I have been to many CrossFit gyms in London and around the world, but WOW Crossfit Putney is an…read moreexperience worth while. Apart from the amazing coaches and friendly staff, the facilities are just on another level! It is a must visit CrossFit gym!

I was in London with some friends and we dropped in for a workout. The gym is awesome, it's brand…read morenew with all new Rogue equipment. The staff were very nice to us and they made sure we had an excellent experience. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is visiting London and is looking for a CrossFit gym.

Completely unethical membership team…read more I originally signed a 3-month membership. At the end of this, I decided I might renew. The membership person told me I could transfer to their Diamond membership (1-year, rolling) and pay a transfer fee so that my 1-year membership would be effective from my original join date (on the 3-month membership). This sounded a good idea. Pay a £10 transfer fee so that I could be on a 1-year membership that would end (so long as I cancelled it in time) about the time I planned to move out of the area. The membership guy gave me the date I had to cancel by (25 August) if I didn't want to roll my membership onto another year (and, basically, have to pay for an entire new year's membership whether I liked it or not - something a lot of people get stuck with when they sign on to Virgin Active gym memberships, but I was sure I wasn't going to get duped by this, having been very careful with all the Ts and Cs, getting verbal confirmation of everything before I signed on the dotted line). I put this cancellation date in every calendar and diary I had just so that I wouldn't forget. I happily went about my business. 25 August approaches, and I fill out cancellation forms online. No one calls me. I call Wandsworth Virgin Active to cancel, and they tell me I should come in. I make the special trip out to Wandsworth - for I do not live there anymore - to cancel and I'm told my membership isn't due to expire until December and that no one can resolve my issue for me since the membership team all went home. Um, no. I call in the next day to speak to a membership person, Angelina. All she does is speak over me in a monotonous, bored tone of voice for 10 minutes, telling me that I was given the wrong information and that a verbal agreement isn't the same as a written agreement. I ask her to find my original signed agreement and see what's written on it when she says she's 'looking at my agreement' and I find she's really only looking at their electronic records. And she says she will. Yeah, fucking right, she will. She says I should just send in proof that I have moved out of the area and that they will forward it on to their head office to make a decision about the remainder of my agreement. I told her I'm cancelling my Direct Debit because I'm not paying them another dime, and I don't care if it goes to a debt collector because they are a completely shady, unethical company. I could send them proof of my address changing, but that is BESIDE THE POINT. It's shady, Richard. SHADY. Branston, I expected more of you.

I bought a trial pass for this gym at the weekend and will not be joining. I should start by…read moresaying that I am not a fan of gyms (or exercise) and mostly went to check out the pool. This will explain number 1 on my highly personal list of Reasons I Didn't Like Virgin Active, Wandsworth: 1) The gym area was full of rows and rows of smart looking exercise equipment, all arranged over one enormous hellish open-plan floor, with zones notionally marked out by paths which zigzagged around the space like a PE maze from my nightmares. It is like some mental workout factory full of sweating people jogging on machines, bending weirdly on mats and receiving shouty personal training. My eyes! My eyes! Too much to take in, and I think I'd prefer a more intimate little local gym with walls if I was to join one. I can see that it might be quite funky and motivating if you were that way inclined though. 2) The entrance is via a petrol-stinky multi story car park. 2) The staff when I visited were all incredibly rude and inefficient. 3) It all felt a bit cheap, corporate and impersonal. The pool was small but clean and pleasant enough. I appreciated the lounging chairs, sauna, steam room and jacuzzi. If you ring ahead it's £7.50 for a day pass, so with all the spa facilities, snazzy gym equipment and a cafe, this is a bargain worth trying. However, I didn't like the vibe of this place at all, so as they say on Dragon's Den, "I'm out".

All i can say is AMAZING. This is not like the typical gym's that i have been to it is really posh…read more Very clean and welcoming. The changing rooms are well kept and you are provided with towels and toiletries. And ladies not only does the changing rooms have blow dryers but also GHD hair straightners which was suprising. The changing rooms are linked to the sauna, showers and then the swimming pool. I usually just go swimming in the gym because the pool is the only one is london that has a low percentage of chlorine and is actually warm not freezing like most swimming pools. The swimming pool has about 6 lanes which is perfect for laps. Membership can be a little pricey but is worth it without a doubt.

I didn't read all the details about this place. I simply asked YELP for a spa nearby. I wanted a…read moremassage and facial. Silly me. I had no idea that this was a gym and that it was the Chelsea football club. As far as the spa services, both were five star. If only I had known beforehand that I could have used the other facilities as well. Pool, sauna, steam room, gym. It would have been great to have had a workout before my massage.

Went to view Esporta Kingston yesterday. The guy showing me and my family around was incredibly…read moreunprofessional and rude. He took no account of what we wanted, was chatting at length to other people while we were supposedly getting the tour, and was both painfully slow in responding to questions and very aggressive in his answers. The facility itself looked ok, but not for the price. They want a 12 month contract at £73 per person (that's their so called Corporate rate, pure sales ploy since everyone is offered this). There is also a joining fee of £180 per person which they might bring down to £40. There is no family membership rate despite suposedly being family friendly. So all in if you join with your partner you're making almost £1,800 committment for the year. Honestly I don't think it commands that price. I didn't bother asking about the parking fees or what happens if you try to end the contract within 12 months.

Never one to pass up on the opportunity of a swim, i did a few lengths here after a meeting one day…read moreand it was a lovely way to relax after a fairly stressful day. Great pool, clean, and friendly staff.

I read a review a person here wrote from 2013. I think a lot of things improved since then. It does…read moreget a bit busy in times when people usually have free time- but then again if you want the gym for yourself you can pick unsocial hours or go and pay for some other gyms around that cost +80£ per month. Staff is always nice, the gym is cleaned thrughout the day and I find that very good.

If you are new to lifting, then this is the place for you. If you have been lifting for more than a…read moreyear or are serious then go somewhere else. Dumbells only go up to 30KG which really isn't much of a struggle. It only has one barbell bench press which doubles as a squat rack which is normally being used. Only one Olympic bar (20KG) which is the one being used on the bench/squat rack meaning no deadlifts. The people in there seem to spend more time on their phones while occupying the benches than lifting on them. On the plus side, it is very cheap, open 24 hours, has CCTV so there should be no fear of going at night and is very clean. It's not the worst gym around (nowhere near as bad as Planet fitness) but as a serious lifter, the skinny teenagers and part-time-once-a-week-gym-goers just get in my way so it is a big no no for me.