Dulwich Leisure Centre - London

Rob S.

Great gym with new equipment just installed. Bigger % of the gym now dedicated to free weights, squat racks and other resistence training equipment that satisfys my training requirements. For a council run gym this is excellent value for money. Staff are friendly and always available to help.

Tasha D.

Fantastic refurbishment!!! Always loved coming to the gym & now I’m excited even more, lovely atmosphere & helpful staff I have never had a problem that couldn’t be sorted quickly by the staff.
Thank you for being my happy place 👍🏻

Elizabeth M.

Im also really disappointed with the refurbishment and their decision to get rid of treadmills that were always very popular I have been three times since they have re opened and each time I’ve had to queue in order to get to go on a treadmill. And by queue I mean actually stand and wait because if you go do something else others also waiting for the treadmills will take a spot as soon as one is free. Before the refurb I was very happy with the gym and value for money but now it seems they are trying to be something people don’t want it to be. Please bring back more treadmills it’s why so many of us go to the gym especially in these dark months!

samantha L.

Recently refurbished gym (December 2024) so some much needed improvements to the equipment and floor space. Sadly seems to be a clear lack of smaller weights for women and elderly favouring the stronger, more able bodied. Nowhere to hang from and do leg lifts anymore which is a shame. They keep the swimming changing rooms clean which is great, but both gym and swimming showers are in a pretty bad state. Mould all over the ceiling, bad smells, generally feels unclean and uninviting. No doubt a low priority to fix - the less appealing, the lower the hot water bills!

During covid, in the pursuit of profit and the ideal client they closed their creche and took away a life line for local parents.

It's still stupidly hard to get a swimming slot... I'm local so should be able to get free gym and swim on a Friday and pay as you go for other sessions during the week. Ended up having to join just to have access to swimming slots to book before everyone else. And even then I'm on the waiting list most weeks. All I can think is that the days are taken up with local schools and private bookings. If you can get there early in the mornings you may have better luck but that's a no go for me due to childcare. There has to be a better way to get a swim around here...

Talisa D.

Cheap and cheerful gym - you get what you pay for - or at least, you did, until they announced a five week closure, refusing to pause anyone’s membership. The claim is that you can use the other facilities which I guess include the pool which is pre booked three weeks in advance (impossible to get a lot) and the group exercise classes (same deal). Customer service kept replying with ‘we’re sorry for the inconvenience’ which I’d totally understand if a few of the machines weren’t working but they are shutting the entire facility for over a month and a half. Really disappointing service.

Nat N.

Shut for 5 weeks for a refurb and have somehow taken a perfectly good community gym that needed a bit of TLC to a soulless barbell hellscape place in which there are plenty of gyms that already serve this purpose like Pure Gym or The Gym.

Between the acid green astroturf flooring, the rack of ball weights no one could conceivably ever reach and the tacky over head lighting I’m genuinely not sure which part of my withheld membership fee has gone to the worse use.

Before the refurb the running machines were always full and for some reason it was thought to be a good idea to remove a whole row of them causing people to queue up for them at 8pm on a Wednesday.

I’m sure if they turned down the migraine inducing EDM soundtrack they’d hear other customers voicing similar opinions.

Stephen A.

Over the festive period, the pool has been closed due to "unforseen circumstances" on multiple occasions without any warning to that effect via email, app, or the website. Four trips wasted now with no refund or replacement swim session scheduled. This place needs to get itself together.

Niki K.

My experience as a customer (for about a year) has been rather frustrating. To begin with, the service mobile app is glitchy. Once a slot has been booked viathe app, you'd expect to be able to make small changes such as amending the slot time. Instead, that can only be done by calling someone at the reception but most of the times nobody picks up the phone. Lastly, the changing room is kept rather poorly, with hairdryers and/or some showers often out of service.