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| Value for Money | 5/10  |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 5.7/10 |
Full review by
ania778
on 17th May 2008
User Rating : 2
Respect :
0
Good Points: Lots of facilities, big pool, large choice of classes, nice building, free towels, shampoos, tissues, cleanser cotton wool, nice toilets, ladies only gym. Nice choice of sunbeds (stand up ones too). Separate male and female steam rooms and saunas (inside changing rooms). Communal jacuzzi by pool with nice lighting. Clean pool.
Bad Points: Narrow lanes in pool - leads to pool rage - not what you want when you go somewhere to relax. Badly designed changing rooms with benches right under lockers so if someone wants to use the locker nearby you have to move all your stuff...very brightly lit too. Not what you want when walking around half dressed. very annoying cleaners in changing rooms, constantly getting under your feet and talking to each other and staring at people getting changed. Very strange experience. Very very very busy. Very crowded and full of kids until 6.30. If you have kids it's great, if you want peace and quiet, then forget it.Unfriendly staff and very busy reception. I left because I signed up for some sunbed session as there was a special offer which meant you get goggles included. I never received my goggles and for some reason that totally wound me up at the time as I was using their sunbeds a lot.
General comments: Great if you don't go to a health club to chill out. Very child friendly. Very busy. I left at the start of 2003 and revisited about a year ago. I was taken on a tour and could see no improvements but rather it looked even busier and less relaxed than before, including needing a bit of refurbishment as some of the fixtures looked tired.
ania778's review and ratings | 277 words
Review by
higuys
on 20th Sep 2006
User Rating : 7
Respect :
0
I'll start off by saying I like Holmes Place. Their range of classes is great and I've been a member of HP in both Edinburgh and East Dorset. They are both very different in size and although the Edinburgh club was huge and had modern equipment, the staff was pleasant but never particularly friendly and they also suffer from a high staff turnover, so just as you get to know an instructor, they'd leave!
HP East Dorset is quite small and their equipment is not high-tech, but the staff are fri ...
higuys's full review | 121 words
Review by
cathycc
on 11th Aug 2006
User Rating : 1
Respect :
-2
Please do not make the same mistake that I did and get pressured into signing up to Holmes Place Gym. It is an absolute headache! I think when things go wrong, it's easy to judge a gym but this gym was bad. It was an absolute rip off! They also had smelly changing rooms.
cathycc's full review | 56 words
Review by
hopethishelps
on 10th Aug 2006
User Rating : 6
Respect :
+1
While being a member of Holmes Place was good while it lasted, a bad experience when terminating my membership left a very bitter after-taste. To cancel, you need to call the member centre, receive a reference number, then notify your club in writing with one month's notice. I did all this, and was contacted by Holmes Place to confirm I could cancel my DD. Over 3 months later, it was a bit of a shock to receive a call from a debt collecting agency telling me they were starting litigation proceed ...
hopethishelps's full review | 193 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
Seraphin Newsome
on 24th Feb 2006
User Rating : 10
Respect :
+1
Meanspirited Holmes Place members of staff with resentful attitudes,lack of respect,untrained in people skills, restaurant area has gone from wonderful to tacky, now often smells of sweat from ajoining open plan gym and is badly ventilated.
Seraphin Newsome's full review | 85 words
Review by
nthompson
on 28th Jan 2006
User Rating : 8
Respect :
0
Holmes Place is pretty good value for money. Handy (right in town). A very pleasant happy atmosphere nice staff. D Lloyd are cheaper in Kingston but having read reviews on them I think I will stay where I am.
nthompson's full review | 63 words
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