Ok this is more of a 3.5 than a 3, but I have to talk about the reception staff here. Surely…read moreensconced within the 'receptionist' role, is a warm RECEPTION for your guests? Those who pay the bills? Each time I've come in here, I've had one gripe or another. Either they are too busy chatting amongst themselves to say hello or goodbye, or they're just not super arsed in being friendly. I get that they're busy, but this is not a cheap gym by any stretch of the imagination so it would be nice to be received with a bit more courtesy. I arrived today at 1.42pm to register for spinning class at 2pm. They say that registration opens 15 mins before each class, so despite being there and ready to go, the receptionist turned to another spinner and I telling us we'd have to wait to register. Now this isn't some high tech scenario on a computer that literally doesn't open til the set time - it's jotting your name down on a piece of paper. I would like to say in full disclosure that the receptionist was tending to someone else at the time, but if she had enough time to turn to us and tell us we'd have to wait til quarter to for signing our name, surely she'd have had enough time to pass us the registration paper. Thankfully which is what another staff member did, once he heard the comment from his colleague. It took him about 0.2 seconds to pass us the sheet. A bit of common sense wouldn't go astray in situations like this. I'm still a major fan of this gym and most of the staff so far have been great, but it would be great if there was a bit less of a "Computer Says Noooooo" attitude in here (What an episode that was!)

I need to update this review with major news!…read more After a hard training, I usually go as far as the shower and don't even take the time to dry my hair before I go home. This time I felt like pushing my boundaries, wearing my bikini in public, and going to the spa. 1* For the spa: It's called spa but it's basically a huge swimming pool, a sauna, a steam room, a jaccuzzi, and tropical showers - meaning different water temperature. The place is warm - not too warm ! - and clean. I have a bit of an OCD when it comes to hygiene and this place has my stamp of approval. 1* For the sauna: Dry heat as you would expect. The interior is made of wood and the heat place is made of stones. There are 3 different levels and - of course - as the heat goes up the highest seats are warmer. It's not too hot so you can have a good sweat. Don't stay too long though and do not wear jewelry - you will get burnt. 1* For the showers: I love to alternate sauna / medium heat shower to cold / steam room. Some people like to take a cold shower right away but I don't appreciate the extreme change in temperature. I go for medium heat shower and possibly cold after that, it has to be step by step. 1* For the steam room: What a great sensation to be in a steam room! The heat and humidity is no overwhelming and that's a plus. You can't stay very long - as per usual - but you can still handle a good moment. Also there is an ambiance music played in the room to help fully relax. This place is a treat ! You eliminate the bad toxines in your body, you work on your breathing system, and you relax all at once. I haven't tried the swimming poor nor the jaccuzzi but that should happen very soon. 1* For the hair dryer: OMG Those hair dryers are so amazing it only take a few minutes to get my hair completely dry. And my hair is long to my waist. And not easily cooperative when it comes to drying! I need to take a picture of how everything is set up, but in short you can find 4/5 hair dryers and 1 hair straightener along a long mirror. You have space to put your brush or other hair/make-up products and get ready. Even when it's busy girls always make space for one another. Very friendly changing room ! 1* For the free trial: I asked for a few trial tickets for my boyfriend. They couldn't give any because this gets sent from the headquarter. At first I thought it was a bummer but then I remembered that a couple of months ago I received free trial tickets by post and a 5 day pass as well ! Should I remove a star ? It's true there should be more flexibility on that aspect but on the other hand they send a lot of incentives by post. I leave this star for now :D 1* For the beauty centre: Today I noticed a new poster in the entrance promoting a new beauty centre. Opening soon facilities for waxing, semi-permanent make-up, manicure, and pedicure. There was something else but I don't remember... Anyway, depending on the price I might want to take a look and report to my fellow yelpers :) That's all for now. Let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them ! #yelpmeplease #eliteyelper #yelp

Great gym but can get busy in the evening and sometimes they over charge me on my monthly feeread more

I cannot recommend this place enough, its my go to place for some sanctuary in the evenings…read more You can join this gym for €29 a month or pay €32 to roam between any of the Flyefit gyms. Its really well kitted out here, plenty of free weights, benches, machines, squat racks and most importantly bars and plates are in abundance. If you have any issues the staff are quick to email you back in the main office and the staff in the gym itself are always very pleasant too. Nobody really bothers you here so you can get in and get it done if thats your kind of thing. They even have astro type fake well cushioned grass to stretch on and do floor exercises. Obviously if you come here during peak times you are asking for it - take your place among the rat run. But if you can get in when its quiet there is plenty of space to practice your best poses for the Arnold Classic! Never had a problem here, would genuinely be sad if I left Dublin to see the back of this place. Its a great gym... Come here on Friday and Saturday nights if you want to get to grips with a different kinda bar.

