Excellent altogether. Not huge but plenty of space all the times I've been in. Very reasonably…read morepriced, and great cappuccino after your workout. Highly recommended.

A gem of a gym tucked away on Lisburn road that can be found just down from the Starbucks and…read moreAlbany going away from the city. Great value memberships with a variety of class on offer. Whilst not the biggest gym floor around I have gone in the mornings and evenings on a weekday and always found space to work out easily. Always people in on the weekends too but never has the crowded feel about it which I like All the usual equipment around and if you want some help the staff are lovely and there are personal trainers who can be booked for sessions too Friendly atmosphere and the change room facilities are the best I have come across in a gym anywhere

I've decided to join a gym in recent weeks and just like every other time, I've put a lot of…read morethought into which place I choose to give a portion of my money to for a year or more. Seeing as there are 2/3 on the Boucher Road I decided to have a look at them all, using their trial pass offers to see which one is best suited. This place was enormous, a huge cardio section and resistance machines galore. I didn't really look at the free weights part as this is often filled with people who know exactly what their doing and would chuckle at my scrawniness. The big down side is the monthly membership. Even at off peak, its a whopping £27 which is a lot and you would really need to be committed to pay that amount....I'm not.

I've only used the pool. I win master the front crawl. A few classes is be interested in trying…read moreso will have to fit them in. Then joy of joy Clements. Coffee after exercise. Life just doesn't get better than this. That and the fun of pretending to be a student. Overall the facilities are great. Loads of classes to choose from and good sized pool.

I've been a member of PEC now since just before Xmas, so just under a month. I'm impressed so far…read more Though I've only used the gym its absolutely great. Lots of machines and rarely a wait for anything. Its also extremely good price wise with no long contracts. I'd highly recommend the place if your looking for a well stocked, convenient gym or leisure centre with long opening times. Spot on!

This gym is small, lacking equipment, and in need of a refurb (as already mentioned in these…read morereviews). My experience of it is that it's a badly run gym - so much so that they haven't even bothered to go on here and inform people that it's actually now called Club Vitae, One to avoid.

This gym is simple and a little run down. They don't have much but basic equipment. If you're…read moreserious into you fitness this isn't the gym for you. However if normal gyms intimidate you, this may be your starting place. It's small and quite and no judgments over your work out. They provide some great classes with positive and helpful teachers. Yoga here is especially excellent. I have been to a few yoga classes in my time and I've learnt more here than anywhere else. Good practical tips and they don't push you belong your limits. The pool is small with no deep end. But its perfect the for a morning swim. Again it's a bit run down, which can be a tad frustrating considering this isn't a cheap gym. The hallway to the pool constantly smells bad. The showers and changing rooms are clean, but old. Most keys have lost the scrappy bit for your arm so bring a pin as well as your pound to pay for them. Personally I am willing to put up with all the negatives as this gym as what's most important to me, a pool I can do lengths in with no interruption and no que for machines!

In my Lisburn Puregym review I mentioned that I'd gotten access to Boucher for a while. This gym is…read moreactually more mismanaged than Lisburn. The gym has lots of space and lots of equipment, but the idiocy of how it's mismanaged is mind-boggling. First off, I think the manager has it pretty easy. People are flocking to gyms in their droves, so Puregym HQ probably thinks this means that a great job is being done. It isn't. There are the stupid things, e.g. clocks go back in autumn and they don't get changed in the gym. A few days later, one clock gets changed. A day after that, another gets changed...it's six days later before all are changed. Why?? You might think it's the PTs' job, but they are self-employed, and not employees of the gym in the traditional sense, so as far as I can tell it's up to the manager. Then we have the water fountain breaking down. I'm amazed a gym of this size only has one water station. I'm more amazed to discover that, legally, a gym isn't required to have one (I'm sure this legislation will change when someone collapses of dehydration). Even more amazing is that it takes around five days to get this fixed. But, hey, when you're a manager who is being measured against targets and profitability, why would you get it fixed when you're now selling an extra £100 worth off water per day out of the machine? There is no excuse for that not being fixed within 24 hours. And this is not a one-off occurrence. Interesting, though, that when there were rumours of multiple people using one PIN (i.e. two people paying one fee between them), there were immediately posters up on the entrance asking members to report any such abuse - there was no time wasted there! (Nothing to do with my situation of being from Lisburn but using Boucher, by the way - for the whole time I used Boucher my friend exclusively used Lisburn, so there was no disadvantage to PureGym.) It's clear that the sole priority for the manager is not the customers - if it's not an issue about making more money then it's not an issue at all here. I can't decide which of the next two issues takes the biscuit. The first issue is of studio classes being scheduled immediately after each other, e.g. if a class ends at 6pm you cannot start the subsequent class at 6pm. It's not possible, and it's idiotic to think otherwise. Aside from the fact that people at the first class have to leave before people at the subsequent class can enter, studio classes have equipment that needs brought out. I have seen a class scheduled for 6pm not start until after 6.10pm. It's a total joke. It turns out that many customers have raised this with instructors, and one instructor (who left shortly after) told me that they had repeatedly raised this with the manager, whose reply was...wait for it...'that's the way the classes have always been scheduled'. So if an idea is stupid or doesn't work, keep doing it because it's always been done like that? There's some 21st century business leadership right there. The instructors started encouraging customers to fill in feedback cards because the manager would constantly ignore their appeals and, eventually, one or two of the classes were changed. But here's the other issue. Classes which are very popular end up getting replaced with other classes for no good reason. I'm not talking about PTs covering classes for each other. I'm talking about the manager looking at a popular class and thinking, 'I'll just change that class and the instructor, and people will still come.' People will not. Most instructors in this gym, from what I can tell, are good instructors (and would do a much better job managing the gym). There are exceptions, of course. One instructor went into a class they were covering and asked if those in attendance wanted to do a 30-minute class as opposed to the scheduled 45-minute class. There's dedication for you. That instructor seems to have diminished the attendance levels at several classes significantly, but it doesn't seem like anyone is really bothering to look at the numbers. Class times also seem to get changed on a whim. I've never been aware of any research done by the gym to ask members if a class should be moved, either to a different time or a different day, yet this happens even with very popular classes. PureGym HQ really needs to find a regional manager who understands (and can be bothered to read) data to oversee Boucher and Lisburn. If I find any friends who are members of the other PureGyms in Belfast, I'll swap PINs and hopefully get those reviewed. Surely they couldn't be as mismanaged as Lisburn and Boucher, could they?

This is one of the best gym's I've ever tried. Spacious with lots of different machines and a large…read moreweights area. There's also a large swimming pool & sauna. The gym is has great air - conditioning and I've never seen it too cramped with people. They have several personal trainers on hand to assist and offer their advice if needed. The staff all come across very friendly and approachable

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.

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.

I would give this place a wide berth. I was impressed by the facilities initially; however I found…read morethat (after paying the hefty membership fee) that some activities are unavailable, perhaps they do not recruit enough full time staff to cover everything and rely on kind volunteers to do the teaching. It is very expensive, especially when you are overcharged. It is about double the price of other well equipped gyms. Problems with membership can be difficult to sort out, particularly when the management are 'unavailable'. Access to the facilities is often denied, without them notifying you, which makes one feel like a criminal that hasn't paid. I also found that a couple of the staff were very sleazy; however the majority of them were friendly and accommodating. To sum it up, I believe the place is badly run. I would not recommend it to anyone.