MartynAndMiranda

Maybe its that we're getting there an hour later than you then (I don't finish work till 18:00) but I have been members of a lot of gyms, and never have had to watch the time that another persons running in order to know who to wait behind! I run marathons so cutting the machine time to 20 minutes has also meant that I'm losing out on a lot of use for the gym and whilst you're right that I'm not having so many problems in queuing for the weights, I have a pregnant wife who can - for obvious reasons - only use certain machines and so having to wait sometimes up to 15minutes for the running machines or bikes isn't really worth the cost when we could be quite as easily running outside. What gripes me most about this is that it was quiet and we could always get a machine - now its always busy and whilst this might add for 'atmosphere' I'm not interested in that when I'm running, If I want to have a chat to people I'll go down the pub. Does anyone know what the gym by Franklins is like? Are there any others about?

My wife and I have been members for a while now and we simply haven't been able to get use of any of the machines of late. We go every other evening (and in her case, lunchtime too) and I would say that 75% of the time we've had to leave straight away because there are NO machines free and no one is about to leave. Even with the 20minute limit on the treadmills, the amount of people in the gym now means that there are queues forming. To me, this is ridiculous. when a queue forms behind a machine, you know that the Fusion gym has become greedy with their subscriptions and put it above any form of safety or common sense. Can anyone recommend any other gyms in the area?

I would say that its not only the baths, but the gym too - My wife and I have been members for a while now and we simply haven't been able to get use of any of the machines of late. We've gone in every other evening over the past 3 months and I would say that 75% of the time we've had to leave straight away because there are NO machines free and no one is about to leave. To me, this is ridiculous. when a queue forms behind a machine, you know that the Fusion gym has become greedy with their subscriptions and put it above any form of safety or common sense. Why Safety you ask? Well they introduced 20 minute time limits on the treadmills recently - I was running on one and the guy next to me was just hitting 27minutes on his machine so I presumed that at the least the machine would cool down before stopping. More fool me! Come 20minutes my machine stopped dead. I was in full sprint and as such have damaged my knee in the jolt finish as I'd just planted my foot - my wife who is pregnant had the same experience and I honestly can say that I've never been to a gym that's so flagrant in its approach to over subscriptions or safety. We are hoping that the situation changes in the next month but if not we're cancelling out membership and going elsewhere.