Southbank Club

Fantastic experience: I have been using this wonderful gym for a very long time after trying many others along the way. This is by far the best one for me. This place is like a home. Staff are so friendly as are the clients. Regulars will also say hello after seeing you over time. People will help if you are unsure of how to use equipment. Staff will always help if you ask. I see this as the last gym for me and having recently chatted with the Klaus (owner) I am excited for the changes to come. Robert

Fantastic experience: Decent squash club with great community and lots of courts. Family owned, highly recommended

Fantastic experience: First time visiting and the reception staff were very welcoming and genuinely friendly… can’t say that about most places these days. Gym is very spacious and not too crowded and the music volume was well balanced. Very clean changing rooms and a great bonus having sauna and steam rooms.

Fantastic experience: It is the perfect space to better yourself in, high ceilings, lots of room, punching bags, activity rooms and so on.. I live far from Vauxhall, but if I lived in the area I would have a membership..

Positive experience: Family owned gym. Lots of squash and Raquel eat ball courts

Negative experience: Very rude and unhelpful guy working on reception!!

Fantastic experience: Great service. Lots of selection with classes. Great facilities

Fantastic experience: Great squash club with good facilities and a well run box league. Friendly and sociable with a great club night

Fantastic experience: amazing place

Positive experience: It's a lovely quaint old style club. Very large training area with free weights, resistance machines abs cardio machines. Nice bag section as well. If you love squash raquets this is the club for you. I love its old style charm

Fantastic experience: Smashing gym -- and, given that it combines squash, freeweights etc, a sauna and steam room, excellent value

Fantastic experience: Very good squash at the club- well run club night, friendly atmosphere and good group of people. Two teams in the Middlesex leagues as well as box leagues and a high standard of squash. Top club

Fantastic experience: I did a five day course here. I wish I lived near this club. Lovely spacious & great staff

Fantastic experience: One of the best places left to play squash near central London. They have 7 courts, all glass-back and kept to a reasonable standard.

Fantastic experience: Friendly and helpful staff and great facilities make SC a great place to visit.

Fantastic experience: Great prices and friendly helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Great clean place, busy with Squash and the gym is never too busy. I love the facilities. And friendly staff x

Fantastic experience: Good gym with a great vibe and lovely employees.

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, great equipment and variety of machines - staff is always helpful and facilities are well maintained

Fantastic experience: Best squash ever!

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym, great staff and squash club was fun. Broken equipment was fixed quickly and the weights were usually clean and tidy

Fantastic experience: I get my level 3 diploma in personal trainer so im really happy , all teachers are really good

Fantastic experience: Great facilities with plenty of activities available. With the NHS discount it's definitely good value for money. Price of membership includes gym, classes, use of sauna, and cheap squash bookings.

Positive experience: Great squash place with good availability of courts and honest prices. Facilities are ok

Fantastic experience: Been coming here since 2012 and even though I have tried other gyms along the way or fallen off my gyming, I always end up back here, just a great environment and has everything I need - staff are great and honestly hope it never changes

Fantastic experience: I took the exam here and had a great time. The guys are very helpful and supportive in everything. They are kind, funny and I enjoyed every single day with them. I will miss you all! xx Annamaria

Fantastic experience: Old school style gym but huge, spacious, and never that busy. Great staff

Fantastic experience: Great place wonderful staff

Fantastic experience: So glad I ditched chain gyms for this gem of a place. Staff are polite and helpful, gym kit is sick, LOADS of space and the people are lovely, as a girl I feel safe and welcomed.

Fantastic experience: Best place to play Squash around the area. Courts are very clean and in good condition.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic club with great facilities and very friendly staff. Would highly recommend! Sad to be leaving

Fantastic experience: Gem of a gym just 2mins walk from Nine Elms Tube. Staff helpful and polite. Plenty of gear with designated areas for free weights, functional (2 separate places), several studios and loads of cardio kit.

Fantastic experience: Great staff and management. Great members and we'll maintained club!

Positive experience: Well equipped sports club with a little bit of everything: cardio, boxing bags, free weight. Good size sauna and steam room.

Fantastic experience: I have been coming to Southbank for the past 8 years! I’m so sad to be leaving, due to moving out of London. The staff are so friendly the gym is well kept and the changing rooms are all always spotless! Can’t fault anything, I’m going to miss this place. Highly recommended!!

Fantastic experience: A good spot really.

Fantastic experience: Nice place for fitness and learning

Negative experience: Was not informed there is a cancellation fee for the Squash court, I’ve not agreed to any terms and conditions and called to book so there isn’t any way this fee was hidden in small print

Negative experience: I have been a member for almost ten years now and I go almost exclusively for the fitness classes. Although I used to be satisfied with their schedule, I find standards have considerably dropped after the pandemic and still have not picked up more than two years later. Fewer classes, not much variety, very similar in style, while membership price has increased. I remain a member as the location is very convenient but find it hard to enjoy these days. Shame, they used to have some good instructors.

