Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, Mount St Marys College

The swimming pool is ideal for me, I like that there are stairs that allow you to walk easily into the pool without straining. Generally there’s always space to swim freely even when swimming lessons are taking place. There are quite a variety of classes and have noticed more have been added. My only draw back is that I currently don’t drive so I find accessing the facilities when it’s dark, isn’t ideal, during the day it’s no issue with it being less than 10 minute walk from Wexham Park hospital. When I start driving I would be happy to commit, then I will be able to make the most out of it in the colder darker months.

I trialled this gym for 4 days and decided against signing up. My reasons included: 1) The location is inconvenient unless you drive, as it gets extremely dark on the stretch of road between the hospital and the gym, with next to no street lighting. The pavements are inadequate and keep stopping abruptly so you have to keep crossing over the road to get to a proper pavement on the other side, in the dark. Bear in mind from the other reviews that you may have trouble with fines if you do drive and choose to use their car park. 2) I don't feel there is sufficient value for money to justify the membership fee. The gym is smaller than average. The swimming pool is also pretty small, and the steam room is mixed gender so gets crowded. They apparently used to have a jacuzzi, but this is no longer offered, and there are tiny saunas inside each of the changing rooms. There aren't any other perks that are unique to this gym over any of the others in the area. The toilets and showers aren't particularly clean, and there are at least a few hours every day where all you can hear is screaming children, defeating the purpose of trying to relax in the sauna. The sauna was out of order on one of the days, and I overheard a member complaining about this to the front desk staff, who couldn't have seemed to care less. 3) There was a great deal of disingenuity in their advertising of membership discounts on National Fitness Day. The promise was for your "first 2 months free", yet the first month this covered was September, of which less than 2 weeks remained. False advertising really gets my back up personally, so that was the deciding factor. Edit: they also announced increased prices a couple of months later!! So I assume the 'discounts' were to lock people in to contracts and then gain back whatever was initially discounted by putting prices up!