The K West gym and spa is a pleasant environment, with good equipment and nice clean changing…read morefacilities. Price for the gym only is expensive at £65/ mth and the spa use is more expensive. Spa and gym membership is £90/ mth and include access to steam room, sauna, solarium, and even a snow room, which is quite novel. There is a hyrdropool which is good for relaxing in, but sadly no swimming pool. Membership includes discounts in the hotel restaurants and 2x guest passes for the year to treat friends. Overall the facilities are pleasant and the staff are nice, however the price is quite high, but then if you attend regularly it is worth it.

Don't join this gym. After you sign up you find out:…read more - you have to get a card to let you into the gym on the 3rd floor down, then go up to the gym on the 2nd. Not only do you have to get a card you have to sign in. Sometimes you get in line and wait! Who needs that extra hassle. Then when you leave, you have to go back to the 3rd floor and get the card with your name on it again. Wait, wait, wait. - they don't listen! The staff at the counter don't take any notice of issues in the gym. - no one cleans up the gym during the day - so towels are laying around, weights lying everywhere - no liquid cleaner or paper in the dispensers to clean the equipment before and after you use it - yuch. I asked 4 times, then finally brought the liquid bottles to the counter on the other floor for them to refill. Seems they can't be bothered - machines don't work and stay that way. Not regularly maintained. Signs sit on them for ever. - lots of the tv screens don't work - the room itself is really quite small yet they charge £65/month - the steam room and sauna are not part of the gym membership - you have to pay a lot extra to enter the spa area. - the staff use the changing rooms as their changing rooms! Not cool. - the music OMG they either have no music or they put it on a radio station and turn it up loud. Ever try to work out with someone's voice talking loudly on and on - not music but the chat in between. Really cheap. - If you talk to the manager, Ludmela, she just says, "It's policy" to go through the sign-in/out regamorole. Yes, they are looking for someone to look after the gym! So they didn't say that when I paid up for 3 months. GIVE THIS PLACE A MISS

I am a passionate tennis player and I found a place in London where you do not need to be member of…read morea tennis club. West way is on the Hammersmith line at Royal oak. I have been there in summer, as they also have 4 out door courts as well as 8 indoor courts. You will play on the clay court outdoors and on an acrylic court indoors. Playing tennis at this sports centre gave a proper city like feeling, as it is next to an autoroute bridge. The facilities are absolutely ok. You have to book in advanced, as they do get buys at peak times, but otherwise they have a free court on the day. West Way sports centre is a pay and play centre without members, we were charged a one-off registration fee of £3 for 1 hour. In summer it can get quite hot when the sun gets out. When walking to the courts there are football games taking place, everyone gets sportive active. If you want to have a more professional lesion there is also the possibility to book a coached session. This place is great value for money, which makes you go out there and play tennis!

Westway Sports Centre is a Mecca for football, tennis and something called Eton Fives…read more With six outdoor artificial football pitches, eight indoor tennis courts and four Eton Fives courts this centre is busy all week long. None of the courts are expensive to hire, but you should aim to book well in advance. Eton Fives is a game played by hitting a small ball with a glove hand within a three walled court. It requires devastatingly quick reflexes to master. Housing a pool, climbing wall and a whole host of sports, the Westway Centre is a popular sporting location.

Hello there, this is a message to the members of the Holland Park Tennis Club. I am a tennis player…read moreand I would love to have a chance to play on grass one day! Since I am not a member myself and I am only going to be in London for the next 5 weeks, I was wondering whether I could play with one among you and so fulfill this little dream of mine. Thanks for your kind attention, Nino

This place is so much more than a tennis club; it's my second home. Tennis clubs and I have known…read morea few can be elitist, cold places, full of cliques and rules. Take Hurlingham, where if you're not wearing 87% white, some haughty octogenarian will shuffle over and delight in ticking you off. And where despite the fact they boast dozens of often deserted, pristine courts, you can't book for more than an hour. And don't get me onto the 10-year waiting list. HPLTC is infinitely friendlier with far more sensible rules. What makes it special is the fact it's small enough to encourage a community feel, but not so small as to feel claustrophobic. The grounds are also wonderful. If you don't have any outdoor space at home as I don't you can while away summer days with a few sets on grass courts, before collapsing with a newspaper and Pimms in a deckchair on their generous lawn. The club, tucked away in Holland Park, has a unique atmosphere and is the type of place where you can turn up alone and find someone to chat to and probably play with. There's a club night on Wednesday with a dinner afterwards, a singles league, tournaments, barbecues in the summer and a dedicated core of regulars. Really, if you're tennis-mad, as I am, there's no better place to be on a sunny day...and no better tennis club in London.

Really just a terrible experience even trying to get get tickets. Bought tickets at the club…read moreshop...they ran out of printer paper and couldn't print out my ticket. Ok fine. They took my email. Didn't hear from them for a couple days, and I had to reach out to them. Ok fine. Ticket given but game cancelled because of the Queens funeral. Ok fine. Asked for ticket to be refunded and was told they couldn't and I would have to call them or come to the stadium. Honestly..I've put more work into this than the actual ticket office. Hard pass. Keep the £36, I've learned my lesson with this club.

