PureGym Oxford Central

Positive experience: I have been going to this gym since it re-opened from Covid, and only go in the mornings, or occasionally quite late.This Puregym and the Buzzgym seem to be the only commercial gyms within central Oxford at a good price. The gym is friendly and well-organised, but suffers from really poor building management. I'd be happy to re-write this review if anything changes. Pros: - Decent price, especially within the area, student membership gives you access to other puregyms during the vacations - Well organised equipment, staff do an excellent job keeping it tidy considering how little space there is in Oxford. Definitely tidier than most other gyms I've been to. - Well-attended and energetic classes. - Friendly personal trainers and fellow gym-goers. - No wait for machines in the mornings, or late at night. (Gets extremely busy from 4-7pm though - I avoid these times entirely.) - Easy to use app for membership and class organisation Cons: - Hygiene: this is a big one. The men's toilets rarely have hand soap (and people then use the equipment). The sanitisation station - Facilities: showers are pretty grim. Men's toilets are almost always blocked. - Temperature: over the last year, the air conditioning temperature has been set very high (regardless of the season). It's impossible to wear anything but a thin t-shirt without feeling sick, and I don't do cardio in there anymore. - The classic 1 million treadmills / ellipticals but only 3 squat racks. As I've said, this hasn't been a problem in the mornings. - There is a really poor smell in one corner of the gym, no clue where is comes from, but that area is often empty for a reason.

Fantastic experience: great place. the whole process is smooth and easy. gym isnt overcrowded and there are lots of equipment to use

Negative experience: Over populated and less free weighted area.

Negative experience: Good gym but it stinks of damp

Fantastic experience: I switched from a different group of gyms and I wish I had done so sooner. This is a great gym choice: affordable, fantastic location, safe lockups for bike, good kit( machines, weights etc) , plenty of space for stretching and free weights, all round spotless: the lockers- showers all usable and useful. I also really appreciate the online classes, the chance to use other gyms when I travel. Altogether I am getting much better value than my previous gym membership. This is by far the best gym option in Oxford.

Positive experience: Good location. Cheap. However, the equipment is old, the floor space for sit-ups, stretching, etc, is minimal, and the showers are in desperate need of a thorough deep clean.

Positive experience: Good gym but it's impossible to get the most out of any workout if you are dying for the loo and there isn't a scrap of paper in the changing rooms, disabled loo even at the cleaning stations. Get your act together pure gym!!!!

Negative experience: No Internet so if your booking a day pass do it before you get there

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym with good equipment, friendly staff. Very poor wifi.

Positive experience: Good gym equipment and space. Plenty of extra machines. Though the staff is very rude and incapable of helping with any issues with our membership. Classes tend to get cancelled with very short notices that disrupt plans.

Positive experience: Big but for what? Only has a handful of capable machines (I think two?) And like a million treadmills and steps and cycle machines. Why too little space for strength building

Positive experience: A bit busy but good price and facilities

Positive experience: The gym facilities are good but some staff members are not nice. I don’t think they are allowed not to let you into the class if you are 2-3 mins late. I was disappointed because I booked the class in advance and spent my time to get to the gym but was refused to join the class. It’s bad that you can’t complain about it on their website. I think the management doesn’t care so much if customers are satisfied or no.

Positive experience: Most lockers booked out or broken....

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, excellent value for money, clean and in good state of repair, very helpful and friendly staff. easy access.

Negative experience: Too crowded, some people do some weird stuff hogging the very little equipment

Fantastic experience: I really like this gym. It's big enough, with a fair offer of machines and dumbbells. Enough variety of classes and nice facilities, for a reasonable price

Negative experience: Genuinely an unsafe gym. Health and Safety would torch this place to ground if PureGym don't do it first.

Positive experience: A bit cramped but still enjoy using the gym. Staff are friendly and the gym and changing rooms are clean.

Fantastic experience: Cozy gym with all the necessary machines.

