Cheap(ish), but not very cheeful! A dingy basement gym in Whitechapel with no ventilation: smelly, hot, and busy. Equipment is okay but the free-weight area is small and the range of weights rather slim. If you were really keen, and on a budget, you might be able to put up with all of this. After one month, I decided life is too short and cancelled my membership which, by the way, is easier said than done...there is no simple way to do this via the website/app and the most straightforward thing to do is cancel the direct debit. A couple of days after cancelling, I received an email saying the gym was closed for maintenance (plumbing). A quick scan of other reviews shows that this is a recurring issue. Honestly, you'll have a better time buying a skipping rope and doing push-ups in the park. Save yourself £30 a month.
Equipment in the gym is good, disregarding the fact that the hygiene is bad, staff don’t wipe down equipment properly and there are stains left on benches after other gym members leave, locker rooms are not safe due to the extreme heat and bad smell, items aren’t safe and are normally stolen as there is no supervision or even cameras, toilets are not clean at all, normally wet floor, bad smell as always and the toilet paper is dirty. I hope the staff members would be a-bit more helpful in the gym, especially when asked for assistance, a male staff member, (looked Asian) which I asked for help during bench press ignored me to help another female member which was completely unacceptable and made me uncomfortable, I recommend other gyms due to this behaviour.
Been user and lover of puregym for over 3 years, having used a number of different puregym all around london. Can honestly say that this is the worst one I’ve been to. There is virtually no ventilation, the air is stuffy, smelling stale and sweaty. It’s so incredibly dark, you can barely see the other side of the gym, making it feel like an incredibly claustrophobic and demotivating environment - the changing rooms have better lighting despite being below ground level. Phone service is also shockingly bad as soon as you enter the main training area, and the wifi doesn’t work. Also have a squat rack / cage on padded floor which just doesn’t work if you’re deadlifting or squatting, and could be quite dangerous. Only have one water fountain also, which is right at the front of the gym, which is honestly just a pain to fill up water. Wouldn’t recommend. The only reason for the two stars is as it’s technically a usable gym with working equipment.
4+ days in a row the shower has been out of order. Most of the time at least two of them are out of order. Please do not join this gym. They are not bothered to fix it. They just want your membership fee. Gym manager can never be reached Check out my reviews @sheikh_babz #fit #fitness #gym #gymlife #health #healthy #london #muscle #snap #sport #sportlife #sports #spotlight #uk #unitedkingdom #whitechapel #workout
Gym is okay but the lockers in the locker room need to be looked at.. they weren’t locking for me and I tried a few different ones, as did some other people (we all have different padlocks, this isn’t the problem) but when I raised it to a member of staff he brushed it off to the fact that it just must be my padlock as the issue. I use the same padlock at multiple other PureGyms with no issues so don’t see why I should need to buy any other one just for the Whitechapel gym when the chances of having the same issue is very high. Atleast there should be a memo out warning people as the chances of theft in the locker rooms is quite high.