Negative experience: As a non-neurotypical person I find lack of clear pricing and transparency on membership very cunning. One has to call them to find out and be subjected to marketing pushing to buy it. Just no - that's dirty tactics praying on vulnerable. Pure Gym few block down and Better Leisure Centre in Vauxhall has pricing clearly displayed so it can be done.

Fantastic experience: Love this gym, great facilities in an converted cinema. Never any issues to share equipment and a great work ethic from the members which inspires

Fantastic experience: comfortable gym

Fantastic experience: Went here for squash. Rooms could do with a little refreshing/fixing as the air vent eats squash-balls. Overall experience very positive.

Fantastic experience: Good relaxing and best in Lambeth

Fantastic experience: Well equipped no frills. Great!

Fantastic experience: Great for squash.

Fantastic experience: I've been a squash member at Southbank for over a decade and couldn't recommend it more highly. The squash standard ranges from complete beginners to some of the best club players in London, so it's easy for everyone to slot in at the right level. The club has a great atmosphere, with friendly staff and a welcoming community of players. The squash coaches at Southbank are also very good.

Positive experience: Have joined the gym few days ago. Went to add them on Instagram and it turned out that they are running an offer - £60 for 6 weeks until the 31st of July. The receptionist wasn’t aware of the offer the gym runs as the offer hasn’t been applied to me. When I asked about it a day later they said I’m having pretty much the same offer which isn’t true . Atm I paid £58 for one month and 6 days. With the offer I would get a month and another 2 weeks. £2.00 more and would have gotten 8 days extra. I don’t think it’s a good way to treat new customers. The rating was strictly for not applying the offer that they advertised which was very frustrating. The classes and instructors are amazing and in general it’s a good value as sauna is included too.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in South West London

Fantastic experience: Decent gym. Family owned. Staff is quite friendly and the gym has most of the things you need and isn’t too busy. Great facilities too (sauna, steam room). Wish the squash didn’t have a court fee for members. Or at least cheaper fee for the more expensive membership. I end up spending £75 /month after all the fees which is on the high side considering the facilities.

Fantastic experience: My local Friday night squash place

Fantastic experience: Прекрасні корти для сквошу, комфортні вологі та сухі сауни, дружелюбний персонал❤️

Fantastic experience: The best club ever Amazing

Fantastic experience: Good

Fantastic experience: Brilliant place Loads of high quality kit and helpful support!

Negative experience: I booked a Yoga class through one of the partner apps for the first time. On arrival I was informed that I need to leave my ID o get a key for a locker. I don't usually have my Id when I go to the gym. And That information was never mentioned anywhere. When I asked how the situation can be solved I was informed that I can carry my stuff around the gym. That's not a comfortable solution. So I lef and lost my money. Don't recommend the place.

Fantastic experience: Great

Fantastic experience: Verry nice.

Fantastic experience: I have been going to this gym for a number of years, mainly for squash. The staff if friendly and welcoming, the owner is dedicated to his customers and staff and they have a wide range of exercise classes. As it is independently run, this gym has a community feel that you simply don't get in other gyms. Although I have moved from the area, I don't go anywhere else - Highly recommended!

Positive experience: Great gym. Loads of equipment. Plenty of space. People are not there to pose. Needs some renovation and toilets often stink, but I'm not going there to relax. It's a proper gym - it's one of the best 'real' gyms around.

Fantastic experience: Love this gym, good for physique training, reasonably quiet, nice sauna and steam - some minor equipment faults that they could be a bit more proactive about but overall , great friendly, body building atmosphere - nice staff - love it.

Fantastic experience: Great.

Positive experience: Clean and friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Awesome

Fantastic experience: Excellent drapes, rigging and installations

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym & squash club. Owner and staff are fantastic, so friendly and professional. Facilities are incredible. 7 squash courts (5 glass-backed), huge gym including large free weight section and cross-fit areas with tyres etc. Lovely lounge area with bar, sofas, and sport on TV. Great changing rooms with showers, lockers and sauna. Great community vibe, and they do classes too. Well priced membership. All round excellent

Fantastic experience: Love it - a proper family club vibe in the city which is so rare. I use Southbank primarily for squash (has to be the best and biggest squash centre in London without a doubt). Never too busy and staff are very professional.

Negative experience: Club is alright but accounts team billed me £60 for 2 months on opening after COVID without making me aware. I had moved out of the area and was not using the club for the whole time, yet upon contacting them they wouldn't refund me (not even at least for the second month, which had just started). Really disappointing given I was a member for two years before moving. Customer service wouldn't reply to me after I requested them to reconsider. You expect a club to treat its members well and be reasonable, but they have come across very poorly.

Positive experience: Not flashy but it has great facilities and is located conveniently for public transport.

Positive experience: Five star For Mitchell Dyer. 1 star for run down centre. Taps in toilet and shower not fixed for over year now fixed so amended rating. One more star if centre continues updating the center

Fantastic experience: Best gym in London, excellent facilities. Plenty of squash courts and the steam and sauna are excellent.

