Jags sports club

[falcao]

I don't know if there any other members out there, but I note they have just put up their prices and I didn't recieve any notification of this. I love Jags sports club, but I'm thinking of joining anew gym. I used to love bringing a friend for a game of squash but they put paid to that by charging the ridiculous fee of ?8 for any guests using the facilities.

[spadetownboy]

i dont really see that theres a problem with a gym or sports club charging a fee for guests, after all a member pays only for themselves so in theory a "guest" could be brought to every session and if the fee was split between the two persons thats half price membership for two people.any gym/sports club i have ever belonged to always charged a fee for guests and some of them a lot more than 8 quid.

[falcao]

Well put it this way, it actually went up from ?2.50 to ?8 overnight.

[SteveT]

I recently went to the fusion in brockwell park lido and they charge ?11 there is no use of the pool except in the summer of course and having the membership to goose green or the pulse makes no difference to what you pay to enter. Whats more it was tarted up on lottery money!

[maxsharp]

Come and join esph East Dulwich (116 Lordship Lane). Our gym is run by physios, we have lots of classes, brand new equipment and lovely showers. And forum members get 10% discount on all our membership prices (no squash courts sadly).

Come and take a look.

[Michael Palaeologus]

or join the gym at Goose Green and play squash at Dulwich Hamlet.

[Keef]

Or just join the gym at Dulwich Hamlet and play squash there too. And there's a cheap bar for a well deserved pint after. Everyone's a winner!

[spadetownboy]

Keef Wrote:

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> Or just join the gym at Dulwich Hamlet and play

> squash there too. And there's a cheap bar for a

> well deserved pint after. Everyone's a winner!

that was the problem with that gym when i was a member, the post session pint which usually turned into a session.

[karter]

Which of these gyms have a steam room or sauna though?

[Keef]

DH has a sauna, or it did when I used to go which admittedly was about 3-4 years back.

Don't know how people can enjoy saunas, I can't breathe in them!

[chuff]

I have been a member of jags for 5 months and have always known the guest fee was ?8.

[spadetownboy]

Keef Wrote:

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> DH has a sauna, or it did when I used to go which

> admittedly was about 3-4 years back.

>

> Don't know how people can enjoy saunas, I can't

> breathe in them!

the only time i was in a sauna was approx 17yrs ago when the local leisure centre back home had a jacuzzi and sauna installed, i must admit i was quite enjoying it until my mate pissed over the stones, the smell was so bad and permeating that the mens changing facilites had to be closed down for a day to allow it to disperse.

[Cassius]

spadetownboy Wrote:

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>

> the only time i was in a sauna was approx 17yrs

> ago when the local leisure centre back home had a

> jacuzzi and sauna installed, i must admit i was

> quite enjoying it until my mate pissed over the

> stones, the smell was so bad and permeating that

> the mens changing facilites had to be closed down

> for a day to allow it to disperse.

Should we refer this to the working class/middle class thread?

[spadetownboy]

we were lucky it wasnt refered to the fuzz.

[alachlan]

Agreed, it has been ?8 for ages, but I don't seem to remember getting a notification that the monthly sub was going to go up, which I'm sure is illegal as per direct debit rules.

[Ratpack]

What do people think of Jags? Is it the best gym near E Dulwich?

[bignumber5]

i phoned up jags and they said to come and have a look around anytime they were open. went for a look round a day later and was told that I needed to make an appointment to do so, as they were on a team building day, and watched 4 instructors and 2 receptionists have tea and biccies while a 5th instructor made me said appointment, which took longer than a quick shuftie round even the biggest of gyms would have taken. Had already wasted a half hour walk each way.

Cancelled appointment and now just run in the park.

Planning on summer gym use, was thinking Peckham Pulse looked worth a short bus ride. I think the absence of a gym in ED that is affordable, clean, and staffed by helpful people is a suprising deficit given the area demographic.

Hamlets: not clean or particularly helpful

ED Fusion: ditto

JAGS: didn't make it past the unhelpful staff

ESPH: not affordable

Peckham Pulse: still an unknown

My gym at college managed to hit all the buttons, and would even if the price were upped to non-student rates. have never found a replacement, and have just got progressively more tubby since graduating.

[SteveT]

You can also use waverley between 4-10pm weekdays 9-5pm sat/sun not so much a bus ride as a hike up to the rye park which is included in the peckham pulse membership along with goose green.

Apparently goose green is only partially closed during the forthcoming revamp, so it is still accessible to users in some shape or form.

[bon3yard]

I need to find an alternative pool to the one at east dulwich fusion(Which closes soon for refurb), any decent sized ones relatively close to Lordship lane?

[Libby]

Dulwich College Sports Club is quite a lot cheaper than JAGs; the staff seem friendly enough and the pool is nice.

[kristymac1]

We were members of JAGS a while back but the service we got was woeful so membership was cancelled - the gym gets very busy and the school kids have priority over the swimming pool and other facilities - that's what cheesed me off so much, I'd often turn up for a swim when the pool was supposed to be members only to be told that there was some school event on (no prior warning), also on a couple of occasions they hadn't cleared the changing rooms of school girls before the member's gym session started, very embarrassing and totally inappropriate for the men who walked in on them....... I did try to have a conversation with the manager about a number of things, but his response was that I should see my membership fee as a charitable act, helping to fund less affluent kids to go to JAGS.......

Thanks to this thread though there does seem to be other options out there, will check them out.

[Domitianus]

I was in a Virgin Active club today and was told the usual guest fee is ?20. I am afraid that in this over-priced, God-forsaken, extortionate s**thole that people glorify as one of the greatest cities in the world, ?8 is nothing.

[SteveT]

Well it's greatest at charging Domitianus;-)

[SteveT]

Bon3yard wrote:I need to find an alternative pool to the one at east dulwich fusion(Which closes soon for refurb), any decent sized ones relatively close to Lordship lane?

Alleyne's is probably the nearest.

[bignumber5]

pool at peckham pulse is lovely, but depends which end of LL you are and how fast you walk as to whether or not it's near...