Absolutely perfect setup! From the weights area, tennis courts to the pool…read more The staff are always very helpful and friendly. The cleanliness and support are second to none. Thanks heaps for everything you do.

This place is my personal sanctuary. I don't think I've ever looked forward to working out so much,…read morethan I do now that I have started my membership at 151. It's a calm oasis in there, with the most amazing air con and facilities you have seen in a gym. In fact I think gym is too much of a dirty word to associate with this pristine place. Because they keep a cap on membership, there is never a line for the equipment, the instructors are always on hand to dole out helpful advice and they even email to check up on you when you haven't been in for a few days. The facilities available to all members and casual members include a swimming pool, sauna room,a tennis court and a great range of weights/ exercise bikes and heaps of other exercise equipment. There are classes available too, a favourite of mine being tennis fit! And don't even get my started on the bathrooms, and the straighteners available, the shampoo/ conditioner\ bathrobes. They really have thought of everything. Why just the other day I got offered a free hour long facial and massage just for being a member. Have I tempted you yet?

In the central Auckland suburbs there's really only a choice of two football clubs and Three Kings…read moreUnited is probably the biggest. When your kid decides they want to play soccer it's a whole new world and although this is our second year I still found registration a bit of a nightmare. Still, once you're in the club and assigned a team it can really take over your Winter. The club allocates teams, organises games, tournaments, fundraising and all other manner of administration that no doubt goes into running an organisation as large as this. It's also primarily volunteers who make things happen and once you've gotten used to the early starts it's a lovely community to be a part of.

Great gym facilities like pool and a variety of equipment…read more Just joint looking forward

If I loved gyms, I might take a serious look at Club Physical…read more Why wouldn't I because the sign on the main road says "first month free, no joining fee". How good is that! If I loved gyms there is so much to take advantage of at this Club Physical. I'd be assessed by a personal trainer on day 1, weighed (eek) and taken through the gym routine. They've got a circuit of machines, separate weight room for the ladies (great) and loads of classes to take advantage of. If I loved any of these classes I could really take advantage of things like step classes, flex weight class, boxing, spin, pilates, yoga, abs (exhausting just looking at the list, I feel the kilos sliding off me already). But what can I do, I love tennis! I'd still recommend this gym because they offer so much for the membership.

Phyllis Reserve is situated at the end of Springleigh Road, a wee street tucked behind the Unitec…read morecampus in Mt Albert. This reserve serves a number of functions so is quite well known by Auckland locals. Phyllis Reserve is home to the Akarana Dog Training Club, a soccer club and fields and also a great walkway. It's the walkway in particular that I love about Phyllis Reserve. The path leads you down behind the soccer fields and takes you along the edge of a little stream that runs the length of the Unitec campus. It's a great place to take your dog for a walk, go for a run or powerwalk and gossip with friends on a Saturday morning. I actually used to go running there in the evenings by myself quite a lot until I was warned against it. Due to its location - being tucked out of sight and away from houses and passersby, it can be quite dangerous in Phyllis Reserve (and particularly on the walkway) if you are by yourself. So while I definitely recommend it as a place to enjoy some exercise, make sure you don't go alone or if you do that you go during the day time. Tip: The walkway takes you past a little waterfall that I think is pretty beautiful. There is even a clearing in front of it with a park bench all set up - this would be a great picnic spot on a sunny day!

I play indoor netball here and everything is well organised. Once you've set up your team you can…read morepay your fee weekly or in a lump sum. Then you show up, put on clean bibs that you don't even have to wash yourself afterwards and play some sweet netball (sweet? I totally mean sweaty) with a referee that has also been organised for you. Basically you can just turn up and play! There are tables, chairs and a couple of couches to hang out at before your game or collapse into afterwards. There are toilets in the building as well. Conveniently located across the road is a park with courts if you want to practice/warm-up before the game, although there are only baskethall hoops and it's often very busy with others playing social sports and families hanging out.

Indoor Netball is not just for girls. No, no, no. It's fierce, fast and even at social level, super…read morecompetitive. I play in a mixed team once a week at Balmoral and love it. The competition is well graded, usually the games are very close. They are well organised, everything runs extremely smoothly. I can't even moan about the refs, they are focused (which isn't always the case with social sport) and fair. It's not too expensive, and it's a really fun way to break up the week while getting a mega fitness kick. The Balmoral courts are small and the venue has a laid back community feel

As gyms go, Health and Sports has a pretty top notch reputation. Sponsor of the Auckland Blues, it…read moreis perfectly normal to find yourself exercising next to some of the most cut and fit rugby players in the country. However this isn't the only reason Health and Sports has gained a reputation. This gym boasts state of the art equipment - you can browse the internet while using their cardio machines, a lap pool, sauna and a variety of classes every day run by trained professionals. My personal favourites are the yoga, Pilates and step classes. As someone who finds it difficult to motivate myself to go to the gym regularly, I've found participating in classes is the way to go. Run at set times each week, they are easy to fit in to your day and will push you harder than any independent gym session will. Tip: Personal trainers and massages from trained Physio therapists and chiropractors are also available upon request.

