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PEC at Queen's

3.4 (14 reviews)
Closed • 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

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Queen's Physical Education Centre pretty much has it all, sportswise. Subjected to a massive renovation a few years ago, the slightly dated-looking building was blessed with a massive new adjunct and all sorts of fancy new features, like their impressive-looking climbing wall and nice café. I am a member, and am happy to pay a mere £20 a month to enjoy access to the racquets courts, swimming pools and saunas. Great value - it's £9 per session for non-members. It's clearly geared towards students, but thankfully for me, public members are welcomed. For a few quid more a month, I could be upgraded to gym access too... But if you see me in there, slap me round the back of the head, please. Nothing wrong with the equipment or anything... But you either love gyms or hate them.

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City Centre Gym

City Centre Gym

(1 review)

I have been looking a new gym lately. Tried a few out and think this is the winner! Cant believe…read moreits been around so long without me knowing about it! Only £20 a month, no contract. You can pay cash. Situated upstairs in the Frames complex on Little Donegal Street. (Their website has not been updated, look at their facebook) The staff are really friendly and there is more of a community feeling. The entrance has a reception with lots of protein snacks and powders and bars. You can buy them individually. Its defiantly an old school feel with lads chugging pre-workout before a session. Over two floors there is loads of equipment. Bottom having loads of free weights and 20kg bars. two power racks and a smith along with two heavy duty leg presses (one a hack) the space isnt massive but is is well laid out given its size. Other machines include lat pull down, diverging rows, chest press and shoulder press. Two boxing rings and around 10 hanging punch bags in another room. Lots of boxercise classes are run from here. The top floor is excellent!! Huge space with a crossfit rig, altro turf with a sled, truck tires for flipping and battle ropes. Two more power racks and a dead lifting platform. Hack squat frame and farmers walk equipment. Another room has cardio machines, treadmills, stepper, rowers etc. not many but then its more of a strength and conditioning outfit. Ladies changing rooms are basic with two showers and a toilet and hairdryer. Lockers throughout the gym on different floors. Parking outside and around the block on a ticket metre. Lots of PTs and a general good feel.

Pure Gym

Pure Gym

(7 reviews)

City Centre

So it took me a while to get access to Adelaide (Boucher and Lisburn reviews seem sooo long ago!)…read more I'm starting to think PureGym is the Ryanair of gyms. Not that they charge you for every additional thing they can, but just in customers not being even close to their top priority. The first annoying thing, which happens across PureGyms, is the difference in equipment - for example, this gym doesn't have a hack-squat machine, or the leg press machine you lie on, yet it has a lateral raise machine that others don't. The inconsistencies across these gyms are annoying. If you go to the ground floor studio, they don't have the timetable of classes for the week - they have the timetable for Friday classes (it wasn't a Friday when I was there), and a load of unnecessary pictures of food, which is really useful when I'm trying to find out when the next circuits class is. But here's the worst. A PT with a client was using a machine - let's call it Machine A. A customer (I can include a link if PureGym managers don't know what those are) goes to use a machine beside it - we'll call it Machine B. The PT tells the customer she (the PT) is using Machine B. Her client is working on Machine A, so the PT isn't using Machine B - she's hogging two machines, meaning no-one can use the second machine because her customer will be going on to it at some stage. It's bad enough when inconsiderate customers try to pull this stunt (FYI you should tell any such customer that they are not using the machine as they can't use two at once, so you're using the machine), but when PTs do it it's ridiculous. You see, the problem arises because most people think PTs are employees when, in fact, PTs see themselves as self-employed and, therefore, feel they have the run of the gym. Remember, PTs give 15 hours to the gym (taking classes, performing daily tasks, etc.) and this is their 'rent' paid, enabling them to keep all of the money they get from PT sessions. The point is, the client they are training is their customer, whereas you are just a PureGym customer. As with Boucher and Lisburn, it is ineffective management that causes these problems.

I'm on holiday and up early. Got there at 5.30. No staff at the 24 hour gym. OK, went for a coffee…read moreand came back at 6.30 Door code entry only, which is good. Buzz for staff indicated. Buzzed, waited, buzzed, waited. No response. I followed a gym-goer in, who turned and instructed me to use a code. I told him I had none and wished to speak to member of staff. I asked him if he was a member of staff, apparently yes. At this point he became helpful. Led to kiosk in hallway and went through the membership options. Requires credit card, no cash payments accepted. At this point I gave up. I didn't want to begin a membership on a credit card when I'll be flying out on the 13th, but was prepared to pay for a month - 19.99. Going for a fry now, instead.

The Celtic Collection

The Celtic Collection

(8 reviews)

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City Centre

Much like the other reviewers here, I am going to try and review this shop for the merits of the…read moreshop for the quality of the shop and its merchandise , and try and avoid talking about the football club and all the negative connotations that brings. The shop is crammed full of Celtic orientated merchandise. There are all the kits which can be customised with genuine SPL printing, but for me this is where the decline in quality starts.The rest of the merchandise is quite frankly heavily branded and overpriced tat, much like that in any club's store. Is there any real need for a Celtic themed babygro? When choosing office stationary, are you going to want to emblazon all your items with the Celtic logo? The answer to these questions should indeed be no, unless of course you would directly in Celtic's offices or are a wag of a Celtic player! Unless you are a die hard supporter, stay well away.Even if you are a die hard, you can easily get the shirts for cheaper elsewhere online or in reputable sport stores nationwide!

Unfortunately, the majority of sports fans in Belfast have an affiliation with either Celtic or…read moreRangers based purely on religion rather than any other particular loyality. I could safely say most people that wear a shirt from one of these shops could not name the starting 11 of either side. Yet affiliating themselves with such teams says more about them than it does about the team. Scottish football is not that spectacular. I watch alot of football and although it is much better than anything this country has produced North or South, it is still a dreadfully boring and one-sided league. The Celtic Collection is therefore a shop which aims at capitalising on this "support". Selling everything a Celtic fan could want, it is a genuinely dedicated fan-shop. You have everything from shirts and shorts, to pencil cases and pictures. If you are a dedicated Celtic fan, then this is the best shop to go to as you will probably go mental over all of the memorabilia you can fit into your pockets. However, this shop is always going to be tainted with the fact that there are idiots from both sides of the fence who are hell-bent on throwing stones and annoying their opposition whilst wearing the shirts of their respective Scottish teams. This shop therefore does not seem to do anything other than encourage religious hatred. There are no other fan-shops belonging to teams with bigger support (United, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, the Pool). There are however shops which are dedicated to sectarian idiots. As good as Celtic Collection is, it does not represent the Scottish giants, but rather the disgusting under-belly of Belfast. Shouldn't have a place here

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