Fantastic experience: Lovely staff, great gym with everything you need, very helpful, great functional space

Fantastic experience: Good equipment and most importantly really friendly and helpful staff. Also, the gym is very clean.

Negative experience: One of the new employees smells bad. We ask the employees who work in the gym to pay attention to this issue. Some people can't stand the place because of the bad smell.

Positive experience: A good gym all in all, where there's sufficient equipment for a decent workout and the music doesn't blast your ears except on Sundays when the young person on duty gets confused between a gym and a nightclub. The downside is that when equipment breaks it can take months before someone shows up to repair it - which is just unacceptable and why this gym gets only 3 stars. Otherwise a very solid gym.

Fantastic experience: Good well equipped gym ️‍♀️

Fantastic experience: Big gains

Positive experience: Some of the equipment seems a little outdated compared to some of the other PureGyms I've been to, but it does the job. It's a pretty busy gym which is a positive or negative depending on your preference.

Fantastic experience: Great access with a code they send you! Used this gym while I was in town for 3 days. Awesome equipment.

Fantastic experience: Good value for money! Highly recommend Marcin. He boosts my confidence with using all equipment. Also location of the gym is excellent. Thanks guys!

Fantastic experience: This gym is definitely nice.

Fantastic experience: Dean is a first class instructor! Always a brilliant session thank you

Negative experience: Rough gym with a cold atmosphere. I don't know but this gym just gives me negative vibes so I quite before something bad happens to me plus it is overcrowded. p.S THEY SAY IT TAKE 15 WORKING DAYS TO GET YOUR MONEY REFUNDED BACK INTO YOUR ACCOUNT BUT I AM STILL WAITING!!! AVOID!

Negative experience: Singularly the worst and most embarrassing experience I've had as a customer, anywhere, ever. And I'm including from airlines, hotels, taxis, retail stores, government agencies etc. Just signed up. First visit. Took my 8yo son with me, as I've done with every gym I've been a member or guest of since I had a kid. Security voice over the tannoy announces, across the whole gym complex, "The man with the child, you must leave! You can not bring a child here! Otherwise your account will be suspended!" Find an actual staff member for guidance on the matter. And as I'm talking to him, the security bloke blares out," You with the child, we have your details, your account is now suspended. you must leave!" So I did. What a disgrace of an operation.

Positive experience: Great place to workout! There are so many machines that you don’t have to wait for your tune and waste time. Everything is good apart from sometimes they are very understaffed so you are on your own if something happens.

Fantastic experience: First day was good day i hope always

Negative experience: their website does not work....it is impossible to change the location for a member who commute between two cities and wants to use the gym ...their system is not straightforward ...this problem should be fixed now

Fantastic experience: Very clean gym with a comfortable atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Would be nice to receive a Free membership for my review . Lol , received a response from the owner saying thank you, but no mention about a free membership , not even a discount.

Positive experience: It should have more machines and space for weight lifting. It is always too crowded. There should be a limit on the amount of people that are in at the same time

Fantastic experience: Great treatment from Cris and excellent facilities. I recommend it

Positive experience: Good gym generally. But be aware the students over crowd the place and waiting around is no fun. when there around thirty to forty ppl in there it’s good tho..when over a hundred be ready to alter your needs that day.

Negative experience: Bought a prepaid day pass. Was notified it was suspended when I tried to use it (within 1 hour of purchase). Can’t reach anybody for a refund. Beware.

Positive experience: Ok

Fantastic experience: Clean, well equipped with Olympic plates and platforms. Friendly staff, open 24/7

Fantastic experience: Probably the 3rd best gym I've ever been to but the best pure gym. Great amount of equipment and friendly staff!

Fantastic experience: I'm away from home for a week and it is always essential that I maintain my exercise routine. This gym is outstanding in the helpfulness of the staff, the quantity and quality of equipment, the ease in getting (in my case) a week's pass for a fairly reasonable price, and for its hours (24-hours a day). I recommend this location to you very highly. And thanks!

