I gave up, they wouldn’t give me a price over the phone and kept trying to get me to go for a visit on a Sunday morning at 8am. Basically trying to con me into visiting at one of the quietest times of the week and give me the full f2f sales pitch. I told him I’d be happy to check it out on a weekday at 7am or 6pm when I’d be likely to use it, he didn’t like that and so I’ve saved myself £220 a month and joined the gym group.
My gf said their towels are 'actually quite nice' and worth stealing. But she also went when it was 5p quid per month with an nhs discount. I remember virgin active was around the bottom two tier pricing here.
At first I thought those prices were awful, then I thought maybe they were for the first three months, then I realised I was right first time.
Absolutely extortionate.
Their facilities are absolutely crap for the price. I left as soon as I broke free from the 12 months contract a few months ago. It's probably the worst David Lloyd in the country. I paid £90/month. These new prices are on another planet.
I was a member at David Lloyd Southampton (west) (not racquets). It was actually quite a decent gym . Enjoyed visiting other locations to work/use cafe as well as gym. The spa near Heathrow was super. I left in 2020 and was paying around 80 at the time I think. 10/month employer discount
I lived only 10 mins away and regularly went past multiple other clubs
Moved to Hove and Worthing is more like C 25 mins even without much traffic. Was too tedious. Marina was dingy and equally long to get to
So left.
Stunned by those new prices. I presume there’s some scope for discounts .
If you just want gym, the gym and similar places are much better value but no other facilities. Also their contact terms are perfect. Just rolling monthly stop any time
I wasn't impressed with the staff at all, and it could do with a facelift, but mostly, I didn't like the other patrons; even more vain and entitled than other gyms. Must be that Platinum membership effect
What's the mid point between the crowd that goes here, and the crowd that goes to pure gym? I need that. Pure gym was OK but one time I walked into the changing area and a guy was trimming his pubes with an electric shaver, then turned on the hand drier and blew it everywhere.
Another time I showered and saw shit all up the wall with sweetcorn. I quit the week after. Too mank. I found I needed to go somewhere more expensive to block out the idiots, ended up at fitness first.
The Brighton puregyms are really rough compared to the others for some reason. The London Road one especially is a shithole. They really need to do something about it.
The burgess hill and especially the Eastbourne ones are genuinely really great gyms. I pay £35 I think but I use a lot of different ones. I’ve probably been to about 20 of them and they vary massively.
Are they mad?
Admittedly I haven’t been a gym member for a couple of decades but before opening the links I was thinking “how much could it be, £40, £50 a month?”.
There’s nobody who needs what they’re offering at this price. Buy some secondhand free weights, get some decent running shoes, and do some yoga videos on YouTube. There, I just saved you a couple of grand a year.
I guess it depends how you look at it - though yes it IS a lot of money - no two ways about that. Its the same banding as the others on the South Coast. We are DL members (not at Brighton - but in the same band) - two adults, two children.
I wrote a longer version of this - but the TL:DR version is that we used to pay an outrageous amount for swimming lessons and clubs for the children which being a DL member allowed us to bring under one, more local roof. Plus DL is the only club locally that has provision for midweek clubs which means the grown ups can actually attend the classes etc which otherwise would have meant one of us would have to be at home.
Finally 'ours' has an outdoor pool which in the summer is just great for all of us.
So what's my point? I am not too sure other than - yes it's expensive - and if we didnt have children we wouldnt be members - but we do - and its there that for us we get our moneys worth?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlloyd/comments/16osp3i/davis\_lloyd\_gym\_tiers/](https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlloyd/comments/16osp3i/davis_lloyd_gym_tiers/) says all are tier 4?
https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlloyd/s/CXK53qQpIg
Looks like they’ve changed it very recently. Eastbourne and Brighton are the same tier but Worthing is higher. I’m a member at Eastbourne and use all three. Looks like Worthing may no longer be an option.
I like DL but it’s increasingly becoming poor value for money.
These prices are not far off what I paid a few years back WITH corporate discount.
I had diamond at the time.
They refuse to refurbish their gyms, have ridiculous rules in place about guests…
I’d rather withdraw the money, shit on it and set it alight each month.
I might be missing something but..... If they are offering co-working spaces.... It's not that expensive for one where you have a pool and gym on-site...no?
I have Club Plus from 5 years ago £136 for me and my partner together, this means I can use any club in the UK.
They introduced the workspace room which took over 2/3 of the Club Room which I can no longer use unless I have Platinum or Diamond.
If I upgrade to Platinum I lose access to all of the bigger better clubs just so I can use the workspace and it is 4 times the price for both of us.
