I would say considering it's Oxford and not many gyms around, Pure Gym offers great value for money…read moreratio. Yes, occasionally toilets will lack toilet paper and soap dispenser will be empty, but considering monthly payments on other gyms such as David Lloyd and Nuffield, I think it's quite competitive. Definitely no frills: gym is crowded, classes are booked out quickly, and always a lot of people at the machines. However, to most classes you still can come even if they have been booked out, and always some machines are free. There is an option of upgrading to premium-ish membership ( something like +3 pounds), where you will be given an opportunity for early booking. Also, there is a limit on how many classes you can have booked. At the same time, the gym has quite a busy schedule of classes (probably the busiest out of all the gyms I had a look at at that moment! Also from time to time they organise some paid courses with limited spaces but I have never signed up for those.

Just wanted to say what a fantastic Personal Training team you have at Feel Fit Gym. You guys…read morehelped me get into my wedding dress! Lol , I dropped 2 sizes in 5 weeks!

Really excellent gym. Great facilities, incredibly good value, really friendly and genuine staff, 2…read morefloors of matts, free and machine weights, running, cross training, cycling machines, boxing ring, octagon, classes in muay thai, bjj, boxing, mma, sauna, stream room and all for £25/month or £20 off peak!!! Seriously why go anywhere else. I have a personal trainer there also who is excellent. Really highly recommended.

I did half my college course here! its great for brookes students but OCVC college use it too! they…read morehave a big gym upstairs a very big sports hall sqash and outside astoturf and tennis! they cater for events too! they also have pool table tv's and a very affordable little cafe! Make sure you go on the climbing wall too! good times

The sports centre is possibly one of the best facilities for Oxford Brookes. Although membership if…read morequite expensive, even for their own students, the facilities are very respectable and far better than those provided by Oxford University's Iffley Road complex. They also have membership options for occasional visitors. However, unless you live nearby; given that you will be paying quite a bit, you may be better opting for one of the commercial gyms in the city

Friendly hardworking staff. Clean, loads of equipment,…read moreseveral stations for more popular equipment (running machines, bikes, cross trainers) so you never have to wait. Large free weights areas for the serious guys who spend too much time looking in the mirror. Large pool + sauna + steam room + hot tub for relaxing afterwards. All classes except tennis are free once you stump up the membership fee and are fun. Some cliquey clientel, but EVENTUALLY they will talk to you. Can take ages to fix broken equipment. Adequate car parking. Busiest around 6pm, so avoid at that time if possible.

David Lloyd provide what is probably the best gym experience in oxford. However, their location…read moreslightly outside the city centre means that you do need a car for access. If you have both the money and the means to access the club, it's facilities are second to none, with a large swimming pool, well equipped gym and excellent restaraunt.

I'm not a great leisure centre user - I usually find them too clinical and indoorsy. However, this…read moredoesn't do a bad job at all. It's clean, the staff are friendly and there are lots of things on. It's got a real community feel to it. One word of warning is that because there's so much going on, it's often a good idea to phone up in advance, in case you turn up for a swimming session when the pool's booked for a lesson or something else. The 25m pool has lanes, which is a refreshing change, but can be a bit daunting if you're not a very fast swimmer. I recommend going at a quiet time of the day or using the learner pool for a bit if you feel a bit self-conscious. The changing rooms are just about warm enough and the chlorine's not too strong. Apart from swimming there's a variety of facilities: - Fitness suite - Dance studio - 3 squash courts - Sports hall - Therapy room There are lots of classes and clubs to get involed in, such as basketball, volleyball, 5-a-side football, health/fitness classes, racket sports and various dance classes. They do postnatal sessions, activities for the over-50s and kids' parties. Prices are very reasonable especially if you have a Slicecard. Kids under 17 can swim for free.

I am a member of this gym because I want a place to use fitness equipment, and membership here is…read morecheap; this gym continually dissatisfies me, but I'm unwilling to pay the exorbitant rates of the Virgin gym nearby. This gym is more like a community center than a commercial gym; it's very children/family oriented. There are often annoying adolescents playing (I use the word deliberately) on the equipment in the fitness room. The bathroom/changing rooms are woefully unventilated. Ventilation is a big problem in the fitness room as well - even one or two people working out in there and the atmostphere becomes absolutely fetid, especially in the winter. Also, the music in the fitness room tends to be played quite loudly, in spite of the fact that the vast majority of people working out are wearing headphones. The Fusion parent corporation is somewhat clownish - eg, they send me harrassing emails to renew my membership for a month prior to the date of expiration, and when I attempt to renew at the service desk in the gym a week before that date, I learn that it's impossible to renew until _after_ the membership has actually expired. If there were another option nearby that wasn't punitively expensive and tiresomely country-clubbish, I would run for it. But there isn't. Again, however, seems to be an excellent place for families, and the prices are low.

