PureGym Edinburgh Exchange Crescent

Negative experience: I went to this gym during my trip to Edinburgh and I was quite disappointed to see that there is very little equipment (few barbells, little place to squat and few machines). Definitely wouldn't go there on regular basis. The staff is very nice and hence 2 stars.

Negative experience: Great, clean and not too busy gym. However, I'd like to warn everyone that's looking to start personal training - please avoid this so called PT - Brian Shea. He will take your money and won't refund you for unused services as promised. He will lie, completely ignore your messages and won't acknowledge any of the inquiries regarding refunds. He has also recently disabled reviews for his scam 'business' on google so you will not find anything. I'm surprised this person is still employed in such reputable company such as PureGym. I'm sure there are bunch of amazing personal trainers in the gym to choose from and I wouldn't discredit any of them despite this awful and stressful encounter I've had with Brian. Please please be wary of this!

Fantastic experience: Nest machinnary in town

Negative experience: Turn down the ned music!!! No one listens to it and it's hell for my autism

Fantastic experience: The gym session was wow!

Negative experience: Atenção com seus pertences dentro do vestiário, me furtaram 700£ dentro da minha bolsa. ATENÇÃO!!!

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym. Very clean, enough machines to go around and great choice of equipment. I would highly recommend this gym.

Positive experience: Provided you go when it isn't too busy, this is a great little gym with everything you need and the atmosphere is just right to get a decent workout done. Gym etiquette is good – members help keep the place clean and actually put weights back where they got them from, and the staff are great! One issue however is lighting. I complained on 22 Dec that all the lights were off in the morning (I thought the gym was shut when I arrived) but apparently they were doing some testing of the emergency lights (it took about 2 hrs till the lights came back on). The same happened again today (21 Aug) and I did another full session in the dark. If this sort of thing has to happen – and it must have been scheduled work – then a text should go out to members so they can plan accordingly.

Fantastic experience: This is a great gym, it has everything I need and I rarely have to wait for equipment (the racks are always busy, but that’s the same at every gym I’ve been to). Facilities are clean and management/trainers are friendly. Highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: The staff absolutely make this gym, they are incredibly friendly, encouraging and helpful. The knowledge across the team is so impressive that whatever your requirements or goals there is someone there who can help you reach them. The classes are fun and energetic and you always leave feeling like you’ve had a great workout, whatever your level of fitness The general atmosphere makes this gym a great place to go, work out, make new friends… it’s a big part of my life now, so are the people :)

Fantastic experience: Love this gym, staff are great and management team also available for support. Classes lead by Brodie are fantastic and brings loads of energy. Safe, clean environment!

Fantastic experience: Brodie’s class are full of energy and always exciting. Gym is clean and always kept to a high standard.

Fantastic experience: Brodie's classes are amazing and really fun!

Fantastic experience: Brodie’s crazy, but in the good way

Fantastic experience: Nico's stretch class is amazing. Sundays 1.15pm. Pure gym

Fantastic experience: Here's the thing. Puregym is a pretty great value for the money. If you want to work out 3 or 4 times a week, everything you need is there. Spin classes are included and a nice change of pace. It's never overly busy except 6 to 7 pm on weekdays, and even then it's workable. Always clean and equipment is reliable. All at a great price.

Positive experience: Nice gym and really good value for money. Clean and well maintained. Needs more weight machines and less cardio machines - too many rowing machines which I never see used. Peak time there are queues waiting for certain machines. The Gym Group has better range of machines but sadly this gym has better locations. Feel like all my workouts are only 75% their potential due to running out of time having to wait and getting tired from doing cardio on one of the many free machines whilst waiting.

Negative experience: Compacted basement area, old machines, wifi is weak. Too many cardio machines to fill up the place. That space should have been some more weights and racks would be nice.

Fantastic experience: Spotless, well equipped gym

Fantastic experience: Changed to this gym when my own closed, took a bit of getting used to but once I sussed out the quieter times to visit I settled in and enjoy my visits. I'm in the process of having programme made for me to help keep me motivated and it also fits around a few ailments I have. Staff are friendly, there's a good variety of machines. Steps going down to the gym from the street can be a bit steep but there's a lift which you need to ask for access to.

Negative experience: Hi team, the temperature of the shower room is too low and it's quite "windy", obviously colder than the changing area even inside the shower room, toilet and changing area are altogether. Caught a cold after having a shower there, it happened for several times and it's frustrating...Could you please raise the temperature and lower the wind speed for the shower room? It is a critical factor affecting whether I would still visit the gym centre. Thanks for your help in advance.