Fantastic experience: This is definitely the best gym I’ve ever gone to. It’s always been relatively quiet, I’ve been able to access pretty much any equipment I want even at peak times, the staff are great and super helpful. Only left as Ioved city, otherwise I’d have stayed longer!

Fantastic experience: Big space nice spot

Fantastic experience: I go here for the gym which is spacious and functional. There's loads going on for those that want that (squash courts and loads of classes), but above all there's everything you could need in the weight room as well as cardio. A great vibe in a former cinema with a good mix of all sorts of people - no one will feel out of place or awkward here. However it drives me mad that some of the clocks are *still* on BST in January, so I've knocked two stars off! **Edit** the clocks are now correct (in February!) so 5* reinstated but waiting with bated breath to see what happens when we go to BST!

Fantastic experience: Friendly and welcoming. Good squash box leagues.

Fantastic experience: This is a very good gym. Spacious and with lots of equipment and mat areas plus has squash courts, classes,sauna, steam room and relaxation area all for a very reasonable price. It occasionaly gets busy at peak hours (standard in any club in London!)but you'll always find equipment and space to exercise. Staff is friendly and crowd is nice too. 100% times better than that Pure Gym down the road where I had subscribed for 1 year and it was just diabolical ! I definitely recommend the Southbank club.

Fantastic experience: Good squash club! Get yourself some lessons with Danny Meddings.

Fantastic experience: I loved going to the South Bank Club for years. Although I left due to moving out of the area, I still have fond memories of my experience there. Although I would not class it at the time a cheaper fitness centre than others, it provides more facilities and classes that others. So it was worth every penny. I cannot speak to how it is now but 4 years ago, it was a well worth membership and excellent value for money. I loved the range of dance classes, as well as the machines. The staff were always lovely and polite on the reception desk. The facilities were clean and tidy. The Fitness Instructors and Personal Trainers were very helpful and gave excellent customer service too. Lovely gym. I do miss it in many ways. Especially the kick boxing and dance classes.

Fantastic experience: Took my Gym Instructor course here. Great venue.

Positive experience: Quite, need to renovate

Positive experience: Very pricey for what you get. Better off going pure gym to be honest

Fantastic experience: Nice environment for body's training, friendly staff and helpful

Fantastic experience: Perfect place

Fantastic experience: What a great club. I enjoyed my Otago training here with Later Life here. Karina from Southbank Club is one of the best front of house personnell that I have ever met- polite/fun/professional/flexible. Thank you for letting me use the great gym with TRX, kettlebells etc & amazing relaxation space with sauna- heaven for any Nordic person :)

Fantastic experience: Coming here for more then 15 years.. Is a great indipendent gym. great equipment and friendly staff.. Very clean and lots of classes.. Would not change for nothing else

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym. Will miss it

Positive experience: Like this gym. Lots of equipment and additional steam and sauna rooms. Squash courts available as well. Membership reasonable for what you get, classes included

Fantastic experience: I come here to play squash they have nice courts and professional coaches and training

Negative experience: Cool gym and massive functional floor. But they really need a refurb. As big as the gym is there are currently only two cubicles for men. So you can only imagine the smell and state of them.

Fantastic experience: As London's very soul continues to be eroded by the ceaseless march of Multinational Corporations, Franchise coffee shops and High Rise Apartments, The SouthBank Club Gym provides an oasis in the desert. A wonderful gym, all the equipment you need and none of the pretension. Really friendly staff from around the world, who greet you with a smile when you come through the door. It gives one hope that Community really is the answer and not Capitalism (and ultimately Nuclear Armageddon). Thanks for the memories Southbank - Never change!

Fantastic experience: I am always very excited about London Krav Maga classes. I can recommend highly experienced instructors and practical knowledge.

Negative experience: I am very disappointed by this place. Steam room and sauna are broken all the time, they do not provide any information about changes. All the machinery at gym are very old and look very dangerous. Everything looks old, they do not invest money and they do not take care of customers.

Fantastic experience: This is a really good club with perfectly reasonable membership costs. The gym is spacious with tons of machines. There are 9 squash courts.

Fantastic experience: Best range of free weights and functional fitness equipment in the area

Positive experience: Currently training to be a gym instructor here, so we get free use of the gym for 2 weeks. It's quiet all day up until 5, then don't even bother. There is a variety of equipment, CV machines, free weights, resistance machines, climbing frames etc... Staff are nice. There's a juice bar, somewhere to sit and chill with a TV, microwaves etc... Nice gym. Not sure about price though.

Positive experience: Fantastic range of equipment and spa facilities inside changing room, very spacious. Some equipment needs fixing but who can complain when there is so many options to choose from

Fantastic experience: Spacious and well equipped.

Fantastic experience: Great venue for squash, I’ve played there for the past two years. The place has 8 courts (in addition to gym, sauna, etc.). They organise league games as we as club nights. Players of all levels go there, although level is overall quite competitive. Staff is very friendly and helpful.

Fantastic experience: Super gym, incredible facilities and friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Been going to the gym for a long time. Great staff, great classes, great facilities. From squash to weight training you're covered..