I've been a member of Phibsboro gym for more than a year and this is what I could say:…read more Good: - Cheap gym membership that is about 200 per year (17 per month) or 150 for a student membership (12.50 monthly), you pay in advanced the full amount. They also have 6 months and 3 months membership but I've never used that one - Convenient for me because it's not far from my place - It doesn't usually get too busy so it's easy to use the machines without waiting for your turn - Friendly and helpful staff Bad: - Some of the classes are not included in the membership so you might need to pay an extra for the class, something like 4 - 6 eur, but the other classes are free - There's usually only 1 gym staff working at a time, so he / she has to be in reception, teach classes, attend members, clean...I think they should hire at least a cleaning person - No lockers in the changing rooms, so you have to handle your valuables to a staff member, keep them with you, or leave them in the changing rooms with not lockers In short, I like the gym and will renew the membership when it's over. There are better gyms, but the value for money is what you can expect.

I think the 80's threw up on this GYM and it was unfortunately never cleaned up…read more As someone who suffers from "spurts" of getting fit I have been a member of about 6 GYM's over the years [it had been about 5 years since my last health kick had happened however] and this is hands down the worst I have ever experienced on so many levels. SO MANY. I bought a Living Social voucher for Phibsboro GYM online. At the time I lived beside the GYM so even though I heard it was a bad GYM it was close and it was €59 for 3 months full membership. As Ina Garten would say "How bad could that be?" ..... REAL BAD When I signed up the girl I dealt with was very pleasant but I had to ask for a GYM assessment with the personal trainer. It wasn't offered. From my experience of GYM's you are not allowed to start until you have had an assessment. I am presuming for health and safety reasons and out of general common sense for a new member to be treated in a certain way. The assessment. What can I say about that? 2 days later I headed down for my assessment and the guy I dealt with was also manning the reception and appeared to be inconvenienced having to show me what to do. Not once asking me what specifically I wanted to get out of this. He was showing me on their VERY OLD and BASIC equipment what to do as quick as he could so he could get back to his desk and would leave me and I had to go find him after each set I was doing on various machines and equipment. He then said he had no more time to show me what to do as he needed to shut up shop. You'll have to come back to get shown other things he said. Not once was anything written down. DAFUQ? I was also never shown the changing rooms or the rest of the GYM. Just the 2 rooms I appeared to be inconveniencing this "personal trainer". Now I am not sure if me having a Living Social voucher affected how I was treated. If that was the reason then they are not doing anything to encourage people to stay after their 3 months is up. Either way I went about 5 times after that and just used the cross trainer and threadmill and NEVER went back. I have another 6 weeks left on my membership and I would rather chew on wasp then step foot inside the place again. AVOID

I joined Evo because I was so bored with the usual effort of going to the gym to do endless cardio,…read morewhere to be honest is sometimes an intimidating place for me. It wasnt really working, I was doing too much cardio and not enough weights so i was just staying the same shape and not really getting lean and toned. Plus it was soooooo boring!!!! SO with that I joined Evo fitness. The results really speak for themselves, I even cheated a fair bit on the diet and still lost weight (mainly around the tummy area) but what I was super happy with was the muscle I had gained. For once my dweeby little arms were finally getting some sort of shape, my legs looked great and my arse fit perfectly into my jeans. Some parts of the diet are hard but to be honest you need to be dedicated if you want to change, and if you dedicate to this YOU WILL! The team are AMAZING. Not only do they teach you, they make working out a really good laugh plus its only 20 mins each time. Who cant commit to that everyday? HIGHLY recommend everyone and anyone to give this a try! You wont regret it

From the owner: Evo trainers care about their client's and their results - check out what our client's say…read more(Testimonials) if you don't believe us! Our fitness studios are different from other gyms and here's just a few reasons why we're described as "the gym for people who don't like gyms" 20 Minute Sessions Who can afford hours in the gym these days? Evo-style training takes just 20 minutes per day, 3-4 times a week to achieve truly amazing results Monitored Our trainers monitor your progress every 6 sessions to make sure you're heading in the right direction and achieving the results we promise! Appointment Based All training sessions are booked in advance so you know exactly when you're going to train! We guarantee no more than 3 people training at anyone time in the gym, this allows our trainers give each client the attention they deserve & avoids overcrowding.

Caution, only PULL review…read more This is my Go-To swimming pool with my 3 year old. The good: * Changing area (cabins) has been fully rebuilt * Staff is great, they let children play and have fun (not like in Fantasia where my 16 year old bother had been asked to leave the small six people jacuzzi (how stupid is that?) * They have slides open every 45 minutes or so (during weekends only) * Very warm showers, almost like Japanese baths * There's sauna * Toddler's pull area * The price €7 per adult and kids under 3 years are for free then it's €4 * Plenty of lockers that are at the pull area, so if you need anything to grab, it's right there (just have your own padlock) * Underground car park (€1 token, unlimited stay) * Vending machines with swimming gear * Spectator area that is accessible without paying for the entrance The bad: * Slides are open only during weekend This is how good it is. Pull is clean, kids and parents are all friendly.

This pool is quite good in that they do lessons for children and are not atrociously over-priced…read morebut often there will be up to 5 or 6 different lessons going on at the same time so can be a bit mayhem at times! Also if you're coming along for a private swim try to come after the lessons are over because although there is a lane for private swimming it is often full up of other children and mums and dads so no lane swimming is possible at that time. The sauna and steamroom are ok but again can be quite busy and full of people waiting for the children to leave. But on a day when you go with no lessons its quite a nice pool and much better than the old dark pongy pool that used to be the Ballymun swimming pool by the old shopping center. The changing room is all unisex and smells quite badly whenever I'm there and the toilets need cleaning more regularly.