Fantastic experience: Hands down, best gym I could have joined when I moved to Edinburgh. Great vibe, and the trainers are absolute stars. Super encouraging, knowledgeable, and a good laugh.

Fantastic experience: Polecam każdemu. Duży wybór maszyn do ćwiczeń cardio i ćwiczeń siłowych. Czysto. Trenerzy profesjonalni i sympatyczna atmosfera.

Positive experience: The subscription plans are bit pricy but the equipments are good enough

Positive experience: I currently use this gym. i miss my old gym

Positive experience: Small, not a lot of equipment, showers are bad, but at least it is in city centre.

Fantastic experience: Very helpful and honest. Best laptop computer shop

Fantastic experience: Travelling through the whole of UK with a PureGym membership was the best option. Gyms and their atmosphere varied tremendously. This one was nearly empty on a Sunday. The equipment was varied and well laid put. Facilities clean. Staff friendly.

Fantastic experience: Not as crowded as same gyms in different locations. Well organised

Positive experience: Great gym by all standards

Positive experience: It is a small gym, more focused on cardiovascular exercises than weight exercises. You always have to wait to be able to use the training benches or the multipower. but the management was very kind and they solved my shower problem on the first day of work. I can't say the same about The Gym company, which after 6 years treated me terribly, which is why I changed to the PureGym group. grateful to them.

Fantastic experience: Perfect place

Positive experience: Went there during a 2-week vacation. They offer a 1, 3 or 7 day pass which will expire after the corresponding time. So you you plan to go to gym 2-3 times within 7 days but not in a row you might consider the 7 day pass. Overall the passes are a bit too expensive imo. Everything is uncomplicated. You get access via a personal code 24/7. There are plenty of lockers available (a lock is required but you can purchase one via vending machine). The gym itself is not massive but most important things are available. Definitely bring a jacket because AC might hit you hard.

Fantastic experience: Love the gym, it's always clean and presentable with friendly & knowledgeable staff.

Fantastic experience: It is. Nice

Negative experience: Limited equipment

Fantastic experience: Great gym, clean, with professional, caring & knowledgeable staff, with great equipment! All around great gym! The management especially Ian Blake sets the tone of a very efficient,diligent & caring staff.

Positive experience: It's a lot more value for money than Nuffield. It could be a little bigger and they should have two water fountains not one. But I'm sticking with PureGym. Also Morgan Stewart has been a big help a personal trainer there. And honestly he didn't ask me to say that.

Positive experience: A gym... Just that. Careful, don't leave any valuables in locker room as lock picking thiefs are on regular patrol there.

Positive experience: Hi Pure Gym team, I'm the gym club member and enjoy working out at your centre. One thing that bothers me is the shower at Edinburgh Exchange Crescent. The shower is barely warm especially the air con is on in the shower room. I caught a cold during shower last time I visited. It's not an one off issue as the shower temperature has been too low for some time. Could you please raise the temperature of shower for women's shower room? Looking forward to your response. Thanks.

Positive experience: It's OK. Lacking deadline area. Lacking space. But you can workout

Positive experience: Quite small, very hot, plenty of cardio equipment but a lack of weightlifting

Positive experience: It's okay. Pros: Pretty small but has a variety of gym equipment. Good natural light Lots of treadmills/elliptical machines Cons: Size restraints mean popular machines are always in use. The showers/changing rooms are a bit scabby There are always 1 or 2 machines "resting"

Positive experience: Gym is a good size and suits my workout style. Facilities could be cleaner. Male staff need to remember that they are at work and not in a night club, they should stop the cocky attitude and have some professional manner about them. Other than that, it's a decent gym for the price.

Negative experience: Not too many options on this gym…

Positive experience: Been attending this gym for about a month now and it’s been great!

Negative experience: AVOID this gym. Got my wallet taken from my locked locker, management couldn’t be less helpful! Police obviously useless and what is the point of cctv if we don’t even bother use them!

Positive experience: A bit crowded but not if you check the app for downtimes. Has a great range of equipment and the staff are friendly.

Positive experience: Very clean and lots of cardio equipment. Needs some extra leg equipment machines and more space for barbell exercises. Otherwise generally good space for workouts and classes.

Positive experience: Not bad not good, it’s ok!

Fantastic experience: so far so good :) maybe communicate better opening times during christmas as iv been expecting it to be 27/7

Fantastic experience: Very good except there's no squat rack

Fantastic experience: Great gym with fantastic staff! Have been coming for some time and would overall highly recommend, some great facilities and classes put on throughout the week for anyone and everyone.