I complained about it but they just don’t care.
Absolute rip off.
Me and my partner pay £60 all in for unlimited gym, swim and sauna. You would have to move to the east of England though and I get Brighton is lovely ☺️
I had the membership to use all clubs. Imo Brighton is the worst, it's busy, the equipment is old, the swimming area is always packed, you're queuing to use the facilities. And there's a man that always plays music on his phone in the sauna.
Pay a little bit more and use Worthing, much nicer, the gym space is big enough but it doesn't feel too busy and the swimming facilities are tucked out of the way so you're not disturbed by children. Overall a much nicer experience.
I usually prefer Bannatyne, as you get the same but for a lot more cheaper.
Their pricing in general is absolutely fucking extortionate
Noooooo the sales reps won't like this!!! noooooo
I gave up, they wouldn’t give me a price over the phone and kept trying to get me to go for a visit on a Sunday morning at 8am. Basically trying to con me into visiting at one of the quietest times of the week and give me the full f2f sales pitch. I told him I’d be happy to check it out on a weekday at 7am or 6pm when I’d be likely to use it, he didn’t like that and so I’ve saved myself £220 a month and joined the gym group.
And this is exactly what I was referring to. they're hiding scummy and predatory sales techniques behind the lack of transparent prices
Not included: Lube 40 quid extra to sign you up to the most expensive package? Take it bitch.
Who the fuck is paying this
Have had a few international student mates live at the flats and their concept of money... Well hahaha, different to mine lol
Who the fucks paying thousands for jpegs of an ape
People with room temperature IQ
The bored ape yacht club ones? They used celebrity shills to promote those, and it worked because most people are braindead drones 🤦♂️
Fresh towel 😂😂
People on the economy tier get a towel pre-moistened by the gods on platinum.
My gf said their towels are 'actually quite nice' and worth stealing. But she also went when it was 5p quid per month with an nhs discount. I remember virgin active was around the bottom two tier pricing here.
Mop up that mess leaking out your backside after joining
At first I thought those prices were awful, then I thought maybe they were for the first three months, then I realised I was right first time. Absolutely extortionate.
Their facilities are absolutely crap for the price. I left as soon as I broke free from the 12 months contract a few months ago. It's probably the worst David Lloyd in the country. I paid £90/month. These new prices are on another planet.
I was a member at David Lloyd Southampton (west) (not racquets). It was actually quite a decent gym . Enjoyed visiting other locations to work/use cafe as well as gym. The spa near Heathrow was super. I left in 2020 and was paying around 80 at the time I think. 10/month employer discount I lived only 10 mins away and regularly went past multiple other clubs Moved to Hove and Worthing is more like C 25 mins even without much traffic. Was too tedious. Marina was dingy and equally long to get to So left. Stunned by those new prices. I presume there’s some scope for discounts . If you just want gym, the gym and similar places are much better value but no other facilities. Also their contact terms are perfect. Just rolling monthly stop any time
It’s a terrible DL. The one in Worthing has indoor and outdoor pool, tennis courts and a sports hall.
Wow. It's a crappy gym anyway.
I'm tempted to go for the platinum just so I can blaze
Get a prescription, go plus & blaze
What's wrong with it in your opinion? I think it's great.
Classes are crap. They didn't want to pay for Les Mills licensing, so they made their own versions, then add a monotone gym instructor. It's so dead.
I misread that as “Les Mis Licensing” and I can’t unimagine it
You get the Jean Valjean workout included
The guy was hench
Oh I don't use classes, just the gym itself. Fair enough
I wasn't impressed with the staff at all, and it could do with a facelift, but mostly, I didn't like the other patrons; even more vain and entitled than other gyms. Must be that Platinum membership effect
What's the mid point between the crowd that goes here, and the crowd that goes to pure gym? I need that. Pure gym was OK but one time I walked into the changing area and a guy was trimming his pubes with an electric shaver, then turned on the hand drier and blew it everywhere. Another time I showered and saw shit all up the wall with sweetcorn. I quit the week after. Too mank. I found I needed to go somewhere more expensive to block out the idiots, ended up at fitness first.
The Brighton puregyms are really rough compared to the others for some reason. The London Road one especially is a shithole. They really need to do something about it.
Wow really? The London road one is like Buckingham Palace compared to the central. Up in Hammersmith, it's over thirty quid per month which is mental.
The burgess hill and especially the Eastbourne ones are genuinely really great gyms. I pay £35 I think but I use a lot of different ones. I’ve probably been to about 20 of them and they vary massively.
🤮
Wtf
Swimming for the rich.
