PureGym Bristol Abbey Wood Retail Park

Fantastic experience: Cheap and cheerful and even better it 24/7

Positive experience: Decent gym. Resistance equipment out performs the dated CV kit. Good use of space with the functional area. Annoying at times that some kit required for a set is upstairs but other than that it's great for the price.

Negative experience: I've trained a fair few gyms and this is the worst. - Staff members couldn't care less about the state of the gym - One pull down machine (constantly taken) - Toilets and showers are gross -Teenagers training in groups of 4+ taking up so much space and time If you want to train specific muscle groups and specific exercises, this gym isn't the one for you

Negative experience: Overcrowded all the time.

Fantastic experience: It's very quiet on weekend mornings. Lovely atmosphere

Positive experience: Decent facilities that you’d expect for PureGym. A bit annoying the only way to the gym is via a lift. Generally well maintained and nice that you can get a bit of a view across the harbour side.

Positive experience: It's a bit dark. I would add more lights

Fantastic experience: Amazing place to buy meat and Pakistani things customer service excellent

Positive experience: This PureGym location is one of the most crowded and poorly managed gyms I've encountered in the UK. The staff can be quite unwelcoming, often not even offering a simple smile. The facility is severely lacking in equipment, with only one lat pulldown machine available for the entire gym, which is always busy. Many of the mats are torn and in desperate need of replacement, but it seems no one is addressing it. To top it off, there are multiple spots in the gym where the AC units are dripping, creating a less-than-ideal workout environment.

Positive experience: My gym to go as is the closest one. Equipment is good but not the best one. You might run out of weight on some mashines

Negative experience: Maybe I'm just spoiled, but I dislike the commercial gyms now. Even though 24/7 access is a good thing. I don't personally think the gym was bad as I am making it out, but if other people not racking weights, or wiping down annoys you. Then I'd best come prepared with some hand sanitiser

Fantastic experience: Cracking gym with everything you could ever need and more. Super friendly staff and good atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Plenty of equipment and good environment to work out

Fantastic experience: All OK

Negative experience: If there's a class on in the studio then there's nowhere to stretch.

Fantastic experience: It's been a few years since they got new equipment but they look after what they got. Could do with getting a few more machines to fillm up some space but beggers can't be choosers I guess. Staff are always polite and friendly always doing something not standing around

Positive experience: Always over crowded

Fantastic experience: Good facility with plenty of space

Fantastic experience: Great facilities. More machines than any other puregym I've been to.

Positive experience: Overall okay gym to go at. Premises are clean. It’s a big space. 2 floors. Charging rooms definitely need another toilet, the mens only have two toilets, for a huge gym like this… you end up waiting your turn.

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Just avoid at peak times to get to equipment.

Positive experience: Pretty good gym overall and very big which is good, avoid rush hours if you can and you’ll be fine. It’s a gym though not a leisure centre or a health club so don’t expect variety of classes and expect to be quiet

Negative experience: Previously a member of PureGym Harbourside, one of their flagship locations. That place was fab, clean, great PTs, kit put away, clean changing rooms, could see why it was a flagship. Abbey wood is the complete opposite PTs never NEVER clean up. The place is a tip. Kit all over the place all the time. I watch them walk past stuff and just leave it. I also never see them tell lazy members to put their kit away so it is a neverending cycle. Again, this wasn't the case at Harbourside. The changing rooms are utterly foul! They are gross! Always stuff left there to rot, stinks, dirty, disgusting! My guess would be PG Corp have cut the cleaning budget and changed the hours of the cleaner, problem with that is, it makes the club disgusting. Will add some photos after the next visit

Positive experience: I’ve been going to this gym for several years and I used to enjoy it. However, over the last couple of months it’s become very busy even during off-peak times. There are a significant number of members glued to their phones instead of actually using the equipment. I would appreciate it if someone could remind members to consider other users especially when it is busy. .

Fantastic experience: Very good gym loved it, it was my first time there aswell so really good positive night there

Fantastic experience: Nice gym. Very nice inside, clean with lots of staff to help. Machines and benches all brand new, really really nice facilities.

Negative experience: The A/C doesnt work now making the gym even more skanky and disgusting.

Positive experience: Nice place, good equipment, friendly staff,I recommend.

Positive experience: Love the gym. It's a fantastic place to get your workout in, centrally located to many other business. But I swear it's like 80% of the people didn't graduate primary school. They can't read the numbers and know where to put the weights back. Some people are also so lazy, that they just leave equipment and plates on bars as is once they're done and leave. Like bro, you put it on there, put it back. Don't be that guy. Be better.

Fantastic experience: Great first visit and excited to use the gym facilities and classes. The app is fantastic and easy to use.

Fantastic experience: I really like this gym. It's clean tidy and well layed out which is useful when busy. It can get busy but time we'll it's fine. The staff are supportive and friendly which makes a difference. For a budget gym I think its great.

