
BH Live Active, Sir David English

Information about BH Live Active, Sir David English
Opening hours
- sunday: 9h-17h
- monday: 6:30-22h
- tuesday: 6:30-22h
- wednesday: 6:30-22h
- thursday: 6:30-22h
- friday: 6:30-21h
- saturday: 9h-17h
Our comment from FitFit UK about BH Live Active, Sir David English:
BH Live Active, Sir David English located in Bournemouth, is a well-regarded sports center that offers a variety of facilities for fitness enthusiasts and families alike. Visitors often praise the friendly and helpful staff, creating a welcoming atmosphere. The gym is noted for its exceptionally maintained equipment and a tranquil ambiance that allows for focused workouts. With a strong sense of community, members appreciate the inclusive environment that caters to various fitness preferences, from boxing to cardio workouts.
However, some users have mentioned limited parking options, particularly during event days, as well as a need for improvements in changing room facilities. Despite these concerns, the overall sentiment is positive, highlighting the center as a perfect destination for those seeking a great gym experience.
- Pros:
- Friendly and supportive staff
- Well-maintained equipment
- Tranquil workout environment
- Diverse range of activities available
- Cons:
- Limited parking during events
- Facilities could use some updates
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
BH Live Active, Sir David English: Opinions
Fantastic experience: My daughter's birthday was there on 14th of Dec. I would highly recommend the whole place. Friendly team, great service, well worth the money ive paid. Thanks. We will be back soon:)
Positive experience: Has a great sports hall and outdoor pitches. The parking is very limited and when events are on the street parking fills up very quickly - there is only a single shared toilet and small cafe - lets the site down compared to other sports centres
Hi Robert, thank you for your review of the centre and we agree that parking can be tricky when we are hosting events. We do have additional changing facilities with toilets which we can show you when you next come in. Look forward to seeing you soon, SDE Team
Fantastic experience: Active and positive environment
Great to see that you are enjoying training with us, thanks for the rating. Look forward to seeing you in the club soon. -Team SDE
Fantastic experience: Great fun place
Hi Sue, thank you for the review. Really glad that you enjoy training with us. See you soon - SDE Team
Fantastic experience: Small, intimate gym but has all the equipment needed.
Negative experience: If you like not getting the services you pay for come here. Can't reply to BH lives comment only edit mine, at your particular site you've closed for good the sauna, same story at queen's park and at pelhams and stokewood the saunas run at severely reduced hours, 1-2 hours max in the evenings. Also as mentioned reduced weekend opening times after your centers bizarrely posted a social media post stating "You asked we listened" and increased opening hours when you had actually reduced them. Also the car park, another service you now have to pay for if you intend on making good use of any of the sites facilities for any length on time. Very poor service continued closure or reduced use of facilities that we apparently pay for. No continuity between centres some want you to use pound coins for lockers others a padlock. This coupled with seemingly random maximum parking times which if you fall foul of your lumbered with an £85 parking fine and these times are different at every centre. Awful weekend opening hours.
Hi Steve, really sorry to hear this. Please could you give us a bit more detail of the closures and I might be able to get you some updates? Is there a site that you use in particular? Thanks
Fantastic experience: The BH Live Sir David English Gym is truly exceptional, embodying perfection in every aspect. From the moment you step in, you're greeted by kind and helpful employees who are eager to assist you in achieving your fitness goals. The machines, though occasionally dusty, are in impeccable condition, ensuring a smooth and effective workout experience. Compared to other gyms, any dust present is negligible and doesn't detract from the overall excellence of the facilities. One of the gym's standout features is its tranquil atmosphere. It's refreshingly quiet and devoid of the usual hustle and bustle found in other fitness centers. This serene environment allows you to focus entirely on your workout without distractions, making every session productive and fulfilling. Moreover, the gym boasts a welcoming and inclusive community. Members are friendly and supportive, creating a positive and uplifting atmosphere. Whether you're a seasoned bodybuilder, a passionate boxer, or someone who enjoys cardio workouts, there's something for everyone here. With amenities like a boxing bag, the gym caters to a diverse range of fitness enthusiasts, providing ample opportunities for strength training, boxing practice, and cardiovascular exercise. In summary, the BH Live Sir David English Gym stands out as a beacon of excellence in the fitness world. With its attentive staff, well-maintained equipment, peaceful ambiance, and inclusive community, it's the perfect destination for individuals seeking a top-tier gym experience tailored to their fitness needs and preferences.
Thank you for your wonderful review! We're thrilled to hear that you had such a great experience at our gym. We look forward to seeing you again soon :)
Fantastic experience: Amazing gym. Staff are all great, Rhys and Ebony in particular!
Hi Will, thanks for the great staff feedback, and glad you love the gym!
Fantastic experience: Straight in no fuss, we'll thought out gym. There's always staff to spot you and to give advice
Thanks Jip's :-)
Fantastic experience: Great time at AirJumpX
Glad you had a great time Daniel!
Positive experience: Booked an AirJumpX birthday party here. Great experience all round. Easier to book than other places too!
Thanks Dylan - that's great to hear!