Spa 6 is a really beautiful club in the Cotswold Water Park Four Pillars Hotel . Most people think…read morethe club is only open to hotel guests but you can actually buy membership. The pool is really stunning with experience showers and an aromatic sauna and steam room at poolside. The gym has all the latest Technogym equipment and although I don't use the spa treatments there are seven treatments rooms. I really can't see any reason you wouldn't join this superb club.

The Ozone health club is quite a large complex, near the Kassam Stadium. Has a large free car park…read more The gym is quite spacious, new equipments gym with TV screens on some of the machines, which is great, there is also a spinning studio which is used for classes with an instructor. There are 2 aerobic studios which are used for teaching various classes such as body combat, body attack, step, pilates, body balance. I recommend the Step class - a really good work out! All the instructions are good though. There is a swimming pool, sauna, steam room and spa. When you become a member you get several sessions with a personal trainer to sort out a programme, they are really friendly and helpful. They also have open weekends for the public, if you want to test out the facilities. Sometimes there are promotions when you can bring guests along and get day passes. The gym does get quite busy in the evenings, but day time isn't so bad. Lovely place to workout! The prices are quite reasonable and competitive.

Superb club set in a easy to reach location. I have just joined and the staff were fantastic…read more Really enthusiastic and helpful which makes a change to the bigger clubs in Oxford who just want to take your money. I left Esporta 2 years ago due to customer service levels and couldnt be happier that I moved clubs. I would definately recommend it.

So this is where it all started...the beginning of a rather bizarre love with swimming pools as a…read moreplace for fun - the memories of youth - I remember the excitement when this leisure pool originally opened in 1976 - it wasn't a rectangle it was round! What was this madness? Half the pool was too shallow to actually swim in and it had waves. This was the very first time I had encountered a "leisure" pool - oh trend setting, thoroughly modern Swindon you have so much to answer for - (along with the famed "magic roundabout"). I still return here with the kids every time we jump on a train to visit my wife's family. It is a great pool but looking distinctly tatty round the edges now. The domed roof desperately needs renewing - it looked spectacular 30 years ago but putting that aside its still super fun. The pool itself is beach style with a separate small kids pool. Good kids pool with 3 slides plus pirate ship.... The main pool has a steep three lane multislide and a new long slide circles inside the building (77m long). But really it is the flumes here that count and these are top. The Domebusters have a had a refurb this year and one of them has been replaced. All are approx 100m in length.So first off The Sidewinder A fairly gentle, spiralling flume aimed at younger children and parents. You can sit or go head first. The Great White My favourite - heads first ONLY never seen that on any other slide! Normally feet first everywhere.... A fast ride with two small vertical drops and several twists and turns. The Storm The new this year straight fast flume - small circumference with a striped lighting effect and sounds.. Didn't get to try this out this time - but will be back to do so....busy with an under 5... The session time was only an hour - which is really not long enough and it is fairly expensive considering the stingy hour. There are not many reasons to visit Swindon but this is definitely one if you are a water slide fan or the kids love to swim. . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update So I came back to try out the new flume which I hadn't managed to try out last time. Managed to slip away from a family visit for a couple of hours with my teenagers. Interestingly GLL have taken over the management of the leisure centre since we were here in 2012 (they run most of the pools we visit in London). It had been spruced up a bit with the new corporate livery...but still the stingy session times. We took no notice of the session times and made good use of the domebuster slides. So The Storm was the main attraction - small tube, dark, with striped lightning and fast with the descent as a helix. A big thumbs up from the family - a great slide but not in our top 5 slides. The Great White remains the favourite - head first you can pick up some proper speed and fly over the steepest vertical drops... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oasis is a great place to take the family swimming! They have a huge laguna pool that boasts water…read moreslides, a wave machine, a smaller pool for the children and a big water sprayer. They do a range of different classes such as mother and baby Swimming, OAP Swimming and also offer swimming lessons. They have also just started doing gigs with people such as 'The Sugababes' 'Cascada' and 'Shayne Ward' perfoming there.