This gym has harassed me online on other sites, hidden billing details from me and sent me…read moreunsolicited spam two years after I left them to join Snap Fitness. Here is the timeline of events: * I joined in late 2012. At the time they told me that their billing is done through an outside company so that if I quit, I would need to contact the debit company to stop the payments because the gym would not do so. * About a year later (give or take six months) I quit and asked the receptionist for the details of the debit company so that I could stop the payments. She claimed to have "lost" the debit company's details (including their name so I couldn't even Google it!) and told me she would call me back ASAP once she had the answer. She never did. I had to go back in later and demand the details or else I wouldn't leave. I was still charged for my gym membership during this time (whats more, the debit company requires a months notice during which the customer is still charged so I was still paying them 30 days after I was finally given the information that I had to fight for) and they never gave me an apology for the money, time and gas wasted. * Around May 2015, someone on Reddit asked for gym recommendations in the St Lukes area. I told them to avoid this place because they had screwed me over. A worker from the gym (who gave a full name, contact phone number and introduced himself as the person who could help resolve issues) posted a very long, sarcastic, defensive and hostile comment accusing me of lying. The few parts where he offered "help" were very passive aggressive. It was an extremely unprofessional comment and when I replied calling him out on it, he posted another comment vehemently defending his staff because he thought they could do no wrong. His comments were downvoted and he only deleted them when someone else pointed out how bad he looked. * Today, I received an unsolicited spam email from them trying to get me back. The email was quite short, yet had 11 spelling/grammar mistakes that a spellchecker would have instantly picked up on. I usually don't care about spelling mistakes in informal situations but if you're representing a business then you should get it together. I'm finally writing this review because I'm sick of how lazy and unprofessional this gym is and I'm especially pissed off at how they think it's appropriate to keep my contact details and still send me spam two years after I quit. UPDATE: after demanding that they remove my details from their database over the spam incident (and having the same rude reddit guy confirm that he had done so) they sent me another spam email.

I feel a bit guilty reviewing Edendale ... like I'm giving away my best friends closest held…read moresecret. This is more of a 'drinking club' then a 'bowling club.' The first time I went , on a sunday, there was four guys drinking big bottles of woodstock and listening to classic polynesian reggae. Not to be held back, we played a game of bowls out on the (slightly uneven) turf. After observing our efforts, one of the guys inside came out and showed us some techniques. After a bit of gentle prodding, it turns out he is a New Zealand representative. I think this is really the perfect game for our generation - you don't have to move around much, you can drink while playing it (in fact, it seems almost mandatory.) This club itself is steeped in history, surrounded by pictures of former greats. It may have fallen on hard times recently, but all it would take is a regular attendance from a younger generation and it could be restored to a semblance of its former glory. I'll give it 3 stars, but it could be 5 based on the cheap beers alone.

Seasoned pro, or always wanted to learn? Pompallier Tennis Club caters for everyone. They run a…read moregreat social programme if you're looking at increasing your tennis skills and meeting really nice people. Tracey O'Connor runs the club's coaching and she's absolutely awesome to deal with. The membership fees are really reasonable and what's better than having a cold beer after a hard game of tennis in the height of summer!

Snap Fitness is a gym that recently opened in the new shopping complex by New World in Mt Roskill…read more Being a new gym, it was still in the process of being able to offer a full range of equipment and services. But I popped in anyway just to check it out and spoke to a young trainer that works there. Apparently Snap Fitness is currently working on getting classes up and running, as well as perfecting the layout of their gym. At $14 a week, it's a reasonably priced gym, though all this being said I admit I have no huge desire to change to Snap Fitness. The gym itself is relatively small and currently only offers a few of each cardio machine (treadmill, cross-trainer and cycle machine), and all the equipment felt quite squished together and unappealing. But maybe that's just me. On the plus side there is no other gym in this area, so Snap Fitness was needed. It's an un-intimidating place that will cater well to the local community. Bonus: This gym is open to members 24 hours a day!

This gym is mainly targetted for general fitness goers or people who don't take fitness that…read moreseriously. From the staff who works there self quoted: 'this is a gym is mainly for general fitness'. This gym has most of all the basic gym equipment needs but if you actually want to train for results avoid ths gym as much as possible. 1. This gym does not tolerate grunters. In my opinion, generally people who get annoyed of grunters are the same lazy people who actually don't workout hard enough and hate on those who actually do out of jeolousy and moan to the management how the grunters are disrupting their silent reading of game of thrones while having an epic 5km/hr walk on the treadmill. Go to the library if you want to workout in silence with your stupid book. 2. Lack of heavy plates. If you want to deadlift and squat heavy, try another gym. They don't have enough heavy plates for one to progress effectively with their lifts. Also they don't like you let the weights to drop on their precious floor from heavy deadlifting. You dropped the weight after a heavy PR set?!, the snap fitness police on their high horse will be coming at you with sirens on giving you a good lecturer how you shouldn't need to lift so much weight and to let the weight down in a controlled manner lol. In conclusion. I would not call this place a gym as that would be misleading. It is a general fitness centre just one step up from the mcdonalds kids playground. It would be a big SNAP in the face to the true fitness community by reconising this place as a gym, it is not a real gym. If you are a soccer mum or someone who wants to workout at a gym instead of at your local school kids monkey bar playground then this gym is for you. Not recommended for serious gym goers bodybuilders or powerlifters who actually want to make good gains and see good progressive results! Don't believe me? Go join this 24hr adult play house for a month and come back put up an honest review like I have.