Fitness Unlimited at Ponds Forge?

[SomeNextGuy]

Just wondering how it is these days? How busy are the gym, and lane swimming at certain times?

 

Thinking about joining from Pure Gym mainly for the pool.

[Flanker7]

At Unlimited price and the International Pool are second to none.

 

But,

Lane swimming at the weekend is virtually impossible due to the big events. What finally did it for me was the Syncro-swimming Competition practice times which made the International Pool 100% unavailable for 7 days. The diving Pool was available and the main pool can be reconfigured into numerous blocks, but they took the lot.

 

I'm at Virgin now and lane swimming is available all the time. It is a 25 metre rectangular pool, which is important to me. Sometimes the lessons and family 'muck about' lane can be a pain which forces regular lane swimmers into 2 of the 5 lanes. It's not as good as Ponds but at Virgin members come first. At Unlimited members come no-where (for swimming).

[achorste]

At Unlimited price and the International Pool are second to none.

 

But,

Lane swimming at the weekend is virtually impossible due to the big events. What finally did it for me was the Syncro-swimming Competition practice times which made the International Pool 100% unavailable for 7 days. The diving Pool was available and the main pool can be reconfigured into numerous blocks, but they took the lot.

 

I'm at Virgin now and lane swimming is available all the time. It is a 25 metre rectangular pool, which is important to me. Sometimes the lessons and family 'muck about' lane can be a pain which forces regular lane swimmers into 2 of the 5 lanes. It's not as good as Ponds but at Virgin members come first. At Unlimited members come no-where (for swimming).

 

This was why I left Fitness Unlimited years ago (shame to hear it hasn't changed) - they've got lots of pools but the actual availability of lane swimming is appalling. I'm at Virgin too now & very happy with it.