Fantastic experience: A good mix of machines, nice warm and clean

Positive experience: Nice gym, not very big but there's everything you need

Negative experience: Used this gym for a week while in Edinburgh on business. It's ok for a short visit but I wouldn't want to use it as my permanent gym. Very poorly equipped free weights section, with only 2 squat racks. This normally wouldn't be too much of an issue, however they don't have any bench press stations, so to do bench press you have to use the free benches in the squat racks. This is made worse by the mountain of cardio equipment which is unnecessary and was never more than 50% used throughout the week I was there. I've been to other PureGym's, of a similar size, that have been much better equipped.

Negative experience: Is very nice place but when the staff cut your lockers that not nice at all and the price is very high

Negative experience: My husband added me as his gym budy. I couldn't acces gym with my pin yesterday around 7:30pm. I called for assistance at the door. No one showed up. My husband go and he found staff member, guy told him he is sot allowed to open door for me even when he showed him app with active membership and my name as an active budy. He don't even comes to the door to talk to me . He just said no. He said to my husband I can ask manager for acces tomorrow. He didn't let me in, he don't even showed his face at the door when we were waiting. Shocking, rude and disrespectful. Don't go there....

Positive experience: It is not well equipped at all. Not many machines and the weight lifting area is very small with only two barbell racks. I don't really recommend it

Positive experience: No plate loaded leg press or lying leg curl, way too many cardio machines that are never used. Everything else is decent.

Positive experience: Not much equipments when compared to other branches

Fantastic experience: Grand gym, love the 24/7 service, staff are nice and the machines are well kept and diverse. I do wish it were a bit bigger, maybe multi storey supposing it is central Edinburgh.

Positive experience: It's a good gym a bit dark. I would to have the choice to use the locker room 24/7 like the rest of the gym but isn't choice.

Positive experience: Good size I still need to try their classes

Fantastic experience: I have to say that the manager at this facility was hands down superb. The staff there were very friendly and very observant as I watched them with members and clients. I am a business owner of two business’ with Personal Training and fitness being one of them. I am also a competitive athlete in both bodybuilding and powerlifting. I have been training for over ten years and have seen many trainers in many facilities train. The staff here were not on their phones in between sets with clients, they were not conversing with anyone other than their clients and the equipment was both returned and cleaned after use. I highly recommend this facility on all levels including the equipment that was available. Great energy, great experiences and I enjoyed my workouts here thouroughly. Thank you Pure Gym and Staff. It’s Grind Time Babbby!!! Keep Sexy Alive ☑️

Positive experience: I visited this gym due to the Easter open access offer run by PureGym, as it is near my workplace and more convenient to access after visiting the office. I was considering upgrading my membership to take advantage of this but I'm afraid I won't be after my visit. Although a very well placed gym with excellent facilities for cardio, I felt there wasn't anywhere for me to complete my usual workouts as there was no free weights area (ie a dedicated space to put down a mat and use the kettles / set bars / dumbells) unlike other Pure Gyms I've visited. This kind of area is critical for women, those using lighter weights and anyone trying to get into lifting, so that was really disappointing. I felt I had to compromise by standing in a corner to lift kettles and found using the benches in the barbell weights area quite intimidating and cramped. This gym is catered to those who prefer cardio workouts as there are a large number of treadmills, bikes and cross-trainers so if that's what you're after it's perfect, but if you are looking for weight training without going turbo it is lacking. Otherwise a clean and well-placed gym, but I will be sticking with Edinburgh West (which although is an odd layout, has a great selection of all training forms).

Negative experience: Very small, and smells. Needs some kind of ventilation or something.

Fantastic experience: This gym is very well equipped and clean, I always enjoy my sessions there! My only suggestion: please check the air conditioning system in the small back area with the 3 mats and leg machines: too much air and too cold

Fantastic experience: I came from London and I've had only access to my home gym back there, I've called the assistance to ask if i could pay for a daily entrance but after a call they gave access to my account for the day completely for free which it was a nice surprise. The gym is big enough with plenty of machine and dumbbells,one of the most clean gyms i have been and friendly staff. Thanks again

Negative experience: Went to the gym once because it's closer to my home than The Gym, but it's catered towards amateurs who can very well just have a run outside for cardio. Place is full of cardio machines that i never use, 2 squat racks, 2 smith machines, and a couple of benches. Not even a dedicated bench for bench press. Absolutely useless for lifters. Will be cancelling my membership after today and returning to my old gym.

Negative experience: this is the poorest of puregyms, the layout of this gym i terrible. all of the members tend to do strength training of which 20% of the area is dedicated towards. the only reason i give it a 2 star, is the friendly professional staff.