Negative experience: Needs a deep clean.filthy
Dear Karl, we are sorry to hear your feedback. Please can you let us know which areas this refers to and we will forward this to the centre management team. Kind regards, SDE
Fantastic experience: Went to air jump x, thoroughly reccomend it, kids had a blast
Hi Jaclyn, thank you for your great review. Hearing that your kids had a great time at AirJumpX has made our day! We can't wait for your next visit. Kind regards, the SDE team.
Fantastic experience: Great place. Free parking with loads of sports and clubs on offer.
Hi Barbara, thank you for your 5 star rating. Your feedback is invaluable and we are truly grateful for it. We are delighted that you enjoy the selection of sports and clubs we offer and we look forward to your return soon. Kind regards, SDE Team
Fantastic experience: Very good service
Dear Great, thank you for your positive feedback regarding our services at Sir David English. We look forward to seeing you again in the near future. Kind regards, SDE team
Negative experience: Steam rooms never open Gym has strange hours… doesn’t open until 9am & Closes at 6pm on Sundays… makes no sense
Hi Gaz, thank you for your feedback. Our spa is open from 5pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings, and at selected times during the day on Wednesdays and weekends. Please check our website for specific opening times. As part of your multisite membership, you also have access to other gyms, including Littledown, whose gym opens at 6 am on weekdays. We do hope this helps and we look forward to welcoming you soon.
Fantastic experience: Great gym. Loads of different activities and sports available here. Including well lit outdoor netball courts and football pitches. Also with two massive indoor sports halls used for netball, football and many others. The gym and changing facilities are kept clean and tidy. Definitely a place to attend if you dislike unkept and dirty floors of some other chains. Oh, and free parking! Massive amounts of free parking.
Fantastic experience: Best place of gym
Fantastic experience: Really well equipped sports centre. Well worth a visit.
Positive experience: Great place. Clean courts. Wasn’t busy if you before 5pm. Would definitely go again for badminton.
Fantastic experience: Great sports centre with a lot to offer, 3 hours parking free with a massive car park. Swimming pools Gym Sports hall Soft play Cafe Nice little park surrounding the area and Astro turf football pitches
Hi Joe Thank you for your great review about Littledown. We are pleased you like the facilities and will feed this back to the team.
Fantastic experience: Well set up
Fantastic experience: Great place for a weekly footy session and amateur league game. Staff were even better as I once left my shoes on the pitch and they stored it safely until I returned to collect it the next week.
Fantastic experience: great gym, if you prefer a larger gym with lots of machines, this is not the one for you but if you want a medium sized gym with a small variety of machines that is not very busy, i highly reccomend, the changing rooms have been refurbished and the people who work there are nice.
Hi Nick Thank you for your review and feedback which we will pass on to the team. We are pleased that you enjoy the centre and with the new refurbishment of the changing areas. We look forward to seeing you again soon
Fantastic experience: Loved it my friends and I loved it so much cant wait to come back again
Fantastic experience: Very good
Fantastic experience: Great start of the week , Monday mornings with LBT and Zumba !!! Great teacher and great staff
Positive experience: I have played football here. Great pitches. I have played badminton here too. Perfectly good hall. £12 for an hour for 4 people. Lighting in the main felt a bit dated and spread out but otherwise ok.
Positive experience: Clean and tidy but small and no big selection of workput machines.
Negative experience: The staff are great, the gym area itself is clean but the council haven't spent a penny on its upkeep for 20 years. Changing rooms are disgusting.
Fantastic experience: My husband and I absolutely love playing badminton at SDE, staff are really friendly, and centre is nice and clean.
Fantastic experience: Smaller homely gym. I enjoy classes in the studio. Car park often very busy when football and netball going on but there's free parking on the road otherwise
Fantastic experience: Lovely sports centre as it's modern, clean, well run and the staff are very friendly and helpful.
Fantastic experience: Nice, small and friendly leisure centre. Great meditation classes. ♀️
Positive experience: Quite difficult to book football pitch. You can be on hold for a long time then disconnected. Pitches are fine although some parts have some humps
Fantastic experience: Very helpful desk staff. I only used upstairs hall for yoga and it was good. Plenty of space Didn't use gym but it looked ok
Fantastic experience: Amazing gym love ❤️ it
Fantastic experience: We went to the roller disco here on a Saturday afternoon and it was great fun!
Fantastic experience: Great place to hire badminton courts!
Positive experience: Good sports centre
Positive experience: Love playing netball there but toilet and changing facilities are really tired.
Fantastic experience: Amazing welcoming staff! Thank you
Fantastic experience: My daughter goes here to take taekwondo lessons with Gordon Fern. He and his lessons are amazing, my daughter really enjoyed going there and gave learnt a lot about discipline and self care.
Fantastic experience: Never too busy, staff really welcoming.
Fantastic experience: Staff was really helpful in comparison to other sides and the gym was very clean and organised for Covid-19 standards
Fantastic experience: Nice
Fantastic experience: Very good go here all the time go check it out definitely worth the time and money.
Fantastic experience: Good place for individuals and families to get active!!!