Negative experience: Gym always busy

Positive experience: Nice gym

Fantastic experience: Fairly compact but densely packed gym, but well equipped and with good use of space made training easy. Friendly staff and well maintained facilities.

Fantastic experience: I think the gym is fantastic and one of the best gyms I’ve been too, always very attentive, helpful kind and friendly. I train 5 times a week and look forward to the warm welcome from the Team. Dean Bennison is always ensuring there’s positivity running around the club and attending members needs. He has a great team and they work hard together.

Negative experience: Too small and over crowded

Positive experience: It’s as good as a commercial gym can be. The equipment isn’t amazing for a old fashioned bodybuilder like me but great for general fitness. It’s clean and is worth the money. But it’s always packed and because it’s commercial it’s people just stood around or taking pictures. If you are not to serious join if you are more hardcore it might not suit. I get looks and laughs because I work out intense like they used to this is by boys with no gains and one laughed and fell of his bench. It’s more a Socail club and people posting that there with no effort . I only go because the owner of unique body’s sadly passed away . Recommend it if your just a regular gym goer

Fantastic experience: Great gym - nice and clean, staff and friendly and helpful, and the classes are included in the price. Can get quite busy, but great value for money.

Fantastic experience: Decent PureGym but rather busy, especially during term time. Best times are early morning through to early afternoon, and very late at night; you may struggle to find a bench outside these times. All the equipment you'd want and a very large studio to do bodyweight work.

Fantastic experience: Decent like Garry Kane

Fantastic experience: The best gym ever. Love the atmosphere in here.

Fantastic experience: Very good gym

Fantastic experience: Excellent

Positive experience: Nice and clean. Good choice of equipment. Like the fact it's open 24 hours. Found the music a bit too loud. Lots of classes for free but not much of a description of what they involve or if suitable for beginners.

Fantastic experience: Its rare to find a gym with great communication, PTs that get to know you plus give a bit of guidance (highlighting Calvin) plus other gym goers who enjoy a quick catch up chat. Gym itself has all that's needed and kept clean and organised. Great job staff.

Positive experience: Cool gym, small enough area though and gets very hot during summer months. Good area and enough machines.

Fantastic experience: Nice and friendly

Fantastic experience: I have been using this gym for 2 years now and won't be changing anytime soon. A great layout with plenty of room to train. Free classes. What sets this gym apart is the Trainers and Staff all are very helpful, upbeat and pleasant. They are happy to help with all aspects of your training and nutrition.

Fantastic experience: Great layout. Very friendly and welcoming staff. Good range of equipment.

Fantastic experience: Love it

Positive experience: I have been using this gym for a year and for the most part I have enjoyed the experience. The staff are friendly and helpful, the machines well maintained and the classes have been good. However I am disappointed this morning because the showers were not working when I went to use them after my work out. I am now going to have to do a full day's work having not showered after working out. I know this has happened before recently too. I usually use the gym before going to work so of this continues to happen it will become a big problem for me and I may have to find a different gym. Please get this sorted quickly PureGym. In reply to the comment below: this happened today, Sunday the 26th Jan so the problem has recurred. Also, a more adequate way to contact you with problems like this would be good and less public. I have used the "Leave Feedback" button on the app before but had no reply.

Fantastic experience: Excellent equipment, central, really like, go every day, open 24h Good range of classes including Pilates, yoga free to members

Fantastic experience: Pretty good gym. I much prefer Puregym over David Lloyd, as it’s open all hours and the equipment is up to date

Positive experience: Decent gym, but the mens changing rooms always smell like an open sewer

Fantastic experience: Nice gym with a lot of equipment. I recommend Marcin as a personal trainer, amazing knowledge and very helpful with workout routine.

Fantastic experience: Great gym with a decent amount of both resistance machines and free weights. The new functional area looks pretty sweet. Clean and tidy throughout. Staff helpful and chatty, especially the manager Hollie - asset to the company!