Positive experience: Good gym, with good equipment, but could do with a good clean as it's bloody filthy, employ some cleaners for goodness sake!

Fantastic experience: One of the best PureGym in the UK

Negative experience: Cancelled my membership yesterday after some lad is taking selfies in the mens locker room with me in the background, having gotten out the shower! Emailed the manager to report this, as not to my surprise, there was no staff on site (at 10:30am). And I'm told: "I appreciate that you have contacted Avon & Somerset to report a ‘criminal act’, please understand that there is no law prohibiting members of the public taking photographs in a public space." Allowing members to take photos of others undressed in the locker room is not against the law!? Delusional.

Fantastic experience: Good atmosphere and More space

Positive experience: Gym was fun

Negative experience: I have been using Filton Abbey Wood gym over one year as a home gym on basic membership. Moved house so change membership amount to use several gyms as I move around alot daily. The home gym became Bristol harbour side and secondary gym Abbey Wood. I had access to both gyms on £29.99 package. I continued this way without issues for 2 months approximately. Suddenly I cannot access Filton Abbey Wood as secondary gym overnight it becomes not included and I am asked to pay £3 more and upgrade without any prior warning. Incredibly unprofessional and unacceptable to change terms over night. Very disruptive to my routine and I will not be using this gym again and willl take public to warn others of this practice. Furthermore no one to talk to to help management are not competent in helping.

Negative experience: I'm a barbie girl in a barbie world is NOT appropriate gym music, playing such ridiculous music is extremely distracting. The climate control is not great. It's winter and at 9pm the gym has been so incredibly hot and humid lately that I struggled to breathe and sweat buckets doing anything.

Positive experience: A good gym but busy

Fantastic experience: Great equipment, very clean in changing room, nice atmosphere for a gym at least (not really been to any others), maybe just missing the small things as in when you go past one of the staff they could say hello or ask how you are, may lift some people up that Aren't doing to great mentally. Started earlier this year and when I was 18st6 (118kg) but now I'm 14st2 (91kg), I feel like it has had a great impact on my mental health as well. But saying that when I started I was shy and very self conscious, it would have been nice for somebody to talk and maybe just help a bit, to get comfortable in the environment. Overall very positive experience so far

Negative experience: No manager to help solve problems (was 5:30pm 06/11/23. Manager should be until 6pm wat tell me one of PT). Unfortunately if I not have access to Gym want the point pay membership.

Negative experience: Avoid like the plague at off peak times Full of chavs that shouldn't have a memberships Slaming the machines leaving the weights on Group of Juice heads taking shirts of etc etc list goes on Groups of People on the same machine for ages

Positive experience: It's a decent gym, but overcrowded.. Feels like they need to increase membership prices in order to keep the numbers acceptable..

Negative experience: cable weights are clearly incorrect and not consistent with other gyms (including puregym)

Negative experience: Gym is very poor, overused and busy place. The place is very dirty, uncleaned the equipment is grubby, sticky and never cleaned between users. Why people don't clean the equipment I'm not sure but judging by the standards of the place and it's staff I'm not surprised. Staff seem to be Sat round mostly maybe they could ensure equipment and the gym is actually clean. If you want to catch COVID or worse. Then attend this gym. Full of students Sat round on equipment on their phones ffs leave the phones for 60 minutes. Bring your own locker padlock, really? I don't think so, thanks for letting people know! The gym itself, equipment is quite close together and packed in and not much space between equipment, to have much space away from others which makes it feel worse at busy times. Lots of equipment and weights there is the only thing going for it. If it wasn't so dirty and grubby. It might have scored higher in my opinion. Had higher expectations. Nice idea but poorly executed!

Negative experience: Nice gym. It would be a much better place if the PureGym PT’s wouldn’t be so rude to the paying customers.

Fantastic experience: One of the best gym in Bristol! Every required equipments are there! But beware! There are many thieves in that area. Especially cycle thieves.

Negative experience: After visiting multiple of Pure Gyms, I feel that this one is lacklustre by comparison. Considering it's a more expensive price than other Pure Gyms outside Bristol, I expected equivalence or more. Instead the gym, aesthetically doesnt look anyhwere near as nice as the others and the equipment is not as great either! Not to mention that the Dumbbells are ALWAYS disorganised, with the other and more cheaper Pure Gyms, staff always make the effort to re-organise the equipment and I'm talking about even when the gyms have 100+ customers during busy timesx standards are still well kept. I just thought if my price was going to increase by £10 then at least the gym would be nicer but it's the opposite.

Fantastic experience: For what you pay for it's a great gym, Staff are friendly, plenty of equipment and 24hr.

