]

I train at home. Most of the big spends are done and accounted for, but we still add new bits here and there. Probably a few hundred a year.

Our family swim/spa membership though is over £2k pa. Terrible VFM to be honest, and won't be renewing.

I've never been in one, but AIUI David Lloyd offer a bit more in addition to the gym, like sports courts, sauna, steam etc. right?

[Sheets Tabuer]

horsemeatscandal said:

I had no idea you could pay that much for a gym.

Indeed for 480 I'd want someone lifting the weights for me.

[Hoofy]

WH16 said:

I've never been in one, but AIUI David Lloyd offer a bit more in addition to the gym, like sports courts, sauna, steam etc. right?

Depends. It's tiered so using the tennis club was quoted as an extra £50pm on top of the £120pm. The weights bit was impressive, mind; lots and lots of plates and proper plate lifting kit/machines, and many stations, not just the usual cable-based weight machines you see in budget gyms (but they also had plenty of cable-based machines for the mummies of overworked execs).

Furbo said:

It is too much; I've given them notice. It especially doesn't seem like value when the place is now overrun with oiks who don't know how to behave, share space or use a toilet.

That would definitely put me off. If I'm paying over £150pm I'd expect it to be a nice place to attend and otherwise I might as well just attend the usual big name brands charging £50pm.

[renmure]

Full membership at the Local DL club here including tennis and everything is £69/month. Until today, I thought that was a lot

[fourstardan]

I use a local town council gym thats 35 quid.

No spa facilities other than a water fountain a lack of eye candy and it's cramped but it's fine for me.

[Leicester Loyal]

£482 a month for the gym? Christ, that's almost as much as my mortgage.

[njw1]

£37.50 a month at the local leisure centre for the gym, pool, sauna and steam room.

[HTP99]

My GM is a member of David Lloyd, he's doesn't pay anything like what's been quoted by the OP as he's on a friend's and family deal from a few years ago when his nephew worked there, however it's still circa £150 pm, come the school holidays all he does is moan about the amount of kids there.

He's a bit of a show off, he does like to tell people he's a member of David Lloyd.

[itcaptainslow]

I thought my £77 at the local Bannatynes was a lot! I justify it by the gym being conveniently located, and it's mostly lovely & quiet, with well maintained equipment and generally good people there, both staff and clientele.

Edited by itcaptainslow on Thursday 4th December 19:44

[grumbledoak]

I think mine is £60 per month. I only think that reasonable because it has a 25m pool. If it was just a gym I'd want to pay half that.

[Tickle]

£30 per month