LSBU Active Sports Centre

Negative experience: Terrible service and staff, they plaster “LSBU” all over the walls and everywhere but they couldn’t care less about students, all about money. The staff are rude and unhelpful, nice to see where our 9k a year goes. Dont think I could say one positive thing about this place as an LSBU student.

Fantastic experience: Great gym! Really helpful staff too. I love coming here. Only think I wish they had was a ski erg

Fantastic experience: An underrated gem that's easily one of my favourite places to train. The facilities and Technogym equipment couldn't be better than what you'd wish in a fitness centre.

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities, community, and staff. I've been using the gym for 2 years now, and it is by far the best gym I've used in London. Dan, Jeff, and Tiana are all excellent workers and very approachable.

Positive experience: Very clean and bright, super friendly staff and really good music playing in the gym!!

Fantastic experience: Nice clean sports hall. Very friendly helpful staff.

Positive experience: This facility is very new. Clean spaces for work out and have separate shower rooms, which is the best part i like. The location is also easy to access from Elephant and castle station.

Fantastic experience: The gym itself is small but it’s often quiet, great equipment, friendly and knowledgeable staff. Good changing faculties. Decent weight for the dumbbells. Also if you’re a student and go within certain hours it’s free! Amazing

Fantastic experience: excellent gym with friendly and relaxed staff. really good cycling studio that is normally empty!

Positive experience: This is a really niceeeee gym, except the fact that people don’t wipe their machines it’s disgusting someone should do something about it

Positive experience: Been to a sports hall only. Ceiling is a bit low and the hall is too "loud" possibly because of that. Friendly staff. Clean and roomy changing rooms.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and a clean, spacious environment with low monthly prices. Easy to book classed and a decent range of activities to take part in.

Fantastic experience: Great facilities but difficult to get to.

Fantastic experience: Awesome Price, Very Modern, Free machine to keep track of body fat % and muscle mass *****

Fantastic experience: Good badminton courts with high contrast lines. Not slippery. Walls are greyish beige. The ceiling is a bit low but not ridiculously low. I didn't mind. Nice clean toilets and changing. Water fountains nearby. Overall, I liked it a lot.

Fantastic experience: Good facilities

Fantastic experience: I’ve to the LSBU Active many times, the equipment is all functioning and high quality, they have incredible events almost every week, and the staff is very supportive.

Fantastic experience: Brand new sports facility, air conditioned basketball court, clean and spacious changing rooms! Well done LSBU for investing into students activity spaces!

Fantastic experience: Amazing facilities and the best classes and gym around. I love Zumba the most!

Fantastic experience: A good university gym that has everything I need for a workout. The gym has been temporarily relocated while the main building is being renovated, but there is a much reduced membership (£10-£15 per month) in the meantime as the gym area is smaller and there are less machines. I don't use them, but there are also fitness classes. Convenient to my workplace, modern machines, not too busy during the day. Looking forward to when the renovations are finished. Gym is available on PAYG (Hussle app), but better value to do a full membership while prices are reduced.

Positive experience: Have what you need for sports

Positive experience: Very expensive

Fantastic experience: The new refurbished Gym/Sports Centre building is so nice, I fell in love even more once I saw it. A well on lovely upgrade with more variety of facilities and equipment to use in the Gym compared to the temporary facility extension block building. There is now upgraded/ 3 new studios for different type of classes to be held in. The changing rooms, showers and toilets are also very nice to use. Once again the Staff are welcoming, friendly, knowledgeable and professional and strive to do the best they can to provide excellent service. Look forward to working out more again in this Gym and the success of the organisation business.

Positive experience: The memberships are a real bargain while the university is undertaking renovations in the main gym. Have a look at them before you sign up, make sure the limited facilities are enough for your needs, but if they are it's great value and open to everyone. They offer classes or gym access, or both.

Fantastic experience: A nice place for learning and other educative activities. Lots of foreign and British students.

Fantastic experience: Top quality coaches in several disciplines.

Positive experience: Functional well equipped and cosy. Staff are always happy to help.

Fantastic experience: Very helpful staff, supportive- there is no pool

Positive experience: It is ok but can be better with better equipment

Positive experience: Great place if you want to play basketball.

Negative experience: Had an exam in here and it went pants

Positive experience: Facilities are now a bit tired and old so it can be challenging to use e.g. lighting is not of the best standard and changing rooms are quite stark. Service could be better. It is often slow, not very switched on and can be a challenge to get the staff to understand fairly simple things. There isn't really a customer mindset.

Fantastic experience: Friendly, welcoming staff. The cardio suite (treadmills, bikes, cross-trainers, rowing...) and resistance machines (weights) are modern and in a bright, well-kept space. It rarely feels "busy" so great if you are serious about doing your workout (or feel cautious because you're new to working out!) A good range of exercise classes, as well as running training courses, personal training, and holiday camps for kids. The FTZ suite has some great equipment for switching-up workouts. Free-weights area is smaller and has a bit of an old school vibe that will appeal to some and not others. Changing facilities are basic but well-maintained. The centre is located on 2.5 floors. Lifts, adapted showers and toilets, and a family changing space are available for people with limited mobility. Music volume isn't overwhelming and there are two off-peak mornings where music is turned off for visitors who thrive better in quiet.

Positive experience: The building is dated but the personnal instructure is great.

Positive experience: Nice sports hall. Very blue and a little warm. Ceiling is lower than I'm used to for badminton.

Fantastic experience: Great place to go swimming

Positive experience: Well connected with the university, quite big and prepared staff

Negative experience: Disastrous: if they have difficulties connecting with a child they just send him home. Not just for the day - for the entire duration of the camp you booked. Not after several attempts and an action plan, but from the very first day. With no soul searching at all as to what they might have done to cause the difficulty. Would have given 0 stars had it been possible.

Fantastic experience: Having trained under some of the best muya thai fighters in Thailand. Kes is the best ! A beginner and even the best fighter will suddenly realize what is like a text book muya thai, highly recommended ever! Just amazing instructor!

Fantastic experience: Great University Sports Centre

Fantastic experience: Great, responsive staff. On my first day the rowers were not giving any resistance. Reported and the next day the manager had tools out on it. Fixed - well pleased. Been going almost every lunchtime since!

Fantastic experience: Amazing staff. Sports hall has a variety of activities. Gym has extensive machines and free weights. New cross fit room is well equipped and there are a plethora of classes available

Positive experience: Friendly staff, clean and well maintained equipment and good changing / locker space

Positive experience: Really well kept and clean

Positive experience: Big indoor sports centre, of which many facilities are accessible to the public.

Positive experience: A small sports centre with a range of variety of different classes and halls that can cater for most indoor sports.

Positive experience: Good sports centre that's not very busy. we normally play badminton here but have seen people play basketball and dodgeball here as well. The only way to book is however by phone so you will need to give your bank details everytime which is a little annoying, hope they will have online booking soon.