Fantastic experience: Lit pitches and great quiet gym with enough to do to keep you active and occupied. Lovely staff and good car park. Not sure if it's wheelchair friendly but have seen easy access from car park into building. Might have more info on their website.
Fantastic experience:
Fantastic experience: Excellent
Fantastic experience: Glad to be back, friendly staff
Negative experience: There is no way to get hold of ANYONE to book a court. Phone system is a joke and tell you to use contact form on website but they never get back to me. Please sort out a way to book courts
Negative experience: Well this isn't good! You can't even call the leasure centres to talk to a live person about your membership!?? I've paid up front for the year and the centres closed three months before my membership expired! And was going to ask if I could have those three months later in the year or start next January?looks like I'll have to go and visit one of the centres and ask???
Fantastic experience: Best Saturday roller skating
Fantastic experience: Lovely place, it's fun to go to rollerskating every Saturday but it REALLY gets packed. There should be a limit of how many people are allowed in, it's becoming a safety risk.
Fantastic experience: Lovely and clean staff so nice
Fantastic experience: Twisted my ankle again.
Fantastic experience: Very local,very friendly,very professional-and very useful for keeping this guy fit!Seldom gets over-busy.
Positive experience: The studio would benefit from some mirrors which would help clients with correcting posture when exercising. Queens park is much better.
Fantastic experience: Good gym
Positive experience: Enough Space to play
Fantastic experience: Professional staff and professional equipment
Thanks for the great review!
Fantastic experience: Lots of classes great instructors good atmosphere
Thanks for the great review Jen, we're really pleased you enjoy our fitness classes at Sir David English :)
Fantastic experience: Recently joined.. very friendly very welcoming Great place .. needs more channels vs stokewood tv
Thanks for the feedback Paula - looking forward to seeing you again at Sir David English!
Fantastic experience: Nice gym
Thanks for the great review! We're glad you enjoy working out at our gym and look forward to seeing you there soon :)
Fantastic experience: Excellent pain.
Positive experience: Roller discos on Saturdays great for kids decent for adults
Fantastic experience: Great place for activities.
Thank you for the 5* review Paul, we're really glad you enjoy all the activities we have on offer at Sir David English!
Fantastic experience: Good for gymnastics
Thanks for the great review Monika!
Positive experience: Nice tidy gym. Not as big as some of the other BH gyms which isn't a bad thing.
Thanks for the great review Karl, looking forward to seeing you again soon!
Positive experience: Car park can be busy.
Fantastic experience: Lovely people work here. Very helpful. Gym itself is good too. New seats in a sauna. Nice little gym.
Thank you for the lovely review Victoria. Looking forward to seeing you at Sir David English again soon :)
Fantastic experience: Choose over little down this place is ace i love u
Thanks for the great review Bruno, looking forward to seeing you in the centre again soon!
Fantastic experience: Great venue but expensive
Positive experience: David English is well-regarded for its outdoor facilities, more so than its indoor gym and changing rooms. The men's changing room, in particular, is quite small; perhaps the smallest I've ever encountered. The limited number of lockers necessitates carrying one's bag.
Fantastic experience: Nice little gym
Thanks for the great review Leon! Looking forward to seeing you again soon.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic staff. My son has started the 813 club and is really enjoying it.
Fantastic experience: What a great little gym! Fantastic sauna and steam room lovely! Staff are friendly!! Got few classes going on but overall good show bh-live xx
Fantastic experience: Great pay and play badminton 7.30pm-9.30pm Fridays. I would say more for intermediate to good players.
Thank you for your review Simon - we're glad you enjoy pay and play badminton. We look forward to seeing you again soon :)
Fantastic experience: Friendly place and not as busy as other local B H Live gyms.
Positive experience: There is no smoking area..
Fantastic experience: Clean, friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facility’s with a consistent standard and friendly staff
Positive experience: The gym is actually quality and if it had not been for the eye sore of BSB and the pesky kids always running about being stupid when all I want to do it gym hard and go home. They have good indoor facilities but too many BLASTING kids going about the place. Weekends and after 6 are the only times I would go to avoid the girls (ew) and boys (also ew) but would recommend to anyone with a BHlive and lives in the local area looking for a quite gym except when there are kids which is half the time so you can probably time it alright
Negative experience: Bad school at the top of the road
Fantastic experience: I love this place the facilities are good they also offer a wide range of sport
Fantastic experience: Clean facility of a decent size
Positive experience: Sports hall unbearably hot on a hot day. Good facilities. Large range of sports on offer.
Fantastic experience: Super leisure centre. It has a great gym and trainers and a wonderful sauna and steam room!
Positive experience: Nice gym no pool
Fantastic experience: Netball courts are fab
Fantastic experience: Great opportunities for doing varieties of sports.
Positive experience: I use the sauna and steam room and they are good, just a little noisy sometimes from people using the gym and dropping weights on the floor above, etc.
Positive experience: I go here every Friday for Adults open badminton session, it's great fun and good value.
Negative experience: Ok but it needs updating especially lockers in the changing rooms!
Fantastic experience: Fab
Positive experience: Rollar disco is here. Can't really rate the other services. Wish they played yazz.
Fantastic experience: Excellent
Fantastic experience: Great
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