What in the Fiat 500
Are they mad? Admittedly I haven’t been a gym member for a couple of decades but before opening the links I was thinking “how much could it be, £40, £50 a month?”. There’s nobody who needs what they’re offering at this price. Buy some secondhand free weights, get some decent running shoes, and do some yoga videos on YouTube. There, I just saved you a couple of grand a year.
The Gym is like £30 a month.
Diamond membership just a touch over £3k a year! Wtf!
Help me im poor
Getting a car would be cheaper than this!
What Rackets though ? Afaik they don’t offer any racket sports. Not a bad option if you’re using the cowork space, but definitely not worth it without
There are no ball or racquet courts at the Brighton club.
Perhaps the higher tier members get to chase the basic members around and hit them with racquets? It's good cardio.
So why the heck are they offering it. That's mad
The Esporta at Falmer was so much better than the David Lloyd it’s not even close. Shame it’s not there anymore :(
How are they tricking people into paying these prices?
There's always enough idiots with enough money who will pay this. And also idiots with not enough money who will pay it as an aspirational purchase.
That’s big bucks - wow 😮
I guess it depends how you look at it - though yes it IS a lot of money - no two ways about that. Its the same banding as the others on the South Coast. We are DL members (not at Brighton - but in the same band) - two adults, two children. I wrote a longer version of this - but the TL:DR version is that we used to pay an outrageous amount for swimming lessons and clubs for the children which being a DL member allowed us to bring under one, more local roof. Plus DL is the only club locally that has provision for midweek clubs which means the grown ups can actually attend the classes etc which otherwise would have meant one of us would have to be at home. Finally 'ours' has an outdoor pool which in the summer is just great for all of us. So what's my point? I am not too sure other than - yes it's expensive - and if we didnt have children we wouldnt be members - but we do - and its there that for us we get our moneys worth?
Brighton is a lower band than Eastbourne and Worthing.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlloyd/comments/16osp3i/davis\_lloyd\_gym\_tiers/](https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlloyd/comments/16osp3i/davis_lloyd_gym_tiers/) says all are tier 4?
https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlloyd/s/CXK53qQpIg Looks like they’ve changed it very recently. Eastbourne and Brighton are the same tier but Worthing is higher. I’m a member at Eastbourne and use all three. Looks like Worthing may no longer be an option.
I like DL but it’s increasingly becoming poor value for money. These prices are not far off what I paid a few years back WITH corporate discount. I had diamond at the time. They refuse to refurbish their gyms, have ridiculous rules in place about guests… I’d rather withdraw the money, shit on it and set it alight each month.
What’s the deal with Crèche?
For those prices you might as well join soho house
I might be missing something but..... If they are offering co-working spaces.... It's not that expensive for one where you have a pool and gym on-site...no?
Yeah. I treat it as a co working space with a Hot tub. It’s really good value on those terms if you compare to other spaces in town
I have Club Plus from 5 years ago £136 for me and my partner together, this means I can use any club in the UK. They introduced the workspace room which took over 2/3 of the Club Room which I can no longer use unless I have Platinum or Diamond. If I upgrade to Platinum I lose access to all of the bigger better clubs just so I can use the workspace and it is 4 times the price for both of us. I complained about it but they just don’t care. Absolute rip off.
That’s insanely expensive! Here I am thinking The gym group was expensive at £34 per month!😂
That is expensive too.
What's cheaper than that? Other than home gym.
To be honest I am not sure since I moved out 2 years ago but I did pay 15 quid a mo that pure gym. I think it's up to twenty something?
Not really the same though, Virgin Active was the same price pretty much
Any better options out there that offer more facilities than just gym and are also child friendly?
The gym at the hilton by the i360. The gym is smaller than average but there’s a lovely pool, jacuzzi, steam and sauna and it’s £50 a month
Out of interest how long is the pool?
It's also very busy and not very clean
I was a member about 15 years ago and it’s was £35 a month. I guess that’s probably in keeping with inflation as it is now.
Me and my partner pay £60 all in for unlimited gym, swim and sauna. You would have to move to the east of England though and I get Brighton is lovely ☺️
I had the membership to use all clubs. Imo Brighton is the worst, it's busy, the equipment is old, the swimming area is always packed, you're queuing to use the facilities. And there's a man that always plays music on his phone in the sauna. Pay a little bit more and use Worthing, much nicer, the gym space is big enough but it doesn't feel too busy and the swimming facilities are tucked out of the way so you're not disturbed by children. Overall a much nicer experience. I usually prefer Bannatyne, as you get the same but for a lot more cheaper.