Negative experience: poorly managed , unprofessional and rude staff , lots of equipment is regularly out of order and is too busy most of the time

Fantastic experience: Has everything you need. Great gym

Fantastic experience: Best gym for the last 3 years of uni

Positive experience: Usually busy during the day. But a good selection of equipment and rarely have to wait long for it either.

Negative experience: Some classes were alright but they were exactly the same every week so got very boring. The teachers on the weekend were shocking and the spin class is just in the main gym, there’s no spin studio. I joined to do classes so I quit pretty quickly as they weren’t good. It’s unsurprising that there is always spaces even though the gym is packed due to the low quality.

Positive experience: Please invest some money into cleaning products & hire a cleaner because the male toilet is always so dirty.

Fantastic experience: Really big spacious gym with good equipment. Does get busy in the evening so if you’re gym anxious look at times before hand :)

Positive experience: Toilets are stinky and the drinking water is quite warm which is gross so I'd advise people to bring a BIG bottle of your own water to save refilling there. The equipment is quite filthy these days. This gym used to be much better when I first joined a few months ago. It's a shame! Otherwise a nice gym and has everything you need!

Positive experience: the overall gym in Abbey Wood (Bristol) is fine. when a machine gets broken, it gets replaced in reasonable times. well equipped and organised spaces. However, the state of the bathrooms use to be at horrible levels. Bathrooms and changing room were perennially stinking. Now (April 2023) the level of Hygiene seems to be reaching l the regular standards again (hence the rate changed from 2 to 4 stars).

Fantastic experience: Accessible and friendly.

Positive experience: It's amazing and has great equipments.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, attentive to the needs of those around them, the gym is always clean and very well maintained. It will always be a pleasure to go and carry out my sports activities in the PureGym gyms. Especially the one in Abbeywood and the gym and staff are exceptional The way the team of this gym treats the customers, the atmosphere created by the team of this gym, the attention to the needs of those around them, their kindness, the equipment and weights nicely placed both on the ground floor and on the 1st floor. , cleanliness, order and discipline in the gym created and maintained by Mr. GM KIERAN and the whole team. Maybe it's not easy for the Puregym team to arrange everything for us every time either because we customers are messy, I see around me every day, but everyone does as they see fit, I don't judge anyone, I don't judge. . I'm right, but I want to thank the Puregym team and Mr. GM KIERAN for the efforts made behind our customers to arrange everything in place. We should apologize to the Puregym team and be more orderly

Fantastic experience: Very clean and tidy and most items stored properly

Fantastic experience: An outstanding venue and very friendly and helpful team . Well equipped training machines with information and friendly instructions . Facilities and the services provided are adequate at least for my needs. The app is very easy to use . Thank you PureGym for creating an enjoyable environment

Fantastic experience: Luke, the AGM, was really helpful in answering my questions about equipment. Unlike many other gyms the staff really do care about how their customers feel in their gym!

Fantastic experience: It's good for overall health and body fitness

Fantastic experience: The staff are very friendly is the best team I've been to so far recommend it to anybody

Positive experience: Good gym but real hot in there, they’re trying too much to stump on energy costs, they should just invest in solar panels or something Update on 16th sep 2023: Constant leaks from AC so gym is still hot but now there’s puddles of water the poor staff have to keep putting buckets under and mop up bless them.

Positive experience: Can someone clean the toilet and the sink please, it is same everyday dirty and bad smell, i love my gym and dont want to leave just because of this, thanks for understanding.

Fantastic experience: Had a morning Hit Class with Mike! That was intense!!! Loved every second of it! Great morning coffee!

Fantastic experience: I’ve tried different gyms over the years but always come back to Pure Gym. I’ve been at Abbey Wood for over a year and the classes are great, kit is rarely out of order and always get a good workout in. I’ve also been training with one of their PT’s Michal Gniewek for 5 months and can’t recommend him enough. I’ve already reached a huge weight loss goal with Michal and now we’re on our way to goal 2! I’ve had other PT’s in the past but feel Michal really listened to and understood my goals to lose the initial weight and get in shape, but also how to maintain after weight loss and fit things around my life style. He is super professional and knowledgeable, and there’s lots of focus on technique and doing things the right way. He also provides support throughout the week not just in our weekly sessions.

Fantastic experience: The gym itself has good facilities and equipment. It can get busy so pick your time well, but using the app can help see just how busy it is when you’re planning your visit. I’d also highly recommend Michal Gniewek as a PT. Michal helped me huge amounts in my development, helping with form, targeted exercises and motivation. He’s really friendly and professional, and will push you when needed!

Fantastic experience: Puregym Abbeywood is perfect for me, great range of equipment, always clean and tidy, affordable, and the staff are friendly and helpful. Michal is an amazing PT and he is an asset to this gym. He is so knowledgeable and produces results. Michal has helped me to reach and exceed my goals, and working with him every week for the last 2 and a half years has changed my life. I plan to see him until he retires! We are able to achieve SO much more than we realise if we are prepared to put in the work and have the right guidance and support. I would recommend him to anyone who is looking for a PT.

