Bloomsbury Fitness

Really amazing service and good atmosphere. It is a little messy but that's expected in a university gym. Lots of weights and equipment!

Pretty mediocre gym - the place you go to because you're a UCL student and it's pretty cheap and on campus. It's pretty busy at all but the most obscure times. Opening times are OK but not great - 7:30 opening only 4 days/week is barely enough for a workout before 9am work or uni. The equipment is fine - there's about an even selection of machines and four free weight platforms, although some of the kit is quite worn especially the barbells are all pretty worn out. The showers/changing rooms are pretty shabby but can be used if needed male toilets lights not working/doors broken, moisture damage in showers,....

Used to be a great student gym, but since late 2019 went very downhill. The staff are relatively friendly and helpful still, however even for the cheap price it isn’t very worth it. The quality of the equipment has gone bad, it is quite damaged and not being fixed for extended periods of time. For example the lockers haven’t been fixed for the past 2-3 years and it took weeks to fix women’s toilets. The free weights are damaged and racked in unsafe manner. The gym gets very busy very quickly even at less busy times and people are very rude, especially guys. The sheer audacity of these guys to try to steal your space or equipment or force you to finish faster than you have wanted. When you try to defend yourself or speak to them that you are using something, they get very aggressive, rude and try to insult you or manipulate staff. I feel like no rules are being imposed in terms of use of the gym and wish I could speak to the manager to deal with these individuals. I don’t consider this gym as a safe space anymore, especially it has become unfriendly to women, novices or anyone.

A cheap student gym that is usually super overcrowded except for morning. Never expect the shower room to work. Try avoid unless you are really broke.

It’s home of UCL Team. It has a range of equipments and usually not that busy I never go during rush hour 5-7pm. They have great deals for students just ask at the reception. The range of classes they offer are great too including boxing, spinning and yoga and many more. I love it.

Facilities are old. AND LOW security, my bag and shoes are stolen there. But The workers there do nothing !!!

Pros: Cheap and right next to UCL Cons: Very hot, most of the lockers in the women's changing room are broken, as are the ladies toilets, not well ventilated at all and the opening hours aren't great.

Smells like a public toilet and there are some hours of some days which only women can be there. What about the other “ men “ which pay the same as those girls but no, we don’t have to complain. Even though there aren’t any girls but those time are to them. “ you have to leave “ or jus come later. So weird fight to equality when in the reality its so…

As most other reviewers have pointed out, you can expect this gym to start out at a base level of "overcrowded" and work up from there. I would typically head there first thing in the morning as it is barely worth it to go there in the evening time. It really is a tiny facility for what is supposed to be one of the top universities in the world. To add to this, the showers are regularly out of order gym staff never notify members in advance if this happens, causing people to turn up and have no option of a shower facility. The customer service is shoddy at best, any complaints would typically fall on deaf ears. The weights area is pretty pathetic, with a bare minimum of free weights while a dis-proportionally large area is given to bar weights/benches etc. Space for stretching and core work is minimal also. The only relatively positive aspect of the gym comes from the classes which are quite good and varied but, even then, their booking system is a shambles with many classes being overbooked and nothing being done about it. All in all, I'll be making sure to join the new branch of "The Gym" in this area as soon as it opens EDIT: updated review to say that I have now left this gym. The staff's indifference to any of the above issues is pretty insulting. The Gym Bloomsbury is a far better option in every sense EDIT #2: Visited the gym as a guest in March 2019 and I was absolutely amazed to see that, not only, had they not fixed the lockers or showers that had been out of order but now over 50% of the showers were out of order, even more lockers broken and, in a brand new addition, several of the benches in the male changing room have been smashed and are unusable. Embarrassing stuff.

It's a low cost gym, so as you would imagine it's often overcrowded. To add to that even tho it was renovated not so long ago, the machinery often is out of order. And as for the free weights, there are only two sets of the most popular weights 10, 12.5, 15, 17.5, 20, 22.5. A massive pro is that the instructors are always there to help you out and they do a pretty good job in my opinion. There are plenty of lockers and the enough shower cabins. It's really a 3.5 star

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