Greens Health & Fitness Club

Advantages: Fairly cheap membership fee, decent enough facilities
Disadvantages: A lot of niggling problems

...I have been a member at Greens Health & Fitness club in Stoke for around about three years now, as it is convenient for me to use and close enough to work to use at lunchtime. I was previously a member at Total Fitness Gym but left as the membership fees were getting too high. Greens has a good gym, with decent quality cardio machines (we have treadmills, exercise bikes, cross trainers, rowing machines, step machines and what we call 'wave' machines which give a similar motion to skiing), a weight room, two rooms for organised classes and a room with spinning bikes. There is a 25 metre pool with three jacuzzi's, a sauna and steam room, as well as an infra red sauna cabin, loungers and showers around the pool area. There is a large car park with plenty of space, with entrance and exit controlled by a barrier. This is useful as...

tor0908 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Esporta Health Club, Croydon

Advantages: Opens early, closes late. Lots of facilities and services
Disadvantages: Too many noisy children, expensive

...Esporta Croydon, also known as The Surrey Health and Rackets club, is part of a huge UK chain, owned by venture capitalist Simon Halabi. It was primarily a rackets club and has been responsible for helping train some of the up and coming Tennis stars of tomorrow. Esporta is situated in a purpose built warehouse on a large industrial estate not far from Waddon mainline station and houses a spacious gymnasium, also known as the "Fitness Arena", a large family pool and an even larger olympic sized pool. There are numerous Tennis courts and several Squash courts. It is a club which encourages families, so may not suit those in search of halcyon days. Having parked in the spacious car park you will come through the double doors into the reception area, where you will be greeted by the welcoming reception staff, who will actually greet...

Velvetee 22.07.2007 · Read review
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Rosemary Conley Diet & Fitness Clubs - amazing!

Advantages: Everything - fab weight loss, made friends and had fun
Disadvantages: NONE! (can't beleive im writing none!)

...What a fantastic club! I have tried other weight loss clubs and none have been nearly as effective. My class cost £6 a week - although if you join premier club, you get loads of benefits, don't have to pay as you go and its cheaper. The instructors are lovely - and all training by the guru Rosemary Conley herself - you can't get much better than this. Value for money is great - you get weigh in, personal advice, a 10min motivational talk AND A 45 MINUTE EXERCISE session - all for the same price as other slimming clubs! The exercise is very good - it is structured and everyone can do it - every level is catered for. I've made loads of good friends and really think that i will keep going even when i hit my goal weight just to keep it all going! Will recommend to everyone and anyone!...

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GREAT HEALTH CLUB!

Advantages: GREAT HEALTH CLUB , WONDERFUL FOOD AND STAFF!
Disadvantages: DRINKS COST A LOT!

...reception lovely lighting there, but the prices are stupid, I guess I shouldn't expect them to be low seen as no bars are cheap in hotels. A pint was like £3.50 or something, When at home I could get it a pound cheaper, I know you probably think I'm been a cheap skate but let's say I have four pints (the average a lightweight woman would be able to handle like myself haha) it would cost £14 I could have a few more drinks at home for that! Health club. The health club was lovely, great swimming pool, two gym areas one with weights, to be honest equipments pretty good for a hotel, I expected less equipment it has all the weight stuff for the legs, arms and so on (sorry I have no idea the names of the machines as I don't exactly have a body building physique but hey who cares guys don't like muscely women anyway right?! The other gym room...

Sarahhhx 25.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Ramada Chester, Christleton

THE BARNSTAPLE HOTEL (&HEALTH CLUB)

Advantages: smart, 2 swimming pools
Disadvantages: none

...The Barnstaple Hotel, Braunton Road, Barnstaple is part of the Brend group. It is on the outskirts of Barnstaple and is ideal for a short break. Brend Hotels have several properties in Devon and Cornwall and maintain a certain standard in all of their hotels. The hotel has been rated 3* by the AA, RAC and the Tourist Board. The hotel has its own health club with 2 swimming pools, jacuzzie, sauna and gym. This is free to hotel guests and open to members who pay an annual fee. PRICES +++++++ The rates for one night, room only vary from £65 to £100 per person per night depending on the class of room and the time of year. It is £10 cheaper per night from January to April and October - 22 December. Continental Breakfast is £7.50 and a Full English is £10.00. The rates are reduced slightly for multiple night stays. If...

kismet 24.02.2006 · Read review
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My kind of clubbing

Advantages: Save money on something you were going to do anyway
Disadvantages: Waistline!