Fantastic experience: The gym is really nice and spacious and the Personal Trainer that I had, Michal was great. He is very knowledgeable, the training sessions were fun and enjoyable. His training plans were on point and really helped to build up my fitness. Unfortunately had to reallocate and couldn’t have him as a PT anymore.

Fantastic experience: Just to say a MASSIVE thank you to Michal Gniewek for playing a big part in my health and fitness recovery. I have been trying with Michal for almost 3 years now. He is really supportive and full of knowledge around the goals set out whatever they're I'm getting results were I didn't think was possible. Michal is always attentive throughout each session and I very much feel I get value for money. I would highly recommend Michal as a very professional and passionate trainer who gives a lot of , thought to his clients, treining requirements. So if thinking of getting a PT Mike will definitely help you achieve your goals. Enjoy the journey just like I am .

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Positive experience: Nice gym, clean and not too packed but the equipment is confusing.

Positive experience: Lots of space with loads of equipment, can get a tad daunting when it's very buy tho due to the sheer number of people inside

Fantastic experience: Very easy to access has a lot of equipment also like how you can access upstairs if it gets a little to busy

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym with amazing staff - friendly and welcoming. A good range of (clean) kit suitable for all types of fitness work. The classes are brill too.

Negative experience: Can’t even use the changing rooms in the evening! so where do you expect us to get changed? and have a shower after our work out this is bang out of order my last gym in Walton on Thames had 24/7 access to the changing rooms this is disgusting and if this issue doesn’t get resolved I will be leaving this gym to go to snap fitness over the road..

Fantastic experience: Great gym good facilities, wide range of equipment, it can get busy but all around good gym.

Fantastic experience: Personally, Abbeywood is my favourite PureGym in Bristol. It’s spacious, clean, great equipment & environment. Plenty of cleaning stations. The staff are always friendly and helpful. Working out there is always a pleasure.

Fantastic experience: Super

Negative experience: Poor quality machine , no cleanliness wast so ever . You get what you pay is true here . Rather pay bit extra and use other gym and way better equipment and 24/7 changing rooms also

Positive experience: I've busted down my score as the leg extension machine has been out of order for 3 to 4 months now. Absolutely ridiculous length of time for such a machine to be broken!

Positive experience: The gym itself is really good. Great equipment and some excellent machines! Issue is it can get extremely busy so I'd pick your workout time Wisley or you'll not be able to get a decent workout done without standing around waiting for things to become free!

Positive experience: keep fit gym not really for bodybuilding as such 50kg max dumbbells

Fantastic experience: New equipments Enjoy to go there always thanks guys

Fantastic experience: Great gym, never much of a wait

Fantastic experience: Very good gym, plenty of equipment and modern. Pump classes with Cristina are excellent

Positive experience: It's a nice sized gym and the range of equipment is good especially if youre on a push or chest day as theres lots of benches , dumbells and barbells, but I found some of it frustrating . The leg extension machine for example had no handles to hold onto meaning you have to hold the bottom of the seat ...and just in general alot of the machines feel awkward just not quite positioning or contracting how i like this could be preference and me just being used to other machines but it is irritating. The squat racks aswell atleast when i went had no safety bars available . Also no one wipes the equipment ..plenty of cleaning stations but pretty much everything is left with sweat patches. Not a dirty gym by any standards but the machines arnt the best imo and peoples gym etiquette isn't ideal. Defintily worth a try as it's good value and I could just be fussy but there's better quality gyms in the area for me

Fantastic experience: Excellent

Fantastic experience: Clean, modern, helpful staff, machines well taken care of. What more could you ask for really?

Positive experience: Great if you can go off-peak... only problem is getting the WiFi to work. Bit of a deal breaker if you get bored easily! Anyone have any idea how to make it useable?

Negative experience: Upgraded my Membership then was was told to leave the gym rudely by manager called Luke. He didnt understand that i approached him when one of the memeber already allowed me to enter the gym. The way Luke spoke was sarcastic, with sense of discrimination and need improvement in customer service and treat everyone equally.

Fantastic experience: I am really enjoying every class on this gym. Amazing team ❤️

Fantastic experience: Great facility - Staff have been doing a very good job keeping on-top of equipment cleaning throughout all of whats been going on in the world

Positive experience: Trainer there provides useful advice about my training plan.

Positive experience: You get what you pay for. The gym is very busy, when you are unlucky and work 9-5, and after work is the only time you can come to the gym, there's a little chance that you'll find a free piece of equipement to use. It seems to be not big enough to accomodate all of these people. Most of staff is friendly and the gym is pretty clean. For me it's time to move on though.

Positive experience: No frills gym and that's all you need. Wish people put their dumbbells back in order, mind