Queens Pork Strangers is a club named after the fact that female members of the royal family will…read moreoften engage in sexual relations with people they have never met. First-Hand Experience: Well I've seen QPR play live, in person, 3 times total. Once against Oxford United, once against Liverpool, and once in a pre-season game. They're a proud club with more money than they should have. I respect them and appreciate them but they're not my fave, and don't play amazing football either. It's a rich little club in West London that is a rival of Chelsea and Fulham, and just got a lot richer with the new owners. However despite their wealth and a litany of excellent well known overpaid players, they keep getting relegated, and will probably be again this season. Formed in 1882, they play in blue and white hoops, and my brother once played for them in his imagination. His fave player was Les Ferdinand. They were runners up in the Prem back in 1976, and FA Cup runners up in 1982, but the only thing they've ever won is the League Cup in 1967, as well as runners up in 86 (go Oxford!). I have no affinity with this team whatsoever although their stadium does create an excellent atmosphere.

Huge gym located in the Westfield Mall. They are on the top…read morefloor kind of tucked into the corner. Mens locker room has a sauna and showers and plenty of lockers as well. Theres also a recovery area and a cycling studio. The weights and boxing area are upstairs. Great set up with plenty of machines that cover every body part as well the squat racks and dumbbells. Cardio machines as well. The gym is nicely set up.

Today, Gymbox once again failed to open on time. Dozens of members were left standing outside for…read moreover 20 minutes before many of them gave up and went home. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. It has happened repeatedly, and it has become completely unacceptable. This is London, one of the world's leading cities. Customers expect professionalism, reliability, and respect for their time. Instead, we are treated as though our time has no value at all. Many members, including myself, have raised complaints before, yet nothing seems to change. It gives the impression that Gymbox simply does not take these issues seriously. A gym that continues to charge full membership fees has a responsibility to provide the service it promises, starting with opening its doors on time. Customer service is measured by actions, not promises. Repeated failures to open on time, combined with the apparent lack of urgency to resolve the problem, show a disappointing level of respect for paying members. I expect Gymbox to explain why this keeps happening, what concrete steps will be taken to prevent it from happening again, and what compensation will be offered to members who have repeatedly lost their valuable time because of these failures. Paying customers deserve better than this.

An attic (UK) is like a loft (US), and this stadium is designed to look like a loft (US) hence the…read morename. First-Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium - I've actually only ben to this stadium 3 times (or about 10 if you count visiting the outside of it). It's absolutely tiny inside! You'd never imagine it's a Premier League stadium. It is pretty modern and enjoyable on the inside though. The rich owners have jazzed it up and made it like a posh little box. The crowd is absolutely intense and right on top of the field and I always feel like part of the action when I'm in here. Definitely one of the better stadiums, but the prices and the small size are the reason it's a 4. I've been to every significant stadium in UK & US, due to a lifelong obsession with travel, sport & especially footy (soccer to Americans). Born & raised in England, I followed Oxford United (hometown team) to stadia all over the country at away games, and later followed Liverpool (fave team) around. Every stadium review - like all my reviews - are based on first-hand personal experience, usually from multiple visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, visiting hundreds of stadiums for fun in my spare time. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was "stuck" in UK for 3 months, I went to most of them yet again while travelling. I have pictures of me at many of them, which I will post later. Also, when back in the UK I plan to take more pix, and add more stadia! So watch this space! *** return to regular review *** It's a little rich club with a little rabid stadium in West London. I can't give this stadium less than a 4 because it's so loud and intense and the crowd are right on top of the players, but there's no way such a tiny stadium can get a 5 for a club that should really have a bigger and grander stadium. It looks like they won't be in the Prem much longer anyway (they never usually are), but if the club won't be missed (too many London clubs, esp West London), then the stadium will and its atmosphere too. It's in White City, a great part of London that is maybe a little racially monotonous. It's just near Shepherd's Bush. I think maybe he should shave it off. It opened in 1904, and Fulham briefly played here in the 00s.

Queens Park Rangers are back in the Premier League this season after a lengthy spell in the lower…read moredivisions of English football. In the spring of 2002, when I was doing a semester abroad in London, I did a work study (internship) at QPR. At the time, they were in the Second Division (third tier). I had hear of QPR but didn't know much about the club. But my time there made me a fan and I'm proud to be a supporter of the R's. Now that they're back in the top flight, I had a perfect excuse to head back over the pond for a visit and to take in a Premiership match. Loftus Road Stadium is definitely a throw-back to the more modest days of the sport. Compared to Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium (review here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-emirates-stadium-london#hrid:nvZxRYSY_mKiQndnHx2iQw), Loftus Road is like a backyard shed. It's old, not at all modern, and for a Premier League ground, quite small. But it also has immense character, is very intimate, and incredibly approachable. One of the great things about the smaller clubs is how accessible the players are as well. If you get to Loftus Road early you can catch many of the players walking from the player parking lot into the stadium, and most of them are happy to stop to sign an autograph or snap a quick photo with you. Try doing that at Manchester United or Chelsea! QPR is a fantastic little club with an incredible history. Hopefully they'll be in the top flight for years to come. Which means I better start saving up now for what I hope can be an annual pilgrimage.

We came here since we were shopping nextdoor. The place is a bit far from central so this was the…read morefirst visit for me. Got the lift to the top and we had drinks and small bites for lunch and looked around. It was very quiet but also decor was very standard to the other houses. I was a little disappointed that there wasn't any Christmas decorations up. 3/5 Crab linguini - this was very oily 4/5 Chips - very good I'd come back to this house if I was nearby. It's huge and there's a pool on the roof.

Had the chance to try out - for good money, mind you - the club/restaurant and the hotel. (Yes, I…read morewas a member at that time.) The hotel is overpriced - as most of the Soho universe is, even for members - and the rooms are tiny. Mine had a view of a (I am sure exceedingly "retro") wall. The restaurant gave me food poisoning. Nuff said.