...Do you know what? They made it better! It's still the same price, but they now give a voucher for a free bottle of Proseco (Italian sparkler) with your membership every year when you renew (or two for a joint membership) and you can now submit a members questionnaire every quarter for a £10 voucher. This all just makes this great scheme even better! *** This is a bit of an addicts club (could have been called 'Pizza Anonymous' I suppose) but I am a big fan of it. Now in my 5th year of continuous membership, I continue to enjoy the benefits - and the pizza - and heartily recommend it. *It works like this?* Membership is £40 per annum for one person, £80 per annum for a couple. Four times a year, each member is sent a voucher, valid for the quarter, which can be used at any time in any Pizza Express restaurant in the UK...

andyk910 23.08.2007 (04.11.2009) · Read review
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Your Health - with a twist

Advantages: Good graphic descriptions/inexpensive/clear to use
Disadvantages: sexist/heavy marketing of food supplements and associated diet books

...Men's Health Personal Trainer is an on-line gym/fitness club for Men. It is a branch of Men's Health magazine although the subscriptions are seperate. You can join Men's Health through the magazine. It is marketed to men with the emphasis on muscle building and glossy pictures of super fit men. In fact once you join you will find the workouts are very basic and there is something to suit everyone. You can access the personal trainer website through the Mens Health Magazine website. Subscriptions vary,you can get discounts if you subscribe to the magazine or if you buy some of the books or diet supplements on offer. I got a month's free trial with mine and 3 months for £16.95 but I was previously a member 6 months ago and was invited to rejoin. The website is divided into 7 sections by tabs on the top of the page. They are Home...

damien.gallery 20.10.2007 · Read review
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welcome to the country club

Advantages: computer controlled, friendly staff
Disadvantages: lack of free weights, no swimming pool

...Surrey Health and Fitness has a 9 hole golf course, driving range, a Technogym, health club, jacuzzi and sauna. To join the gym you have to go on an induction meeting first, where they measure your characteristics (note if you have high blood pressure they will not accept you and send you to the doctors) and show you how to use the various machines and set up a work program to what you want to achieve. Everything in the gym is computer controlled you login with your technogym card and it tells you your workout for the session. The card reads in your heart rate and calories burnt, or weight lifted and power used to lift weights as you do the various exercises. Once you have logged out you can see your performance for the various exercises and total calories burnt etc. On the Cardio Vascular machines you can plug in a set of head...

Deviant 19.10.2000 · Read review
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The Spirit of Clubbing and Collecting

Advantages: 3 points per pound spent = 3% off voucher
Disadvantages: combining club points with 10% student discount doesn't work

...[Esprit: French, from Latin spiritus, English: spirit] ESPRIT are an international fashion chain with a number of outlets in the UK, mainly in and around the London area. Their trademark white ESPRIT logo on warm red background can be easily identified. Initially a company formed in San Francisco in 1968 is now majority German owned. That?s probably why I always thought it was a German fashion label. I have become a regular visitor to the ESPRIT stores (plus I occasionally order online) and one of the first things I did was to sign up to their loyalty card scheme. What is the ESPRIT Club Card Like so many loyalty cards, you are hoping to get something for nothing, not realising that to receive rewards you have to put in time and money. ESPRIT Club is a loyalty card system that allows you to collect loyalty points...

Tempus_Fugit 19.04.2009 · Read review
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Bad Boob Job Girl and Bendy Bloke

Advantages: Clean and good facilities
Disadvantages: The takeover may have an impact

...The prospect of a summer spent hiking in the Andes and rainforests of Venezuela inspired me last October to do something about my general level of fitness following two years of teaching and being largely inactive had not done wonders for my waistline or stamina, friends were already a member of the JJB fitness centre in Northampton and I had used the facilities a couple of times so instead of rejoining my old gym Cannons I went for the newer JJB one, partly because it looked clean and well equipped but also on a like for like basis it was the cheapest one in town. Just one point to note, JJB have been taken over and moving forward this chain of gyms will be known as DW Fitness Clubs after their new owner, and the original founder of JJB, Dave Whelan who is also chairman of Wigan Athletic. I will use the new name for the rest...

atticusuk 30.05.2009 · Read review
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