Fantastic experience: very clean, safe and functional... highly recommended

Fantastic experience: It is a small gym but has everything you need for gains. And staff are awesome too, I am training with Brian, but I am sure everyone could find his favourite. I would give it 4 starts due to the fact that it gets really busy after 4pm, but giving the star back since there is no swimming pool - nobody has time for that. It is all about the gains and gains only.

Negative experience: I selected to cancel my membership within plenty of time but they stole £26 from me and then refused to provide a refund. I would give this place zero stars if I could. This gym has terrible customer service and literally stole from me.

Negative experience: Generally full and poorly equipped (exception being the weekend and weekday mornings around 9am), suffers from the same issues as all other PureGym’s with having to scour all over the place for free weights, and gym goers / staff never putting them back. Often they just leave them on the bar. There’s also no suitable weights for deadlifts, as with the exception of the 25kg ones they’re all too narrow. Only two, quite poor quality squat racks, most of the equipment being cardio machines that I’ve never seen used to more than 5-10% capacity even during peak hours, so genuinely unsure why they refuse to cater to free weights more, especially after years of people making this exact point. Seriously, look at old reviews, nothing’s changed. It’s cheap, you can (probably) get the work done, and it’s very central in an underserved location, but ultimately, you get what you pay for.

Positive experience: Could be a bit bigger with more 'free' space but 24/7 so still pretty nice

Positive experience: Gym is okay. I think it could do with one less Smith machine and one more squat/bench. The hooks on the bench/squat racks are quite wide apart and for Benching, the spotting bar is either way too low for way too high. Everything else was good though

Negative experience: Not user friendly at all. No reception desk. Have to stand in a small pod to get in. Gym is very small. Basically everything is in one room. Have to buy an over priced padlock as well. I've been twice so far and this gym really triggered my social anxiety.

Negative experience: This place is super small and overpriced. You have to wait for the equipment nearly every time. Lack of equipment, etc.

Negative experience: Hi, My husband paid for a day's pass at PureGym Exchange Crescent, Edinburgh. He tried to get access to the gym at 6:00pm but his Pin code would not let him in. Disappointing. There were no staff available to help.

Fantastic experience: Absolutely satisfied

Negative experience: No deadlift platform. No mirror for squat racks. No ropes or sled. Few bits of leg equipment and really just for upper body work and cardio. Also mega cramped so not much space to move about

Fantastic experience: Great gym with well spaced out equipment and was clean. Pleasant place to be. Friendly staff. Have a great personal trainer called Chris Anderson and he is really helping me get the most out of my visits

Negative experience: Came in for a leg day and it was missing a deadlift platform and no squat racks facing a mirror, really wasn't happy with my session especially for a £9 day pass. Overall a good gym for cardio and an okay gym for weights. Wouldn't come back.

Fantastic experience: Always clean and tidy along with good value for money (max dumbbell weights 36kg) however no criticism really. I always go very early in the morning as afternoons can get pretty busy. Good changing rooms with showers and lockers. Generally I like this gym a lot, recommended 5 stars based on the value for money.

Fantastic experience: Great atmopshere & app tells you how many people are there at the gym live and also expected number later

Fantastic experience: This is a cool place to work out safe and clean. Especially if you avoid rush hours you can enjoy.

Negative experience: No contact number, no parking

Negative experience: Not enough squat racks had to leave since there was queue. Way too many treadmills and free weights section too small. Waste of money

Positive experience: Nice smaller puregym, go after 8pm if you want it quieter, only downside it lacks some equipment other bigger puregyms have but it will do the job for most people. I've been away a while but have come back. I just missed the place.

Fantastic experience: Great!

Positive experience: Great gym

Positive experience: The WiFi is not great, there hardly is music. How've decent for work convenience. Sorry for 3 stars but comparing it to other other pure gyms.

Fantastic experience: Nice gym, very busy week day evenings

Fantastic experience: Ok gym. Average equipment. Not much free space. Morning between 6:30-7:30 is crazy busy. Staff are nice and friendly.

Fantastic experience: Well equipped gym in heart of Edinburgh

Fantastic experience: Loving it

Positive experience: Decent variety of kit available. Does get very busy at peak times.

Positive experience: You get what you pay for. Great little gym, at a reasonable price convenient location and good facilities. Some things could definitely do being updated but at the end of the day it's not an expensive gym.

Positive experience: A strange pure gym, lacks a lot of equipment compared to the other pure gym just nearby. No deadlifting area at all, hardly any space to workout. Can't imagine what happens at a busy period here