Positive experience: I was member for about 4 months. The gym is good, lots of machines, and nice classes, most of them are free. My only criticism is the male changing rooms and showers being rather filthy and smelly.

Positive experience: Useless

Fantastic experience: Modern range of equipment

Negative experience: Night time toilet smells of weed, outside smells of weed, all because of the roof outside pure gym, they come stay under the roof,

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff good atmosphere

Negative experience: Not sure what’s happening here recently, but the men’s changing rooms and shower are in a disgusting state.

Positive experience: Not bad place even in rush hours.

Fantastic experience: Any time 7/24!

Fantastic experience: A touch crowded from time to time but I guess it can't be helped, does the job.

Positive experience: Нет ничего в этом зале такого, что б запомнилось или выделялось. Просто зал, просто тренажёры, просто персонал. Нужен лишь для тех, кто ходит для галочки или для дополнительной нагрузки.

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever no waiting business alot of weight

Positive experience: Super salle, super ambiance, aucun problème au top !

Positive experience: Excellent value. Could have more space for stretching. There is is very little space for putting a mat down.

Positive experience: Sweat bodies and land of mirrors... nice girls, rock, paper and scissors

Fantastic experience: Great equipment

Fantastic experience: It's a bit busy in the morning.

Fantastic experience: Really great vibe in here. Good facilities for a place in the centre of town. I've just started going to the gym and I'vehad a great start.

Fantastic experience: good place, convenient location

Fantastic experience: Look no more, it's all in here.

Fantastic experience: Great range of equipment, usually relatively quiet outside of peak hours and very well looked after. The showers are nice and the changing rooms are spacious with the added benefits afforded by the membership plus it's definitely worth it.

Positive experience: Great value for money, friendly pts. Would give 5stars but unfortunately it does take quite a long time for broken equipment/water fountains to be fixed, and the women's shower sometimes does not have warm water.

Negative experience: I didn't want to give a review but... after sending several emails, I got a very very rude answer in each email. Guys, the fact of being the only gym in city center doesn make you popular, if there's other gym nearby you are going to be empty.

Positive experience: 5 stars if shower is not so hot and needs a couple of more clocks on the walls.

Positive experience: Great location but overcrowded and missing some equipment

Positive experience: Great gym. Always space somewhere in the cardio areas although the weights section can get very busy in peak times. When things sometimes break they are very quick to be replaced and fixed. Every now and then staff will try and sign you up for a personal trainer while you're working out which is a bit invasive, but other than that a great full facility. Multiple machines and weights for all muscle groups means you won't have a specific workout ruined by one busy machine.

Fantastic experience: Very well equipped and conveniently located in the city centre. Membership price is quite decent.

Positive experience: Pros: Clean, affordable and good equipment. No joining fee. 24hrs. No contract Cons: Very warm, very crowded. Comment: For the a tiny bit more per month, you can have an entirely different (and better) gym experience else where (more space). You may have to sacrifice the benefit of the 24 hr gym though! All in all, it's not BAD, but not the best.

Negative experience: A relative had a free day pass due to the fact they would recommend PureGym. I only needed to contact them directly to let them know which class I would like to attend, and when. On my first attempt to contact them, I simply had no reply. My relative contacted their manager directly who replied fairly quickly (hence 2 stars rather than 1), to arrange a class. Went there a 1st time, push the assistance button several times, no-one ever came. When I left, there were 7 persons waiting on someone to come over. We contacted them back again. They did apologise and explain the staff probably didn't have their buzzer on them. I do appreciate after 5:30pm it can get busy, and even though I had no attention to try again, I did accept to give it a 2nd try. It resulted in a waste of time once more as no-one again came to welcome me. Therefore I would not recommend PureGym. I used to go to Better gym when I worked near by, and even though they were not perfect, there were much better!

Negative experience: The most disgusting, unhygienic gym I have ever had the misfortune to enter. No soap in the bathroom, sticky cardio machines, and a dank mixture of feet and ass constantly offending the nostrils. Stay away