The gym is very clean the staff do a great job cleaning. It has New equipment more suitable for…read morepeople other than body builders. There is regular classes in the room The problems are as follows The showers are too hot even in summer time everyone i speak too hates the showers there is only three showers for how many dozens of men in the gym at any one time of the day. the queue to use the shower is ridiculous most people just go home and use their own shower the wait does be too long. the mans changing room is always under maintenance at least once a month something is being fixed. The staff are not openly friendly they are very standoffish most of the time i do avoid them and not ask for help from them they always seem annoyed when you talk to them when they are behind the desk They changed the staff some months back for the worse the old staff were very friendly and when they were not working and used the gym you could strike up a friendship with them which made going to the gym better. Now the new staff seem annoyed and pissed off when they speak to you i ask one of the female instructors questions once in and while but find her hot and cold sometimes she will speak with you and joke but most of the time you get the impression she doesn't like talking to people. Sad really because the gym needs a more friendly atmosphere. The 20kg plates are old and need changing Overall its a ok gym the blokes in the gym spend a little to much time flexing in the mirror but thats blokes nowadays they love themselves.

The only good thing is low price per month, price would be 5 stars, staff would be other 5 stars…read more Equipment is very poor in free weight area, for anything you have to wait from 5 to 10 min in a queue . Not enough dumbbells, no dumbbells more then 40kg, not enough free weights, as if 2 or 3 stronger guys do exercise all other has no weights left for them :D Gym for kids, you cant plan your time and train professional as probably you will be stuck in waiting for bench , squad rack, or dumbbells.

We have only had great experiences at Gymplus Ashbourne. The atmosphere is always lovely, and I…read morewant to give special recognition to Georgina at reception. She is incredibly professional and helpful. Her kindness towards the nervous kids at swimming lessons does not go unnoticed! It's clear that she cares about making people feel comfortable and welcome. Thank you, Georgina, for all that you do! ---

From the owner: Gym Plus Ashbourne has been in operation since 2010 and prides itself on being the fitness club of…read morechoice for many in the local area. Fully equipped gym, pool, studios and health suite. We have over 50 group exercise classes per week included in your membership and boast one of the best children's swim school in the area.

AM Fitness isn't like any other gym or fitness class I've ever attended. The "movement" ethos…read morepermeates everything we do there and I'm already starting to feel big improvements in my back and shoulders after years of struggling with pain and discomfort from an old whiplash injury. The classes are fun, diverse and challenging. You can focus on strength, stretch, balance, mobility or some mix of all of those depending on your needs and your interests. There's a great atmosphere in the classes and it isn't a struggle to get myself to go to classes at all. In fact i hate missing them and can notice the difference in my body if it's been a few days since I've been. I've only been going a couple of months but it's already obvious that Andy knows his stuff and is really keen to make sure that the programme is tailored to each persons needs. If you've done the monotonous soulless gyms and are ready to try something different and excited then I'd highly recommend AM Fitness.

From the owner: We specialize in Movement for Strength, Mobility, Fat Loss & Fitness in Terenure. We were the first…read moreusing Ido Portal in Dublin and have developed a philosophy that brings people from squat... all the way to handstand.

I joined recently after almost a year in a different gym. It is great value (I joined for €169 for…read morethe year) At just over €3 a week, at least I won't feel too bad if I miss a week or two ;) It's quiet a large space with plenty of machines. I find lunch time or just after is great time to go as it's quieter. There are loads of free classes too from yoga to spinning to pilates and zumba! I'm yet to try these out but I'll get around to it. There's plenty of different machines and props to work with too. There's vending machines with protein bars as well as drinks incase you feel peckish or faint ( (and it happened to me - I was hardly working out that much!) Anyway, All round good experience so far!

Large and clean gym with a lot of equipment. The staff is friendly and helpful. Great value for…read moremoney. The only thing that really annoys me is the that there is no water temperature regulation in the showers and the water is a bit too hot for me sometimes.

Cannot praise this place enough. I have been going three times a week for the past couple of months…read moreand between the high-quality equipment and varied, unique and always interesting training plans have already managed to drop a trouser size! Anderson the owner is passionate, dedicated and highly knowledgeable. He was quick to understand what did and did not work for me and was able to gently (or not so gently as it turned out) fine tune my training plan so I could instantly get the maximum benefit from each of the classes. There are no conventional training machines in this gym but rather interesting pieces of equipment such as TRX, sledges, kettle bells, gymnastic rings, battle ropes and plenty of barbells for various styles of Olympic lifting. The classes are only ever 1-4 people in size and Anderson is always there to first instruct and then motivate and make sure you keep proper form throughout. The membership is very reasonable with no contracts / sign up fee. Depending on what you decide to do the fee is similar to that of a more main stream gym but with the added bonus of a free personal trainer thrown in for good measure.