TriJ's Qype profile

LA Fitness, Adelaide Street - Belfast

Great Gym, fairly new equipment, nice staff, clean, nice open plan building and was pretty impressed! I am a member of LA Fitness in London and this gym was the best in the chain that I have visited so far...

For a start Qype EC2M isn't Dalston! it's right in the heart of the city!

However the fact that this LA Fitness is at the heart of the public transport system and has good cycle parking right outside is one of the only things that is good about this branch of LA Fitness.

I joined on a super deal last year (2010) and have stayed as it is pretty good value around £30 no membership fees or contract and they have thankfully upgraded me for free to all club membership so i can use some of the better branches from time to time.

The gym: Staff! Often grunt at you on entry and that is on a good day, although this has improved a little over the past six months it needs a hell of a lot of management 'kickup the butts' to get them to smile, greet u and stop talking to their colleagues.. it's like we are a mega inconvenience! Just rude in my book.

The changing rooms: Dirty! Very Dirty.. Toilets. stink, leak only 2 cubicles, 2 urinals not really adequate for a gym this size and without a door doesn't make the changing rooms smell any better.. Lockers need an upgrade badly. Particularly dirty during the weekend, seems no-one cleans anything from close on Friday to Monday morning.. not pleasant

Showers, ok but could do with a refurb, don't smell good. Not enough of them and often a queue at busy times and absolutely bizarre that this is the exact time that someone decides to clean them and half of them are out of action. No cleaning at the weekend.. nasty.

Gym, ok - pleasant enough and functional. Old machines, and worth noting that all the running machines all have a different pace.. some quicker, some slow! Don't bother mentioning it, they won't bother doing anything.. Summer and AC... wear a singlet it is hotter than the middle east.

Pool - great, although some of the staff go to extreme lengths to remove you for not wearing a cap! Like you want to wear a cap to do 5 lengths after a workout in a pool that never has anyone in it.. Sauna pretty good and clean, Steam room.. always dirty, why don't they ever clean it..

Value for money? for the discount price yes... but not a penny more